Cisco (
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, a provider of digital-service management (DSM) solution.
With this acquisition, Cisco expects to further enhance its video-delivery strategy. The company plans to integrate DiviTech’s DSM product with the Cisco ROSA network- and element-management solution to create an end-to-end platform that offers all layers of digital video management—element, network and service—in a single modular product.
DiviTech’s DSM solution provides media broadcasters, cable and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV
) service providers an interface for creating, modifying and managing video networks.
DiviTech’s DSM technology is equipped with a software application, which allows service providers’ customers to centrally provision, deliver localized content, such as local and regional news and on-demand video and services, within a specific geography.
Cisco says that DiviTech’s DSM solution complements its internally developed video innovations as well as expertise attained from other recent acquisitions in the video market, including Scientific Atlanta, Arroyo and Tivella.
Dean Rockwell, vice president and general manager of the Digital Media business unit in Service Provider Video Technology Group at Cisco, said that DiviTech provides Cisco with a core team of some of the most talented engineers in the DSM market.
He also said that DiviTech's DSM platform will serve as the foundation for Cisco's continued leadership in next-generation management tools and applications for complex video networks.
Upon the close of the acquisition, Cisco plans to integrate DiviTech into Cisco’s Digital Media business unit as part of the Service Provider Video Technology Group. DiviTech employees will move into Cisco’s Copenhagen facility.
DiviTech marks Cisco's 128th acquisition. This acquisition is subject to various standard closing conditions, and is expected to close in Cisco’s fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008.
The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the transaction.
Today, Cisco also announced a video surveillance solution enabled on the Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR) platform. By incorporating video surveillance network modules into the Cisco ISR, the solution converges physical security over an IP
network.
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