Cisco to buy VoIP software vendor
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Cisco Systems Inc. this week announced plans to acquire Dynamicsoft Inc., a maker of carrier VoIP software based on Session Initiation Protocol.
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NEW YORK - Cisco Systems Inc. said Monday it has agreed to acquire Sunnyvale, California, software developer P-Cube Inc. in a cash-and-options deal Cisco valued at $200 million.
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Cisco Systems announced it is acquiring NetSolve, which provides real-time monitoring of the performance of corporate data networks.
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Network equipment giant Cisco Systems (Quote, Chart) is buying IP platform specialist P-Cube for $200 million in cash and stock. P-Cube&#39;s technology helps telecom carriers, cable operators and ISPs manage
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Cisco Systems Inc is to buy Perfigo Inc for $74 million, adding an endpoint security policy enforcement system aimed at small and medium sized organizations to the developing portfolio of products under its Network Admission Control program.
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InfoWorld - Cisco announced plans this week for a $135 million acquisition of Reactivity, a maker of XML gateway and security hardware designed to speed and secure up Web services traffic on enterprise networks.
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Networking equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. said that it intends to buy Perfigo Inc. for $74 million in cash, boosting the company's efforts to secure network "endpoints" and protect them from worms, viruses and hacking.
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Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately $200 million in cash and options. The acquisition of P-Cube is subject to various standard closing conditions and is
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Cisco Systems, the world's biggest maker of computer networking equipment, on Tuesday completed a $3.2 billion purchase of WebEx Communications to gain videoconferencing software.
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Cisco Systems has confirmed that it is to spend $200m to acquire privately held P-Cube, a California-based developer of internet protocol (IP) service control platforms.
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Cisco Systems Inc. said on Monday it  has acquired software to create online social networking sites  from privately held Utah Street Networks, Inc., the operator of  Tribe.net.
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Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Five Across, Inc. of San Francisco, Calif., a leading vendor in the social networking marketplace.
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Internet networking giant Cisco Systems agreed to acquire closely held Internet protocol service provider P-Cube for 200 million dollars in cash and options.
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The acquisition of NetSolve will enable Cisco and its channel partners to offer customers real-time monitoring of Cisco products and to help ensure continuous, secure operation of such services
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Cisco Systems is buying privately held Protego Networks of Sunnyvale, Calif., a provider of security monitoring and threat management appliances used in enterprise and small-to-medium business networks.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Cisco Systems agreed Monday to acquire closely held Internet protocol service provider P-Cube for $200 million in cash and options.
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(InfoWorld) - An acquisition of Avaya by Nortel might help the buyer expand its enterprise telephony business and pare down a crowded industry, but the deal could be tough for customers. Avaya is in talks with possible buyers and recently discussed a possible deal with Nortel, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Together, the companies would become the world's biggest vendor of telephony gear with as much as 35 percent of the market in its home base of North America, according to analyst Inder Singh of Prudential Equity Group. "Anywhere you look, they would become the dominant vendor," Singh said. Nortel, still emerging from years of accounting scandals and reorganizations, could use Avaya to boost its enterprise business, which delivers higher margins than its carrier network side, according to Singh. Because the companies have many similar products, the deal might also help Nortel cut costs by eliminating redundancies, he added. But for customers, the combination might not be such a good deal. Although Nortel is a bigger company, Avaya is the stronger of the two in IP telephony, which is where enterprise phone systems are going. Integration with Nortel and its unified communications partner, Microsoft, would cause a lot of confusion for customers, said Yankee Group analyst Zeus Kerravala. Avaya has made great technical strides recently, especially in software, he said. "Darwin should take over here and let the strongest survive," Kerravala said. One possible benefit to customers would be a one-stop shop with a strong telephony lineup as well as enterprise data networking gear, such as switches, which Avaya lacks, said Dell'Oro Group analyst Alan Weckel. Even if Nortel doesn't buy Avaya, analysts see acquisitions on the horizon in the industry. Enterprise telephony is a fragmented business: In 2006, in terms of numbers of lines installed, Nortel had 13.4 percent of the market, Avaya 11.6 percent and Cisco Systems Inc. 8.5 percent, according to Weckel. It takes a big vendor to keep up with the new features enterprises will seek as traditional phone systems give way to IP telephony and unified communications with its combination of voice, text, videoconferencing, and mobility, Weckel said. There also won't be room for as many companies in the next several years because even as IP telephony spending grows at 40 percent per year, revenue from traditional phone systems is falling as much as 15 percent, creating lackluster growth overall, Prudential's Singh said. Meanwhile, Cisco, which isn't saddled with a legacy equipment business, keeps growing. Though some observers have downplayed Nortel's unified communications partnership with Microsoft, which also has interoperability relationships with Cisco and other vendors, Singh believes that could be the factor that makes such a deal significant. Nortel and Microsoft are sharing software and doing joint development through a deal announced last year. "It would be industry-game-changing if you had these three companies lined up on one side with Cisco on the other side," Singh said.