Akara - Ownership and Business Overview

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Akara Ownership

Who owns Akara?

Akara is owned by Ciena. It was acquired on September 3, 2003.

Akara Business Overview

Where is Akara headquartered?

Akara is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario.

What sector is Akara in?

Akara is a technology hardware company.

When was Akara founded?

Akara was founded in 2000.

Technology Hardware M&A Summary in 2003

Out of 60 sectors in the Mergr database, technology hardware ranked 17 in number of deals in 2003. The largest technology hardware acquisition in 2003 was The Linksys Group - which was acquired by Cisco Systems for $500M.

Join Mergr to view all 45 acquisitions of technology hardware companies in 2003, including 9 acquisitions by private equity firms, and 36 by strategics.

Akara Corp.

150 Katimavik Road, Suite 2000,
Ottawa, Ontario K2L 2N2
Canada,
(613) 270-9500

Akara Corp. is a supplier with a singular focus on extending business continuance applications between data centers with the lowest MByte per mile cost across existing MAN/WAN networks. Akara's solutions significantly reduces operational and capital expense by leveraging the existing SONET/SDH, dark fiber or DWDM networks, and ensures the performance of Fibre Channel, ESCON, FICON and Gigabit Ethernet in geographically dispersed business continuance applications.


Company Summary

SECTOR

Technology Hardware

Established

2000

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