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Cisco Receives Frost & Sullivan's 2007 North American Carrier Ethernet Equipment Market Leadership Award
Prestigious Award Based on Technology Innovation, Market Share, Revenue Growth Rates and Profitability
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SAN JOSE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- January 24, 2007 -- Frost & Sullivan, a world leader in growth
consulting and the integrated areas of technology research, market
research, economic research, corporate best practices, training, customer
research, competitive intelligence and corporate strategy, today announced
that Cisco® (NASDAQ : CSCO ) had received the Frost & Sullivan North
American Carrier Ethernet Equipment Market Leadership of the Year Award.
"Cisco remains comfortably perched as the number-one Carrier Ethernet
equipment vendor," noted Frost & Sullivan. "While the company will continue
to face challenges with market share in the fast-growing Carrier Ethernet
equipment space, it is in no imminent danger of giving up the top spot.
Innovation, whether internally or by identifying companies with strong
products and/or technologies and integrating them under the Cisco umbrella
-- and, above all, a strong focus on customers -- has assured Cisco's
position as the frontrunner in the Carrier Ethernet equipment market."
At the Ethernet services edge, Cisco offers the 7600 Series Router, the
industry's first comprehensive Carrier Ethernet service-edge platform for
converged Internet Protocol (IP) video, voice and data offerings with
mobility. The Cisco 7600 Series offers service providers a highly
configurable router with a suite of line-card options that can be tailored
to support a variety of Carrier Ethernet IP services, reducing costly
upgrades and offering unsurpassed investment protection. With more than
35,000 units in production, this flexible design concept has proven itself
in global provider networks. The Cisco 7600 Series has received Metro
Ethernet Forum (MEF) certification (MEF-9).
Integrated intelligence in the Cisco 7600 Series includes support for the
Cisco Intelligent Services Gateway (ISG), a Cisco IOS® Software function
that provides policy control, service control and subscriber management.
Other features include the integration of video/voice Session Border
Control (SBC) for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and non-IMS. The 7600
Series also features Visual Quality Experience (VQE) technology, designed
to improve the quality of wireline IPTV services and subscribers' viewing
experiences. VQE enables network-based rapid channel-change and video error
repair, two significant challenges in the development and delivery of
wireline IPTV services.
Cisco also leads the market in development of operations, administration,
and maintenance (OAM) capabilities needed by service providers to
successfully deliver Ethernet services. Several Cisco Carrier Ethernet
platforms support new OAM features such as IEEE 802.3ah for monitoring and
troubleshooting Ethernet links; IEEE 802.1ag for end-to-end service
verification; and Ethernet local management interface (E-LMI), also known
as MEF 16, for auto-provisioning of customer premise equipment.
The Cisco portfolio of MEF-certified Carrier Ethernet switches includes the
ME 3400 Series, Catalyst 3550 Series, Catalyst® 3750 Metro Series,
Catalyst 4500, Catalyst 4948-10G, ME 4900, Catalyst 6500 Series and the ME
6500 Series. Each of these Ethernet switching platforms has received MEF
certifications (MEF9/MEF14) for Ethernet service and traffic management
capabilities.
"We are extremely pleased to have been recognized for our leadership in
this increasingly critical market segment," said Pankaj Patel, senior vide
president and general manager of the service provider technology group at
Cisco. "Development of infrastructure for a true multi-service edge is
critical to the ongoing convergence of service-specific networks onto IP.
We will continue to focus on delivery of solutions that help our service
provider customers become 'experience providers' to meet the rising demands
of their business and residential customers."
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