Cisco distances itself further from hardware base with Viptela acquisition

Tom Allen
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Cisco's acquisition of Viptela takes the company further out of its traditional territory and into the software space

Cisco has announced its intent to acquire Viptela, a company the delivers a software-designed wide area network (SD WAN) solution. Viptela's technology, deployed in some 16,000 locations worldwi...

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