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Cisco Wants Topspin
By Chris Richardson
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2005-04-14
Today, Cisco Systems announced their intentions to acquire Topspin Communications, a developer of server fabric switches. Server fabric switches are designed to connect servers together into a grid, and then provide network and storage connectivity to said grid.
Cisco is expected to pay $250 million for the Mountain View, California-based Topspin. The purchase will improve Cisco's ability to provide a thorough, specialized networking technology service to their customers.
Luca Cafiero, Senior Vice President, Data Center, Switching and Wireless Technology Group, Cisco Systems, offers:
"The widespread adoption of server architectures such as blades, grid computing, and clustered applications is driving an emerging market opportunity within the data center. As our customers build out these new computing environments, it is important that we deliver server networking technologies to fit their needs.
"By adding Topspin's server fabric switches and virtualization software, alongside our industry leading portfolio of Ethernet and SAN switches we are able to offer our customers compelling end-to-end data center switching capabilities."
According to Cisco's release, Topspin products are targeted at data centers where customers are deploying high performance grid and utility computing, clustered enterprise applications, and/or server virtualization.
By acquiring Topspin, Cisco improves their ability to offer their customers a more complete solution to their various application networking needs.
The purchase, which will be subject to various regulatory approvals, is expected to be complete by the fourth quarter of 2005.
About the Author:
Chris Richardson is a search engine writer and editor for WebProNews. Visit WebProNews for the latest search news.
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