By Dominic Maher, 20 January 2000 15:24
NEWS Cisco is to pay $567m for Altiga Networks and Compatible Systems in an attempt to boost its virtual private network (VPN) technology. The internetworking giant will exchange $567m worth of stock for all outstanding options, shares and warrants in the two companies. The companies will become part of Cisco's enterprise line of business. Altiga is a provider of VPN systems for remote access applications while Compatible Systems provides VPN's for service provider networks.


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