DPI Market: Tellabs Acquires Zeugma Systems' IP

 

Tellabs announced recently that it "is adding key technology, intellectual property and IP (Internet Protocol) expertise from Zeugma Systems Inc., to create a new research and development office in Vancouver. Former Zeugma personnel will join Tellabs’ Vancouver facility to focus on developing Tellabs® Mobile solutions. Tellabs Mobile Solutions add intelligence to the wireless networks, so service providers can cut costs while delivering better user experiences on the mobile Internet"

See "Tellabs opens mobile Internet R&D office in Canada" - here.

Tellabs entered the mobile internet space with the acquisition of WiChorus in 2009 for $165M adding GGSN, Wimax and LTE products to its portfolio (see "Tellabs acquires WiChorus to revolutionize the mobile Internet" - here).

Originally Zeugma Systems planned to build an "intelligent BRAS" - (to be an edge router for fixed networks) with DPI based application awareness and value-added services (such as content filtering).

The current product, Zeugma Services Node, is described as "a service delivery router (SDR), uniquely combines massive compute resources with next-generation capacity, service awareness, and subscriber management in a carrier-grade, fully redundant system".

Zeugma has also a companion OSS product "The Zeugma OSS (ZOSS) is a powerful companion to the Zeugma Services Node.  Not only does it provide configuration and health management of the ZSN, it also extends the Zeugma Open Application Sandbox (OAS) with capabilities that may require database services and offline processing."

See current solutions - here.

“To help our mobile customers succeed, we’re adding more IP expertise to enable the smart mobile Internet,” said Rob Pullen, president and CEO. “Vancouver offers a unique talent pool that can accelerate our delivery of differentiated solutions to customers. We welcome our new employees to Tellabs.”