Cisco pays $135m for Reactivity
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Fourth buy of the year Cisco is continuing its buying spree, paying $135m in cash and options for Reactivity.â¦
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK - Cisco Systems is adding to its arsenal of security devices by acquiring Protego Networks in a deal worth $65 million in cash.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco posted net income of $1.9 billion, or $0.31 per share, on revenue of $8.4 billion in its fiscal second quarter financial results reported Tuesday, exceeding revenue but matching earnings per share estimates of analysts. A consensus of analysts who follow Cisco estimated it would earn $0.31 per share, not including stock-based compensation, on revenue of $8.279 billion, according to a report from Thomson Financial. Revenue grew by more than 27 percent from $6.6 billion and net income on a GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) basis grew 39.7 percent from $1.4 billion compared to the year ago quarter. Earnings per share rose 40.9 percent from $0.22 a share compared to the year ago quarter. Excluding certain expenses, Cisco, a maker of computer networking equipment, earned $2.1 billion, or $0.33 a share in the quarter ended Jan. 27.
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Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. said Monday that it agreed to acquire Sunnyvale, Calif.-based P-Cube Inc. for about $200 million in cash and stock options.
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AT&amp;T, the US telecoms group, and a team of subcontractors have won a contract valued at up to $1bn to design, build and manage a secure IP-based global network for the US government
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Cisco has completed its 3.2 billion acquisition of WebEx online collaboration services.
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Cisco Systems, Inc. (www.cisco.com) announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Protego Networks, Inc. of Sunnyvale, CA, a provider of security monitoring and threat management appliances used
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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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Cisco Systems announced it is acquiring NetSolve, which provides real-time monitoring of the performance of corporate data networks.
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Cisco yesterday announced a deal to buy network monitoring firm NetSolve for $11 per share or approximately $128m. The acquisition of NetSolve, which is subject to stockholder and regulatory approvals, is expected to close in Cisco&#39;s Q2 &#39;05.
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DECEMBER 13, 2004  - SAN JOSE -- Cisco Systems Inc.&#39;s prices have typically been higher than those charged by its smaller networking rivals.
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Great quarter Cisco has had a good quarter, correction, a bloody good quarter, with Q2 net income 40 per cent up on last year to $1.9bn and sales up 20 per cent to $8.4bn. Scientific Atlanta, bought in fiscal Q3 last year, brought in net sales of $639m in this quarter ended January 27.â¦
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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 - 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 &#36;34 million in cash for BCN. The price could increase by as much as &#36;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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p2pnet.net News:- Cisco Systems says it&#39;s going to buy new security monitoring and threat management appliance firm Protego Networks for $65 million in cash.
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Cisco Systems, the largest maker of Internet networking equipment, said its first-quarter profit rose 29 percent.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco has completed its acquisition of WebEx Communications, entering the online collaboration services business through a $3.2 billion deal, the company announced Tuesday. Cisco will maintain WebEx's current business model of selling subscriptions for a Web-based service to enterprises that don't want to buy or build a collaboration system of their own, especially small and medium-size organizations. The Santa Clara, California, company is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Cisco, which plans to retain all its employees, said Cisco spokesman John Noh. The acquisition,Â announced March 15, further extends a networking equipment giant that is increasingly positioning itself as a software and services company. It followed buyouts of two social-networking companies, Five Across and Utah Street Networks, and all the technologies will complement each other, Chief Development Officer Charles Giancarlo said in March. The WebEx service lets companies share presentations, applications, and other data online, either asynchronously or in real-time sessions. The buyout will help Cisco compete against Microsoft and other vendors in collaboration and communication, and WebEx technology could also enhance Cisco's Unified Communications portfolio, according to Giancarlo. WebEx also offers a suite of productivity applications under the WebOffice brand, but Cisco doesn't plan to compete against desktop application suites, such as Microsoft'sOffice or Google's Google Apps, he said. The deal closed as expected in Cisco's fiscal fourth quarter. It was the first deal the company has made through a tender offer, in which the would-be acquirer publicly invites shareholders to sell their shares at a certain price at a given time, Cisco's Noh said. More than 90 percent of WebEx shares were tendered. A tender offer generally can be finished more quickly than other types of deals, such as cash purchases and share swaps, and makes it easier to offer attractive terms to employees in order to keep them on board, he said.