December 19th, 2018
The popular technology company Cisco has reportedly announced its intent to acquire Luxtera. The deal has been valued $660 million.
Luxtera, which was founded in 2001 and raised over $130 million, will give Cisco a photonic solution for that data networking problem. Rob Salvagno, head of Cisco’s M&A and...
November 29th, 2018Tech Mahindra and Cisco have together launched a state-of-the-art digital experience centre in one of the leading cities of India, Bengaluru.
The facility, located at Tech Mahindra’s campus here, will showcase use cases for digitization in manufacturing, retail and smart cities such as asset visibility and yard tracking, city...
November 9th, 2018Cisco Systems has reportedly tied up with Amazon's Amazon Web Services for the purpose of offering software tools that would make it easier for Cisco's customers to use Amazon's data centers to run their business applications.
This step has been taken as a part of a push at Cisco, one of the biggest suppliers of the routers and...
September 15th, 2018One of the biggest technology companies Cisco has announced that it is stepping up investments in the Indian market. This is being done as part of the second phase of its 'Country Digital Acceleration' (CDA) programme.
With this, the company will focus on accelerating innovation and entrepreneurship, 5G use cases for citizen...
September 10th, 2018Reliance Jio Infocomm and Cisco Systems that is based in the US are looking to extend their partnership to tap the Rs 50,000-crore strong enterprise market. This is expected to be done with a services portfolio which the Mukesh Ambani-owned telecom firm is planning to launch commercially soon.
It was in 2012 that both these companies...
July 14th, 2018Amazon’s cloud service business ‘Amazon Web Services’ is eyeing to sell its own networking switches to the business customers. Amazon Web Services could price its white-box switches 70-80% less than comparable switches from networking giant Cisco, as reported by one of the persons with direct knowledge of the unit's plan.
The...
June 20th, 2018The multinational tech firm Cisco Systems Inc. has announced that It is in the advanced stage to acquire a mobile application platform provider called July Systems. This step will assist the company in strengthening the WiFi platform of the enterprise with the aim to provide much better indoor location services capabilities, among other...
August 23rd, 2017Cisco Systems Inc, US-based technology firm has announced it plans to acquire IIT-Kanpur and BITS Pilani alumni-founded, Springpath, Inc. a Sunnyvale-based leader in hyper-convergence software for $320 million.
Springpath, which was founded by former VMware executives Mallik Mahalingam and Krishna Yadappanavar in 2012 has developed...
July 7th, 2017Cisco India and SAARC President Dinesh Malkani has put in his papers at the networking solutions giant to take on a leadership role at a startup.
Malkani will continue in his role until July 31 and remain associated with Cisco till the end of September, according to sources.
The development comes at a time when Cisco is...
June 10th, 2017American hardware major Cisco today said it is witnessing a jump in demand by Indian banks since the demonetisation move, which made it open its first global digital experience centre here.
"Overall we see a significant ramp-up requirements are coming from them, especially since November last year. That is where we have also seen...
May 4th, 2017American technology giant Cisco has said it will pay USD 610 million in cash to acquire a networking start-up led by an Indian-origin software industry veteran.
Cisco will buy Viptela, a privately held software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) company based in San Jose, a move that will expand its portfolio.
Viptela CEO Praveen...
April 11th, 2017Networking giant Cisco today said it plans to make India a global export hub for its products, after recently having started manufacturing access points and routers at a facility in Pune.
The US-based company also expects to complete 50 digitisation projects by the end of the year across India, which is part of its USD 100 million...
