Artisoft to buy IP telephony vendor Vertical
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Artisoft Inc. has agreed to acquire Vertical Networks Inc. for as much as $19 million in cash in a deal that will create a vendor of IP (Internet Protocol) telephony software for call centers, medium-sized businesses and large enterprises.
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In a bid to boost its desktop virtualization portfolio, VMware on Tuesday agreed to acquire application-based virtualization vendor Thinstall.
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 21  /PRNewswire/ -- IP multimedia subsystems (IMS), with its promise of combining voice, video and data from multiple devices into one system, will open a new world of profitable opportunities for carriers.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM is looking to better meet the needs of wireless service providers with its planned purchase of network performance monitoring and service management software vendor Vallent. IBM announced Tuesday its intention to purchase privately held Vallent for an undisclosed sum. The vendor hopes to close the deal, subject to regulatory approval, in the first quarter of calendar 2007. At that point, IBM will fold Vallent into its Tivoli Software systems management business unit. Vallent's 200-plus customers includes Bharti Airtel in India, Brasil Telecom, China Mobile CommunicationsÂ and Cingular Wireless as well as mobile equipment providers like Alcatel, Lucent Technologies, and Motorola. The company with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, employs over 400 staff. IBM plans to add Vallent's software to the Netcool products it gained through the $865 millionÂ acquisition of network management software vendor Micromuse, which closed in February. Bringing the offerings together will better position IBM to provide software to help mobile service providers manage their increasingly complex networks as they converge fixed-line and mobile infrastructure. IBM said there's minimal product overlap between Vallent's products and its existing Tivoli software. The vendor is particularly interested in Vallent's abilities to manage wireless radio access networks, which it expects to mesh well with Netcool's management of wireless infrastructure and Internet Protocol-based services. Â
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IT services vendor LogicaCMG Plc's involvement in the mobile communications software space is over following the sale of its telecoms products division to a private equity group for 265m pounds ($348m) in cash.
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(InfoWorld) - Alcatel-Lucent SA is preparing to extend its combined telephony and e-mail offering for small business customers to the U.S. later this year. The offering will be built on the OmniPCX Office telephony server and the Eye-Box, an e-mail and groupware server that also hosts Web-based services for remote workers. Both are aimed at small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and are based on the Linux operating system. "We need to start to enter the SME sector in the U.S.," said Alcatel-Lucent's Tom Burns, general manager of the company's enterprise network infrastructure business, speaking at the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Forum in Paris this week. Burns said he would work with the Alcatel-Lucent sales teams that have been collaborating with Verizon Communications Inc. to develop an offering based on OmniPCX Office to complement Verizon's IP (Internet Protocol) edge routers. "I hope to see some of this coming to fruition toward the end of this year," he said. The OmniPCX Office, offering VOIP (voice over IP) and circuit-switched telephony services, voicemail and other services is already doing well in Asia, Australia and China, Burns said. And not just in Asia: it's selling in Europe too. MGCE, a French wholesaler of Alcatel-Lucent equipment exhibiting at the Forum, has been selling the OmniPCS Office/Eye-Box bundle for some months. The 14-person company uses it internally, too, said company representative Ousamma Tazi. The Eye-Box comes in two versions: the Compact Edition, licensed for up to 25 users, and the Premium Edition, for up to 300 users. They differ in their processor power and the capacity of their hard disks. The Eye-box can deliver e-mail and calendar information in two ways: either through Microsoft Corp.'s Outlook client, or via a Web interface. Via its Web interface, mobile workers can consult their voicemail or reroute calls on their office line to their mobile phone. Alcatel-Lucent only sells the communications bundle to SMEs through resellers, who can also advise the end-user on telecommunications services. Before its merger with Lucent Technologies Inc., Alcatel SA was involved in selling a similar bundle of unified communications hardware and services with France TÃ©lÃ©com SA and Hewlett-Packard Co., under the name ReadyOffice. However, that offering sank without a trace. Alcatel-Lucent sees great potential for VOIP in the SME market. While around 70 percent of its switchboard sales to large customers are based on IP technology, the figure is only 10 percent in the SME market, said Philippe Mielle, director of the French regional support center for the company's enterprise business group. Given that OmniPCX Office and the Eye-Box are both Linux-based, Mielle and others at Alcatel-Lucent expect to see the two combined into a single box offering telephony, e-mail and mobility services some time next year.
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LONDON ARM Holdings, a British semiconductor designer, said on Monday that it would buy Artisan Components for $913 million to broaden its product range.
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EUROPE&#39;S biggest phone company, Deutsche Telekom, has offered to buy out investors in its T-Online International internet division for about E3 billion ($5 billion) to revive growth at its fixed-line business.
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ACT!s now to avoid disappointment Newcastle-based business software firm Sage has bought compliance and document tracking technology from Virginia developer VerticalFalls Software.â¦
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JAMmy b*stards East Yorkshire telco Kingston Communications has bought IP-based call centre software firm JAM IP for Â£2.56m.â¦
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Broadband wireless equipment developer Airspan Networks has purchased Israel-based ArelNet for $8.7 million, a move that will allow the WiMAX equipment developer to increase its support for voice-over-IP (VoIP) services.
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SunTec     --  The solution enables billing for Cable One's new voice service         and provides flexibility to introduce dynamic promotional         plans with ' free- minutes' for specific destinations along         with value added services and product bundling options.
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Verizon Communications Inc. VZ.N  on Monday said it would buy long-distance telephone company MCI  Communications Inc. MCIP.O in a deal worth $6.75 billion,  giving Verizon entry into the market serving large  corporations.
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Slovak Telecom, the fixed-line operator controlled by Deutsche Telekom of Germany, has agreed to buy out AT&amp;T Wireless and Verizon from its mobile arm Eurotel for an undisclosed price.
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Buying USinternetworking lets the telecom giant reach out and touch managed services.
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Telekom Austria yesterday said it had agreed to buy MobilTel, Bulgaria&#39;s leading mobile telephone operator, in a step widely seen as preparing the way for a big share placement in the Austrian group.
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A VoIP supplier goes in search of something better than FTP.