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 NetFusion platform is the first to deliver complete network abstraction and control, allowing CSPs to manage their networks across domains, vendors, layers, and a myriad of different technologies, all as one single network."