ADVISORY/Cisco Systems at Storage Networking World Orlando 2003.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Monday-Thursday (Oct. 27-30)

Storage Networking World Fall 2003

Cisco Booth #P3

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Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO)

WHERE: JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes (Orlando, Fla.)
       CISCO BOOTH #: P3

WHEN:  Oct. 27 through 30

WHAT:  Cisco Systems, Inc. is a platinum sponsor of Storage Networking
       World, Computerworld's semi-annual tradeshow and conference,
       and will be represented through various activities. A summary
       of those activities is as follows:

    --  Cisco Speakers

        --  Tuesday, Oct. 28 at 1:30 pm: Lance Perry, vice president
            of IT infrastructure, will present an end-user case study
            of the Cisco IT organization's enterprise-wide storage
            area networking (SAN) strategy and implementation using
            the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Intelligent
            directors and fabric switches.

        --  Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 3:45 pm: Tom Edsall, CTO for the
            Storage Business Unit, will participate in a panel
            discussion titled "Virtualization -- What Makes Sense for
            My Company?"

    --  Technology and Product Demonstrations in Cisco's Booth (#P3)

        --  A multi-vendor proof-of-concept demo showing open,
            standard-based approaches to providing enhanced security
            and manageability for storage infrastructures.
            Specifically, Cisco, Emulex, Microsoft, and QLogic will
            stage an end-to-end, interoperable solution showing:

            --  Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP) functionality
                for switch-to-switch and server-to-switch
                authentication utilizing technologies such as DH-CHAP
                and Microsoft RADIUS server authentication.

            --  Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI)
                functionality, which provides a mechanism for
                centralized asset and inventory management of HBAs
                from the fabric and eliminates the need for
                proprietary per-server agents.

        --  A Cisco and Emulex demo of 10 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps)
            Fibre Channel technology featuring Emulex host bus
            adapters (HBAs) and the Cisco MDS 9000 SAN switches. As
            the demo will show, 10 Gbps Fibre Channel connectivity
            will be important for applications such high-speed
            inter-switch links (ISLs), as companies build or
            consolidate smaller SAN "islands" into larger fabrics.

        --  Two implementations of network-hosted storage applications
            on the Cisco MDS 9000 SAN switches including jointly
            developed products with IBM and VERITAS, which will show
            the operational and functional benefits of running storage
            applications such as volume management, data replication,
            and point-in-time snapshots directly in the SAN fabric.

    --  Participation in Storage Networking Industry Association
        (SNIA) Demos

        --  Interoperability demo showing the industry's progress on
            the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S),
            the goal of which is to deliver standardized, multi-vendor
            SAN management capabilities. Cisco will showcase its first
            SMI-S compliant product for the Cisco MDS 9000.

        --  A SNIA Supported Solutions Forum (SSF) demo showing
            multiple ways to deploy virtualization technologies across
            a storage infrastructure. Cisco will showcase
            network-hosted virtualization capabilities through
            solutions jointly developed with industry-leading storage
            software vendors such as IBM and VERITAS including the IBM
            TotalStorage(R) SAN Volume Controller for the Cisco MDS
            9000.

        --  Another SSF demo showing heterogeneous deployment of Fibre
            Channel-to-IP storage connectivity, which gives IT
            administrators the ability to expand the reach and utility
            of their SANs using existing storage infrastructures.
            Cisco will showcase a variety of Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and
            FCIP-compatible products including the Cisco MDS 9000 and
            the IP Storage Services Module.

        --  An emerging technology interoperability demo featuring
            cutting-edge storage interconnect options. Technologies in
            this demo include blade servers, DAFS, Infiniband, Fibre
            Channel and iSCSI. Cisco will showcase its iSCSI "Network
            Boot" capability, which allows users to administrate
            numbers of servers remotely from a single access point
            (typically a storage subsystem).

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