M&A Deal Summary

Ixia Acquires Anue Systems

On May 7, 2012, Ixia acquired information technology company Anue Systems for 145M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Ixia’s 3rd transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is Ixia’s 3rd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Ixia’s 3rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Ixia’s 1st transaction in Texas.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2012-05-07
Target Anue Systems
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) Ixia
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 145M USD
Advisor(s) MHT Partners LP (Financial)
Vinson & Elkins (Legal)

Target

Anue Systems

Austin, Texas, United States
Anue Systems, Inc. helps network engineers and scientists monitor and test complicated networks.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Ixia

Calabasas, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1997
Sector Information Technology
Employees1,727
Revenue 495M USD (2016)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Ixia's corporate headquarters in Calabasas, California.
Entrance to Ixia's corporate headquarters in Calabasas, California.

Ixia provides testing, visibility, and security solutions, strengthening applications across physical and virtual networks for enterprises, service providers, and network equipment manufacturers. Ixia offers companies trusted environments in which to develop, deploy, and operate. Customers worldwide rely on Ixia to verify their designs, optimize their performance, and ensure protection of their networks to make their applications stronger.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 5
Sector (Information Technology) 3 of 5
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 3 of 5
State (Texas) 1 of 2
Country (United States) 3 of 5
Year (2012) 1 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 3 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-06-27 VeriWave

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

VeriWave helps equipment and device manufacturers, service providers, and enterprises measure, analyze and improve speed, quality, interoperability, compliance and other pivotal aspects of mobile performance.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-07-02 BreakingPoint Systems

Austin, Texas, United States

BreakingPoint Actionable Security Intelligence (ASI) protects enterprises, service providers and government agencies by providing global visibility into emerging threats and actionable insight to harden and maintain resilient defenses.

Buy $172M
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