Cisco chases optical networking dominance with Sedona Systems acquisition
Cisco chases optical networking dominance with Sedona Systems acquisition
In April, Sedona Systems announced the addition of its NetFusion offering to the Cisco DevNet SolutionsPlus Program. Credit: Cisco
Networking vendor Cisco has struck a deal to acquire multilayer network automation and control solution provider Sedonasys Systems, also known as Sedona Systems, for its NetFusion network controller, which it plans to pull into the Cisco Crosswork portfolio.
Headquartered in California with a research and development office in Israel, Sedona Systems’ NetFusion software provides service-to-fibre visibility based on real-time data from operating network domains, including 5G, converged IP and optical core, access and aggregation.
May 11, 2021 2:34pm
No financial terms were announced but one estimate described Cisco s acquisition of Sedona as a $100 million deal.(designer 491 iStockPhoto)
Cisco Systems intends to acquire Israel-based Sedona Systems in a bid to add more network visibility and automated operation capabilities to its Routed Optical Networking family.
The deal, announced in a blog post by Kevin Wollenweber, vice president of networking for Cisco s Mass-Scale Infrastructure Group, comes a little over a month after Cisco announced its Routed Optical Networking offering, a major piece of the vendor s Converged SDN Transport blueprint, at the company s Cisco Live! event. Sedona Systems’ NetFusion is a market leader for its Hierarchical Controller (HCO) that enables multi-vendor, multi-domain automation, and software-defined networking, the blog post stated. HCO is the brain that enables transformation like 5G network slicing, routed optical networking, and disaggregation. The Sedona NetFus