Cisco Delivers Second Phase of Data/Voice/Video Integration Strategy.WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 1998-- Solutions Help Corporations Reduce Costs, Deploy New Business Applications and Improve Network Performance 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. , Inc. today announced that it is delivering the second phase of its data/voice/video integration strategy, which ultimately will encompass all aspects of corporate enterprise and service provider environments. During this second phase, Cisco is rolling out new multiservice, wide-area network (WAN) access products that will help corporate enterprise customers reduce costs, deploy new business applications and improve network performance. Today's announcement is part of a five-phase, open systems and technology strategy designed to help users integrate data, voice and video - from smaller access locations to larger backbone sites and across private leased-line and public service infrastructures. Cisco's strategy, the first phase of which was launched Oct. 21, 1997, at Interop Paris (see http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/146/1980.html), initially will give customers the ability to reduce costs by avoiding long-distance toll charges and start consolidating their voice and data network infrastructures. In the future, it will enable them to take advantage of new business applications such as intranet/Internet telephony, Web call centers and desktop video. The strategy encompasses voice over Frame Relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. , voice over ATM and voice over IP. "The greatest immediate return on data/voice/video integration in the corporate enterprise network is in the WAN, where costs are highest and alternatives abound," said Craig Johnson Craig Johnson may refer to:
New products introduced today represent additional results of Cisco's acquisitions of StrataCom(r) Inc. in 1996 and Ardent Communications Corp. in 1997 (see http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/146/1904.html). The new products include the Cisco MC3810 Multiservice Access Concentrator and new features for the Cisco StrataCom IGX IGX Inspector General Exercise IGX Intelligraphics (Dallas, TX, USA company; developer of computer device drivers) IGX Integrated Services Digital Network Gateway Exchange IGX Integrated Gigabit Exchange IGX Integrated Gigabit Switch (tm) Asynchronous Transfer Mode See ATM. (communications) Asynchronous Transfer Mode - (ATM, or "fast packet") A method for the dynamic allocation of bandwidth using a fixed-size packet (called a cell). See also ATM Forum, Wideband ATM. ATM acronyms. Indiana acronyms. (ATM) switch. These IGX features enable data/voice interworking (standard) interworking - Systems or components, possibly from different origins, working together to perform some task. Interworking depends crucially on standards to define the interfaces between the components. with the MC3810 and enhance the IGX's extensive voice capabilities. Additionally, Cisco today outlined plans to continue its voice-over-IP product rollout, which began with the Oct. 21, 1997 introduction of voice modules for the Cisco 3600 router series. Cisco MC3810 Seamlessly Integrates Data, Voice and Video The Cisco MC3810 is the newest member of the Cisco MC3800 series of multiservice access concentrators. It combines Cisco IOS(tm) software routing functionality with compressed, switched voice and clear-channel video across popular Frame Relay and ATM services. (See accompanying release, "Cisco Introduces Newest Member of MC3800 Multiservice Access Concentrator Family.") The MC3810 connects to any standard private branch exchange (PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). ) or videoconferencing system and is interoperable with all other Cisco internetworking devices. Using voice compression, the MC3810 transports voice across enterprise infrastructures at a fraction of the bandwidth and cost of traditional multiplexers or Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. ) switches. The MC3810, which operates on facilities from 56 kilobits per second (unit) kilobits per second - (kbps, kb/s) A unit of data rate where 1 kb/s = 1000 bits per second. This contrasts with units of storage where 1 Kb = 1024 bits (note upper case K). (kbps) to 2.048 megabits per second (unit) megabits per second - (Mbps, Mb/s) Millions of bits per second. A unit of data rate. 1 Mb/s = 1,000,000 bits per second (not 1,048,576). E.g. Ethernet can carry 10 Mbps. (Mbps), provides maximum flexibility and investment protection, as networking requirements grow. "The Cisco MC3810 combines data, voice and video in an efficient, standards-based way, at a much lower cost than previous-generation, simple multiplexers," said Bill Hicks, senior product manager for internetworking at Sprint. Cisco IGX Interworks with MC3810 to Provide End-to-End Voice Capabilities New Cisco IGX features enable voice and data interworking between the IGX and the MC3810. The IGX wide-area network ATM switch consolidates data, voice and video onto a carrier-class backbone for today's mission-critical enterprise networks. IGX/MC3810 interworking allows enterprise customers to extend backbone capabilities, including quality of service (QoS) and traffic management, to their branch offices. With the new software, the IGX voice modules compress voice signals at one-half to one-eighth the uncompressed rate. This enables substantial bandwidth and cost savings across the enterprise and seamless PBX dialing between sites. Cisco Continues to Deliver Voice over IP The recently announced voice/fax module for Cisco 3600 series routers was the first in a series of voice-over-IP (VoIP) product announcements for 1998. Service providers have been deploying the multifunctional Cisco 3600 as managed service, customer premise equipment (CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment ) for integrating data and voice on the WAN. Based on industry-leading Cisco IOS software, the Cisco 3600 series enables delivery of quality of service for real-time data across IP networks. Netcom, one of the leading international Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , is currently evaluating VoIP. "We were very impressed with Cisco's 3600 VoIP capability," said Mike Kallet, Netcom's senior vice president of products, technology and business development. "We tested the Cisco equipment over Netcom's backbone between Denver, Colorado and San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. by conducting a business call over the Internet using a speaker phone. The quality of the call was very good." Cisco also will offer new integration capabilities in enterprise networks by extending voice-over-IP technology into high-density voice gateways to aggregate branch offices and enable packet telephony gateways. Cisco's voice-over-IP software architecture will be extensible across many existing Cisco platforms and will provide extremely low latency to enable the highest-quality voice-over-IP solutions available. Cisco Offers Complete Portfolio for Data/Voice/Video Integration The new multiservice WAN access solutions announced today complement Cisco's existing array of edge devices, which can interface with telephony systems and transport traffic into the backbone infrastructure. These multiservice WAN access devices include MC3800 multiservice access concentrators, Catalyst(r) 5500 series LAN switches, LightStream(r) 1010 and Cisco IGX ATM switches and Cisco 7xx, 3600 and 7200 series routers. Transporting multiservice traffic across a Cisco backbone will yield more consistent voice quality than other backbone infrastructures because of the advanced quality-of-service and traffic management capabilities supported by Cisco backbone systems. These include the Cisco StrataCom BPX BPX Business Process Expert BPX Business Process eXcellence (Delphi Group event) BPX Burning Plasma Experiment BPX British Petroleum Exploration BPX Broadband Packet Exchange BPX Bus Parcel Express (Canada) (r) ATM switch, the Cisco 7500 router series and the Cisco 12000 series of gigabit switch routers. For example, new Cisco IOS software features such as Committed Access Rate (CAR) allow network managers to specify policies that partition network traffic into multiple priority levels or classes of service (CoS). The network manager can define up to six classes using the three precedence bits in the "type of service" field in the IP header. (See "Cisco Enables Premium Services for Internet Service Providers Worldwide" at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/146/2019.html.) Cisco now is extending these scalable service provider features to the corporate enterprise. Additionally, Cisco IOS capabilities such as Weighted Fair Queuing See traffic engineering methods. (WFQ See traffic engineering methods. ) provide class and flow-based flexible bandwidth allocation and delay bounds across and IP network, while Weighted Random Early Detection Weighted random early detection (WRED) is a queue management algorithm with congestion avoidance capabilities. It is an extension to Random early detection (RED) where different queues may have different buffer occupation thresholds before random dropping starts, as well as (WRED WRED Weighted Random Early Detection WRED Weighted Random Early Discard WRED Women and Rural Economic Development ) provides policy-based 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 techniques to give preferential treatment to premium-class traffic. These new capabilities for IP quality of service complement and map to the extensive ATM QoS features found on the Cisco StrataCom BPX and LightStream 1010 ATM switches. Pricing and Availability The Cisco MC3810 base system -- which includes routing, analog voice and voice compression capabilities and a Frame Relay trunk -- has a U.S. list price of $4,390. It is orderable now and will ship in February. Digital voice and ATM trunking capabilities are available in MC3810 systems priced at up to $7,990. The new software features for the IGX ATM switch are included in IGX Software Release 9.1, which will be available in April. About Cisco Systems 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 and IGX are trademarks, and BPX, Catalyst, Cisco, Cisco Systems, the Cisco Systems logo, LightStream and StrataCom 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. Steve Bauer, 408/526-4433 sbauer@cisco.com |
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