Bluesocket buys Pingtel

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Combining Bluesocket’s award-winning WLAN and security capabilities with Pingtel’s leading SIP PBX technology creates opportunities in two key market segments. The first is providing software-based, OEM-ready solutions to larger ecosystem partners seeking faster approaches for delivering integrated wired, wireless and voice offerings to their mid-market enterprise customers.

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/sit ... ewsLang=en

This is a big play for the enterprise converegence space (WiFi/cellular handoff) and I wish them luck with that.

It's also good news for the open-source community, as Bluesocket have pledged to "re-seed" the sipX/sipFoundry project with some cash and resources.

Bluesocket also get Bill Rich who would be pretty near the top on my VoIP company "Dream Team" list...

Reply from marcuswelby on Aug 23, 2007 - 11:35 PM

It's really hard to tell what is what among privately held VC firms who are "leaders" if you slice the definition finely enough. When no renumeration is provided in the PR about an acquisition, you know what happened: the acquired was running low on cash, the investor group was unwilling to ante up for yet another round and no new VCs had the stomach to blow away the incumbents (again, in this case).

Of course, your selection of a top Dream Teamer has had previous experience in tanking start-ups. VocalData was on the sidelines, lost in the rough and headed for the locker room (pardon the sports allusions, but I couldn't help myself) before he was replaced. If merely surviving adversity is sufficient to get placed on your VOIP Dream Team, I have a nightmare line-up for you whose principal claims are longevity in the VOIP space despite the paucity of successes throughout their tenures.

Finally, I seriously doubt that the wifi/celluar ambitions projected by this combination will be more than a gadfly to the majors.

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