CISCO'S LIGHTSTREAM 2020 ENTERPRISE ATM SWITCH SELECTED BY MCI AS CUSTOMER PREMISES SWITCH FOR VERY HIGH SPEED BACKBONE NETWORK (vBNS).BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 25, 1995--Cisco Systems today announced that MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. has selected the Cisco LightStream 2020 enterprise ATM switch to support supercomputer communications to the very high speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS), unveiled Monday at the COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). exposition in Atlanta. The vBNS, a new network launched by MCI and the National Science Foundation (NSF NSF - National Science Foundation ), connects the nation's five leading supercomputing centers. The first implementation of a very high speed network using the Internet Protocol (IP), it is expected to provide speeds of more than 600 Mbps by early 1996. The new network will give scientists the fast communication they need to develop national digital libraries, design new drugs, and perform remote diagnoses and medical treatments. MCI plans to deploy Cisco's LightStream 2020 switches in the supercomputing centers, where the switches will facilitate high-speed data transmission across the network. "Cisco's LightStream 2020 is a key component of vBNS," said Lance Boxer, senior vice president and general manager of data services for MCI Business Markets. "Its sophisticated ATM traffic and buffer management enable us to provide the level of service and traffic shaping that are necessary to meet the performance and data integrity needs of our customers." Ed Kozel, Cisco vice president of business development, said, "We're very pleased that MCI chose Cisco to participate in providing the very high speed Backbone Network Service. Cisco's LightStream ATM switches, together with MCI's next-generation communications technologies, are the building blocks of the emerging switched internetworking services that will take us well into the next century." The Cisco LightStream 2020 enterprise ATM backbone switch provides LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. and WAN internetworking for campus and global environments. Supporting Ethernet, FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) Often pronounced "fiddy," it was a LAN and MAN access method that had its heyday in the mid-1990s. FDDI was an ANSI standard token passing network that transmitted 100 Mbps over optical fiber up to 10 kilometers. , ATM and frame relay, it is ideal for business-critical applications requiring data, voice and video. With the industry's most advanced traffic shaping and buffer management, the LightStream 2020 provides complete control over bandwidth allocation, quality of service (QoS) and congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. avoidance for today's networks and a growth plan as networks scale in size and complexity. The QoS functions enable users to guarantee bandwidth and assign high transfer priorities to mission-critical or time-sensitive traffic flows. Unique "elastic buffers" enable the switch to manage bursty traffic from a variety of data types while providing the quality of service needed to achieve the best utilization rates available. Cisco Systems, Inc. is the leading global supplier of enterprise networks, including routers, LAN and ATM switches, dial-up access servers and network management software. These products, integrated by the Cisco Internetwork Operating System (Cisco IOS) link geographically dispersed LANs, WANs and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) networks. Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and in the U.S. is traded under the NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on symbol CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer . CONTACT: Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose Steve Bauer, 408/526-4433 Cisco Systems, Inc., Billerica Andy Hettinger, 508/262-1177 Ulevich & Orrange, Inc. William Orrange or Janis Ulevich, 415/329-1590 |
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