Innovative Pan Asian Carriers Building Next Generation Networks; Service Providers Using Cisco Solutions to Deliver Voice Over Packet Networks.Business Editors/Technology Writers HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 2000 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 it has teamed with two Pan Asian service providers to enable the successful transport of millions of minutes of voice calls over the Internet. By relying on Cisco packet-based infrastructures, whether over the Internet or private backbone networks, these innovative service providers are giving their customers the same carrier-class voice quality of service they would get from public switched telephone networks. CSIRO CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization (Australia) , an Australian scientific research organization, and AARNET AARNET Australian Academic Research Network (Australian Academic Research Network) worked closely with Cisco to build a next generation network that provides voice over IP (VOIP (Voice Over IP) A digital telephone service that uses the public Internet as well as private backbones instead of the traditional telephone network. Many companies, including Vonage, 8x8 and AT&T (CallVantage), typically offer calling within the country for a ) services. The companies are using Cisco's award-winning AS5300 voice gateways, positioned at each CSIRO state office and connecting all PBXs over the AARNET backbone. AARNET introduced the Internet in Australia Internet access was first available in Australia to universities via AARNet in 1989. The first commercial dial-up ISPs (Internet Service Providers) appeared in capital cities soon after. By the mid-1990s almost the entire country had a wide choice of dial-up Internet access providers. , and today is leading that country's introduction of voice telephony over the Internet. M-Touch, an international simple resale operator in Seoul, Korea, is also now offering voice over IP services for its 100,000 subscribers, mostly financial trading companies. With Cisco New World Ecosystem partner Innet providing its international simple resale voice application, M-Touch relies on the Cisco VCO/4K programmable switch and Cisco AS5300 voice gateways to deliver its VoIP service - the first in Korea. "Our customers needed a reliable, flexible and scalable solution that could handle growing volumes of 50,000 to 100,000 minutes per month," said Soo Bok Yoon, marketing manager at M-Touch. "Service providers around the world are building scalable, carrier-grade VoIP networks to deliver robust New World voice services," said Kevin Kennedy, senior vice president and general manager, service provider line of business at Cisco. "They recognize that disruptive technologies, such as packet telephony, can help them gain significant market growth and increase profitability." According to Probe Research, voice minutes carried over packet networks are expected to grow from 7.7 billion minutes in 2000 to more than 570 billion minutes by 2005. The exploding rise of packet-based telephony can be attributed to a number of factors, including: the deregulation Deregulation The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry. Notes: Traditional areas that have been deregulated are the telephone and airline industries. of telecommunications networks; carriers' need to deploy services quickly to generate new sources of revenues; and dramatic improvements in quality and reliability of carrying voice over packet networks. However, transporting voice is just one benefit of using a packet infrastructure. Forward-thinking carriers recognize that enhanced services such as unified communications, click to dial and Internet call waiting Internet Call Waiting is a technology that allows you to accept incoming calls while connected to a 56k Internet dialup connection. While online, a software application displays users the Caller ID of the incoming call, and gives users the opportunity to screen the incoming can only be met by building out converged networks that are packet rather than circuit-based. About Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc. 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