Indian-led startup to be bought by Cisco for â¹4,000 crore
US technology company Cisco has said it will acquire networking startup Viptela, headed by University of Madras alumnus Praveen Akkiraju, for nearly â¹4,000 crore. Cisco said Viptela's network management and overlay technologies will make it easy for the company to deploy and manage SD-WAN, which stands for software-defined wide area network. Viptela was founded in 2012 by former Cisco engineers.