Astellia today announced the acquisition of Ingenia Telecom, provider of network analysis and radio optimization solutions for mobile operators.
“The acquisition enables Astellia to complete its E2E offering with Ingenia Telecom’s probeless RAN and SON optimization solution,” said Christian Queffelec, CEO of Astellia.
IDC estimates that the SON and RAN optimization market will reach $1 billion in 2015, compared to $700 million in 2013.
Valencia (Spain)-based Ingenia Telecom’s optimization solutions for 2G, 3G and 4G networks address the needs of operators in their transition to 4G. It also helping them reduce their Opex / Capex while guaranteeing their subscribers with better customer experience. It works with telecom players in the Spanish and Latin American market.
Ingenia Telecom has developed an advanced SON solution for real-time analysis of self-optimization and self-organization networks which can be sold in addition to or independently of Astellia’s SON monitoring solution.
In 2013, revenues of Ingenia Telecom represent less than 10 percent of Astellia’s revenues and operations were close to breakeven.
With a team of 70 people, mainly in R&D, Ingenia Telecom and Astellia share common values. The integration maintains the legal entity in Spain and brings together teams within the Service, Products and Sales business units of Astellia.
The company said technological and commercial synergies will be implemented and initial customer contacts offering the complementary solutions are already underway.
