SamKnows is headquartered in London and Cisco said the acqustion is designed to extend Cisco ThousandEyes’ view of the internet and hybrid workforce experience.
Cisco added that the combination of ThousandEyes and SamKnows will “accelerate the delivery of exceptional connected experiences over many more networks”.
Writing on the company’s blog, Jonathan Davidson, EVP, Cisco Networking, explained, “Last week we announced our intent to acquire Accedian, and today, I’m excited to add our intent to acquire SamKnows.
“From healthcare and business services to entertainment and government, the very foundation of our modern economy and everyday life runs on connectivity. More and more people and things are coming online while the innovation and sophistication of today’s applications for hybrid work, 5G, IoT, and AI expand. The complexity of software and the network has never been greater.”
Davidson added that this acquisition will extend the company’s end-to-end network assurance and visibility capabilities. He 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, customers now have a single source of truth for how the Internet is performing across their entire infrastructure, including home and mobile device networks.”