January 25, 2010 (FinancialWire) — Westell Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: WSTL) said that its board of directors has increased its size and elected Dennis O. Harris to fill this newly created directorship position.

Harris completed a nearly 38-year telecommunications career in 2002 as the president of Network Services at SBC Midwest, now a part of AT&T (NYSE: T), which provides voice, video, data and broadband delivery services.

Illinois-based Westell Technologies is a holding company for Westell, Inc. and Conference Plus, Inc.

Westell designs, distributes, markets and services a range of broadband customer-premises equipment, digital transmission, remote monitoring, power distribution and demarcation products used by telephone companies and other telecommunications service providers.

Conference Plus is a provider of audio, web, video and IP conferencing services.

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