is used in capacity planning, designing and engineering networks. It’s paying about $141 million in cash and retention incentives.
Cariden, whose clients include Verizon, Deutsche Telecom, SingTel and Swisscom, specializes in optimizing traffic management and visibility on service provider networks.
The acquisition is seen as part of Cisco’s very necessary move into software-defined networking (SDN). This summer Cariden announced a blueprint for infrastructure SDN – the visibility and control of network resources.