Just as San Francisco Bay Area residents are waiting for the next big earthquake to happen, the market is 
waiting for Cisco to make its next big acquisition and are busying themselves with throwing names into the ring. Last week Wall Street rumor mongers linked Cisco with Brocade, suggesting that the tie-up would enable Cisco to block Brocade's $3 billion acquisition of Foundry Networks and to give Cisco a lift in the storage market.
Light Reading reports on whether such a deal would be feasible saying that analysts are "tepid on the theory."
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