Cisco this week said it will acquire NDS Group Ltd., a provider of video software and content security systems for service providers and media companies, for $5 billion.

Cisco and Tandberg made their big post-merger entrance at the InfoComm conference in Las Vegas this week, promoting an interoperability protocol that will come on a product in July and introducing some other new products.

Cisco and Tandberg have assured partners and customers it's business as usual. This follows the networking giant's acquisition of Tandberg in April.

Communications and collaboration provider, Broadreach, has become a Tandberg Authorised System Integrator.

Australian partners of Tandberg and Cisco are optimistic about their future in the unified communications (UC) space after the acquisition was officially finalised this week.

Cisco Systems closed its acquisition of Tandberg on Monday, formally ending a tense struggle over the fair value of the Norwegian videoconferencing vendor.

The U.S. Department of Justice won't challenge Cisco Systems' US$3 billion acquisition of video-conferencing service provider Tandberg, the agency announced Monday.

Tandberg claims its revamped channel program has been developed to provide partners with a greater degree of flexibility.