Irvine’s Sync Research Completes Merger

The merger of Sync Research Inc., an Irvine maker of computer networking gear, with a Santa Monica company’s subsidiary was completed Friday, and stock in the new company gained $2.75 to close at $7.13 a share in Nasdaq trading. The combined company, called Entrada Networks Inc., is based in San Diego and is majority owned by Osicom Technologies Inc. in Santa Monica. The new company, which trades under the ESAN ticker symbol, develops technologies for the storage area networking market.