Nortel Acquires Bluesocket's Unified Communications Subsidiary Pingtel

(Business News & Technology News, 14 Aug 2008)

Nortel has acquired Bluesocket Inc.'s subsidiary Pingtel Corp., a provider of open source enterprise unified communications solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Nortel will acquire the key assets of Pingtel from Bluesocket and Pingtel employees will be integrated into Nortel's Billerica, Massachusetts facilities. Bluesocket will invest the proceeds of the acquisition in product development, sales and marketing activities related to its core wireless LAN business.

"The acquisition of Pingtel will enable Bluesocket to expand its leadership position in the enterprise wireless and mobility markets," says Mads Lillelund, CEO, Bluesocket. "This strategic investment in our wireless LAN business strengthens our commitment to providing customers with mobility solutions that offer the greatest level of security, scalability and ease of use."

Bluesocket's long-standing expertise in wireless security and its flexible Edge-to-Edge architecture deliver greater network access speeds, better performance and higher reliability with superior role-based control and policy enforcement. Bluesocket is represented by a global network of more than 100 select VAR/Reseller partners and has over 3,000 customers across the enterprise, education, healthcare, hospitality, library and sports/entertainment markets.

Bluesocket's recently announced BSAP-1800 802.11n Access Point and 802.11n ready controllers deliver significant deployment, ease of use and performance advantages over competing solutions, supporting customer deployments of next-generation wireless data, voice and video technologies today without the need for a costly infrastructure upgrade.

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