 Dominic Orr became chief executive in October 1996.Alteon introduced innovative products such as the ACEswitch 180, which was the first network switch to deliver Ethernet with selectable speed, 10/100 or 1000 Mbit/s, on every port via autonegotiation.Their ACEdirector Layer 4-7 switch was designed as an integrated services front-end and server load balancer.