Adtran Goes For WLAN Market Gusto With Bluesocket Acquisition
Adtran this week acquired virtual wireless LAN vendor Bluesocket, taking a bold and decisive step into the wireless networking space. Bluesocket touts itself as an emerging player among wireless LAN vendors moving away from a more traditional hardware-based controller architecture for wireless.
Adtran channel partners reacted to the news like baseball fans whose team has just landed a prized free agent.
"Personally, I'm very excited about it," Jeronimo Romero, managing partner and CTO of EUS Networks, a New York-based solution provider, told CRN this week. "I get to see the Adtran stamp on a company that makes very good products. I say 'yeah' because Adtran's [wireless products] are OK, but Bluesocket is at a different level."
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