Wikipedia / List of acquisitions by Cisco
Wikipedia / List of acquisitions by Cisco
Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American computer networking company. Cisco made its first acquisition in 1993, which was followed by a series of further acquisitions.
Founded in 1984, Cisco did not acquire a company during the first seven years of its existence; but, on September 24, 1993, Cisco acquired Crescendo Communications, a LAN switching company. Following the first Cisco takeover purchase, acquisitions have constituted 50 percent of the company's business activity.
The company's largest acquisition is the purchase of Splunk—a software company that develops software for the analysis and monitoring of machine-generated data—28billion. Cisco's previous largest acquisition was tied between Cerent Corporation and Scientific Atlanta for $6.9billion in 1999 and 2005 respectively.
The majority of companies acquired by Cisco are based in the United States (U.S.) and a total of 149 companies had been acquired . Most of the companies acquired by Cisco are related to computer networking, with several LAN switching and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) companies included in the list of acquisitions.
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Each acquisition is for the respective company in its entirety, unless otherwise specified, and the date of the agreement between Cisco Systems and the subject of the acquisition is listed. The value of each acquisition is listed in the US$ currency because Cisco Systems is headquartered in California, U.S.
The majority of its products and business units have come from acquisitions, with Cisco Systems spending more than $70 billion to acquire approximately 218 organizations as of October 2021.
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Tidal Software | $ | $ | ||||
SaaS Web Security Provider | $ | $ | ||||
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Inlet Technologies | Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) digital media processing platforms | $ | $ | |||
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AXIOSS Software and Talent | IT Service Management Software | $ | $ | |||
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BNI Video | $ | $ | ||||
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Lightwire | Silicon Photonics | $ | $ | |||
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Cloupia | Cloud Services | $ | $ | |||
Wired and Wireless Cloud Networking | $ | $ | ||||
Cariden | Network planning, design and traffic management solutions for telecommunications service providers | $ | $ | |||
Intucell | $ | $ | ||||
Cognitive Security | Cyber Threat Protection | |||||
SolveDirect | $ | $ | ||||
Ubiquisys | $ | $ | ||||
Energy Management | $ | $ | ||||
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BroadHop | Leading provider of next generation policy control and service management for carrier networks worldwide. | |||||
Whiptail | Scalable solid state memory system provider | $ | $ | |||
Insieme | Application-centric data center infrastructure | — | — | |||
Collaborate.com | Mobile collaboration and cloud computing | — | — | |||
Tetration Analytics | Data Center Analytics and Security Solution | — | — | |||
ThreatGRID | Unified malware analysis and threat intelligence | — | — | |||
Assemblage | Cloud collaboration software | — | — | |||
Tail-f Systems | Network service orchestration solutions | — | — | |||
Metacloud | Deploys and operates private clouds for global organizations with a unique OpenStack-as-a-Service model | — | — | |||
Tropo | Provides development platform for real time communications | — | — | |||
Neohapsis | Security Consulting | — | — | |||
Embrane | Application-centric network services including firewalls (FW), virtual private networks (VPNs), load balancers (LB) and SSL offload engines | — | — | |||
Piston Cloud Computing | Provides software that enables streamlined operational deployment of large scale distributed systems | — | — | |||
Cloud-delivered enterprise security service | $ | $ | ||||
MaintenanceNet | Provides a cloud-based software platform that uses data analytics and automation to manage and scale attach and renewals of recurring customer contracts. | $ | $ | |||
Pawaa | Provides secure on-premise and cloud-based file sharing software. | — | — | |||
1 Mainstream | Offers a cloud-based video platform designed to quickly launch live and on-demand OTT video services to a variety of connected devices | — | — | |||
ParStream | Realtime Edge Analytics Database for IoT | — | — | |||
Acano | Acano provides collaboration infrastructure and conferencing software | $ | $ | |||
Lancope | Enhances Cisco's Security Everywhere strategy. | $ | $ | |||
Developers of an Internet of Things cloud platform | $ | $ | ||||
CliQr Technologies | Application defined cloud orchestration platform | $ | $ | |||
Leaba Semiconductor | Fabless Semiconductor | $ | $ | |||
Cloud-Security Provider | $ | $ | ||||
Heroik Labs, Inc / Worklife | Meeting productivity | |||||
Application Performance Management | $ | $ | ||||
Viptela Inc. | Software-defined WAN | $ | $ | |||
MindMeld Inc. | Conversational Artificial Intelligence | $ | $ | |||
Observable Networks, Inc. | Cloud-Security Provider | — | — | |||
Springpath Inc | Hyper-converged Data Platform | $320,000,000 | $ | |||
Perspica, Inc. | Machine Learning | — | — | |||
Cloud Collaboration and Contact Center Platform | $ | $ | ||||
Cmpute.io (47Line Technologies) | software solution to analyze cloud-deployed workloads and consumption patterns for cost-optimization strategies | — | — | |||
Skyport Systems | Cloud managed secure edge compute server platform | — | — | |||
Accompany | Develops a relationship intelligence platform and has built one of the richest databases of decision makers in the world | — | — | |||
Cloud-based mobile experience and location services | — | — | ||||
Ensoft Ltd | Software solutions for service provider networks | — | — | |||
Duo Security | Cloud-based access security, identity management, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) services | $ | $ | |||
Privately held semiconductor company | — | — | ||||
Singularity Networks | Network Analytics Company | — | — | |||
Sentryo | Cybersecurity for the Industrial Internet | — | — | |||
Acacia Communications | Optical Interconnects | $ | $ | |||
Voicea | Meeting transcription, voice search, and meeting highlights/action items | |||||
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ThousandEyes | Cloud & Internet Intelligence for Enterprises and Service Providers | $ | $ | |||
Modcam | Video analytics | — | — | |||
BabbleLabs | Computer audio background noise reduction software | — | — | |||
Portshift | Computer application security solutions | — | — | |||
Banzai Cloud | Secure cloud-native application deployment | — | — | |||
Cloud communications software | $ | $ | ||||
Sedona Systems | Cross-Domain Network Controller | — | — | |||
Kenna Security | Risk-based Vulnerability Management | — | — | |||
Socio Labs | Event technology platform | — | — | |||
Syrmia Networks | Embedded System Software | — | — | |||
Valtix | Cloud network security | — | — | |||
Lightspin | Cloud security | — | — | |||
Smartlook | User analytics | — | — | |||
Armorblox | AI-powered threat detection | — | — | |||
Accedian | High Performance Service Assurance | — | — | |||
Oort | Identity security and management | — | — | |||
Data analysis platform for real-time cybersecurity, full-stack observability, and machine learning telemetry | $ | $ | ||||
Isovalent | Cloud Networking and Security | — | — | |||
DeepFactor | Cloud-native application security company | — | — | |||
Robust Intelligence | AI Security | — | — | |||
Deeper Insights AI Ltd | Deeper Insights helps organizations design, build, and implement AI solutions and services for enterprise use cases | — | — | |||
SnapAttack | Threat detection and engineering platform | — | — | |||
Aura Asset Intelligence | Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management | — | — | |||
NeuralFabric | AI training platform | — | — | |||
EzDubs, Inc. | Real time AI speech translation | — | — |
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