IP Unity and Glenayre Messaging, a division of Glenayre Technologies Inc., said Thursday they will consolidate.
The new company will be called IP Unity Glenayre and will become one of the largest independent suppliers of carrier-class media messaging systems and IP multimedia platforms to wireline and wireless carriers, the companies said. It will serve more than 2,000 deployments for 300 wireline telco, cable, wireless and FMC service providers, large enterprises and public agencies.
The purchase, led by IP Unity investors, is subject to approval and is expected to close within 30 days.
IP Unity Glenayre will offer voice mail, unified messaging, conferencing, SMS, MMS, text to speech, speech recognition, IVR voice portal, color ringback tones, prepaid billing, video portal, video conferencing, videomail and video gaming all built using open standards-based technologies such as VoiceXML.
It will have major locations in Atlanta, Quincy, Ill., Milpitas, Calif., Singapore and Bangalore, India.
IP Unity www.ipunity.com
Glenayre Technologies Inc. www.glenayre.com
