# Cisco to acquire Acacia Communications for $2.6 billion

Cisco agreed to acquire Acacia Communications, a supplier of high-speed optical interconnect technologies, for $70 per share in cash, or approximately $2.6 billion net of cash and marketable securities.

- Type: Acquisition
- Announced: 2019-07-09
- Where: United States
- Value: $2.60B
- Status: announced
- Products: coherent optics, digital signal processing modules, photonic integrated circuits, transceivers
- Sectors: [Semiconductors and Industrial Electronics](https://endata.com/sectors/semiconductors-electronics.md)

## Companies

- [Cisco Systems](https://endata.com/companies/40516.md) (acquirer)
- [Acacia Communications](https://endata.com/companies/40517.md) (target)

## Sources

- [investor.cisco.com](https://investor.cisco.com/news/news-details/2019/Cisco-Intends-to-Acquire-Acacia-Communications/default.aspx), 2019-07-09: "Cisco has agreed to acquire Acacia for $70.00 per share in cash, or for approximately $2.6 billion on a fully diluted basis"

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