PARIS-Alcatel Corp. said it has acquired Spatial Wireless for about $250 million in shares.
Spatial Wireless makes software-based and multistandard mobile switching solutions, which control media gateways and manage call and session control for voice and data services.
“Through the acquisition of Spatial Wireless, Alcatel leapfrogs traditional mobile switching technologies and builds a powerful offer adapted to address the U.S. and CDMA markets, in addition to our GSM/UMTS-based customers,” said Mike Quigley, executive vice president and president of Alcatel North America.
Spatial said its flagship product, Spatial Atrium, is protocol agnostic.
