Cisco announced its intent to acquire SamKnows, a privately held broadband network monitoring company headquartered in London, England. Financial terms were not disclosed.
SamKnow offers a FaultFinder solution that monitors network performance from the perspective of the end user. It builds a dynamic model of normal performance, constantly learning and re-learning to adapt to trend shifts. It compares real-time measurements against these models. When an anomaly is detected it can trace the root cause and also measure the impact of the fault in terms of performance and the volume of customers affected.
Cisco said the acquisition will expand ThousandEyes’ view of global internet health. Currently, 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.
The SamKnows team will join the Network Assurance business led by Mohit Lad of ThousandEyes.
