{"id":253173,"date":"2017-10-24T11:08:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/?p=253173"},"modified":"2017-10-24T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T15:15:58","slug":"cisco-acquires-broadsoft-for-1-9-billion-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/cisco-acquires-broadsoft-for-1-9-billion-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco Acquires BroadSoft for $1.9 Billion Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46653 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2012\/05\/Cisco-Case-Study.jpg\" alt=\"Cisco Case Study of VoIP Supply\" width=\"170\" height=\"129\" \/>Cisco System Inc., a worldwide leader in IT and networking, announced yesterday that they have reached a deal to acquire BroadSoft Inc., a communication technologies provider with $1.9 billion net of cash.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253193 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/10\/partner.png\" alt=\"partner\" width=\"161\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/10\/partner.png 161w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/10\/partner-147x150.png 147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/>The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2018. After that, BroadSoft employees will be folded into Cisco\u2019s UC Technology Group, according to company officials.<\/p>\n<p>BroadSoft offers a range of cloud communication technologies to more than 19 million customers around the world and has partnered with more than 450 telecommunications companies in 80 countries. The deal is believed to accelerate Cisco\u2019s transformation to a more cloud-focused company and add to Cisco\u2019s growing portfolio of communications technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco System Inc., a worldwide leader in IT and networking, announced yesterday that they have reached a deal to acquire BroadSoft Inc., a communication technologies provider with $1.9 billion net of cash. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2018. After that, BroadSoft employees will be folded into Cisco\u2019s UC Technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1221,1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-business-voip","category-voip-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253173"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253253,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253173\/revisions\/253253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}