Stratus acquires Emergent Network Solutions

Stratus Technologies (Maynard, MA), a global solutions provider focused on helping its customers achieve and sustain the availability of converged telecommunications networks and enterprise information systems, announced the acquisition of Emergent Network Solutions (Allen, TX), a supplier of telecommunication software and services that enable carriers and service providers to integrate current and emerging network technologies. The purchase amount was $11 million, with provisions for additional performance-based payments.

Emergent’s focus on products and solutions for voice over Internet (VoIP) and IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) complements Stratus’s strategic business initiative and current solutions for Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) and Service Mediation, which enable disparate network technologies to operate together seamlessly. Stratus is committed to offering carriers and service providers interoperability between conventional wire-line networks, mobile and cellular networks, and rapidly growing VoIP and IMS services like those made possible by Emergent. This network-convergence strategy addresses fundamental revenue-generation and subscriber-retention issues confronting telecommunications service providers today. It also allows carriers and service providers to leverage their existing infrastructure investments as they migrate to emerging network-infrastructure standards in the future. www.stratus.com.