Wind River acquires unit of Telenetworks

BANGALORE: Wind River Systems, Inc. has purchased the assets of the US-based Telenetworks business unit, Next Level Communications, Inc.  The Telenetworks business unit supplies embedded networking software products to telecommunications equipment manufacturers. As part of this agreement key Telenetworks employees will join Wind River, according to a release.

"The acquisition of Telenetworks allows us to offer original equipment manufacturers complete, well-supported converged voice/data solutions that speeds their time to market, lowers development costs, and reduces risk while leveraging the capabilities of the legacy voice network," said Ajit Edlabadkar, Country Manager, Wind River India.

"The networking assets we acquired from Telenetworks fit nicely into Wind River´s product strategy, which is based on providing our customers with a comprehensive suite of embedded operating systems, software components and development tools."

"This acquisition of voice-over-IP (VoIP) and telecommunications signaling technologies strengthens Wind River´s position as the leading individual supplier of embedded networking solutions" added Ajit Edlabadkar.