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Riverbed Acquires Global Protocols

On November 9, 2010, Riverbed acquired internet software and services company Global Protocols

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Riverbed’s 1st transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is Riverbed’s 3rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Riverbed’s 1st transaction in Maryland.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2010-11-09
Target Global Protocols
Sector Internet Software and Services
Buyer(s) Riverbed
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Global Protocols

Greenbelt, Maryland, United States
Global Protocols LLC, is a helping government organizations achieve greater application performance across satellite networks using the Space Communications Protocol Standards (SCPS).

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Buyer

Riverbed

San Francisco, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 2002
Sector Software
Employees2,555
Revenue 1.0B USD (2013)
DESCRIPTION

Riverbed is a provider of software for mobile computing applications services. Riverbed delivers application performance for the globally connected enterprise. It helps clients in implementing strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery. Riverbed was founded in 2002 and is based in San Francisco, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 10
Sector: Internet Software and Services M&A 1 of 4
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 3 of 9
State: Maryland M&A 1 of 2
Country: United States M&A 3 of 7
Year: 2010 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-10-21 CACE Technologies

Davis, California, United States

CACE Technologies, Inc.is a packet capture and analysis products for wireless and wireline networks and the corporate sponsor of Wireshark, the world's most popular network protocol analyzer.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-07-19 Zeus Technology

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Zeus Technology, a privately-owned company that delivers high-performance software-based load balancing and traffic management solutions for virtual and cloud environments.

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