Praesum Communications develops and deploys smart switching technologies in the form of IP cores, boards, and system level products. We believe that the addition of more intelligence to switching products is the key to managing network resources - bandwidth, applications, users, and business relationships that justified the network in the first place. Praesum focuses on applying business policies to high bandwidth networks. Founder and CEO Kent Dahlgren is a pioneer in the fields of communications and semiconductors, specializing in system level solutions for networking and telecommunications applications. Dahlgrens innovations have resulted in multiple patents in the fields of network and switching technology. Praesum Communications Inc. was founded in January 2000, with headquarters in Santa Rosa, Calif.