{"id":5112,"date":"2006-12-20T12:50:39","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T12:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/ericsson-buys-redback-networks.html"},"modified":"2006-12-20T12:50:39","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T12:50:39","slug":"ericsson-buys-redback-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/broadband\/ericsson-buys-redback-networks.html","title":{"rendered":"Ericsson Buys Redback Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Ericsson is looking to compete more effectively against Alcatel Lucent by <a href=\"http:\/\/ipcommunications.tmcnet.com\/hot-topics\/ims\/articles\/4213-ericsson-acquires-redback-21b.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">purchasing<\/font><\/a> Redback Networks is an up and coming edge router player. The rapid growth in the M&amp;A market is unprecedented these days and it seems the insatiable appetite to build larger and larger companies will never stop.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Although Redback is publicly traded and could have remained a public company, many private companies need to be acquired to bring liquidity back to their investors. <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The IPO market is getting a bit better but until Sox regulations get less onerous, it may be a while before smaller companies look to the public markets as an alternative M&amp;A.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ericsson is looking to compete more effectively against Alcatel Lucent by purchasing Redback Networks is an up and coming edge router player. The rapid growth in the M&amp;A market is unprecedented these days and it seems the insatiable appetite to build larger and larger companies will never stop. &nbsp; Although Redback is publicly traded and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,212,199,218,189,190,191,175],"tags":[1629,904,1133,1660,1047],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}