Cisco to boost software-defined offering with $610m Viptela acquisition

US networking giant Cisco is putting its hand into its pocket once more to acquire privately-held software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) player Viptela.
While not on the scale of its recent IoT-focused acquisitions such as Jasper and AppDynamics, $610 million is still a significant chunk of change. This one is all about SD-WAN and the broader migration of everything to do with controlling the network into the cloud.
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