Cisco buys content acceleration firm in $210 milli
CNET News.com: Cisco buys Netiverse. By Joe Wilcox.
Cisco buys network switch maker for $5.7 billion
CNET News.com: Cisco acquires ArrowPoint Communications. By Sandeep Junnarkar.
Cisco Defends Its Numbers
InternetWeek: Cisco, analysts, and competitors argue whether StrataCom acquisition was a good idea.
Cisco Mines for Granite
EE Times: Cisco pays $220 million to acquire Andreas Bechtolsheim's gigabit Ethernet start-up Granite Systems.
Cisco's Secret: Entrepreneurs Sell Out, Stay
A look at how a high-tech giant is buying up small companies and bringing their owners on board as well.
Grand Junction Networks
Fast Company: Tells the story of the Grand Junction acquisition by Cisco in 1995.
Whiz Kid
New York Times: Acquisitions story on Michelangelo (Mike) Volpi: young deal maker is the force behind a company's growth.