In January, 2003  iRoam Services Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of SeaChange Corporation, a Canadian high-tech company based in Toronto, Ontario Canada. [ press release ]  In fact, the two businesses had been interrelated for a number of years.

In 1996, Sea Change was a founding partner of iPass Inc.,  a new venture setting out to create a global network for internet access using a common, distributed authentication protocol, which it had developed.   iPass raised venture capital from a number of leading venture capital firms including Accel Partners, CrossPoint Ventures & Asia Pacific Ventures.    iPass's authentication protocol was adopted by the Internet Engineering Task Force as a standard, and leading manufacturers of remote access servers (including Cisco, Lucent, Ascend and Northern Telecom) incorporated the technology into their products.

In October 1997 Sea Change Corporation was appointed Master Solution Partner for iPass Global Internet Roaming Services, and began reselling the iPass network in Canada [ press release ]

In the late 90's, iPass built the largest network for global internet access using top tier Internet service providers in each country.  iPass became an award winning solution for business travellers who required cost effective and reliable Internet access around the globe. 

In Nov 2000, Sea Change sold its security & roaming services division to Qnetix Inc. Qnetix's roaming business grew rapidly, resulting in the creation of iRoam Services Inc, in May, 2002 [ press release ] as a dedicated subsidiary of Qnetix focusing on global Internet access. Sea Change acquired iRoam from Qnetix in January of 2003 [ press release ] .

More recently,  iPass has emerged as a market leader in providing both local & international internet access for corporations, as a result of their ability to combine competitive pricing with additional benefits such as tight integration with corporate authentication systems, simple access control software clients, and enforcement of security policies.