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

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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 increase the reach of the data the company already has with Thousandeyes.

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