As I wrote in a January note after the Cisco acquisition of Airespace, there would be many ramifications arising from that transaction, including possible partnerships between Alcatel, NEC and Nortel and WLAN vendors such as Aruba, Meru, Strix or Trapeze.  Well, one of those new partnerships was officially announced earlier this week, when Nortel and Trapeze Networks agreed to an OEM and development partnership.

Trapeze will embed its technology into some of Nortel's platforms to give wireless capabilities to things like remote access, switching and security.  The first co-developed product between both companies is expected to be introduced during the May/June timeframe.

Note: It looks like Alcatel also found a similar partnership in the WLAN space, with Aruba Networks, initially capitalizing on the latter's security and other network management products.