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Today, the online market has become a busy place for mergers and acquisitions, especially in the first half of this year. These acquisitions are led by major network product vendors, such as Internet giant Cisco snapping up three companies, and HPE's acquisition of Plexxi, which has had a wide impact in the industry.

For many participants in the acquisition market in the first half of the year, the goal is to take steps to create more complete, core-to-edge or fully integrated solutions that enable customers and partners to accelerate product and service sales, simplify the environment, and reduce budget pressure on IT Some action has also been taken in the unified communications sector, with Plantronics acquiring Polycom for $2 billion and starting to offer one of the industry's broadest product portfolios.

Here are the top 10 acquisitions of top Internet companies to date in 2018:

1. Plantronics acquires Polycom

Purchase price: $2 billion

Plantronics acquired Polycom, a unified communications and collaboration provider, for $2 billion, making it one of the broadest portfolios in the UCC industry. Through the cooperation, Plantronics transcends the peripheral business and enters the unified communications system market directly, providing the company with the importance and scale of working with UC competitors to improve interoperability, reduce complexity, and thus increase customer retention. The company said its personal channel plans, strategies and leaders will not change for the time being.

two。 Cisco acquires Accompany

Purchase price: $270 million

In May, Cisco acquired Los Altos, Calif.-based startup Accompany, a private developer of an artificial intelligence-driven relationship intelligence platform that its sales team used to find new potential customers, manage the sales cycle, and strengthen customer relationships. Cisco acquired Accompany with a $270 million cash and equity bonus and made CEO Amy Chang senior vice president of its collaboration technology group.

3. HPE acquires Plexxi

Purchase price: undisclosed

HPE added a key portfolio to its next-generation hybrid IT platform by acquiring Plexxi, a provider of software-defined data structure network technology, in May. The acquisition provides HPE with additional software definition capabilities as it positions itself as a leading provider of next-generation computing, networking and storage infrastructure. HPE will support Plexxi's SimpliVity superconverged infrastructure product and its Synergy combinable infrastructure, which uses a next-generation data network architecture that automatically creates or rebalances bandwidth based on workload requirements.

4. Ribbon acquires Edgewater Networks

Purchase price: $110 million

Ribbon Communications said it acquired Edgewater Networks for $110 million and will create a complete core-to-edge portfolio and fully integrated software-defined WAN services. Ribbon said it will leverage Edgewater's portfolio to enhance a variety of products, including its Kandy Unified Communications as a service solution. Edgewater will provide Kandy with new capabilities for analytics and service assurance around the edge of the network, the company said.

5. Windstream acquires MASS Communications

Purchase price: $37.5 million

Windstream acquired MASS Communications, a private telecom network management provider, for $37.5 million in March, providing partners and customers with a wide range of customized voice, network and global cloud solutions. The acquisition makes Windstream a customer-oriented company with a strong record of revenue growth. Headquartered in New York City, MASS Communications is a completely channel-centric provider that provides customized voice and network solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as managing SD-WAN and security services.

6. Cisco acquires July Systems

Purchase price: undisclosed

Systems Systems's platform uses Wi-Fi analytics to allow retail stores, hotels, conference centers and other large facilities to learn more about customers. July Systems solutions are based on cloud computing and are sold on a subscription basis. Cisco and its Meraki division, as the OEM vendor of its mobile experience, have been working with July Systems for many years. Cisco Systems is now part of the Cisco Enterprise Network Group, managed by Scott Harrell, Senior Vice President and General Manager. Founded in 2001, Cisco Systems has raised nearly $60 million from top venture capital firms.

7. Cisco acquires Skyport Systems

Purchase price: undisclosed

Cisco was very busy in 2018, especially in terms of super-integration. In January, the company made major improvements to its HyperFlex platform and said it would buy Skyport Systems, a private super-convergence start-up that sells cloud-managed, super-secure super-convergence systems. The acquisition allows Cisco to address security issues, and Skyport's intellectual property is likely to be used in Cisco's product portfolio.

8. Live ction acquires Savvius

Purchase price: undisclosed

Palo Alto, Calif.-based LiveAction acquired Savvius, a network diagnostics expert based in Walnut Creek, California in June this year, taking an important step in the growth of its company by establishing a fully integrated network management platform. LiveAction is an enterprise network management and visualization vendor, the company said in a statement Tongdi plans to establish a complete network performance monitoring and diagnosis platform for this acquisition. The acquisition will enable Savvius to develop its Omnipliance, Omnipeek and Insight products faster, while expanding LiveAction's influence in the enterprise market and multi-vendor environment.

9. 8X8 acquires MarianaIQ

Purchase price: undisclosed

8x8, a provider of unified communications as a service and contact center, acquired artificial intelligence marketing startup MarianaIQ in May, adding new features based on artificial intelligence and machine learning to its cloud-based portfolio. 8x8 said the acquisition will help customers build an employee communication and customer interaction system. The company says it will add artificial intelligence to its new X-Series products, a platform that combines communications, collaboration and contact center solutions. it gives companies a better understanding of the data they collect from their employees and end customers every day.

10. FireMon acquires Lumeta

Purchase price: undisclosed

FireMon, based in Overland Park, Connecticut, said in May that it plans to acquire Lumeta, a network security situational awareness provider, to help security teams identify all assets on their network and understand how they connect. FireMon said the acquisition of Lumeta will help companies discover, map and analyze their internal deployments and cloud platform connections. By using Lumeta's technology to identify new devices, routers and cloud connections, customers can extend the capabilities of the FireMon platform to cover previously unknown exposure areas.

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