IBM to Acquire Vallent
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has agreed to acquire Vallent Corporation, a privately held company based in Bellevue, Washington with more than 400 employees. Financial details were not disclosed. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and is anticipated to close in the first quarter of the 2007 calendar year.
Vallent is a leading supplier of network performance monitoring and service management software for wireless service providers worldwide. Vallent’s software helps service providers manage the performance of their network infrastructure through monitoring and reporting problem areas such as dropped calls and traffic bottlenecks. It also helps operators improve wireless service quality and identify network problems before they impact a customer’s experience.
The combination of Vallent’s software and IBM’s comprehensive management capabilities will enable service providers to deliver and manage end-to-end high quality services across wireline, wireless, IP and converged fixed/mobile network infrastructures. Adding Vallent to IBM Tivoli Software’s Netcool portfolio creates a broad set of service assurance capabilities spanning fault, network performance and service quality management over a wide array of technologies and third-party equipment and applications. Vallent will augment IBM’s ability to help communications service providers manage their networks as they deploy innovative new services while migrating from legacy to next generation infrastructures.
Vallent complements IBM’s existing system and service management capabilities with deep wireless expertise and capabilities to address an even broader set of critical service management issues — from handset and base stations to IP application servers. Through the addition of Vallent technology, IBM will be able to offer a more complete picture that enables operators to provide network performance, service and customer quality information to teams such as network operations, engineering, marketing, customer care, and other service stakeholders that need to know how a service is performing, who is affected by service issues and service level agreement (SLA) performance.
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