DZS Completes Acquisition of Service Assurance and Consumer Experience, Software Portfolio from ASSIA
Summary
As part of the transaction, DZS has gained an elite team of highly skilled cloud and AI software engineers, architects and business leaders, as well as the award-winning Expresse® service assurance and CloudCheck® WiFi experience management solutions deployed by leading tier 1 operators globally. “We welcome the ASSIA team of engineers, sales, support and business professionals, along with the marquee Expresse and CloudCheck customers, including Bouygues Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Liberty Latin America, Lumen, TalkTalk Group, Telefonica and TELUS,” said Charlie Vogt, President and CEO of DZS. DZS Cloud offers communication service providers an end-to-end, open, cloud-native software platform that is interoperable with core access and optical infrastructure and more than 150 unique residential gateways and WiFi devices from a wide array of equipment suppliers. “Broadband marketing has shifted from focusing on top-line speed to overall customer experience, and this requires not only investment in access and core networks, but also in the Wi-Fi connected home,” said Michael Philpott, Research Director, Service Provider Consumer, at Omdia. Customer reaction to the transaction has been very positive (previous news release announcing this acquisition), opening a broader opportunity for collaboration with the DZS market-leading access networking, mobile & optical edge and cloud native software solutions.