Cisco Systems is buying UK-based traffic engineering and routing
software provider Parc Technologies to improve traffic management
in its systems and products.
The US networking giant will pay $9m (£4.86m) in cash for all
outstanding shares of Parc it does not already own.
A private company, Parc is a spin-off from an algorithm research
centre at Imperial College. Its route server algorithms break up
complex network routing problems.
Cisco plans to use the algorithms first in its Multiprotocol
Label Switching (MPLS) TE product to help service providers improve
network usage. The company also plans to incorporate Parc's Route
Server software into its MPLS Management product portfolio and make
it available as part of its IP Solutions Center.
The past few weeks have also seen Cisco snap up router maker
Procket Networks and backup software provider Actona
Technologies.
Scarlet Pruitt writes for IDG News Service