Cisco Systems will acquire Jahi Systems, a start-up based in San Jose, California and Hyderabad, India, for its network management appliances designed to simplify device deployment, configuration and management. Jahi has not yet announced any products. Cisco will pay approximately $16 million in cash and assumed options for the company, which has 20 employees.
The companies said Jahi’s technology will provide the foundation for a consistent external network device interface and simplifies network deployment and management by creating a virtual device view of the network, thus reducing the complexity and cutting the overall cost. For Cisco, the Jahi solution will augment its existing network management applications by providing an enhanced interface for Cisco devices. It will also offer customers who are writing their own scripts and network management applications a common way of interacting with different Cisco devices running in the network. http://www.cisco.comhttp://www.jahinetworks.com/Cisco’s 2004 acquisitions have included:
- Perfigo, a privately-held developer of packaged network access control solutions, approximately $74 million in cash
- dynamicsoft, a start-up offering SIP-based carrier solutions, for $55 million in cash
- NetSolv, a provider of remote network and IT infrastructure management services for businesses
- P-Cube, a developer of IP service control platforms, for approximately $200 million in cash and options.
- Procket, a developer of concurrent services routers with expertise in silicon and software development, for approximately $89 million in cash.
- Parc Technologies, a spin off from a renowned center for research into search algorithms based at Imperial College, University of London, for $9 million. Parc’s Route Server algorithms address network routing problems involving complex Quality of Service constraints.
- Actona Technologies, a start-up developing software that facilitates data management across geographically distributed offices, for approximately $82 million in cash.
- Riverhead Networks, a start-up offering security technology that protects against Distributed Denial of Service (“DDoS”) attacks and other security threats in enterprise and service provider networks, for approximately $39 million in cash.
- Twingo Systems, a start-up developing desktop security solutions for Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), for approximately $5 million in cash.