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10 Key Cisco Channel Events From The Past Year

By Chad Berndtson CRN
4:00 PM ET Wed. Apr. 11, 2012
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March 2012: NDS For $5 Billion

John Chambers said during Cisco's February earnings call that Cisco would once again pick up its traditional pace of frequent acquisitions and, along with a few smaller, tuck-in-style buys throughout the past few months, came a whopper: $5 billion in a planned gobble-up of U.K.-based NDS Group.

If all goes well -- and NDS doesn't have the most sparkling reputation in the world, it must be said -- it'll mark Cisco's largest acquisition by revenue size since it bought Scientific Atlanta in 2005 for $6.9 billion. Cisco the hunter has returned in a big way, it seems.

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