Hot Start-ups April 25, 2004 1 min read

Alcatel Invests $15 Million in General Bandwidth

Alcatel has invested US$15 million in General Bandwidth, a start-up based in Austin, Texas that has developed a VoIP Media Gateway. The investment further strengthens the three-year OEM relationship between the two companies and allows for additional development enhancements to their joint FTTP and VoIP offerings. http://www.alcatel.comhttp://www.genband.com

In December 2003, SBC Communications announced a four-year primary supplier agreement with Alcatel for SBC’s FTTP initiative. As part of that supplier agreement, General Bandwidth provides the packetized voice technology to Alcatel for the SBC deployments.

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