Cisco Purchases WebEx to Gain Video Software Briefing: SAN FRANCISCO
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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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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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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 today outlined a strategy for its new Internet protocol (IP) networks and gained technical and Japanese market support by striking a deal with Fujitsu.
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Cisco Systems has finalized an agreement to purchase privately held BCN Systems, a provider of networking software design. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately $34 million in cash for BCN. The price could increase by as much as $122 million if BCN meets certain development and product milestones. BCN's architecture will be incorporated across Cisco's broad routing portfolio and will support Cisco's delivery of next-generation data, voice, and video services over a converged network.
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Cisco Systems decision to acquire NetSolve means that its channel partners will be able to offer real-time monitoring of networks.
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Cisco(R) (NASDAQ: CSCO) has established a state-of-the-art customer briefing center (CBC) in Singapore to showcase the latest innovations in Internet Protocol (IP) networking technology.
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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 has agreed to buy software developer P-Cube in a cash-and-options deal Cisco valued at $200m (Â£110m). P-Cube makes software to help service providers analyse and control network traffic.
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Cisco has completed its acquisition of WebEx Communications, entering the online collaboration services business through a $3.2 billion deal, the company announced Tuesday.
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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. The move strengthens Cisco's application acceleration technology menu, with Reactivity's XML Manager, Gateway and Firewall products â appliances designed to speed up processing of service-oriented architecture (SOA) application traffic, which uses bulky protocols such as XML and Simple Object Access Protocol. The Reactivty gear will join Cisco's own Application Oriented Networking (AON) XML inspection products as part of the company's larger Application Network Services technology group. Privately held Reactivity has 56 employees and was founded in 1998.Â Reactivity employees will report to Jayshree Ullal, senior vice president of Cisco's Datacenter Switching and Security Technology Group. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2007, which ends in April. The Reactivity buy is Cisco's third acquisition this year. Reactivity competes with independent XML and SOA acceleration vendors such as Layer 7 and Forum Systems, as well as DataPower, which was bought by IBM in 2005. Reactivity's products secure SOA traffic with processors and software that offload from servers some of the formatting, protocol conversion, and other tasks involved with SOA-based application traffic. For example, the Reactivity Gateway would sit in a data center with servers hosting SOA applications, and provide functions such as Web services authentication, validation of XML schema (specific Web services "dialects" used in various SOA deployments), and protection against XML-based attacks. While Cisco's XML-based AON technology has not gained a lot of traction with customers, observers say the SOA networking market is still potentially lucrative. ZapThink, a research firm focused on enterprise SOA, predicts the market for XML optimization technology will reach $1.2 billion by the end of the decade. The company also predicts that Web services traffic will make up around 48 percent of all enterprise traffic by next year. "The AON platform movement hasn't yet resulted in as much market traction as originally supposed," says Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst with ZapThink. "It's possible that this acquisition can give Cisco the kick in the pants it needs to effectively take advantage of a growing opportunity for management of XML and Web services traffic."
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InfoWorld - WebEx, a company best known for Web conferencing, announced this week that it will use its WebEx Connect desktop technology to host Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand.Â
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Cisco has completed its 3.2 billion acquisition of WebEx online collaboration services.
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Cisco Systems Inc has beefed up its Application Oriented Networking offering by spending $135m on Reactivity Inc, a privately held developer of XML security, performance and availability technology.
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Cisco has created a 3D virtual marketplace to help its channel partners work with application providers and manufacturers worldwide.
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Live from the San Francisco Web 2.0 Summit, Rafe Needleman and company.
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Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO - message board) announced late Thursday that it is buying routing software startup BCN Systems Inc.