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M&A Deal Summary

Cisco Systems Acquires ArrowPoint Communications

On May 5, 2000, Cisco Systems acquired information technology company ArrowPoint Communications for 5.7B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Cisco Systems’ 22nd transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is Cisco Systems’ 4th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Cisco Systems’ 50th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Cisco Systems’ 7th transaction in Massachusetts.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2000-05-05
Target ArrowPoint Communications
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) Cisco Systems
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 5.7B USD

Target

ArrowPoint Communications

Acton, Massachusetts, United States
ArrowPoint Communications is a provider of content switches that optimize the delivery of web content.

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Buyer

Cisco Systems

San Jose, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1984
Sector Technology Hardware
Employees90,400
Revenue 53.8B USD (2024)
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Cisco Systems designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology (IT) industry and provides services associated with these products and their use. Cisco provides a broad line of products for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings, across campuses, and around the world. The Company's products are designed to transform how people connect, communicate, and collaborate, and are installed at enterprise businesses, public institutions, telecommunications companies and other service providers, commercial businesses, and personal residences. Cisco was founded in 1984 and is based in San Jose, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 57 of 223
Sector: Information Technology M&A 22 of 45
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 54 of 215
State: Massachusetts M&A 7 of 16
Country: United States M&A 50 of 189
Year: 2000 M&A 9 of 20
Size (of disclosed) 4 of 133
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2000-04-12 Development Subsidiary - Seagull Semiconductors

Israel

Seagull's development subsidiary is comprised of Seagull's core technology development team. Seagull's development team has high-speed silicon expertise which will allow Cisco to accelerate the development of terabit performance routers, and also strengthens Cisco's New World strategy by enhancing its ability to provide next generation IP networking infrastructures to service providers.

Buy $19M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2000-05-12 Qeyton Systems AB

Hagersten, Sweden

Qeyton is the developer of Metropolitan Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (MDWDM) technology to optimize the performance and cost requirements of service providers' metropolitan networks. DWDM is an innovative technology that uses multiple colors of light to dramatically increase the capacity of fiber networks carrying a combination of phone, Internet, and video traffic.

Buy $800M
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