Cisco to acquire Sheer Networks
By agencies   |   Thursday, 28 July 2005, 19:30 IST
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SAN JOSE: Cisco Systems, Inc will acquire Sheer Networks, co-founded by Sunil Kishen. The privately held Sheer Networks based in San Jose, CA, develops intelligent network and service management products for service providers and large enterprises. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately $97 million in cash and assumed options for Sheer Networks. In addition, the acquisition price may be increased by as much as $25 million depending on the degree to which certain development and product milestones are met after close. The acquisition of Sheer is subject to various standard closing conditions and is expected to close in the first quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2006. Sheer's virtual network model hides the complexity of physical networks in a way that makes them accessible to a variety of management applications. This Dynamic Network Abstraction layer makes them transparent and accessible to a broad range of management applications. Building on the Sheer Networks technology and platform, Cisco will develop and sell device, network and service-level management applications enabling intelligent management across multi-vendor networks and network-based services. Cisco will also enable other hardware and software vendors to develop and deliver applications that can easily interoperate with Cisco applications through standards-based APIs. These same APIs enable easy integration into service provider OSS/BSS environments.

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