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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Cisco Systems signed an agreement on Wednesday to acquire network management start-up Jahi Networks for $16 million. Jahi, a San Jose, Calif.
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Cisco Systems will pay $74 million for Perfigo, a developer of packaged network access control products. Perfigo&#39;s product, CleanMachines, will bolster up Cisco&#39;s network security offerings for the small and mid-size business market.
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Cisco Systems signed an agreement on Thursday to acquire NetSolve, which manages information technology systems, for $128.7 million in cash.
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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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Network equipment maker Cisco Systems  Inc.  on Tuesday reported fiscal fourth quarter revenue  and income rose more than expected as companies upgraded their  networks.
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Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday reported significant gains in earnings and revenue for its fiscal 2005 first quarter that met analyst expectations.
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By Tony Glover, The Business, London  Dec. 14--American networking giant Cisco Systems is building a research  and development centre and a factory in India to manufacturer internet phones.   The company has allocated $1.1bn (Â£561m, E825m) to Chennai and Bangalore.
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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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Cisco will pay approximately US$34 million in cash for all outstanding equity interests of BCN. In addition, the acquisition price may be increased by as much as $122 million depending on
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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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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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Cisco Systems, the largest maker of Internet networking equipment, said its first-quarter profit rose 29 percent.
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Cisco Systems stepped up its commitment to helping partners deliver services with last week&#39;s acquisition of publicly traded managed service provider NetSolve in a deal valued at nearly $200 million.
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Cisco Systems (Quote, Chart) acquired security monitoring provider Protego Networks in a $65 million cash deal Monday, one of a flurry of year-end mergers and consolidation among software providers in the past week.
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Cisco Systems&#39; announcement Monday that it will acquire privately held startup Protego Networks for $65 million adds a critical piece to Cisco&#39;s strategy for becoming a security vendor.
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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.