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THE BATTALION
Wednesday, August
Cash infusion raises hopes
for small telecommunication Kt '/
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DALLAS (AP) — A big
infusion of cash for a start-up
company has raised hopes for a
turnaround in the battered local
telecommunications industry.
Santera Systems Inc.
announced last week it has
raised $110 million from private
firms, one of the largest fund
raising rounds this year by a pri
vate Texas company.
Santera makes what it touts
as a new type of switch for
routing telephone calls, one
that may replace the kind of
switching equipment made
today by big companies such as
Nortel Networks and Lucent
Technologies.
David Heard, who worked
for AT&T and Lucent before
taking the helm of Plano-based
Santera, said phone-switching
equipment is about to undergo a
revolutionary change and that
start-ups like his are better suit
ed to deliver new technology
than are the established players.
Heard said he is not taking
Nortel and Lucent lightly, but he
compares Santera to Dell
Computer Corp. and Compaq
Computer Corp., which shoved
aside heavyweight IBM to dom
inate the PC market.
The big phone-equipment
makers have been hit hard as
phone companies and other
communications service
providers cut spending on
equipment that moves voice and
data signals around the world.
In recent months, Canada’s
Nortel has announced 30,000
layoffs and New Jersey-based
Lucent announced 15,000 to
20,000 layoffs on top of 19.000
jobs lost since last year. Nortel
has U.S. headquarters in
Richardson, and Lucent is also a
major employer in an area of
north Dallas, Richardson and
Plano called Telecom Corridor.
Still, technology start-ups in
Telecom Corridor continue to
attract venture funding — $250
million in the past three
months, according to the
Richardson-based Technology
Business Council.
“We certainly think there is
still a significant amount of ven
ture money flowing into tech
nology companies in the corri
dor,” said Ron Robinson, presi
dent and chief executive of the
business council. “It's
term investment. The
are looking at where
start-ups) going to be.
wise, when the marketi
The bulk of Santer;
money came
investors. Texas-based
Ventures and Redpoint
of Menlo Park., Calif.
Ed Olkkola. agener;
ner at Austin Venture
Santera’s switching
ment can catch on wi
carriers.
“They’ve deve
product that hits on the:
cost issue for most came
that is operating costs to:
tain their networks.
Olkkola, who also £
Santera’s board.
Rivas’ fate could
go to jury Tuesday
DALLAS (AP) — Convicted killer George Rivas cannot be reha
bilitated and would commit violence again, a forensics psychiatrist
testified, echoing words he first spoke seven years ago.
Dr. Richard E. Coons told jurors that Rivas is a career criminal
who continued “business as usual” after killing Irving police offi
cer Aubrey Hawkins on Christmas Eve.
“It is clear the concept of violence is fine with that person,” he
said Monday during the sentencing phase of Rivas’ trial.
Coons also testified in 1994 when Rivas was tried for armed rob
beries in El Paso. He said then that Rivas “has no conscience” and
is “physically, mentally and morally dangerous and would continue
to be so in 15 years.”
If given another life sentence, Rivas likely would be heralded as
a “folk hero” upon returning to prison and be elevated to a leader
ship role among inmates, Coons said.
“He gets a lot of psychological goodies out of organizing and
controlling other people,” Coons said. “He will commit criminal
acts of violence in the future.”
Rivas, 31, has admitted he orchestrated a meticulously planned
escape of seven inmates from a South Texas prison and fired some
of the 11 shots that struck Hawkins.
Six members of the gang were apprehended one month later in
Colorado after a nationwide manhunt. One man committed suicide
rather than surrender. Rivas is the first of the escapees to be tried for
capital murder.
Defense attorneys have said Rivas never wanted to harm anyone
and did not intend to kill Hawkins, only to shoot him in the shoul
ders to disarm him. They have lobbied for a life sentence, in which
Rivas could be isolated from the prison population in an adminis
trative segregation cell.
Rivas was convicted last week of killing Hawkins during the
robbery of an Oshman’s Sporting Goods Store. Jurors must decide
whether to sentence Rivas to death or to life in prison.
Keith Price, warden of the Clements Unit, said Rivas would be
placed in the most restrictive level of isolation, where he would
spend 23 hours a day in a single cell, with one hour a day for recre
ation. He would have no books, fan or television and could have vis
itors only once a month. Price said.
But Rivas could be released from administrative segregation on
good behavior. Price said, and his escape chances could increase if
he’s taken to the medical ward.
Producer in cour
for drug charges
HOUSTON (AP) — A trial
on drug trafficking charges is
under way for John Forte, a
music producer who has per
formed as. a backup singer for
Michael Jackson. Carly
Simon, Whitney Houston and
Eric Clapton.
Forte, 26, is accused of pos
session with intent to distribute
cocaine and conspiracy to dis
tribute.
Simon is expected to testi
fy as a character witness.
Simon posted $250,000 bail
for Forte after his arrest at
Newark (N.J.) International
Airport on cocaine charges in
July of last year.
Forte has also performed
with Herbie Hancock, co-pro
duced the Fugees’ hit record
The Score in 1996 and sung
on a solo album released by
Fugees singer Wyclef Jean.
He sang backup during
Simon’s last tour.
Prosecutors allege Forte
hired two young women to
pick up two packets of cocaine
in Harlingen and deliver them
to New York City. The two
were arrested at Hobby Airport
as they attempted to make a
connecting flight to New York.
Defense attorney Tony
Serra said Forte never knew
the packets contained
cocaine. An acquaintance
who hired him to locate
female couriers told him the
packets contained mone;
there was nothing jk
about the deal, Serra saic
But Assistant U.S. Att»
Stacy de la Torre toldj-
that Forte was to bi
$10,000 for every I<®
cocaine the two womeni
ered to New York.
After the couriers' r
they agreed to cooperate
u
It's quite clear
from the tape
recordings that Mr
Forte was tracking
his dope.
— Stacy delaTorr:
assistant U.S. attome
the Drug Enforces
Administration, she said,
using a tapped phone,
women called Forte sec
times in New York.
“It’s quite clear from
tape recordings that Mr. Ff
was tracking his dope,"di
Torre said.
Serra said there is nor:
Forte would jeopardize a 1.
tastic future in music"
engaging in illegal activ
The trial is in U.S. Disr
Judge Sim Lake’s courtroor
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