Cisco Readies Enterprise Gear
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Cisco is rolling out today a router, switch, and enhancements for branch-office networking.
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InfoWorld - With its eyes on the future of home entertainment and a relatively uncluttered band of radio spectrum, Cisco Systems&#39; Linksys division on Wednesday unveiled a line of IEEE 802.11g/a wireless LAN products.
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Cisco is to introduce a line of branch-office routers that integrate basic routing capabilities with IP voice support and security tools.
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The ground rules of the tests of Cisco and Avaya systems.
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December 6, 2004 San Jose, CA and Tokyo, Japan -- Fujitsu Ltd. and Cisco Systems Inc. have reached a fundamental agreement to enter into a strategic alliance focusing on routers and switches that will enable
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Cisco Systems, the world&#39;s largest maker of equipment for directing Internet traffic says China is well on the way to becoming the world&#39;s technology hub.
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Cisco this week will release products it says will help small companies deal with the complexities of LAN switch security, convergence and network management.
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Network equipment maker Cisco Systems  Inc  on Monday launched a new switching product aimed  at large data centers, and forecast strong sales despite  worries of a slowdown in U.S. technology spending.
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The 802.11n draft wireless standard moved further into mainstream acceptance on Tuesday with Cisco&#39;s announcement of integrated enterprise products.
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(InfoWorld) - Enterprise branch offices increasingly need the same IT tools that the head office has, and Cisco SystemsÂ is set to unveil branch networking gear Wednesday to help fill that need. The dominant enterprise network vendor is adding security and application-performance features for its branch offerings and rolling out a fixed-form-factor Integrated Services Router (ISR) and a managed switch for the outlying offices. Organizations with dispersed sites are starting to make the IT setup consistent all around to boost productivity, according to Yankee Group analyst Zeus Kerravala. In some cases, the smaller offices maybe doing a big part of the job, such as in an insurance company, he said. Their technology hasn't always reflected that. "The application performance in the branches hasn't been at par with what you've had in the headquarters. ... or even the services available," Kerravala said. To tackle application performance, Cisco is introducing its Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) in a module for the 3800 Series ISR. The module can speed up applications and make more efficient use of a network connection, allowing branch workers to work faster and enterprises to consolidate applications at a central site. At Nanometrics, a wafer-making test and measurement equipment company with 20 locations around the world, IT director David Kizer came on board last year and started to make the IT infrastructure consistent across all sites. The company deployed a CRM (customer relationship management) application for the first time and also rolled out its ERP (enterprise resource planning) software company-wide, he said. Knowing what resources are available everywhere in Nanometrics helps the company operate more like a single unit than like a collection of workgroups, Kizer said. To make the change possible, he rolled out the WAAS module on branch routers. Previously, data traffic had taken up as much as 90 percent of the WAN (wide-area network) connections to Nanometrics' branch offices. With the WAAS module, the data takes up just 20 percent to 30 percent of the bandwidth. That let Nanometrics deploy IP (Internet Protocol) telephony and shut down expensive circuit-switched phone lines, Kizer said. Also, branches can send application data back and forth to the central data center to maintain the same information in both locations, he said. Cisco customers are putting more emphasis on their branch offices, giving them more decision-making power, partly because of globalization, said Inbar Lasser-Raab, a director of market management at Cisco. The company's branch roll out Wednesday includes a variety of platforms and tools, including the following: -- The Cisco 1861 ISR is a fixed-form-factor branch router with unified communications capability for as many as eight users. -- The Cisco 2960 LAN Lite Series Switches come in three form factors and use a simplified Cisco IOS (Internetwork Operating System) image for simpler configuration. -- The Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Advanced Integration Module (IPS AIM) can be added to ISRs to identify, classify and stop malicious Internet traffic. -- Cisco Performance Routing (PfR) software, which can now be added to ISRs with some software feature sets, monitors multiple network routes to help companies get the fastest possible performance. -- A software upgrade for the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Module on 2800 and 3800 ISR platforms adds IEEE 802.11n capability for use with Cisco Aironet 1250 Series Access Points.
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With its eyes on the future of home entertainment and a relatively uncluttered band of radio spectrum, Cisco Systems' Linksys division on Wednesday unveiled a line of IEEE 802.11g/a wireless LAN products.
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Cisco Systems has announced new integrated services routers capable of delivering wire-speed data, voice, video and other advanced services to the small- and medium-sized business and enterprise branch office market segments.
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eWeek: Security partnerships and technology advances are making it increasingly safer to keep corporate data up in the air. To better fight the threat of wireless network subterfuge, Cisco Systems Inc.
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Cisco Systems will add to its security portfolio with the purchase of Protego Networks, which makes software and hardware used to monitor threats to networks.
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Cisco Systems Inc. on Monday is set to take aim at small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) that have growing needs and sparse technical expertise, introducing a pair of LAN switches and a graphical management application.
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August 23, 2004 -  - Cisco Systems, Inc. (www.cisco.com) today announced, with the support of Microsoft, the Cisco Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Communications Connector developed for Microsoft Business Solutions CRM.
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Fujitsu Limited and Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced that they have reached a fundamental agreement to enter into a strategic alliance focusing on routers and switches that will enable service providers