Vecima buying Nokia’s cable product portfolios

VICTORIA, B.C. and ESPOO, Finland — Canadian tech vendor Vecima Networks of Victoria, B.C., announced Wednesday it is acquiring Nokia’s Gainspeed cable access product portfolio, for an undisclosed sum. The planned deal is still subject to customary closing conditions. Nokia’s Gainspeed portfolio will be integrated with Vecima’s Entra family of broadband access solutions, both of which address the migration to cable’s 10G platform, including DAA (Distributed Access Architecture) and 10G-EPON (Ethernet Passive Optical Network), says the news release. Employees who currently support the Nokia DOCSIS DAA and EPON/DPoE portfolios are expected to move to Vecima. Nokia will retain other cable-related...