Cisco to Acquire Scientific-Atlanta

Can Cisco do it? Chambers has always said he/they shy away from big acquisitions.

From Aug 10th:
"It is extremely unlikely for us to ever do a large acquisition. My view is, most all of them fail," Chambers said.


To be fair this was inrelation to rummor of a Nokia acquistion, which is problaly 10 times the size of S-A. But S-A is 10 times the size of most of Cisco's acquistions.

Can they incorparate at 50+ year old company, with 6,500 employees? Is Cisco testing the waters? could even bigger deals be down the line?

I think they can, and hope they do. But is Cisco is going to trip up it will be with something like this.