About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Aironet Wireless Communications, CAIS Software, Cerent Corporation, Flip Video, GeoTel Communications, Hammerhead Networks, Infogear, IronPort, Kalpana (company), KISS Technology, Komodo Technology, Latigent, LightStream, Linksys, List of acquisitions by Cisco Systems, Metreos, Navarro Networks, Navini Networks, Nemo Systems, NetSolve, NetSpeed, Netsys Technologies, Okena, P-Cube, Parc Technologies, Procket Networks, Riverhead Networks, Scientific Atlanta, Selsius Systems, Sentient Networks, Sheer Networks, Sipura Technology, Skystone Systems, StrataCom, Tandberg, Tasmania Network Systems, Telebit, Twingo Systems, WebEx, Webline Communications, WheelGroup. Excerpt: Cisco Systems is a computer networking company founded in 1984. Each acquisition is for the respective company in its entirety, unless otherwise specified. The acquisition date listed is the date of the agreement between Cisco Systems and the subject of the acquisition. The value of each acquisition is listed in US dollars because Cisco Systems is headquartered in California, United States. If the value of an acquisition is not listed, then it is undisclosed. Cisco did not acquire a company for the first seven years of its existence, but on September 24, 1993, Cisco acquired Crescendo Communications, a LAN switching company. Since then, acquisitions have constituted 50% of the company. The company's largest acquisition as of April 2008 is the purchase of Scientific-Atlanta, a manufacturer of cable television, telecommunications, and broadband equipment, for US$6.9 billion. The majority of companies acquired by Cisco are based in the United States. A total of 148 companies have been acquired as of March 2011. Most of the acquired companies are related to computer networking, including several LAN switching and Voice over Internet Protocol companies. The most up-to-date list by Cisco is available at: Cisco Acquisitions This article is about the video-conferencing vendor, a Cisco company. Other companies with the same name such as Tandberg Television or Tandberg Data for data storage: see here and here Tandberg is a manufacturer of videoconferencing systems, located in Oslo, Norway (product development, sales and distribution) and New York City, USA (sales and distribution). The company's main competitor is Polycom and other competitors are HP, Sony, Radvision, LifeSize Communications, VTEL and Aethra. Cisco Systems acquired Tandberg on 19 April 2010. The company was founded by Vebjorn Tandberg as Tandbergs Radiofabrikk (Tandberg's radio factory) in Oslo in 1933. The company's first radio was named "Tommeliten," and used only earphones. This was followed by the "Coron
