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58 Cisco Systems, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Fiscal 2008
• The Company acquired Navini Networks, Inc. to extend the Company’s WiMAX solutions for service providers.
• The Company acquired Securent, Inc. to allow the Company to offer its enterprise customers policy management software solutions,
which are designed to allow enterprises to administer, enforce, and audit access to data, communications, and applications across
different types of information technology (IT) environments.
Fiscal 2007
• The Company acquired Arroyo Video Solutions, Inc. to enable carriers to accelerate the creation and distribution of network-delivered
entertainment, interactive media, and advertising services across the growing portfolio of televisions, personal computers, and
mobile handsets.
• The Company acquired IronPort Systems, Inc. to extend the Company’s security portfolio in email and messaging security solutions.
• The Company acquired Reactivity, Inc. to complement and extend the Company’s application networking services portfolio within
advanced technologies.
• The Company acquired WebEx Communications, Inc., a provider of on-demand collaboration applications. WebEx’s network-based
solution for delivering business-to-business collaboration extends the Company’s unified communications portfolio, particularly within
the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market.
Fiscal 2006
• The Company acquired KiSS Technology A/S to develop networked entertainment products for the consumer.
• The Company acquired Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. to create an end-to-end solution for carrier networks and the digital home and deliver
large-scale video systems to extend Cisco’s commitment to and leadership in the service provider market.
• The Company acquired Sheer Networks, Inc. to provide technology that is designed to adapt to network changes, scale to large
networks, and help extend new technologies and services that simplify the task of monitoring and maintaining complex networks.
The Consolidated Financial Statements include the operating results of each business from the date of acquisition. Pro forma results
of operations for the acquisitions other than Scientific-Atlanta completed during fiscal 2008, 2007, and 2006 have not been presented
because the effects of the acquisitions, individually or in the aggregate, were not material to the Company’s financial results. The pro forma
results of Scientific-Atlanta are presented below.
(b) Acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.
On February 24, 2006, Cisco completed the acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., a provider of set-top boxes, end-to-end video distribution
networks, and video integration systems. The financial information in the table below summarizes the combined results of operations
of Cisco and Scientific-Atlanta, on a pro forma basis, as though the companies had been combined as of the beginning of fiscal 2006.
The unaudited pro forma financial information combines the historical results of operations of Cisco for fiscal 2006, which include the
results of operations of Scientific-Atlanta subsequent to February 24, 2006, and the historical results of operations of Scientific-Atlanta
for the six months ended December 30, 2005 and the month ended February 24, 2006.