BroadSoft gobbles up Slyantro to become the leader in stand-alone VoIP application servers

BroadSoft on its way to becoming the leader in the stand-alone VoIP appliance market Convergence & VoIP Alert NetworkWorld.com | VoIP & Convergence Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Palamida Four Steps to Securing Open Source Apps Make open source part of your existing software assurance framework by following the four steps outlined in this whitepaper, "Software Assurance Protection." Don't risk the loss of vital customer or company data. Ensure your open source code is protected today. Download this whitepaper now. Spotlight Story BroadSoft gobbles up Slyantro to become the leader in stand-alone VoIP application servers By Steve Taylor Just before the close of 2008, BroadSoft announced it had acquired Sylantro Systems, its next-strongest competitor offering VoIP and multimedia application. The move makes BroadSoft the undisputed market leader supplying stand-alone VoIP application servers. Financial terms were not disclosed. The Sylantro acquisition follows BroadSoft's acquisition of Genband's M6 platform earlier in 2008. Read full story Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. Larry Hettick is a principal analyst at Current Analysis. Related News: BroadSoft acquires Sylantro as VoIP market consolidates BroadSoft, a provider of VoIP applications to telecom service providers, this week said it acquired competitor Sylantro Systems for an undisclosed sum. Slideshow: 2008's hottest tech M&A deals Our running list of buyouts and mergers in IT for the year. VoIP is dead? - depends on what you define as VoIP Blogger Avner Izhar writes: Was catching up on blogs when I found the Cisco Subnet entry called Is VoIP dead?. Wow, really, am I in a dying specie of IT? did the recession finally got to my back yard? 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