Cisco to acquire network s/w provider LineSider

SAN JOSE, USA: Networking gear vendor Cisco announced that it will acquire privately-held network management software provider LineSider Technologies Inc.

"Cloud computing represents a significant opportunity for Cisco customers to create more effective business models and increase the operating efficiency of the network," said Jesper Andersen, senior vice president of Cisco's Network Management Technology Group (NMTG). "LineSider's advanced network management software integrates both physical and virtual network services with a policy-based approach and makes networks more flexible and responsive to change."

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The company says that LineSider's software is designed to enable customers to organize network resources into a flexible cloud infrastructure that integrates the network with customers' existing IT operational tools and processes.

This network abstraction layer allows customers to provision and deploy numerous individual network components..

LineSider team will become a part of Cisco's NMTG. Financial terms of the transaction are undisclosed and the deal is expected to be complete in the second quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2011.