Cisco Enables Premium Services for Internet Service Providers Worldwide; New Software Delivers Scalable Performance and Increased Network Efficiency.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 3, 1997--Cisco Systems, Inc. announced today that Internet service providers worldwide are using new Cisco IOS(TM) software capabilities to offer premium services and increase network efficiency. Innovative Internet service providers worldwide including @HOME, Bell Canada, Global One, Hong Kong Telecom, 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. , Pacific Internet, Telefonica and UUNET (UUNET Technologies, Inc., Fairfax, VA, www.uunet.net) Founded in 1987, UUNET was the first commercial Internet service provider. Originally offering e-mail and news, it became a full Internet service organization providing dial-up and leased line accounts as well as archive space for - UK are working closely with Cisco to specify, test and deploy services that use Internet quality of service (QoS) capabilities to better meet customers needs and increase revenue opportunities. "Cisco's Internet QoS capabilities enhance our network design and remove key obstacles to widespread deployment of profitable, media-rich content services," said Milo Milo, athlete of ancient Greece Milo (mī`lō) or Milon (mī`lŏn), fl. 500 B.C., athlete of ancient Greece, b. Crotona. Medin, vice president of Home Networks. "This capability allows us, the service provider, to determine how our network assets are used and allocated instead of the customer's traffic flows interacting without control, which typifies today's Internet. Cisco's Internet QoS combined with our end-to-end service architecture, allows us to deliver unique services not found anywhere else in the Internet." "Internet QoS provides a key component of our IP services strategy," said Don Listwin, senior vice president of the Service Provider Line of Business at Cisco Systems, Inc. "This strategy will enable service providers to rapidly define and deploy profitable new services through a highly flexible, policy-based services platform, allowing their customers to prioritize traffic based on business needs. The strategy encompasses best-of-breed hardware and Cisco IOS software products, industry leading service creation and management capabilities, and comprehensive consulting support." Premium and Sub-Rate Services Enabled The new Cisco IOS software capabilities include committed access rate (CAR) and border gateway protocol Border Gateway Protocol - (BGP) An Exterior Gateway Protocol defined in RFC 1267 and RFC 1268. Its design is based on experience gained with Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP), as defined in STD 18, RFC 904 and EGP usage in the NSFNet backbone, as described in RFCs 1092 and 1093. (BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) The routing protocol that is used to span autonomous systems on the Internet. It is a robust, sophisticated and scalable protocol that was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ) policy propagation. These new capabilities which run on Cisco 7200 and 7500 series routers and scale up to OC3/STM-1 rates, enable premium dedicated access. Thus, service providers can offer both standard and premium access where premium customers receive increased throughput, reduced delay and less packet loss during network congestion. Service providers can also offer IP sub-rate services at lower price points for customers who currently require only a portion of the bandwidth available. Internet QoS uses CAR to classify and rate limit customer traffic and manage excess traffic according to the network policy. As the customer's needs change, the service provider can raise IP sub-rates to meet increased traffic demands without physically rearranging the network. BGP policy propagation is used to generate classification policies throughout a network via routing updates leading to more efficient provisioning and network operations. Together, these capabilities enable ISPs to manage customer bandwidth based on the business needs and policies of the customer. "Companies are demanding a standard of service from the Internet that they've come to expect from traditional private data networks," said Stephen Von Rump, MCI's vice president of Enterprise Marketing. "Through our close work with Cisco and continued network enhancements for class of service offerings, MCI is setting the pace to provide the next wave of business-grade Internet services to our customers." "Global One has worked closely with Cisco to define and test the Internet QoS functionality," said Scott Wainner, manager of Internetwork engineering at Global One. "In particular, the BGP policy propagation feature was developed as a direct result of Global One's requirements and input. The unique Cisco feature provides Global One with the ability to differentiate selected customers' traffic in both directions on our 'Global IP' network. "Global One looks forward to working closely with Cisco to develop and deploy Internet QoS technology and services that bring important added value to our customers." "We are leveraging the features of Cisco's Internet QoS software to bring innovative IP virtual private line and bandwidth management services to both our ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. and business customers," said William Wong, manager of Internet provisioning at Hong Kong Telecom. "By combining rate limiting, weighted fair queuing See traffic engineering methods. , BGP policy propagation, and NetFlow capabilities we are able to rapidly construct and differentially price new services which best meet our customers' needs, as well as maximize network capacity utilization." Availability The Internet QoS software will be available in December and is part of the Cisco IOS 11.1CC software release for the Cisco 7200 and the Cisco 7500 series of routers. 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 . Cisco IOS is a trademark, and Catalyst, Cisco, Cisco Systems and the Cisco Systems logo are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. in the United States and other certain countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. -0- Technical note to editors: Other key revenue producing services based on Internet QoS capabilities include exchange point bandwidth control, premium Web hosting services and business and consumer multimedia applications support. Exchange point traffic control allows service providers to measure and control downstream traffic injected into the network and take into account negotiated traffic exchange agreements. Service providers are also using Internet QoS to provide differentiated Web hosting services such as access bandwidth management and premium delivery service. These services increase value to the customer and add incremental revenues for the service provider. Several service providers also offer comprehensive, international, IP bandwidth management services to both corporate and downstream ISP customers. This service enables end-to-end, bi-directional, guaranteed bandwidth allocations, access to Web content in the United States and service level agreements that limit packet loss and delay. ISPs also gain maximum utilization of expensive international bandwidth by combining services on shared transport facilities. Cisco IOS software has additional capabilities that now enable Internet QoS for large scale, high-speed, IP networks in environments like the Internet. Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ See traffic engineering methods. ) provides class and flow-based flexible bandwidth allocation and delay bounds across an 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. NetFlow provides granular Layer granular layer n. 1. The deeper of the two layers of the cortex of the cerebellum, containing many granule cells whose dendrites synapse with incoming highly branched nerve fibers but whose axons form synapses with dendrites of Purkinje cells, 3 measurements to support flexible billing, network planning and monitoring. Another Cisco IOS capability, Cisco Express Forwarding Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) is an advanced layer 3 switching technology used mainly in large core networks or the Internet. Function CEF is mainly used to increase packet switching speed, reducing the overhead and delays introduced by other routing techniques, (CEF CEF CAN (Controller Area Network) Extended Frame CEF Caixa Economica Federal (Brazil) CEF Cisco Express Forwarding CEF Common European Framework CEF Continuing Education Fund CEF Closed End Fund ), enables fully distributed Fully distributed A new stock issue that has been completely resold to the investing public and is no longer held by dealers. fully distributed Of or relating to a new issue of securities that has been sold out. cacheless routing to maximize performance and functionality in large, complex networks with dynamic traffic patterns. These capabilities now run at OC-3 rates on the Versatile Interface Processor 2-50 (VIP2-50) with services enabled. 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