Tektronix Inc., which makes electronics and semiconductor testing equipment, has completed its $27 million acquisition of Minacom (News - Alert), a Canada-based VoIP test equipment maker.

Under the deal which was first announced earlier this month, Minacom, which employs 35 workers, will become part of Tektronix' (News - Alert) business and will continue to operate out of its Montreal base. The acquisition is expected to be neutral to Tektronix' financial results for the fiscal year.

The announcement coincides with news that the Tektronix DPO4000 Digital Phosphor Oscilloscope has received the Elektra 'Product of the Year' award for 2006. Winners were announced at a black tie Gala Awards dinner, organized by Electronics Weekly, at Electronica in Munich. Now in their 4th year, the Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards recognize excellence, innovation and achievements in the electronics industry. The DPO4000 addresses the pressing debug needs of embedded systems design engineers.

And just yesterday, Tektronix announced further extensions of IP Multimedia Subsystem (News - Alert) (IMS) performance monitoring capabilities to its industry-leading Unified Assurance suite to enable true end-to-end performance monitoring and testing of current and next generation fixed, mobile and converged networks. The Tektronix' IMS solution provides network operators the service view necessary to manage the inherent complexity and achieve interoperability with non-IMS environments in the early field trials and commercial deployments of IMS networks.


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