Micromuse, best known for its network monitoring and service assurance software,has said it will buy Quallaby Corporation, a privately-held software company based in Lowell, Massachusetts, for $33 million in cash.
Micromuse is making the acquisition to add Quallaby’s performance management software to its Netcool fault management technology. The company says the combination will alllow companies building triple play service platforms the ability to manage and monitor them from one service assurance platform.
Well, what its ceo Lloyd Carney actually said was, “As convergence becomes a reality, enabling multiple revenue-generating services to be delivered effectively across virtually any type of IP-based infrastructure, service providers face a new competitive equilibrium in which service differentiation becomes more important than ever before,” said Lloyd Carney, Micromuse chairman and ceo.
“With this planned acquisition, we become the only best-of-breed vendor in the marketplace capable of delivering comprehensive, scalable service assurance for today’s leading wireline, wireless, broadband, cable and managed service providers.”
Roughly translated, that means things are going to get more complicated for service providers, and they will need a single view into their services to make sure they work properly, whether they are wireless or wireline.
Despite Carney’s enthusiasm, there are plenty of companies addressing this space, see above right for one example.
