Excel buys Brooktrout

Stuart Corner
Sunday, 11 September 2005 14:09

IT Industry - Deals

EAS Group the privately held parent of Excel Switching Corporation, a worldwide provider of carrier-class, open services platforms, media gateways and media servers has paid $US173 million in cash for Brooktrout, a provider of "innovative hardware and software platforms that enable applications for the New Network". The price paid represents a 38 percent premium over the stock price prior to the announcement.

According to Excel, "The combination of Brooktrout's expertise in media processing, call control, signal processing and fax communications with Excel's multi-protocol open-services gateway and server technology will offer customers best-in-class, integrated, multi-service platforms to enable advanced voice, speech, video, fax and data applications and services."