Cisco Bets Big On Mobile Data Networks With $2.9 Billion Purchase Of Starent Networks

Cisco is on a buying spree this month. This morning it announced a $2.9 billion acquisition of mobile networking infrastructure provider Starent Networks, which follows on the heels of another $3 billion acquisition announcement two weeks go for Two weeks ago it announced the $3 billion acquisition of video video-conferencing company Tandberg. You add $3 billion here and $3 billion there, and pretty soon you are talking about real money.

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Cisco Bets Big On Mobile Data Networks With $2.9 Billion Purchase Of Starent Networks

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