Cisco Systems to Join Multimedia Services Affiliate Forum.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)--March 5, 1996--Cisco Systems Inc. today announced it is joining the Multimedia Services Affiliate Forum, a global collaboration of companies formed to support interoperable multimedia business communication services. The Forum is comprised of leading telecommunications service providers; Cisco is joining Novell and Lotus as a Special Member technology provider. Cisco will work with Forum members to develop internetworking technology that will accelerate deployment of multimedia carrier services intended for business applications. The focus will be on development of highly scalable solutions with the quality-of-service guarantees required for business-class public networking. Key networked multimedia technologies include bandwidth reservation, multicast support, flexible queuing mechanisms and scalable virtual private networks (VPNs). "Two of the most exciting trends in networking today are the business benefits being achieved by multimedia applications running over networks and the range of new multimedia service offerings being deployed by carriers," said Jon Shantz, vice president for service providers at Cisco. "Our long experience in the Internet and enterprise networks uniquely enables us to accelerate the development of the scalable technologies these carrier services require." Shantz added. "We are committed to bringing enhanced connectivity to the 50 million NetWare users and we welcome the opportunity to work with Novell and the Forum to do so." Cisco already supplies internetworking hardware and software to telecommunications providers worldwide, and its products have been used to build most of the Internet backbone (communications, networking) Internet backbone - High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic. These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges. . Cisco IOS Cisco IOS (originally Internetwork Operating System) is the software used on the vast majority of Cisco Systems routers and all current Cisco network switches. IOS is a package of routing, switching, internetworking and telecommunications functions tightly integrated with a (TM) software ensures robust, reliable internetworks by supporting both LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. and WAN protocols, optimizing WAN services and controlling intranetwork access. 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. (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 leading global supplier of internetworking solutions, including routers, LAN and ATM switches, dial-up access servers and network management software. These products, integrated by the Cisco IOS software, link geographically dispersed LANs, WANs and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) networks. Cisco news and product/service information are available at World Wide Web site http://www.cisco.com. Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. -0- Note to Editors: Cisco IOS is a trademark and Cisco, Cisco Systems and the Cisco logo are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. All other trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks or registered service marks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Cisco Systems Inc. Jane Baker, 408/526-8842 jbaker@cisco.com |
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