-- Cisco Empowered Branch Managed Services Portfolio Blueprint: A
comprehensive service offering blueprint delivered through Cisco's
worldwide teams to service creation consultants. The blueprint assists
service providers in envisioning their managed services portfolio for the
Empowered Branch.
-- Cisco 800 Series ISR Validated Design Implementation Guide: An
architectural design for the deployment of the Cisco 800 Series Integrated
Services Router in a managed services environment. The guide is designed
to help providers reduce the time it takes to technically design and build
their managed service solutions for the Empowered Branch.
As the industry's most comprehensive integrated managed service solution,
the Cisco managed Empowered Branch solution also includes managed unified
communications, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking, wireless LAN,
and 3G wireless WAN services. Cisco also today announced that Cybera and
Elisa Oyj are providing their customers with multiple services from Cisco's
Empowered Branch portfolio such as voice, security, quality of service
(QoS), wireless LAN, and wireless WAN. These services have been validated
to work together in both wired and wireless-based managed services
offerings. Please see service provider quote sheet.
Please visit www.cisco.com/go/waas for more information on Cisco Wide Area
Application Services and www.cisco.com/go/isr for more information on Cisco
Integrated Services Routers. For more information on how Cisco teams with
service providers please visit www.cisco.com/go/managedservices.
Service Provider Quote Sheet
Alestra
"As a telco service provider, one of Alestra's main objectives is to
support the business activities of our customers by providing them with
solutions that increase their productivity and competitiveness. Cisco WAAS
on the ISR helps us to achieve our goals by guarantying the same
performance experience to end users wherever they may be," said Ricardo
Hinojosa, enterprise convergence service director.
AT&T
"Enterprise customers demand flawless performance and a solid return on
their investment from their networking assets," said Richard King,
executive director, AT&T Product Management. "AT&T's application
acceleration and optimization services, combined with the Cisco Wide Area
Application Services network module of the Cisco Integrated Services
Router, work together seamlessly to meet the exacting performance
requirements businesses have come to expect from AT&T as their networking
provider."
Cybera
"Our Cisco ISR-based managed wireless and PCI-compliant payment processing
services are best in class for the industry verticals we address," said Dan
Glennon, senior vice president of marketing and strategy for Cybera. "Over
the past few months we've rolled out Cisco enabled managed services to over
2,000 sites to help two major retailers substantially lower their total
cost of ownership and gain the competitive advantage."
Elisa Oyj
"Elisa's customers are demanding that a diversity of managed services
offerings such as QoS, firewall, application acceleration, and 3G be
quickly available to keep pace with their business demands," said Satu
Kiiskinen, vice president, Service Offering, Corporate Customers, Elisa.
"With the newest Cisco managed WAAS service on the ISR, Elisa's customers
can improve IT efficiencies and provide branch office workers with the same
level of application performance as their corporate headquarter peers."
NTT Communications Corporation
"The Cisco managed WAAS solution provides our customers with superior
network optimization that is cost-competitive especially in a
high-bandwidth environment," said Yosuke Seki, Vice President, New Service
Development, Global Business Division, NTT Communications Corporation.
"The Cisco WAAS module for the ISR also enables us to offer a one-box
managed CPE service that does not require any change to the customer's
network topology. By adding Cisco WAAS to our managed service offerings, we
anticipate gaining more traction with our customers."
Telefônica Brasil
"By offering a new Empowered Branch solution, Telefônica was able to
provide IP telephony outsourcing services and improved application
performance to customers adopting Cisco WAAS on the Integrated Services
Router," said Adriano Barbosa, services director of Telefônica Empresas
Brasil. "Our customers are demanding IP-oriented services and convergence
technologies. Cisco is supporting us in addressing customers' needs by
adding value to our WAN connectivity offerings."
Telstra
"Telstra's managed service offering will integrate the Cisco Empowered
Branch solution with Telstra's next-generation networks and services to
improve productivity and operational performance for customers with remote
sites," said Philip Jones, executive director, Telstra Product Management.
"This fully managed end-to-end service offering from Telstra will enhance
network performance and optimise applications and services for end users.
We will custom design, implement and maintain the solution so our customers
can focus on carrying out their core business."
TELUS
"The Cisco ISR represents a shift from a siloed network deployment approach
to one which combines multiple components or locations into a single
network architecture and solution, allowing us to simplify how we develop,
deploy and support advanced technologies and managed services to our
customers," said Tony Krueck, TELUS vice president, Business Networks.
"With the Cisco ISR, we now have an integrated, strategic platform on which
we can continue to cost-effectively build out and deliver strategic
services."
T-Systems - Deutsche Telekoms Business Unit
"T-Systems' Application Performance Management offering helps ensure that
employees in branch offices have the same application response times as
their peers at corporate headquarters," said Dr. Martin Deeg , head of
product management TC solutions, T-Systems. "Based on the Cisco WAAS
network module for the ISR, our offering also provides customers with lower
operating expenses and investment protection as their business rolls out
new applications like VoIP and video streaming."
Verizon Business
"The multiservice capability of the Cisco Integrated Services Router
platform enables us to offer our enterprise customers the ability to do
more with less," said Mike Marcellin, vice president of global managed
solutions for Verizon. "Our global customers are increasingly demanding new
ways to provide more capabilities to their remote offices and branch
locations, while streamlining network management through the use of managed
solutions."
*** This press announcement is in conjunction with a live interactive video
webcast today, Nov. 18, at 11 a.m. PST. To view the webcast and
presentation, please go to
http://tools.cisco.com/cmn/jsp/index.jsp?id=79270 ***
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