ADVISORY/Cisco Systems at Storage Networking World Spring 2003.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Monday (April 14)

Storage Networking World Spring 2003

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

WHERE: JW Marriott Desert Ridge, Phoenix, Az.

WHEN: April 14 through April 17

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

-- The Cisco booth (#P15) will feature a comprehensive technology

demo that illustrates the multiprotocol SAN switching

capabilities of the Cisco portfolio, including IP, Ethernet,

iSCSI, FCIP, and Fibre Channel.

-- Cisco will be participating in two SNIA-sponsored multi-vendor

interoperability demos, the Supported Solutions Forum's

heterogeneous SAN switch demo and the Common Information Model 

(CIM) SAN demo, which will feature a prototype CIM interface

for the Cisco MDS 9000 Family.

-- Tom Edsall, CTO of Andiamo Systems, will be participating in

the "CTO Insights Panel" on Wednesday April 16 from 11:15 a.m.

to 12 p.m.

-- George Nathanson, director of IT at Wireless Retail, Inc. and

a Cisco SN 5428 Storage Router customer, will be presenting a

user case study entitled "Reality of SANs for the Smaller

Enterprise" on Wednesday April 16 from 4 to 4:30 p.m.

-- Ernie Swanson, product manager in the Optical Networking

Group, will be presenting "The Impact of Metro DWDM in

Enterprise Storage Networking" on Thursday April 17 from 10:15

to 11 a.m.

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