Ottawa-Based Nimcat Networks Sold to Avaya Inc.

1:13 am on September 23, 2005 | Category: Business, VoIP

Avaya Inc., a provider of business communications systems, announced this Tuesday that is has acquired the privately held Nimcat Networks, an Ottawa-based maker of VoIP phone-embedded smartphone software. The transaction involved a cash sale with a value of approximately $39.3 million.

The main selling point of Nimca is its patented NimX software, which allows users to create localized point-to-point VoIP networks. It includes features such as dialing by name, voice mail, and directory options, along with call switching and transferring, all without using a server. Another convenient feature that comes with the software is the ability to back up exchanged data, such as voice mail, only various phones, so that it can be retrieved if one phone is damaged or lost.

NimX is based on the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) industry standard, and allows each device on the network to find other connected devices within a few seconds.

The first step in Avaya’s plans for Nimcat involves the incorporation of NimX and similar software applications into a number of existing Avaya VoIP telephony offers. After this year-long process is completed, Avaya will release it’s first fully integrated Nimcat-based product.

In the mean time, Avaya plans to keep selling Nimcat Networks software to numerous other manufacturers of VoIP equipment, and also to support Nimcat’s existing customers.

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