Riverbed recently announced it's buying Xirrus for an undisclosed sum of money. The former is a company that builds SD-WAN products and generally looks to improve and optimize WANs. Xirrus, on the other hand, builds next-gen Wi-Fi networks. With the new acquisition, Riverbed will be able to offer its customers "the power of unified connectivity and policy-based orchestration that spans the entire distributed network -- WAN, LAN/WLAN, data center and the cloud." Xirrus will also be offered through Riverbed as a standalone enterprise WLAN solution. "Xirrus is a strategic acquisition for Riverbed, providing us with a leading enterprise-grade Wi-Fi solution,… [Continue Reading]
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