Cisco Systems Increases Reliability Through New Voice and E-Commerce Network Management Solutions.Business Editors/High Tech Writers 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)--Aug. 20, 2001 Internet-based Management Solutions support Network-wide Reliability for Today's e-Business Solutions and Services 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., the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, today announced additions to its network management solutions with the availability of the CiscoWorks Voice-over-IP (VoIP) Health Monitor and enhancements to the CiscoWorks family targeted at converged networks. Cisco today also announced the Cisco 1105 Hosting Solution Engine for managing e-commerce data center environments. Supporting Cisco AVVID AVVID Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data (Cisco) AVVID Architecture for Voice Video and Integrated Data - the Cisco Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data - these new solutions reaffirm re·af·firm tr.v. re·af·firmed, re·af·firm·ing, re·af·firms To affirm or assert again. re Cisco's ongoing commitment to provide customers with comprehensive management tools that maximize network performance and drive e-business success. New CiscoWorks VoIP Health Monitor The CiscoWorks VoIP Health Monitor is a new suite of integrated applications that proactively monitors converged networks supporting VoIP. The suite verifies VoIP system reliability by providing real-time status reports on the voice "health" in converged networks, and notifying users of potential problems in the Cisco routed and switched infrastructure. This management application suite consisting of Voice Health Monitor, Device Fault Manager, and CiscoView supports more than 175 of the most common Cisco devices, including Cisco routers, Catalyst switches, Cisco CallManager, router gateways, and in-line power See inline power. cards. With this solution, users can monitor network uptime and, as a result, optimize performance of business-critical applications enabled by Cisco AVVID. New Enhancements to CiscoWorks Family The VoIP Health Monitor complements other Cisco management solutions such as the CiscoWorks QoS Policy Manager and CiscoWorks Service Management Solution giving customers a robust set of tools for converged network and policy management. The CiscoWorks QoS Policy Manager provides centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. management and control of network-wide QoS policies letting customers prioritize business-critical traffic, such as voice. In addition to enabling rules-based setting of high-level policies, QoS Policy Manager now includes specific VoIP policy recommendations for different areas of the network. These VoIP templates, which can be user-customized, simplify deployment of QoS and help ensure the quality of the voice deployment. CiscoWorks Service Management Solution proactively tests and measures end-to-end network service levels to maximize high-quality, economic delivery of converged network services. This solution now lets customers more effectively test the voice readiness of their network through the ability to set Service Level Agreement (SLA (1) (StereoLithography Apparatus) See 3D printing. (2) (Service Level Agreement) A contract between the provider and the user that specifies the level of service expected during its term. )-specific threshold notification. This enables more immediate notification if voice or other business-critical service levels are not being met minimizing downtime and increasing overall operational productivity "The CiscoWorks product family offers valuable IP Telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. management tools for Cisco AVVID networks," said Patrick Olson, Director of Information Technology at Menlo College The sprawling campus is on the border of affluent Atherton and Menlo Park, and is adjacent to its former partner institution, Menlo School. In 1927, the college program became a separate junior college from Menlo School and continues to share the same campus. . "The VoIP Health Monitor gives us comprehensive, instantaneous network status and fault analysis information, which are critical to ensuring peak network performance. Significant savings in time and effort have also been realized using the pre-defined voice templates in the new version of QoS Policy Manager. Operationally, these tools enable Menlo College to provide proper IP Telephony availability and quality for our students and staff." Cisco 1105 Hosting Solution Engine Designed for comprehensive management of e-business hosting infrastructure and Layer 4-7 hosted services, the Cisco 1105 Hosting Solution Engine is specifically geared for enterprise and service provider customers with e-business data center facilities. This turnkey, hardware-based solution offers integrated Layer 2-3 network infrastructure fault and performance monitoring with Layer 4-7 hosted services monitoring and activation. It provides robust operational support for all Cisco routers, switches, server load balancers, and PIX(TM) firewalls. Customers can more effectively manage their data centers, ensuring e-business solution reliability and success while significantly minimizing downtime. "Network reliability and performance are critical to providing successful and profitable hosted e-business solutions," said Andrea Ferravante, Director of Marketing at AONET, an Italy-based Application Service Provider (ASP). "The Cisco 1105 Hosting Solution Engine supports this with comprehensive hosted infrastructure and services management capabilities significantly reducing network downtime, improving overall network and IT personnel productivity. This enables us to offer new profitable managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality to our customers." With a flexible user security model, the Cisco Hosting Solution Engine extends its routine management capabilities to network administrators and other critical e-business personnel. By utilizing the user security model, server managers tasked with managing the Web server farms can now access functionality on Cisco load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them devices where access was once limited to the network administrator. Customers gain overall IT personnel productivity. The Cisco Hosting Solution Engine also offers a customizable Web-based graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ). This enables hosting service providers to offer network and Layer 4-7 service management capabilities to their customers as a revenue-generating managed e-business service. This GUI personalization Custom tailoring information to the individual. On the Web, personalization means returning a page that has been customized for the user, taking into consideration that person's habits and preferences. capability also lets service providers evolve their hosted business models rapidly when necessary. "The introduction of the CiscoWorks VoIP Health Monitor and Cisco 1105 Hosting Solution Engine demonstrate Cisco's continued investment in the development of industry-leading management solutions for the rapidly evolving network infrastructure," said Jeff Krause, VP and General Manager of the Enterprise Management Business Unit at Cisco Systems. "Both complement Cisco's broad network management portfolio of products effectively managing e-business solutions enabled by Cisco AVVID." Pricing and Availability The CiscoWorks VoIP Health Monitor is available today for $19, 995 USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. . The Cisco 1105 Hosting Solutions Engine will be available in mid-September for $19,995 USD. About Cisco Systems Cisco Systems (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. Cisco news and information are available at http://www.cisco.com. Cisco, PIX, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco Systems, the Cisco Systems logo are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. 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