Cisco announced it will acquire London-based broadband network monitoring company SamKnows, as the “Big Tech” company looks to extend the capabilities of its ThousandEyes solution. The firm says the combination of ThousandEyes and SamKnows will speed up the delivery of “exceptional connected experiences” over many more networks.
“In the last few years, hybrid work has dramatically expanded the role of broadband networks, and companies are increasingly dependent on these networks to connect customers and employees to applications and services,” said ThousandEyes co-founder and CEO Mohit Lad. “Ensuring end-to-end connectivity from home environments is now essential for enterprises supporting remote employees, application providers reaching users, and broadband providers maintaining customer satisfaction.”
Jonathan Davidson EVP and General Manager of Cisco Networking said ThousandEyes has hundreds of thousands of vantage points across the Internet, in enterprise environments, and on user devices. With the addition of SamKnows’ millions of vantage points into the last mile, Cisco plans to help customers have a single source of truth about how the internet is performing across their entire infrastructure, including home and mobile device networks. The SamKnows team will join the Network Assurance business led by Mohit Lad of ThousandEyes.
The SamKnows internet performance platform is currently used by ISPs and governments to measure and improve connectivity worldwide. By putting software into home routers and mobile devices it collects billions of performance measurements each month, finding faults in near real time, to ensure consumers receive fast and reliable internet connectivity.
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