Would Cisco buy Riverbed?

Cisco to make a takeover bid for Riverbed? Could that ever happen? Cisco Subnet blogger Larry Chaffin believes so. In his latest blog post, Larry also predicts that Nortel could be bought by either Juniper, AT&T or Qwest. Larry writes: "Riverbed is looking more and more like a takeover target, they have good numbers even in this down economy and the stock is down just because of the markets. This is a prime time for Chambers to take over his biggest pain right now other than Juniper and ProCurve."

I can't think of Cisco ever making a hostile takeover bid. That just doesn't appear to be its style. But perhaps the potential ownership of Riverbed's WAN acceleration product could be too good to pass. What do you think? Head over to Larry's blog and put in your 2 cents.

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