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`Cloud-based SD-WAN Solution Offers Flexibility to Global Enterprises and Telecom Carriers
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`MAY 01, 2017
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`SAN JOSE, Calif. — May 1, 2017 — Cisco (NASDAQ: 0800) announced today its intent to acquire Vipteia |nc., a privately held software-
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`defined wide area network (SD-WAN) company based in San Jose. Vipteia will expand Cisco's SD-WAN portfolio with increased functionality
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`and simplicity delivered through the cloud.
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`Managing the network is becoming more complex as applications move to the cloud, employees become more mobile and billions of internet of
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`Things (ioT) devices are added to the network. For businesses, this means how branch offices are connected must evolve. Customers are
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`turning to SD-WAN solutions to help manage and orchestrate their WAN deployments, to cost effectively improve access to both the cloud and
`their corporate network.
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`Vipteia provides a compelling SD-WAN solution that simplifies management, increases agility and reduces costs of interconnecting dispersed
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`enterprise networks. its network management, orchestration and overlay technologies make it easy to deploy and manage SD-WAN. This
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`cloud-first approach also aligns with Cisco's Digital Network Architecture (DNA) transition to software-driven, automated networks that are more
`flexible, responsive and dynamic.
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`"Vipteia's technology is cloud-first, with a focus on simplicity and ease of deployment while simultaneously providing a rich set of capabilities
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`and scale. These principles are what today's customers demand," said Scott Harrell, senior vice president of product management for the
`Cisco Enterprise Networking Group. "With Vipteia and Cisco, we will be able to deliver a comprehensive portfolio of comprehensive on-
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`premises, hybrid, and cloud-based SD-WAN solutions."
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`https://newsroom.cisco.com/press—reiease—content’?type=webcontent&article|d=1841607
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`Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Viptela | The Network
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`With this announcement, Cisco will be able to accelerate the path to developing next generation SD-WAN solutions, by combining Viptela's
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`cloud first network management, orchestration and overlay technologies with industry-leading routing platforms, services, and SD-WAN
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`capabilities from Cisco. Cisco is committed to Viptela's product offering and architecture as well as existing Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN) and
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`Meraki SD-WAN solutions. The acquisition of Viptela also supports Cisco's strategic transition toward software—centric solutions that deliver
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`predictable, recurring revenue.
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`The Viptela team will join the Enterprise Routing team within the Networking and Security Business led by senior vice president David
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`Goeckeler. After the acquisition closes, Viptela and Cisco engineering teams will be working closely together to enhance Cisco's SD-WAN
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`offering and ensure continued support for our customers.
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`Cisco will acquire Viptela for $610 million in cash and assumed equity awards. The acquisition is expected to close in the second half of
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`calendar 2017, after having completed all of the customary closing conditions and regulatory review.
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`For more information about Cisco's intent to acquire Viptela, please visit our blog.
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`Forward-Looking Statements
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`This press release may be deemed to contain forward-looking statements, which are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private
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`Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding Cisco's ability to deliver a comprehensive portfolio of comprehensive
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`on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-based SD-WAN solutions, Cisco's ability to accelerate the path to developing next generation SD-WAN
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`solutions, by combining Viptela's cloud first network management, orchestration and overlay technologies with industry-leading routing
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`platforms, services, and SD-WAN capabilities from Cisco, ensuring continued support for customers, the expected completion of the acquisition
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`and the time frame in which this will occur, the expected benefits to Cisco and its customers from completing the acquisition, and plans
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`regarding Viptela personnel. Readers are cautioned that these fonNard-looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially from
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`actual future events or results due a variety of factors, including, among other things, obtaining regulatory approval of the acquisition or that
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`other conditions to the closing of the transaction may not be satisfied, the potential impact on the business of Viptela due to the uncertainty
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`about the acquisition, the retention of employees of Viptela and the ability of Cisco to successfully integrate Viptela and to achieve expected
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`benefits, business and economic conditions and growth trends in the networking industry, customer markets and various geographic regions,
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`global economic conditions and uncertainties in the geopolitical environment and other risk factors set forth in Cisco's most recent reports on
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`Form 10-K and Form 10-Q. Any fonNard-looking statements in this release are based on limited information currently available to Cisco, which
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`is subject to change, and Cisco will not necessarily update the information.
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`Release Contacts
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`Robyn Blum
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`1 408 853 9848
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`rojenkin@cisco.com
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`Brenna Kerr—Gibbs
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`analyst
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`1 949 887 0630
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`a brekarr@cisco.com
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`Carol Villazon
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`investor
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`1 408 527 6538
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`carolv@cisco.com
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