Cisco buys wireless start-up for $450 million
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Networking giant grabs Airespace to keep up with Wi-Fi trend toward  "smart switches."
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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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Cisco has bought IP service control vendor P-Cube of Sunnyvale, California, in a cash deal worth about $200m. The company says the deal should allow its customers to run advanced IP services such as voice
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Cisco Systems has agreed to buy Navini Networks, a developer of WiMax broadband wireless access systems.The $330 million deal marks Cisco&#39;s first foray into the technology: Earlier this month, Cisco dismissed&#160;rumors that it planned to buy Navini, saying it had no plans to develop wireless base stations using any technology other than Wi-Fi.Navini makes mobile WiMax wireless base stations.Wi-Fi and WiMax are wireless networking technologies defined in standards set by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. WiMax (802.16) has a range over a hundred times greater than the older and more widely deployed Wi-Fi (802.11) family of standards.Cisco said it is particularly interested in Navini&#39;s expertise with &quot;smart beamforming&quot; technologies used with Multiple-Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna arrays, which in Wi-Fi systems allow base stations to handle much higher data throughput.Cisco plans to fold Navini into its wireless networking business unit. It expects the acquisition, its 124th, to close by the end of January.&#160;
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U.S. antitrust authorities on Monday  approved Cingular Wireless' plan to acquire rival AT&T Wireless  Services Inc. for $41 billion in cash, creating the nation's  biggest wireless carrier.
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Cisco Systems on Wednesday said it plans to acquire Jahi Networks, a privately held network management appliance vendor, in a $16 million deal.
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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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Telecom Italia SpA, Italy&#39;s largest phone company, plans to buy the 44 percent of wireless unit Telecom Italia Mobile SpA it doesn&#39;t already own, a stake with a market value of about
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NEW YORK  - Verizon Wireless said on Thursday that it had signed an agreement with NextWave Telecom Inc. to purchase all of its airwave licenses for $3 billion.
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Cisco Systems announced on Monday plans to buy an IP software start-up for $200 million. The company is acquiring P-Cube for its IP control software that&#39;s designed to make it easier for wireless and wired
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Cisco(R) (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced that the Cisco Unified Wireless Network and its outdoor wireless network solutions will constitute the wireless access network of choice for Linux and open source enthusiasts who attend the Linux Symposium in Ottawa this week.
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Cisco Systems is making an acquisition designed to reinforce its security lineup, the company said Thursday. The networking giant announced it will pay $74 million in cash for San Francisco start-up Perfigo, a developer of network access control products.
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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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All-devouring switch firm makes its WiMAX move Cisco is buying a plot in the WiMAX space with the $330m cash purchase of Navini Networks.â¦
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Acquisition is expected to help Cisco Systems reinforce its network management offerings.
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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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Verizon Wireless said on Thursday that it had signed an agreement with NextWave Telecom Inc. to purchase all of its airwave licenses for $3 billion.