The Post Falls, Idaho, branch of Cabletron Systems Inc., a Rochester, N.H.-based maker of computer networking hardware and software, plans to move across the Washington-Idaho border to Liberty Lake next month, bringing with it more than 100 employees.


Cabletron has leased a 13,000-square-foot building in Liberty Lake Center at 23305 E. Knox, just east of the Land Rover dealership in Liberty Lake, says Brad Baldwin, of Baldwin Corporate Real Estate, of Coeur dAlene, who handled the transaction for Cabletron.


The Liberty Lake location will give the company greater exposure and will fit the needs of its employees better than the Post Falls location, says Aaron Reilly, Cabletrons regional vice president of inside sales. About 80 percent of the Post Falls operations 107 employees live in Washington, he says. The Cabletron branch, which opened in Riverbend Commerce Park in 1990, handles inside sales to established customers in the West Coast region and provides some tech support and engineering services to support that sales force.


Cabletron currently occupies 21,800 square feet of floor space at Riverbend, says Pat Leffel, park project manager. Two companies from California already have agreed to take that space when Cabletron relocates next month, Leffel says. He declines, however, to release any additional information about those companies for now.


Reilly says that although the new location is smaller, it will be more efficient so Cabletron will be able to make better use of it. Five to 10 new employees might be added after the move. He says the company tends to hire in waves and is always adjusting its work force to meet customer needs.


The Liberty Lake building, built last summer by WAM Enterprises Inc., of Spokane, originally was intended for Dakotah Direct Inc., but the big Spokane-based telemarketer never moved in. The building now is owned by the Clifford Trust, of Fremont, Calif.