Cisco Systems Acquires P-Cube
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P-Cube develops service control platforms, which help service providers identify subscribers, classify applications, improve service performance and charge for multiple services without costly infrastructure upgrades, Cisco said.
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Cisco Systems said Wednesday that it would buy Airespace, a San Jose maker of networking gear, for &#36;450 million in stock in an effort to bolster sales of wireless equipment.
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Cisco said Friday that it had acquired Five Across, a small San-Francisco company that specializes in creating applications that allow companies to easily add social-networking functionality to their Web sites.
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LONDON - The shopping spree continues at Cisco Systems Inc., which said Monday (Aug. 23) it would buy privately-held P-Cube Inc., a developer of IP service platforms.
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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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Networking equipment maker Cisco Systems added to its growing portfolio of security products on Monday, agreeing to buy Protego Networks of California for US$65 million in cash.
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Networking equipment maker Cisco SystemsÂ added to its growing portfolio of security products on Monday, agreeing to buy Protego NetworksÂ of Sunnyvale, California for $65 million in cash.
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Fujitsu Limited and Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced that they have reached a fundamental agreement to enter into a strategic alliance focusing on routers and switches that will enable service providers
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Cisco has reached an agreement to buy P-Cube, a developer of IP control software, in a deal valued at about $200 million. P-Cube&#39;s software is used by broadband service providers to monitor, control and bill for IP services.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems, the biggest vendor in IP (Internet Protocol) networking, is diversifying into social networking. The router pioneer has agreed to acquire Five Across, a social-networking software company in San Francisco. Terms of the acquisition, which was announced late Thursday in California, were not disclosed. Cisco expects the deal to close in its fiscal third quarter, which ends April 28. Cisco doesn't plan to set up its own social-networking site to compete against News Corp.'s MySpace or Facebook. Instead, it will use Five Across technology to create software that will help enterprises better connect with their customers. In addition, service providers may be able to build services with the technology and sell them to their business customers, Cisco said. Five Across sells a software platform called Connect Community Builder. It includes a variety of features that enterprises can build into their Web presence for their customers, such as individual profile pages, friend lists, discussions, and posting of blogs, videos and podcasts. The company, founded in 2003, has just 11 employees, according to Cisco. Last year NHL Enterprises L.P.'s National Hockey League launched a site for hockey fans, called NHL Connect, using Five Across software. The acquisition is the first by Cisco's recently formed Media Solutions Group and part of Cisco's expansion into both the consumer and media categories. One target market for the Five Across technology will be entertainment and broadcasting companies such as The Walt Disney Co. and Comcast. But Cisco also expects social networking, like other consumer tools such as instant messaging, to be embraced by general enterprises. Consumers are now demanding social networking capabilities and want to see them on companies' Web sites, according to Cisco. Traditional media providers are ripe for using social networking, said IDC consumer analyst Danielle Levitas. "There's quite a bit of need for experimentation from [traditional] media companies to show their stockholders they can take advantage of the Web and they're not going to cede it to new media companies," Levitas said. A good social-networking component to a media company's Web site could help foster viewer loyalty or even be a place to test new shows among core viewers, she said. Consumer electronics and PC companies could also take advantage of social networking, hosting communities of consumers to share tips and advice, augmenting their technical support offerings, Levitas said. Meanwhile, social networking, with its constant conversations and user-generated content, is also good for Cisco's core business of selling network infrastructure, Levitas said. "Web-based content is incredibly bit-heavy," Levitas said. Social networking brings end users into the game so there is a lot of data coming upstream from the edge of the network as well as downstream from the company.
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TechWeb - Two small enterprise WLAN vendors release significant upgrades following last week's announcement that Cisco Systems is acquiring a third competitor, Airespace.
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Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) -- Cisco Systems(R) today announced it has completed the acquisition of privately held Greenfield Networks Inc. of Sunnyvale, California.
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Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. said Monday it agreed to buy Internet technology firm Dynamicsoft for $51.2 million, marking the second acquisition announced by the company in as many weeks.
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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 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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Cisco has completed its 3.2 billion acquisition of WebEx online collaboration services.
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Cisco Systems(R) (NASDAQ:CSCO) today announced it has completed the acquisition of privately-held Arroyo Video Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation solutions for on-demand television and related consumer services.