OpenVault acquires Nimble This
July 11, 2023
OpenVault has announced the acquisition of Nimble This and the naming of Nimble This founder Brady Volpe as Chief Product Officer. The moves create a broadband technology provider that harnesses OpenVault’s Profile Management Application (PMA) and Nimble This’s proactive network maintenance (PNM) solutions to drive broadband success through improved operator profit margins, network capacity, and subscriber quality of experience (QoE).
Post-acquisition, OpenVault says it will provide best-in-class monitoring, diagnostics, maintenance, management, optimisation, and other solutions to more than 80 operators around the world.
Volpe, a technologist whose 30-plus year broadband career has included positions with JDSU, Sunrise Telecom, C-COR and Filtronic Sigtek, founded Nimble This in 2013. Its PNM platform uses DOCSIS standards such as pre-equalisation, fullband capture, upstream spectrum analysis, and other data analytics technologies including machine learning to proactively identify, geographically pinpoint, and notify cable operators about impairments in the inside and outside plant, complementing OpenVault’s existing network performance, subscriber satisfaction and operational solutions for access networks and IP networks.
“Brady Volpe’s expertise in troubleshooting of issues in RF and DOCSIS broadband networks has significantly helped the industry and cable operators deliver the superior subscriber QoE that consumers expect,” said Mark Trudeau, CEO and founder of OpenVault. “The combination of the Nimble This PNM product suite with PMA and OpenVault’s other proven market leading solutions gives cable operators a powerful arsenal – creation of up to 40 per cent more usable bandwidth in most DOCSIS networks, vastly improved network resiliency and a sophisticated set of tools to help monetise the continued growth in subscriber data consumption and increased bandwidth requirements.”
“The excellence in leadership that OpenVault and Mark Trudeau have brought to network management and insights for over a decade has made it possible for cable operators of all sizes to anticipate and accommodate the rapid growth in broadband consumption,” added Volpe. “Together, OpenVault and Nimble This can provide a holistic view of the cable operators network from an end to end prospective, RF to IP.”
Finacial terms were not disclosed.
Nimble This is the second major acquisition by OpenVault within the past 18 months. following the company’s acquisition of Velocidata in December 2021.