Cisco Systems Networking Solutions Featured in Microsoft Windows 2000 Keynote Demonstrations.Business Editors/High Tech Wirters Windows 2000 Expo SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2000 E-Commerce Demo and Enterprise Demo Optimized by Cisco Products, Policy and Management Solutions Supporting Active Directory 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, announced the availability today of new Windows(R) 2000-ready Cisco applications. The applications were featured in the keynote demonstrations at the Windows 2000 launch event, broadcast to a worldwide audience. Today, Cisco provided the network for Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. 2000 as Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. demonstrated the ease of use and reliability of Internet business applications on stage during his keynote presentation. The new capabilities in Windows 2000, coupled with Cisco's intelligent network services, provided the high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and scalability for the e-commerce demonstration. The Cisco Catalyst 6500 and 5500 switches provided the scalable performance needed to support over 500 clients at Fast Ethernet An earlier name for 100Mbps Ethernet. See 100Base-T. (networking) Fast Ethernet - A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. speeds and over 30 Windows 2000 servers at Gigabit Ethernet speeds. The enterprise demonstration showed how to provide network-wide quality of services (QoS) for Windows Media video See Windows Media formats. streams. Today's demonstrations showed how easy it is to change a user's profile and the networking QoS policies associated with it using Cisco QoS Policy Manager and CiscoWorks2000 User Registration Tool. These are among the first Cisco networking products to support Active Directory. Internet business solutions such as e-commerce, supply chain management, e-learning, workforce optimization and customer care are best delivered by taking advantage of the integration between Cisco intelligent network devices, the Windows 2000 operating system and Active Directory. The Cisco Windows 2000-ready products are Cisco Network Registrar, CiscoWorks2000 User Registration Tool, Cisco Networking Services for Active Directory, Cisco IP/TV Streaming Video, and Cisco Secure Scanner. The Cisco products soon to be Windows 2000-ready are Cisco QoS Policy Manager, Cisco Secure Policy Manager, Cisco ICM ICM Intercom ICM Integrated Crop Management ICM International Congress of Mathematicians ICM Information Classification and Management ICM Intelligent Contact Management (Cisco) ICM International Creative Management Software, Cisco uOne, Cisco eMail Manager, Cisco Collaboration Server, CiscoWorks2000 Product Family, CiscoWorks for Windows and Cisco's future versions of call processing hardware and software. Cisco products providing Active Directory support are CiscoWorks2000 User Registration Tool, Cisco Network Registrar, Cisco QoS Policy Manager, Cisco Networking Services for Active Directory, and soon, the Cisco Secure Policy Manager. 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. Note to Editors: Catalyst, Cisco, Cisco IOS, 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. |
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