Cisco to acquire Tail-f Systems

Cisco intends to acquire privately held Tail-f Systems, which deals with multi-vendor network service orchestration solutions for traditional and virtualized networks. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Tail-f’s technology also aims to reduce the time-to-market for network equipment vendors building equipment for agile, software-programmable networks. “With a rapidly increasing number of people, devices, and sensors connecting across the Internet of Everything (IoE), service providers require new capabilities to deliver value-added, cloud-based services and applications,” said Hilton Romanski, senior vice president, Cisco Corporate Development. “Our goal is to help to eliminate the bottleneck caused by operational complexity within the network. The acquisition of Tail-f’s network services configuration and orchestration technology will extend Cisco’s innovation in network function virtualization, helping service providers reduce operating costs and the time it takes to deploy new services, making agile service provisioning a reality.”