SD-WAN startup Viptela

Recently, Cisco has purchased the startup Viptela for 610 million US dollars, filling the gap in its SD-WAN product portfolio.

The deal can be seen as a “homecoming trip” for the top executives of Viptela, as its current CEO Praveen Akkiraju is a former Cisco executive, while Viptela co-founders Amir Khan and Khalid Raza are former Cisco engineers.

“Over the years, Cisco has provided customers with certain SD-WAN technologies and services – Cisco IWAN solutions provide on-premise SD-WAN solutions for customers requiring advanced routing capabilities and other advanced network services, while Cisco Meraki “Cloud-based solutions for customers who need the most simplified and unified threat management capabilities in their SD-WAN solutions,” said Rob Salvagno, vice president of Cisco Business Development. “The acquisition of Viptela will allow us to expand our capabilities through cloud capabilities. Product portfolio.”

“With Viptela, Cisco can offer customers more choices in their enterprise branch and WAN deployments, while adopting an easy-to-deploy and easy-to-manage SD-WAN solution. Cisco and Viptela will jointly launch next-generation SD-WAN solutions The solution, while accelerating Cisco’s move toward a step-by-step software-based business model. Viptela will join the Cisco network and secure enterprise routing team led by senior vice president and general manager David Goeckeler,” said Rob Salvagno.

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