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`Today I am very excited to announce that Viptela has signed a denitive agreement to be
`acquired by Cisco. The Viptela team is thrilled at the opportunity to accelerate the investments
`in our pioneering work in transforming the WAN into a Software Dened and Cloud delivered
`fabric. Most importantly we look forward to continuing our commitment to our customers to
`deliver new capabilities to help them virtualize the network and program it for unprecedented
`control of application & user experience.
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`Over the past 5 years, Viptela has led the 2nd wave of disruption in the networking industry.
`Our groundbreaking innovation delivered a single cloud-managed network-fabric that created
`a secure overlay across MPLS, Broadband, Mobile and Satellite connections. Our
`dierentiation comes from leveraging the scale and simplicity that ow from the design
`principles of Routing and Cloud technologies which underpin the Viptela Fabric architecture.
`This architecture enables Enterprises to interact with the network in fundamentally dierent
`ways; dynamically dening user and application specic paths, obtaining detailed
`performance analytics, centrally programming network connectivity, all while dramatically
`lowering costs and operational overhead. In doing so, Viptela has created a revolutionary new
`way of bringing the network into the user, application and cloud centric era that Enterprises
`are rapidly transitioning to.
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`The Viptela fabric especially, as it relates to SD-WAN and cloud networking, ts in as an
`important piece of Cisco’s Enterprise Networking strategy which is driving an industry-wide
`transition to a software centric architecture and business model. Viptela’s cloud-rst, software-
`driven approach uniquely complements Cisco’s Digital Networks Architecture (DNA) and its
`principles of security, virtualization, automation, and analytics. The combined solution enables
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`us to oer customers broad based capabilities such as Software Dened WAN, on ramps to
`IaaS/SaaS Clouds and Network-as-a-Service oerings. We remain committed to our common
`culture of laser focus on customers and partners as we work with them to enable this digital IT
`transformation.
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`Looking ahead, our journey is just beginning. The network is at the heart of a fundamental
`digital shift in the IT industry and our economy as a whole and we are enabling this
`transformation. The rapid migration of applications to Cloud platforms, the proliferation of
`millions of intelligent devices at the edge, the brave new world of smart cars (everything) all
`depend on a massively scalable, secure and software dened network. This is an incredibly
`exciting time for Cisco and Viptela, as we deliver the next generation SD-WAN oering to our
`customers by combining our network-fabric, cloud management and orchestration
`technologies with industry-leading branch routing platforms and services from Cisco.
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`Onwards and Upwards!
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`Press Release:  https://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?
`type=webcontent&articleId=1841607
`Cisco Blog: https://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco-news-050217
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`Praveen Akkiraju
`Praveen Akkiraju is Chief Executive Ocer of Viptela, the leader in
`Software Dened WAN technology. Praveen has built several billion
`dollar businesses in data center and enterprise networking over the
`course of his 25 year career. Prior to Viptela, as CEO of VCE, a division
`of Dell EMC, he led the converged infrastructure provider to the No.1
`market share position, while tripling revenues to $2.1B and turning it
`around to protability. Prior to VCE, he spent more than 19 years at
`Cisco building and leading every major routing platform business. In
`his last role, he was senior vice president & general manager of Cisco’s
`Enterprise Networking group, where he rebuilt the strategy and
`business for the multi-billion dollar ISR and ASR product portfolio.
`Praveen holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from
`Louisiana State University and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business
`School. He serves on the Advisory board of Mist, Mosiaxsoft and the
`non-prot Industry Initiatives for Science & Math Education (IISME).
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