Cisco Announces Relationships to Support CiscoAssure Policy Networking; Technologies to Enable Application-Aware Networking.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 1998--Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced relationships with two companies in support of the recently announced CiscoAssure Policy Networking initiative. Cisco is licensing technology from American Internet Corporation (AIC AIC Association des Infermières Canadiennes. ) and has acquired the policy-server expertise of Devsoft Corporation. These relationships add momentum to the CiscoAssure initiative which allows the assignment of policies based on application profiles, user group, role or personal names. "Cisco has declared CiscoAssure a strategic, near-term goal to meeting its customers' business needs," said Jim Metzler, principal analyst of The Metzler Group of Boston, Massachusetts “Boston” redirects here. For other uses, see Boston (disambiguation). Boston is the capital and most populous city of Massachusetts.[3] The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the unofficial economic and cultural center of the entire New . "This announcement furthers Cisco's core competence Core competence Primary area of expertise. Narrowly defined fields or tasks at which a company or business excels. Primary areas of specialty. in delivering a policy networking solution with an end-to-end focus that truly leverages intelligent network infrastructures to protect mission-critical applications." Cisco, in an exclusive technology licensing and development agreement with American Internet Corporation, will use AIC's technology to enhance IP address management, dynamic naming and addressing, and class-based and directory services. This technology will be integrated with Cisco's user registration and directory solutions for enterprises, cable networks and service providers. During the initial phase of this agreement, Cisco will ship an enhanced release of AIC's Network Registrar as part of its CiscoAssure Policy Networking roadmap. "We are pleased to be selected by Cisco, as our exclusive networking partner, for the distribution and development of core technologies for policy networking based on our Network Registrar technology," said Bob Brennan, chief executive officer and president of AIC, based in Bedford, Massachusetts Bedford is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is within the Greater Boston area, some 15 miles north-west of the city of Boston. The population of Bedford was 12,595 at the 2000 census. . "American Internet's Network Registraar has been recognized by the industry as a leader in DNS/DHCP technology for enterprise and cable-industry customers, and this agreement with Cisco further validates our leadership." Over the past two years, Cisco has co-developed user registration, administration and tracking components for policy networking in Cisco's enterprise products with Devsoft of Fremont, Calif. Devsoft's extensive experience developing policy control software is being integrated into Cisco's policy networking team to accelerate the delivery of end-to-end policy networking solutions. CiscoAssure Policy Networking delivers end-to-end application-aware networks that ensure the availability, performance and security of mission-critical business applications. CiscoAssure leverages intelligent features found in Cisco IOS Cisco IOS (originally Internetwork Operating System) is the software used on the vast majority of Cisco Systems routers and all current Cisco network switches. IOS is a package of routing, switching, internetworking and telecommunications functions tightly integrated with a (TM) software and Cisco network devices with registration and directory services, network-based application recognition and policy activation components distributed throughout enterprise networks. About Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. Cisco Systems, Inc. (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 :CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ) is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. News and information are available at http://www.cisco.com. -0- Note to Editors: Cisco IOS, Cisco, Cisco Systems, and the Cisco Systems logo are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Cisco Systems, Inc. Marcy Schrader, 408/527-2406 maschrad@cisco.com |
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