Cisco

Cisco is a technology company specializing in networking and unified computing services, enabling powerful connections across various sectors such as business, education, and philanthropy. Founded in 1984 by computer scientists from Stanford University, Cisco has been a leader in developing Internet Protocol-based networking technologies. The company provides a wide range of hardware, software, and services, including switching products, storage solutions, and next-generation network routing products that facilitate connectivity for users and devices. Cisco's innovations support mobile, data, voice, and video applications, making information accessible anytime and anywhere. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco also promotes entrepreneurial initiatives through programs like the Cisco Innovation Grand Challenge, which seeks disruptive ventures that leverage the Internet of Things. Additionally, the Spark Innovation Fund, a $150 million venture capital initiative, focuses on investments in sectors such as software and advanced manufacturing to foster transformative ideas.

Bob Agee

Vice President of Business Development

Rebecca Jacoby

CIO & SVP, IT & Cloud & Systems Management Technology Group

Kervin Pillay

CTO - Automation

Victor Tsao

SVP, Emeritus

Past deals in Communications Infrastructure

Acacia

Acquisition in 2019
Acacia Communications, Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells high-speed coherent optical interconnect products globally, including markets in the United States, China, Germany, and Thailand. The company offers embedded and pluggable module products that feature optical interconnect modules with transmission speeds ranging from 100 to 1,200 gigabits per second, catering to long-haul, metro, and inter-data center applications. In addition to these modules, Acacia provides semiconductor solutions such as low-power coherent digital signal processor application-specific integrated circuits and silicon photonic integrated circuits, which are integrated into their products. The company markets its offerings through a direct sales force targeting network equipment manufacturers, network operators, and cloud service providers. Founded in 2009, Acacia is headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts.

BroadSoft

Acquisition in 2017
BroadSoft, Inc. is a prominent provider of software and services that empower telecommunications service providers to offer hosted cloud-based unified communications (UC) to enterprise customers across various regions, including North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company's main products include UC-One, which integrates various communication and collaboration tools such as phone services, messaging, and video conferencing; Team-One, a solution for project management and collaboration; BroadSoft Hub, which connects real-time communications with cloud applications; and CC-One, a contact center solution for multi-channel customer interactions. BroadSoft's offerings are delivered through its BroadWorks application server and BroadCloud platform. The company also provides professional support services, including installation, project management, and training. Catering to over 500 telecommunications service provider customers, BroadSoft operates in more than 70 countries and serves many of the largest telecommunications carriers globally. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, BroadSoft became a subsidiary of Cisco Systems in 2018.

Ubiquisys

Acquisition in 2013
Ubiquisys is a mobile communications company specializing in the design and development of communication devices for mobile operators and consumers. The company is recognized for its ZoneGate femtocell system, a compact plug-and-play device that connects to home or office broadband to deliver 3G coverage and support various mobile services. Ubiquisys has established itself as a leader in intelligent small cell technology, with its products deployed by over 70 operators globally. Additionally, the company provides solutions for the wireless-wireline convergence technology market, further enhancing its portfolio in the telecommunications sector.

vCider

Acquisition in 2012
Virtual Networks for the cloud.

ClearAccess

Acquisition in 2012
ClearAccess offers advanced broadband CPE management solutions based on the TR-069 standard that address the growing need for automatic subscriber activation, remote CPE management, and new incremental revenue streams. The ClearVision Management System decreases operational expenses and customer churn by offering greater WAN/LAN support capabilities as well as increasing profitability through the delivery of new data services.

LineSider Technologies

Acquisition in 2010
LineSider Technologies is leading the evolution of communications networks to meet the requirements of cloud computing. With next-generation network services virtualization, the Company helps service providers and enterprise organizations, transform their networks into dynamic and fluid infrastructures that can respond rapidly to changes in dynamic cloud computing environments.

Mavenir

Series D in 2010
Mavenir is a cloud-native network software provider that focuses on transforming network infrastructure for Communications Service Providers (CSPs). The company offers a comprehensive product portfolio that spans all layers of network infrastructure, including 5G applications, packet core, and radio access networks (RAN). Mavenir's innovative solutions have established it as a leader in evolved networking, with notable advancements in technologies such as VoLTE, VoWiFi, Advanced Messaging, and virtualized RAN. The company serves over 250 CSP customers in more than 130 countries, impacting more than half of the world's subscribers. By leveraging disruptive technologies and business models, Mavenir aims to enhance service agility, flexibility, and efficiency while helping CSPs reduce costs and protect revenue.
Richards-Zeta's intelligent middleware transforms building operational data into an IT-friendly format that easily integrates with existing applications. Its scalable, open platform enables the convergence of building systems onto an IP network. This integrated solution provides more effective management of energy consumption across an organization.

IronPort Systems

Acquisition in 2007
IronPort Systems, now part of Cisco, specializes in the development of email and web security tools designed to protect organizations from spam, viruses, malware, and other internet threats. The company offers a range of security appliances that provide both preventive and reactive measures, ensuring robust performance and ease of deployment. Its product lineup includes anti-malware systems, security management appliances, and technologies focused on email and web threats, such as anti-spam solutions, email authentication, multi-layered virus prevention, and web reputation management. IronPort's award-winning solutions cater to organizations of all sizes, enhancing their security posture against evolving digital threats.

Meetinghouse Data Communications

Acquisition in 2006
Meetinghouse Data Communications develops network security and authentication products. The company offers network authentication software for wired and wireless local-area networks, including AEGIS, a security solution that provides user authentication for wireless local area networks; EAP-TTLS protocol, which addresses security risks of wireless local area networks; and 802.1X supplicant that is used to authenticate wireless or wired local-area network users during login and network sessions.

Topspin Communications

Acquisition in 2005
Topspin Communications provides server networking equipment. It provides server fabric switches, a class of server networking equipment, which offers programmable infrastructure for grid and utility computing, clustered enterprise applications, and server virtualization. These switches are designed to connect servers together into a grid, which provides network and storage connectivity to server grid. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Traverse Networks

Series B in 2005
Traverse Networks is a leading supplier of enhanced voice services technology to communications service providers in the US. With unique and highly scalable technology, Traverse Networks helps partners generate new revenue streams by complementing existing products or enabling the creation of new enhanced services.

Jahi Networks

Acquisition in 2004
Jahi Networks

DynamicSoft

Acquisition in 2004
DynamicSoft provides carrier-class infrastructure software for packet-based wireline and wireless communications networks. The company's infrastructure solutions enable carriers and communications application service providers to deploy telephony applications and converged services over Internet protocol-based networks. Its dynamicsoft Service Engine allows mobile carriers to deliver voice and data services over packet network, as well as provides a migration path to various IP 3G network environments; supports various services, such as voice, multimedia messaging, instant messaging, and presence; and consolidates common functions, which include customer data storage, authentication, authorization, provisioning, and service interaction. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in East Hanover, New Jersey.

LightPointe

Venture Round in 2004
LightPointe Communications, Inc. (a.k.a. LightPointe Wireless) is privately held. The company was launched in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA, with regional offices/presence in Europe (Germany & France) and Asia (Thailand). LightPointe also provides solutions via its AirePointe Security & Government Solutions Division (www.AirePointe.com). LightPointe is the number one manufacturer in the world of point-to-point Gigabit Ethernet Free Space Optics and Hybrid Optical-Radio Bridges, and manufactures a complete line of 4G/LTE backhaul radios (60 GHz & 70/80 GHz e-band) for telecom carriers and enterprises such as businesses, schools, the military & government agencies. With over $80 million in product development and over eight key patents, LightPointe has deployed thousands of Gigabit Ethernet bridges and digital video/security backhaul solutions worldwide.

Latitude Communications

Acquisition in 2003
Latitude Communications provides enterprise voice and Web conferencing solutions. Its MeetingPlace system allows companies to conduct virtual meetings and thereby extend decision-making processes across the disparate geographic locations of participants. With MeetingPlace, participants can schedule and attend a meeting; view, share, and edit documents; and record and play back meeting content. Attendees can participate in a meeting using widely available communications devices, such as telephones, cellular phones, laptop computers, and desktop computers.

Response Networks

Venture Round in 2001
Response Networks offer business communications solutions designed to speed your Response to your clients, partners and prospects.

LightPointe

Series B in 2001
LightPointe Communications, Inc. (a.k.a. LightPointe Wireless) is privately held. The company was launched in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA, with regional offices/presence in Europe (Germany & France) and Asia (Thailand). LightPointe also provides solutions via its AirePointe Security & Government Solutions Division (www.AirePointe.com). LightPointe is the number one manufacturer in the world of point-to-point Gigabit Ethernet Free Space Optics and Hybrid Optical-Radio Bridges, and manufactures a complete line of 4G/LTE backhaul radios (60 GHz & 70/80 GHz e-band) for telecom carriers and enterprises such as businesses, schools, the military & government agencies. With over $80 million in product development and over eight key patents, LightPointe has deployed thousands of Gigabit Ethernet bridges and digital video/security backhaul solutions worldwide.

AuroraNetics

Acquisition in 2001
AuroraNetics develops silicon technology products and solutions for Internet infrastructure and metropolitan fiber networks.

Cybergnostic

Series B in 2000
Cybergnostic designs and runs communications networks in Connecticut, United States.

ExiO Communications

Acquisition in 2000
ExiO Communications develops wireless technologies for corporate networks based on code division multiple access technologies. Cisco acquired ExiO communications in 2000.

Vovida Networks

Acquisition in 2000
Vovida Networks develops a Linux based communications infrastructure company and the global pioneer of open source telephony. Acquired by Cisco in 2000.

Ensemble Communications

Venture Round in 2000
Ensemble Communications develops wireless infrastructure equipment for high-speed local broadband access applications.

IPmobile

Acquisition in 2000
IPmobile is a new, wireless communications infrastructure company focused on transforming raw radio capacity into managed, cost-efficient, and IP service-ready bandwidth. Using IPmobile's solutions, network operators and service/content providers will be able to profitably extend wireline VPN, service guarantees, provisioned QoS, premium content delivery, VoIP, and multicasting capabilities over the air. The Company's air intelligent technology has wide applicability for current cellular/PCS and fixed wireless markets, and for next generation IP-based wireless/mobility networks.

Ubicom

Venture Round in 2000
Ubicom develops communications and media processor (CMP) and software platforms that address the unique demands of real-time interactive applications and multimedia content delivery in the digital home. The company provides optimized system-level solutions to OEMs for a wide range of products including wireless routers, access points, VoIP gateways, streaming media devices, print servers and other network devices. Ubicom's unique multithreaded processor design, real-time operating system, and application-level solutions combine to ensure a high-quality user experience with unprecedented ease of use. Ubicom is a venture-backed, privately held company with corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.

Pentacom

Acquisition in 2000
Pentacom, Ltd. provides networking solutions and information technology services, and it specializes in networking components that connect optical networks to the Internet backbone. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Herzliya, Israel.

Noochee Solutions

Venture Round in 2000
Noochee's suite of software applications enables telecom service providers to proactively manage the presentation.
Spanlink Communications, Inc. provides business communications technology and network integration solutions in the United States and internationally. It offers packaged applications, such as Spanlink Courtesy Callback that improves customer satisfaction and agent utilization rates; Customer Survey Manager, which provides users with a solution for creating, launching, and managing automated customer feedback surveys; Spanlink Top Customer that enables users to give designated customers attention; and SolutionWatch, an enterprise-grade application monitoring and systems reporting tool to provide alerts on flaws in the voice and data network. The company also provides CentralControl, a system management product that provides the multi-tenancy to manage voice network, enables senior level control at the data center, and provides access for routine changes at the edge; and IVR toolkits for unified customer voice portal, unified contact center enterprise, and unified contact center express platforms. In addition, it offers analysis, design, implementation, validation, launch, transition, and support services; consultative and assessment services, such as solution value analysis, voice readiness assessment, recording studio, reporting assessment, simulation testing, and post-deployment assessment services; and planning, migration, and support services. Further, Spanlink Communications provides contact center solutions, such as unified communications, unified customer contact, and network systems solutions; and interactive intelligence solutions, including enterprise IP telephony, contact center, hosted and on-premise contact center, and business process automation solutions. The company integrates unified communications, customer interaction, workforce optimization, and system management products that exploit the benefits of VoIP network infrastructures. Spanlink Communications, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Tellium

Venture Round in 2000
Tellium delivers high-speed, high-capacity, intelligent optical solutions that empower service providers around the world to create, run, control, simplify and optimize their networks. First in the world to provide in-service, intelligent optical switches, Tellium's Aurora Optical Switch™ family and the StarNet Software Suite™ together offer service providers a simple and cost-effective migration path to next-generation public networks.

Worldwide Data Systems

Acquisition in 1999
Worldwide Data Systems is a leader in consulting and engineering services for converged data and voice networks.

Aironet Wireless Communications

Acquisition in 1999
Aironet Wireless Communications was engaged in the design, development, and marketing of wireless local area networking solutions. It also developed and marketed point-to-point and point-to-multipoint bridge products for fixed wireless networking between buildings.

WebLine Communications

Acquisition in 1999
WebLine Communications provides simultaneous Web-based information and real-time personal interaction by allowing customers to contact corporate call centers via their computer while browsing a site or Intranet. Webline became part of Cisco's Applications Technology. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Burlington, Massacheusetts.

MONTEREY NETWORKS

Acquisition in 1999
Monterey's technology focuses on the core of next-generation optical networks. Its infrastructure-class, optical cross-connect technology gives service providers the ability to instantly add capacity at the core of the network cost effectively.

StratumOne Communications

Acquisition in 1999
StratumOne Communications is a fabless semiconductor manufacturer that delivers high-performance chip sets for enabling packet, cell, and circuit switched data over SONET networks. Its semiconductor chips are used in conjunction with high-speed networks integrating data, voice, and video. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

TransMedia Communications

Acquisition in 1999
TransMedia Communications provides 'media-aware' voice-over-packet-network (VOPN) switch that bridges the gap between high-performance Internet/packet (IP/ATM) network and traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN) communications to provide lower cost services and enable high-impact customer services. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in San Jose, California.

Amteva Technologies

Acquisition in 1999
Amteva provides IP-based Unified Communications middleware that consolidates voicemail, e-mail and fax on a single IP network, accessible independent of location, time or device.

GeoTel Communications

Acquisition in 1999
GeoTel Communications Corporation operates as a global provider of customer-interaction software solutions for mission-critical call center applications. The company's computer telephony integration products create an enterprise-wide customer-interaction platform by integrating multivendor networks, automatic call distributors, voice response systems, databases, desktop applications, and other resources. Solutions are provided for single-site, multisite, and network service provider deployments. The company is based in Littleton, Massachusetts.

Fibex Systems

Acquisition in 1999
Fibex Systems is a pioneer in Integrated Access Digital Loop Carrier (IADLC) products, devices that combine traditional voice services with data services using ATM as the underlying architecture. Sentient Networks has developed the industry's highest density ATM Circuit Emulation Service (CES) Gateway, which is capable of transporting circuit-based private line services across packet-based ATM networks.

PipeLinks

Acquisition in 1998
PipeLinks develops high-bandwidth, remote access equipment for networking systems. The company is based in San Jose, California.

Clarity Wireless

Acquisition in 1998
Clarity Wireless is focused on the development of wireless communication technology solutions. It provides a range of information technology infrastructure installation, maintenance, and support services. Clarity Wireless was acquired by Cisco in September 1998. Clarity Wireless was founded by Greg Raleigh in 1996.

LightSpeed International

Acquisition in 1997
LightSpeed International develops leading-edge voice protocol conversion and intelligent call control software which enables signaling to be transmitted among diverse sets of voice protocols and applications.

Tellium

Venture Round in 1997
Tellium delivers high-speed, high-capacity, intelligent optical solutions that empower service providers around the world to create, run, control, simplify and optimize their networks. First in the world to provide in-service, intelligent optical switches, Tellium's Aurora Optical Switch™ family and the StarNet Software Suite™ together offer service providers a simple and cost-effective migration path to next-generation public networks.

Telesend

Acquisition in 1997
Telesend, a Cupertino, Calif., developer of high-speed Internet-access technology.

VeriSign

Series C in 1996
Verisign operates the infrastructure for the .com, .net, .tv, .cc, .name, .jobs, .edu and .gov top-level domains, as well as two of the world’s 13 Internet root servers A and J, managing and protecting the DNS infrastructure for some 121 million domain names and processing more than 77 billion Internet queries daily. Verisign’s infrastructure assurance services, including Managed DNS, DDoS Protection and iDefense Security Intelligence, help to ensure online businesses are as available as the Web itself.

Granite Equity

Acquisition in 1996
Granite Equity is an investment and holding company based in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, focused on fostering growth and profitability for its partners. It operates through Granite Partners, which was previously involved in managing a buyout fund that targeted investments across various sectors, including commercial products, manufacturing, technology, media, telecommunications, and industrial markets. Additionally, Granite Systems, a subsidiary, provides network configuration management software tailored for the telecommunications industry. Through its diverse investments and strategic focus, Granite Equity aims to create value and support the development of its portfolio companies.

Crescendo Communications

Acquisition in 1993
Crescendo Communications, Inc. provides FDDI-speed LAN over unshielded copper twisted pair wires.