GENBAND, a market-leading developer of next-generation IP infrastructure solutions, announced on September 16, 2008 the acquisition of NextPoint Networks, a market share leader in carrier grade security solutions, including Session Border Controllers (SBC) and Security Gateways (SeG) for Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) solutions.
With this move, GENBAND adds a powerful layer of security capabilities to the company’s market-share leading gateway solutions. It also enhances GENBAND’s leadership position in gateways and puts the company on an aggressive product development path aimed at the integration of emerging technologies like security, control and packet inspection. GENBAND is also afforded a much larger market opportunity that is estimated at approximately $12 billion for the combined company over a five year period.(1)
The NextPoint transaction is the latest in a series of successful acquisitions and partnerships. These include GENBAND’s acquisition of Tekelec’s Switching Solutions Group in April 2007, and Nokia Siemens Networks’ Surpass IP trunking gateway product lines in April 2008, as well as the establishment of successful partnerships with leading network equipment manufacturers such as Alcatel Lucent, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel and NEC.
The NextPoint acquisition provides GENBAND with the ability to offer a flexible portfolio of stand-alone gateway and security products as well as to integrate key security technology into its current gateway platforms. Today GENBAND offers one of the broadest portfolios of gateway products through the G Series of low-, mid- and high-capacity converged gateways and the C Series of gateway controllers. With this acquisition, GENBAND adds the newly branded S Series of security-based solutions, including Session Border Control and Security Gateway products. As GENBAND expects its portfolio of products to further evolve, future product development that integrates robust security capabilities into its next-generation gateways will be branded the E Series. These combined solutions will allow GENBAND to further extend its reach into rapidly growing global market segments.
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