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Castle Green Homes has welcomed three new faces to its commercial team to support the growth of the business. Alex Bramley, Glyn Saunders and Megan Lewis

The UK internet connection testing firm SamKnows, which supplies services that are used by both major broadband ISPs and Ofcom to help measure network

SamKnows technology will be integrated into Cisco’s ThousandEyes cloud-based network-intelligence software.

Cisco detailed its second acquisition in as many weeks, predicting deal for network analytics company SamKnows to close by end-October.

Cisco: SamKnows technology is used by leading telecom operators and broadband providers, including Telstra, Google Fiber, BT, Verizon Communications Inc., Virgin Media O2, as well as by UKs telecoms regulator Ofcom, and more, according to the information on the companys website.

Cisco has announced a deal to acquire Accedian and SamKnows in a move to help customers gain more insight into their networks.

Cisco buys another network assurance companyNokia and Telefónica target LATAM enterprisesOfcom piles pressure on BT

Cisco yesterday announced its intention to acquire U.K.-based SamKnows, a privately held broadband network monitoring company, to increase the reach of its ThousandEyes network intelligence service's view of the internet into the last mile. This comes on the heels of last week's announcement that it plans to acquire Montreal-based Accedian, a network performance monitoring firm

In 2020, Cisco bought Thousandeyes, a network monitoring company that provides a wealth of data on the health of networks, something near and dear to Cisco, whose core business after all remains networking hardware. As an extension of that three-year-old acquisition, the company announced a pair of startup acquisitions today, grabbing Accedian and SamKnows, a small U.K. startup. Both companies increase the amount of data available for Cisco to understand networking better, which should help in...

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