Cisco Enables End-to-End Application Delivery Networks With New Products and Services

BARCELONA, SPAIN, Jan 22 (MARKET WIRE) --
Cisco(R) (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced new products and services that extend
its
Application Network Services (ANS) portfolio to enable end-to-end application
delivery networks. The company also announced that it has validated
enterprise software application performance over these networks with the support
of
industry-leading software vendors, including Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. The
new offerings make the network a highly efficient platform for application
delivery -- accelerating and securing business-critical applications while
dramatically
improving end-user application experience and productivity. Application
delivery
networks mark the next milestone in Cisco's Data Center 3.0 initiative
(http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2007/prod_072407b.html), which extends the
benefits of the data center to the connected enterprise.

Announcements today include:

-- A new Cisco Data Center Assurance Program for Applications (DCAP for
Applications) that tests and validates industry-leading enterprise software
applications over Cisco application delivery network infrastructure. For
commentary on Cisco's application delivery network strategy from executives
at Microsoft, Oracle and SAP:
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2008/ekits/exec_commentary.pdf

-- New ANS products and services, including the Cisco Application Control
Engine (ACE) 4710 Appliance, Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
Mobile, Cisco ACE XML Gateway Release 5.2, and Cisco Advanced Services for
application delivery.

"The intelligent network continues to grow as the platform for
applicationdelivery," said George Kurian, vice president and general manager for
Cisco's
Application Delivery Business Unit. "Cisco's application delivery networks will
drive significant productivity gains, and transform the role of the network in
enabling applications to deliver bottom-line returns for customers."

Cisco ACE: Virtualized Application Switching and Acceleration for Data
Centers

The Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance is a powerful application delivery and
optimization solution for today's data centers. The appliance helps
ensurebusiness continuity by enhancing application availability, improves end
user
productivity by accelerating applications, and reduces operating costs by
helping to minimize data center power and cooling needs, contributing to
"green" data center initiatives. Like the ACE Module, the ACE 4710 Appliance
uses a unique, virtualized architecture to isolate application and server farms,
as
well as speed application deployments.

The Cisco ACE 4710 addresses smaller- and medium-scale enterprise
deployments,
supporting up to 2 gigabits per second (Gbps) of application traffic and 50
virtual
devices in a single appliance. Featuring Cisco-patented FlashForward
acceleration
technology, the product helps eliminate the network delays associated with
embedded Web objects such as JavaScript files -- resulting in up to 500
percent faster Web application performance.

In addition to introducing the ACE 4710 Appliance, Cisco has upgraded the
software for its ACE XML Gateway, which processes Extensible Markup Language
(XML) transactions on the network for service-oriented architectures and
applications,
including Web 2.0 services.

Cisco WAAS Mobile: Speeding Application Performance to Mobile Users

Cisco WAAS Mobile extends the capabilities of the award-winning Cisco WAAS
product family by providing application acceleration of any Transmission Control
Protocol (TCP)-based application operating in a wide-area network (WAN)
environment to mobile and remote workers. Consisting of client desktop and
server-based software, the solution can be easily installed without
reconfiguring
existing desktop clients, file or application servers, or network
infrastructure, and
preserves existing network security policies.

Dallas, Texas-based Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS), a premier
provider
of global IT and business process outsourcing, has deployed both Cisco WAAS
and ACE internally and also deploys Cisco ANS products at client sites, such as
Scott's Miracle-Gro.

"Cisco has a broad range of application delivery technology that provides
greater
productivity to end users and accelerates business opportunities for our
company, as
well as our clients," said Tom Gibson, ACS director of business development.
"Our ability to rapidly and reliably deliver key applications from our data
centers to a wide range of end users, whether mobile or branch office, gives ACS
and our clients a critical business advantage. Because Cisco tightly integrates
application delivery capabilities into the overall network, we can more easily
deploy, scale and manage application delivery as we and our clients continue
to grow."

To complete its application delivery networking offering, Cisco also is
launching a new Application Profiling Service, a custom design and
supportservice that helps customers profile their applications' performance,
security and
availability status, and recommends application delivery technologies to achieve
resulting IT and business goals.

Price and Availability

The Cisco ACE 4710 Appliance is currently shipping with a promotional
starting price
of US $15,995. Cisco WAAS Mobile is currently shipping with a price of US
$5,000 for the server software and $8,750 for a 25-concurrent-user license;
larger concurrent user licenses are also available. The Cisco Cisco ACE XML
Gateway Release 5.2 is currently shipping and available at no charge for Cisco
SmartNet customers. The Cisco Application Profiling Service is also
available now.

For more information about Cisco ANS Products and Services:

Cisco Application Networking Services:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/contnetw/index.html

Cisco Data Center Assurance Program for Applications:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns751/networking_solutions_sub_program_ho
Services for Application Networking Services:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6894/serv_group_home.html

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