Cisco has expressed interest in buying Skype before the company in its industry leading VoIP start trading shares on the exchange. An acquisition of Skype could either give Cisco a strategic advantage against their competitors or, perhaps, make Cisco a more attractive target for larger companies.
A report by the TechCrunch site claims, based on reliable sources, that Cisco has made an offer to buy Skype before its initial public offering (IPO).
Cisco is a virtual synonym for network hardware, but it also has expanded its business aggressively beyond the routers and switches. Earlier this year the company completed the acquisition of Tandberg to strengthen its position in videoconferencing, and is one of the leading competitors in the arena of unified communications.
Skype – one of the best known brands in VoIP communications – could provide technology and intellectual property of value to Cisco’s strategy. VoIP is the basis of unified communications, and Skype could provide useful tools for Cisco to compete with Microsoft and other rivals in unified communications and avert new rivals like Google – with its Gmail service Google Voice.
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