Where are the Cisco acquisitions?

It's eerily quiet on the Cisco M&A front, notes the Inorganic Growth blog. While the market dissects Brocade's $3 billion purchase of Foundry and what it means to Cisco, Inorganic Growth blogs that Cisco has hardly used M&A at all this year - highly unusual for a firm that at one stage pocketed a company a month. So far this year, Cisco has purchased three smaller companies - home networking vendor Pure Networks, digital-service management firm DiviTech, and data center switch start-up Nuova. It also made a strategic investment in femtocell manufacturer IP Access 

Last year, Cisco bought 11 companies, including WebEx for $3.2 billion. 

The market is hungry for the next big one from Cisco. This year, Cisco has been linked with EMC and Citrix. 

Isn't Cisco due a big one soon?

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