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Cisco: It Takes Two to Twingo: Page 2 of 3

Things have certainly been hotting up in the VPN market recently (see Infonetics Gives VPN, Security Stats). Last month Juniper announced its $4 billion bid for NetScreen Technologies, aligning itself for a run at the enterprise business and at Cisco.

Cisco’s acquisition of Twingo, which is expected to close in the third quarter, was comparatively cheap, but strategically important (see Cisco Prepping SSL Story and Cisco Takes a Stab at SSL).

Cisco's VPN 3020 solution supports up to 200 concurrent SSL VPN users, which doesn’t compare favorably to the 1,000 to 2,500 SSL VPN users supported by NetScreen.

“By integrating Twingo into its VPN & Security Business, we believe Cisco may aim to leverage Twingo's technology and engineering resources towards its internal efforts to develop a large scale SSL VPN solution,” writes Lehman analyst Tim Luke.

Cisco did not respond immediately to requests for comment.