Cisco has announced its intent to acquire London-based broadband network monitoring firm SamKnows to strengthen its network assurance portfolio.
According to Cisco, the acquisition will expand Cisco ThousandEyes’ industry-leading view of global internet health. ThousandEyes has hundreds of thousands of vantage points across the internet, in enterprise environments, and on user devices. With the addition of SamKnows’ millions of vantage points into the last mile, customers now have a single source of truth for how the internet is performing across their entire infrastructure, including home and mobile device networks. The SamKnows team will join the network assurance business of Cisco.
Last week, Cisco announced its intent to acquire Accedian, a network performance monitoring company. Focused on the needs of communication service providers (CSPs), Accedian advances Cisco’s automated assurance solution with microsecond-level sensors and the powerful Skylight Analytics platform. Accedian provides unprecedented granularity to bolster Cisco’s capability in addressing highly sensitive services that will proliferate in the 5G era. It also gives a unique opportunity to further enrich Cisco ThousandEyes with Accedian’s deep service provider domain data.
