Cloud-managed

Cambium acquires Xirrus, further consolidating the Enterprise Wireless LAN market

On August 8, 2019, publicly-traded Cambium announced that it had completed the acquisition of the Xirrus products and cloud services from privately-held Riverbed Technology, Inc.  Xirrus has been a vendor in the Enterprise WLAN market for a while now and has been associated with its high-performance enterprise-class WLAN products as… Read More »Cambium acquires Xirrus, further consolidating the Enterprise Wireless LAN market

Extreme Acquiring The Last Pure-Play Enterprise WLAN Company, Aerohive

Extreme Networks announced plans to acquire Aerohive, which has most of its revenues in Enterprise WLAN.  The deal was a surprise, as evidenced by the 40% price premium paid on on HIVE.  After this deal closes, Extreme’s WLAN business will be the combination of three WLAN businesses – the traditional… Read More »Extreme Acquiring The Last Pure-Play Enterprise WLAN Company, Aerohive

OCP Summit 2018 – Disaggregation Theme Dominates

The OCP Summit 2018 hit record attendance and we can can summarize the theme as that of continued disaggregation of network/server functions.  Examples of demonstrations, presentations and proposals associated with disaggregation are as follows: Flash/SSD.  Project Denali was presented by Microsoft.  The idea is it separates SSD controller functions from… Read More »OCP Summit 2018 – Disaggregation Theme Dominates

Riverbed acquires xirrus

 SD-WAN vendor Riverbed announced plans to acquire Wireless LAN vendor Xirrus today. Riverbed emphasizes its product line and portfolio strategy in the Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) market.  Xirrus has emphasized its product portfolio as being a cloud-enabled Wireless LAN (WLAN) market vendor.  Two main themes come to mind… Read More »Riverbed acquires xirrus