Oracle today announced that it is buying GoAhead Software, a Bellevue communications software company which has developed technology used by Motorola, Ericsson and Alcatel Lucent. Terms of the deal, expected to close by the end of the year, weren’t disclosed.

“With over 100,000 deployments of GoAhead software by leading (network equipment providers), GoAhead brings significant domain knowledge and engineering strength, coupled with a strong track record of delivering solutions to global network equipment providers,” said GoAhead Software President and COO Asif Naseem in a statement.

GoAhead had raised about $40 million over the course of its life from backers such as Voyager Capital, Columbia Capital, Intel Capital and others.

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