{"id":2704,"date":"2017-11-10T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsconnect.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=2704"},"modified":"2017-11-10T21:32:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T21:32:37","slug":"cisco-acquisition-broadsoft","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.rsconnect.net\/en\/news\/cisco-acquisition-broadsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco announced acquisition of BroadSoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Cisco <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.cisco.com\/press-release-content?type=webcontent&amp;articleId=1887125\" target=\"_blank\">announced <\/a>that it had signed an agreement for the acquisition of BroadSoft. For this deal, Cisco will pay $55 per share in cash for each share of BroadSoft (BSFT), which values the company at $1.9 billion. BroadSoft is a technology innovator in cloud PBX, unified communications, team collaboration, and contact center solutions for businesses and service providers across 80 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition fits in a trend where more and more businesses expect fully featured voice and contact center solutions, while having the choice to deploy them either on-premise or in the cloud. BroadSoft offers an open interface and standards-based cloud voice &amp; contact center solution, targeted at small and medium businesses and sold through service providers. The combination of this with Cisco&#8217;s leading meetings, hardware and services portfolio results in a complete offering. An offering where all customers can select from the best-of-breed solutions for businesses of all sizes and a full suite of collaboration capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate blog we will soon elaborate on the BroadSoft portfolio. At RSconnect, we see this Cisco acquisition as a proof of the increased focus on cloud-type of voice services. Our Active Login Manager product doesn\u2019t require a server and works via direct communication between the laptop client software and the call manager (either on-premise or cloud-based). We are therefore glad to see that the Active Login Manager fits the current voice, unified communications and contact center roadmap of Cisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Cisco acquired BroadSoft, a technology innovator in cloud PBX and unified communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2221,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-2704","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cisco announced acquisition of BroadSoft - RSconnect<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cisco acquired BroadSoft, a technology innovator in cloud PBX, unified communications, team collaboration, and contact center solutions\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rsconnect.net\/en\/news\/cisco-acquisition-broadsoft\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cisco announced acquisition of BroadSoft - 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