Cisco Systems Completes Purchase of Selected Assets of Ashley Laurent.Cisco-Linksys Division to Enhance Line of Its DSL Gateways Through Acquisition SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. [R] (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the intellectual property and selected assets of privately-held Ashley Laurent, a leading provider of software for the embedded service provider gateway market. Ashley Laurent's software provides essential features found in home networking equipment such as firewall/VPN, content filtering See Web filtering and parental control software. , quality of service, device management, TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. routing and virus protection. The software created by Ashley Laurent will be used to improve Linksys' DSL gateway offerings, while providing more customized solutions for service provider customers. Ashley Laurent's software solutions support most real-time operating systems and networking silicon vendors, thus providing a high level of reliability and performance for consumers. "Ashley Laurent has been developing software code for home gateway products for more than a decade. This software experience provides Linksys with intellectual property and the ability to bring unique products to market faster while being more flexible to customize solutions for service providers," said Malachy Moynihan, Vice President and General Manager of the Linksys Home Networking Business Unit (HNBU HNBU Harmonic New Better than Used ). Ashley Laurent was founded in 1992 and has eight employees based in Austin, Texas. With the close of the asset purchase, the Ashley Laurent team will be integrated into the Linksys HNBU, led by Moynihan. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. About Linksys Founded in 1988, Linksys, a Division of Cisco Systems, Inc., is the recognized global leader in VoIP, Wireless and Ethernet networking for consumer, SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. and small business users. Linksys is dedicated to making networking easy and affordable for its customers, offering innovative, award-winning products that seamlessly integrate with a variety of devices and applications. Linksys provides award-winning product support to its customers. For more information, visit www.linksys.com. About Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO), the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, celebrates 20 years of commitment to technology innovation, industry leadership, and corporate social responsibility. Information about Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.com. For ongoing news, go to http://newsroom.cisco.com. Cisco, Cisco Systems, Linksys and the Cisco Systems logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word partner does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company. This document is Cisco Public Information. |
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