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The Day Ahead: Cash cow Cisco whets acquisition appetite

...fact. Cisco, which generates $400m in cash a month, had to acquire Cerent and Monterey Networks last year even though the companies barely had product... Read more

9 February, 2000 by Larry Dignan

Cisco plows past second-quarter estimates

...Internet economy." During the quarter, Cisco completed its $7.15bn purchase of Cerent, a closely held maker of fiber-optic equipment and also agreed to... Read more

9 February, 2000 by Larry Barrett

Critics carp at Cisco; Chambers shrugs

...get indigestion. Cisco spent $6.86bn (£4.25bn) in stock to buy Cerent and another $501m to buy Monterey Networks. Cerent isn't profitable and... Read more

27 August, 1999 by Michael Fitzgerald

Cisco 'winds down' wireless chipsets

...worked out well: the company has used technology from optical start-up Cerent, bought in 1999, to develop the cornerstone of its optical portfolio, the... Read more

2 February, 2004 by Marguerite Reardon

Cisco says sales outlook brightening

...president for Cisco's optical networking group and formerly chief executive at Cerent, told attendees at a Thomas Weisel Partners investment conference, here, that Cisco... Read more

7 March, 2001 by Corey Grice

The Day Ahead: Can things get even better for Cisco?

Cisco's on a roll and just can't stop gaining momentum Read more

9 August, 2000 by Larry Dignan

The Day Ahead: Lucent ups fibre optic ante

...to fill in its metro network lineup. Last year, Cisco gobbled up Cerent and Monterey Networks before they had a chance to go public. Nortel... Read more

1 June, 2000 by Larry Dignan

Whither Cisco -- What the Internet's biggest, baddest company is up to next

...least 10 times larger then the Internet space. In August, Cisco bought Cerent for a staggering $7 billion so it could compete in the growing... Read more

1 December, 1999 by Jesse Berst

The Bank of Dell is now open

...of public filings and interviews with venture-capital groups. Among its hits: Cerent, a tiny networking-equipment maker that Cisco Systems has just agreed to... Read more

26 August, 1999 by ZDNet

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