OAKLAND, Calif. -- Zhone Technologies, Inc., the first company dedicated to building total-delivery solutions for voice, data, and content services worldwide today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Xybridge Technologies, Inc., based in Richardson, Texas. Xybridge is a leading developer of carrier-class broadband access network softswitch solutions, providing call control, telephony features, applications, and open, standards-based service creation interfaces, enabling new revenue generating multi-media services over a distributed IP-core infrastructure.

"Zhone offers Xybridge the ideal opportunity to extend the benefits of our softswitch technology to a much broader market base and audience as an element of Zhone's comprehensive solution," said Jawad Ayaz, co-founder and CEO of Xybridge. "By combining forces, Zhone and Xybridge will bring carriers one step closer to a truly converged network and a rich array of innovative applications by combining voice, data and video services over packet-based networks."

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