Cisco Systems Inc. is buying software security firm Meetinghouse Data Communications Inc. for $43.7 million. Meetinghouse has developed “client-side 802.1X supplicant security software” Cisco expects the acquisition to close during its first fiscal quarter ending October 28. The move will also strengthen Cisco’s network-based applications pitch, dubbed Service Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) Analyst: Cisco could make a wireless LAN security acquisition following Juniper’s purchase of Funk Software in December 2005.”]
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