austin tx 1999 headquarters frisco tx united states area served worldwide key people david walsh president ceo and chairman products ip switching application server session border controllers media gateway multimedia switching session routing proxies unified communication solutions website www.genband.com genband us llc is a privately held company that makes ip based real time communications software solutions and products for fixed wireline mobile and cable service providers as well as large enterprises . the company was formed in 1999 as general bandwidth and since 2010 is headquartered in frisco texas . genband has major operations in 50 countries . it works with over 80 of the global top 100 service providers and has more than 800 customers in 80 countries . contents 1 history 2 products 3 acquisitions 4 disposals 5 references 6 external links history edit genband was founded in 1999 as general bandwidth by paul carew brendon mills ron lutz and steve raich in austin texas and received initial venture capital funding of 12 million . in 2004 charles vogt joined the company as ceo and president . in march 2006 general bandwidth changed its name to genband inc. and moved its headquarters to plano texas . genband started as a media gateway vendor selling the g6 media gateway but has since branched out to ip switching ip applications ims and session border controllers . in addition to internal research and development the company has expanded its product portfolio through multiple acquisitions . genband currently holds more than 240 u.s. patents and has been granted more than 100 patents in other countries . additionally genband continues innovating and growing its portfolio through patent filings with more than 100 applications currently pending . in 2007 genband acquired tekelec s switching solutions group which expanded genband s product offerings in applications software and sip trunking gateways . in 2008 the company acquired nokia siemens networks surpass hig media gateway product portfolio including fixed line trunking media gateways . the company concluded 2008 with the acquisition of nextpoint networks which included session border controller sbcs and security gateway offerings . in 2010 genband purchased nortel networks carrier voip and application solutions cvas business . 1 the acquisition quadrupled the size of the company and made genband the market share leader in carrier voip . following the acquisition genband announced a product roadmap based on genband genius a software centric unified ip switching and networking platform which integrates the company s application server call control session border controller and security products and simplifies building and managing communications networks . in 2011 genband acquired cedar point communications making it a voip market share leader in the cable industry . 2 in 2012 genband acquired aztek networks a switch maker specializing in hardware that allows for a smoother transition from legacy to ip networks . 3 in 2012 genband was named the top ventured capital backed company by the wall street journal out of nearly 6 000 companies that were considered . 4 in 2013 genband acquired fring an over the top ott mobile ip communications service provider . two years later genband announced the launch of the fring alliance a global ott community that enables communications service providers to come together to provide instant messaging voice and video services to their subscribers . 5 charles vogt left genband in 2013 and david walsh added the ceo position to his other already held title of chairman . in 2014 genband acquired ureach technologies a provider of unified communications uc and messaging solutions and introduced the generation enterprise family of unified communications products and services for business customers . 6 in 2014 genband also launched kandy a cloud based real time software development communications platform as a service paas . in may 2015 genband was named one of the world s most disruptive companies ranking 22nd in cnbc s disruptor 50 list . 7 products edit service provider market call session controller media gateways continuum signal transfer point session border controller security gateway diameter signaling controller application server element management system webrtc gateway spidr unified communications as a service ucaas platform nuvia over the top ott platform fring telephony application server ip phones video conferencing and screen share kandy platform as a service paas sip trunking the genview management system the genband wireless access gateway wag ip multimedia subsystem ims solution ip network transformation solution network functions virtualization nfv solution regional ip network transformation solution tandem ip network transformation solution voicemail transformation solution network interconnects unified communications clients gencom intelligent messaging manager converged intelligent messaging cim acquisitions edit 2006 baypackets and syndeo call management server and media gateway controller 8 2006 siemens dco switch division and technologies 9 2007 tekelec s switching solutions group 10 2008 nokia siemens networks surpass hig media gateway product portfolio 11 2008 nextpoint networks session border controller 12 2010 nortel networks carrier voip and applications solutions division 13 2011 cedar point communications cable ip softswitch 14 2012 aztek networks ip switching 15 2013 fring over the top mobile ip communications 16 2014 ureach technologies mobile and broadband uc and messaging 17 disposals edit 2008 m6 communications appliance server vocaldata to broadsoft 18 references edit http www.lightreading.com ethernet ip voip systems genband wins nortels carrier voip biz d d id 674872 http www.lightreading.com ethernet ip voip systems genband snares cedar point d d id 682806 http www.fierceenterprisecommunications.com story genband buys aztek networks bolster network transformation offering 2012 04 03 http www.wsj.com articles sb10000872396390444358804578016360513649342 http blog.tmcnet.com blog rich tehrani ip communications fring alliance aims to become carrier voip cooperative.html http www.eweek.com networking genband expands reach in uc market with ureach acquisition.html http www.cnbc.com 2015 05 12 genband disruptor 50.html http www.lightreading.com ethernet ip voip systems genband splashes out for baypackets d d id 631398 http www.fierceenterprisecommunications.com story genband buys siemens dco products 2006 10 06 http www.bizjournals.com dallas stories 2007 03 19 daily20.html page 2 http www.telecompaper.com news genband buys fixed trunking gateways from nokia siemens 614796 http www.lightreading.com ethernet ip voip systems genband scores nextpoint d d id 661256 http www.eweek.com c a voip and telephony genband integrates nortels voip products into roadmap 437696 http www.rcrwireless.com 20110104 network infrastructure genband picks up cedar point for stronger voip position http www.fiercetelecom.com story genbands aztek acquisition helps it target more tdm ip transformation proje 2012 04 04 https gigaom.com 2013 09 12 genband buys iphone voip pioneer fring to help carriers fight skype and whatsapp http www.fiercetelecom.com story genband furthers ott push ureach acquisition adds messaging capabilities 2014 02 18 http blog.tmcnet.com on rads radar 2008 08 genbands m6 acquired by broadsoft.html external links edit genband company website . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title genband & oldid 740145237 categories networking hardware companiescompanies based in frisco texastelecommunications companies established in 1999networking companies of the united statestelecommunications equipment vendors navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent 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