Cisco indicates intent to buy Socio Labs, Sedona Systems Network giant aims to purchase developer of technology to deliver automation for routed optical networking, and modern event technology platform provider Share this item with your network: By Published: 12 May 2021 15:46 Cisco has entered into an agreement to buy a routed optical networking technology provider and a virtual platform on which to host virtual events. In the first case, Cisco has agreed to purchase Sedonasys (Sedona Systems), whose NetFusion technology is said to be market leader for the hierarchical controller (HCO) that enables multi-supplier, multi-domain automation, and software-defined networking. Cisco describes HCO as “the brain” that enables network transformation such as 5G network slicing, routed optical networking, and disaggregation.