According to Cisco, when integrated with its existing security portfolio, Meetinghouse's AEGIS SecureConnect products will enable Cisco to provide a single unified wired and wireless client to enterprise customers that will simplify the security management of a broad array of host devices and operating systems.

Brett Galloway, vice president and general manager of Cisco's Wireless Networking Business Unit, said: "The Meetinghouse software supplicant is a natural extension to existing Cisco initiatives such as the Cisco Self Defending Network via Network Admission Control (NAC) and the Cisco Compatible Extensions (CCX) program."

Meetinghouse was founded in 1988 and has 77 employees in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2007, ending October 28, 2006. The Meetinghouse team and products will be integrated into the WNBU, reporting into Galloway.

Source: ITWire