Cisco Systems Broadens its Integrated Security Portfolio for Networked Business Organizations of All Sizes.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 2002

12 Platform and Services Enhancements Reinforce

Cisco Leadership in Security Market

Addressing the increased business priority of data and application protection in the network, Cisco Systems, Inc., announced 12 additions to its comprehensive security strategy. These solutions, including new routing platforms and security services, deliver advanced protection to customers, and support business and productivity growth.

Cisco's security strategy is to embed security throughout the network and integrate security services in all its products, making it a transparent, scalable, and manageable aspect of any business infrastructure. Cisco offers customers a simplified and scalable migration path to deliver secure connectivity for Internet Protocol (IP) services. Along with the best-practices network design guidelines known as the SAFE Blueprint, Cisco's approach offers state-of-the-art layered protection of business-critical processes from internal and external threats.

"Effective information security is ultimately dependent on combating the long-acknowledged threats that come from within the enterprise," said Mark Bouchard, Senior Program Director, META Group. "Taking advantage of security services that are embedded and integrated with the computing infrastructure itself, such as those being offered by Cisco, is an efficient and appropriate component of a solution to this challenge."

Cisco's strategy is being reinforced today with a wide range of enhancements in key security technologies:

    --  Secure Connectivity: Cisco introduced several new routing
        platforms and security services spanning enterprise to small
        businesses. These include additions to the Cisco 800 Series
        and SOHO 90 Series secure broadband routers, which extend
        enterprise-class advanced IP services, including security
        features for data, voice and video, to small offices and
        teleworkers.

        Cisco also announced new virtual private network (VPN)
        acceleration modules for the Cisco 2691,3660, and 3700 series
        routers that are designed to increase branch-office VPN
        performance while simultaneously decreasing CPU utilization by
        half. Customers will benefit from an up to 10 times
        performance improvement in IP voice-and video-enabled VPNs in
        remote-office environments. These modules provide among the
        industry's first hardware-accelerated Advanced Encryption
        Standard (AES) solutions.

        These solutions utilize Cisco IOS(R) Software advancements in
        integrating network and security features to create new
        options for converged data, voice, and video network
        deployments. These Cisco IOS Software extensions also deliver
        enhanced quality of service (QoS), resiliency, scalability and
        encryption for VPNs, while simplifying deployment and
        administration.

        To address the secure connectivity requirements of data
        centers, Cisco also introduced the Cisco SCA 11000 Series
        Secure Content Accelerator II (SCA II), a dedicated appliance
        that offloads Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) processing from
        back-end Web servers while simplifying certificate management.
        SCA II extends the existing Cisco SSL portfolio, which
        includes switch-integrated and dedicated SSL appliance
        solutions and is designed for customers seeking transaction
        security while maintaining peak web server performance.

    --  Extended Perimeter Security and Intrusion Detection: New Cisco
        IOS Software Inline Stateful Firewall and Intrusion Detection
        capabilities provide enhanced performance, improved support
        for voice and video over IP protocols (Session Initiation
        Protocol [SIP], Cisco Skinny Client Control Protocol), 42
        additional intrusion detection system (IDS) signatures and
        enhanced authentication. These new capabilities and dozens of
        others added during the past 18 months expand Cisco IOS
        Software security functions, providing customers an additional
        line of defense within the network. It makes Cisco IOS
        Software an ideal foundation to deliver integrated network
        security to companies of all sizes.

    --  Identity Services and Security Management: The new Cisco
        Identity-Based Networking Services (IBNS) is an integrated
        software-based solution that offers greater flexibility and
        secure mobility for geographically dispersed users. Through
        extensions to the IEEE 802.1x security architecture for wired
        and wireless authentication, customers now have more granular
        network access control when deployed in conjunction with Cisco
        products, including the Cisco Access Control Server (ACS),
        switches, routers, and wireless access points. IBNS combines
        authentication, access control, and user policies and helps
        enterprises cost-effectively manage user mobility and security
        policies. This optimizes the management function of
        large-scale network resources, increases user productivity,
        and reduces operating expenses.

        Cisco also announced its Hosting Solution Engine (HSE) Version
        1.7, an industry-leading turnkey solution for secure
        management of data-center environments. It is designed to
        enable individual groups within an organization to
        autonomously perform daily management tasks on a shared
        network infrastructure. Cisco HSE 1.7 includes new
        configuration, performance monitoring and reporting support
        for the broad Cisco portfolio of content networking solutions,
        and the Cisco PIX(R) firewall family.

New Cisco Routers and Cisco IOS Software Deliver Integrated Network Security

The integration of routing, IP services and security provides a foundation for companies to evolve their applications and services. Customers' mission-critical business information and systems must be both protected and accessible. To address these requirements, Cisco announced the extension of its broad portfolio of routing platforms and software for secure IP services.

For small, remote offices and teleworker environments, the new Cisco 831 Ethernet Broadband and 837 ADSL Broadband routers, along with the Cisco SOHO 91 Ethernet Broadband and SOHO 97 ADSL Broadband routers deliver high performance and cost-effective, reliable connectivity. The Cisco 831 and 837 routers offer integrated stateful firewall and VPN capabilities, along with hardware-accelerated encryption and management to securely and reliably deliver advanced high-quality data, voice and video services. The Cisco SOHO 91 and 97 broadband routers provide easy-to-use, secure access for small offices. Ideally suited for broadband environments, they offer integrated stateful firewall and VPN as well as advanced management functionality that is designed to significantly reduce the cost of ownership.

Cisco routing platforms support new advanced security services within Cisco IOS Software that are integrated with IP network services to deliver toll-quality IP voice-and video-enabled VPNs. These services include enhanced QoS functionality, advanced on-demand meshing capability and IP Security (IPSec) stateful failover support for improved voice availability over VPNs. Additional Cisco IOS Software services for IPSec include integrated AES support and new Network Address Translation (NAT) transparency capabilities for improved intra-network interoperability.

All of the new security solutions and services announced today demonstrate Cisco's ongoing commitment and momentum in the security market.

Pricing and Availability

List prices are indicated below in U.S. dollars. All products are available today (except the Cisco Hosting Solution Engine 1.7, which is scheduled to be available at the end of November).

    --  Cisco 831 Ethernet Broadband Router         starts at $649

    --  Cisco 837 ADSL Broadband Router             starts at $649

    --  Cisco SOHO 91 Ethernet Broadband Router               $349

    --  Cisco SOHO 97 ADSL Broadband Router                   $449

    --  Cisco SCA 11000 Series Secure Content
         Accelerator (SCA II)                              $17,995

    --  Cisco Hosting Solution Engine (HSE) 1.7            $19,995

    --  Cisco VPN modules                          start at $2,500
            (available on Cisco 2691, 3660, and 3700 series routers)

The new services integrated into Cisco IOS Software, including firewall, IDS, AES support, dynamic multipoint VPN support, NAT transparency support, IPSec stateful failover support, and enhanced QoS support, are available today across the Cisco 800 to 7000 series routers. Cisco IBNS is available today for the Cisco Catalyst(R) 2950, 3550, 4000, and 6500 series switches.

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