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Ixia to Acquire Anue for Network Monitoring Switch
Ixia agreed to acquire Anue Systems, which offers a network monitoring solutions, for $145 million in cash.
Anue Systems offers a Net Tool Optimizer that provides traffic visibility for Service Providers and enterprises by enabling test tools to access taps across the network. Anue aggregates and filters network traffic to optimize network monitoring tool usage. Anue also can replicate network traffic from a single tap or SPAN port and send it to multiple monitoring tools simultaneously. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Ixia said the acquisition extends its scope in the realm of real time network monitoring and traffic visibility.
Anue grew revenues 51 percent in 2011 to $40.5 million and generated gross margins of 83 percent for the year. For the 12 months ended March 31, 2012, Anue generated $47.6 million in revenues.
Ixia expects this transaction to be accretive to non-GAAP earnings beginning in the third quarter of 2012. Non-GAAP earnings exclude stock-based compensation, amortization of acquired intangible assets, and other non-recurring charges, net of the applicable tax effects.
“Many networking trends such as the deployment of cloud and virtualization, LTE and mobility driven growth, security implications of applications delivered over cloud infrastructures, and the massive expansion in bandwidth are fueling both Ixia’s and Anue's growth,” said Vic Alston, Ixia chief operating officer. “Next-generation cloud providers, mobility operators and enterprises all require network and traffic visibility to maintain quality of service across application and service delivery. Anue's Optimizer solutions provide customers with a measurable value regarding performance, scale, and resiliency of networks, while enabling the creation of a next generation platform for quality of service delivery across live networks.”
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Cisco to Acquire Truviso for Analytics Software
Cisco agreed to acquire Truviso, a start-up offering "need-it-now" business analytics software, for an undisclosed price. Truviso’s Continuous Analytics software uses continuous query technology to help companies get detailed information about what’s going on across their network. It handles massive amounts of data that previously required very expensive, dedicated infrastructure and complexity. Truviso has multiple patents pending on its continuous query technology, which was originally conceived in 2001 at the University of California, Berkeley. The company is based in Foster City, California.
Cisco said Truviso’s software analytics strengthens its own network management platform, Cisco Prime, with the core technology to gather and analyze streaming data.
“Customers want to be able to tap into and better analyze the enormous volume of data traversing their networks to identify ways to enhance services and generate new revenue opportunities,” said Jamie Lerner, vice president and general manager, Cisco Network Management Technology Group. “Embedding Truviso’s real time business intelligence into the network will help customers unlock these capabilities at the speed of the network.”...
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Allot to Acquire Ortiva Wireless for Video Optimization
Allot Communications agreed to acquire Ortiva Wireless, which offers mobile video optimization tools, for an undisclosed sum.
Ortiva's solution allows service providers to improve the quality and efficiency of rich media content delivery by optimizing for real-time network conditions and for each mobile connection. Ortiva's solution has been deployed at two Tier 1 mobile service providers to date.
Allot plans to integrate Ortiva's mobile video optimization solution into its Allot Service Gateway, allowing mobile service providers to manage the ever-increasing volume of video traffic on their networks.
Allot calculates that video now represents 42% of mobile data traffic worldwide.
"This acquisition is an important building block in our Service Gateway vision," commented Rami Hadar, Allot's President and CEO. "Since the introduction of Allot Service Gateway in 2007, our goal has been to leverage our unique technology to enable the broadest range of cost-saving and revenue-generating services on a single intelligent network services platform. By purchasing Ortiva, we will own an innovative video optimization solution, one of the major value-adds that our customers are seeking today. As video becomes an ever-increasing challenge for mobile networks, this acquisition will allow Allot to offer a robust and tightly integrated video optimization service within Allot Service Gateway. We look forward to welcoming Ortiva's talented team into our company."
Separately, Allot reported Q1 revenue of $24.2 million, a 41% increase from the $17.2 million of revenues reported for the first quarter of 2011, and a 10% increase from the $22.0 million of revenues reported for the fourth quarter of 2011. On a GAAP basis, net profit for the first quarter of 2012 was $3.2 million, or $0.10 per basic and diluted share. This compares with net profit of $1.6 million, or $0.07 per basic share and $0.06 per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2011, and net profit of $3.5 million, or $0.13 per basic share and $0.12 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of 2011. ...
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Acme Packet acquires IPTEGO for Networking Monitoring Tools
Acme Packet has acquired privately held IPTEGO GmbH, an IP communications network management software company, for approximately $21 million in cash.
IPTEGO, which is based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in software for real-time, end-to-end communications network intelligence, voice and video operations monitoring, customer experience management and fraud prevention and detection. Specifically, its Palladion software optimizes next-generation IP communications networks, enabling troubleshooting down to the individual session level. The company claims more than 80 customers globally and it has 28 employees.
Acme Packet said the integration of its session delivery network solutions with IPTEGO’s real-time intelligence engine will enable network wide visibility into multi-vendor IP communications networks.
"Both enterprise and service provider customers are looking for ways to optimize their IP communications networks – not only to reduce cost and complexity, but also to better deploy new value-adding applications and services," said Andy Ory, Acme Packet’s president and chief executive officer. "The addition of IPTEGO’s software to the Acme Packet portfolio enables us to help customers get the most out of their IP communications networks with unique, real-time management capabilities."
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Aquantia introduced its 40nm 10GBASE-T PHY chipset in 2011, as a critical ingredient to emerging LAN-on-Motherboard (LOM) platforms for new data center servers and switches. The company expects the 10GBASE-T interconnect market will see an explosive uptick with Intel’s March 2012 launch of its Romley generation LOM server platforms.
