SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - March 4, 2008) - Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) --
Highlights / Key Facts:
Market Trends and Issues
Mobile and telecommuting and mobile workforce increasing number of
employees working outside of corporate headquarters, double digit growth
(11 percent) of remote branch offices. All need access to corporate
headquarters from anywhere, at anytime. < IDC Next Generation WAN Headend
Router Whitepaper and IDC Enterprise WAN Study, November 30, 2007 >
Web 2.0 collaborative tools on the rise; shared cooperative
applications, TelePresence, IP voice and video conferencing, IPTV -- a key
part of employee collaborative tools -- create requirement for consistent
and enhanced end user experience and prioritization of these applications
over other network traffic.
More and more services delivered over wide-area networks results in
increased complexity and demand. More than 70 percent of the IDC survey
respondents stated that they expect to increase bandwidth at corporate
headquarters with 43 percent expecting increases of over 20 percent in the
next 24 months. < IDC Enterprise WAN Study, November 30, 2007 >
Cisco Technology Leadership and Innovation
With more than 42 patents filed on the Cisco
Aggregation Services Router 1000 Series, and more than 20 years
producing routers to connect networks together, Cisco has more experience,
expertise and partnerships in developing intelligent networks than any
other company.
The Cisco Aggregation Services Router 1000 Series was developed over
the past 5 years by a team of 100+ of Cisco's top engineers.
Today's News: Cisco Aggregation Services Router 1000 Series
The Cisco Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 Series defines a new category of router by
providing both service providers and enterprises with industry-leading
performance, built-in services, reliability, and network simplification in
a compact form factor.
For service providers, the Cisco ASR 1000 Series enables more flexible,
efficient, and cost-effective delivery of complex "any play" (voice, video,
data and mobility) consumer and business services.
For enterprises, the Cisco ASR 1000 Series empowers a network and
business focal point at corporate headquarters where information,
communication, collaboration and commerce converge.
The Cisco ASR 1000 Series is powered by the new Cisco QuantumFlow
Processor (QFP), the industry's most advanced networking chipset.
Cisco Aggregation Services Router 1000 Series Facts
A single Cisco ASR 1000 Series can:
recover from a service outage faster than a single flap of a
hummingbird's wings.
provide a highly secure connection to every city in the world with a
population larger than 150,000.
provide every person in a 60,000-employee company with his or her own
individual broadcast channel.
A standard service provider rack of Cisco ASRs can:
provide highly secure, high quality Internet service to every man,
woman and child in a city the size of Frankfurt, Germany.
transmit the collected works of Shakespeare 5,250 times every second.
The Cisco QuantumFlow Processor can:
process 24,000,000 instructions in the time it takes an average
person to blink.
provide equivalent processing power to 20 dual-core servers, using 10
times less space and 38,990 fewer kilowatt-hours per year.
Quotes: "Next Generation Networks will enable a broad range of
services in a wide variety of combinations, many requiring high-quality,
high-definition, bidirectional communication to meet customer demands. In
contrast to conventional best-effort approaches, we believe it will be
necessary for the edge of network to perform dynamic quality control to
flexibly and securely enable aggregation of traffic from broadband services
and converged communications," says Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Communication (NTT), Executive Vice President, Shin Hashimoto. "The Cisco
ASR 1000 Series is expected to provide the functions essential for such IP
NGNs in a flexible and scalable manner, with the high availability that we
and our customers demand."
"We operate IT systems for our customers that are critical for their core
business processes. So non-stop operations are an extremely important issue
for us. We are witnessing an increased demand on highly secure, scalable,
and reliable IT infrastructure services," said Bardo Werum, vice president
of Cross-Industries and Operation at Lufthansa Systems. "The Cisco ASR 1000
Series helps us meet those demands. For example, the 'in service software
update' feature offers great improvements towards non-stop operations."
"Wachovia's wide area networks are undergoing a series of significant
transformations to incorporate new technologies and new services that
underpin delivery of information to our associates and customers," said
John Burns, vice president of network services for Wachovia. "The Cisco ASR
1000 Series is uniquely positioned to blend a very positive TCO with
flexibility and innovation to support not only our current requirements,
but those that we are just beginning to envision. Scalability, security and
reliability are three areas where we look to the Cisco ASR 1000 Series as a
ground-breaking platform."
"With respect to flexibility in the network, the Cisco ASR 1000 is
unsurpassed, incorporating new technologies to support rapid business
innovation, without having to rethink network platform decisions," said
Pankaj Patel, senior vice president and general manager of the Cisco
Service Provider Technology Group. "Any comparable configuration would not
only cost much more, but require more rack space, consume more power, and
require additional blades or network appliances in order to equal the
capabilities that are already integrated into this compact, multi-purpose
router."
Cisco ASR and Quantum Flow Processor
Cisco Aggregation Services Router (ASR) defines a new category of router by
offering industry-leading performance, built-in services, reliability, and
network simplification in a compact form factor.
http://newsroom.cisco.com/Newsroom/flash/evp/?vidid=89AB0FC28E7947E5B76FCAA6FFAAF430&topic=Technologies&subtopic=Routing factor.
Video: Cisco Moves to a New Era (Highlights Will Eatherton, Michael
Beesley and Stefan Dyckerhoff)
Company goes back to the drawing board to rewrite the book on routers; a
device that will make the transition to 21st century communications quite a
bit easier.
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/podcasts/ciscocast_exec_dyckerhoff_030408.htmlPodcast: Cisco Moves to a New Era (Highlights Will Eatherton,
Michael Beesley and Stefan Dyckerhoff)
Company goes back to the drawing board to rewrite the book on routers; a
device that will make the transition to 21st century communications quite a
bit easier.
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/podcasts/ciscocast_exec_dyckerhoff_030408.htmlCustomer Videos: Transforming the Network Edge
Lufthansa Systems enhances its network performance, scalability and
flexibility at the edge and with Cisco Systems' first multipurpose edge
routers, the ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers
http://newsroom.cisco.com/Newsroom/flash/evp/?vidid=8E0D331D972B185089EA99D4C8F97A3E&topic=Technologies&subtopic=RoutingStaying a Step Ahead of Change
Wachovia's VP of Network Services commends Cisco, the QuantumFlow
Processor, and the ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers
http://newsroom.cisco.com/Newsroom/flash/evp/?vidid=1AD6313273630CAB294B1CE71C8AFA07&topic=Technologies&subtopic=RoutingInnovation Enables Innovation
Texas Instruments CIO talks about accelerating the pace of change with the
ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers
http://newsroom.cisco.com/Newsroom/flash/evp/?vidid=43214BD7CA1BCE8D3D18D2574EEA3C30&topic=Technologies&subtopic=RoutingNTT and Cisco Deliver New Services
Japan's NTT Group deploys new Cisco ASR 1000 Series routers to deliver
advanced services
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps9343/ntt_video_case_study.html.
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Contact Information: Contact Information:
Wilson Craig
Cisco Systems, Inc.
408-425-9773
wicraig@cisco.com
Linda Horiuchi
Cisco
408 464 6964
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