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Cisco's Professional Services Groups to Use Jyra Performance Monitoring Solutions

Business Wire, Sept 7, 1999

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 1999--

Jyra Research, Inc (OTC BB: JYRA) announces that it has concluded an agreement with Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) to allow the use of Jyra's performance monitoring solutions by Cisco's Professional Services Groups.

Jyra will provide Cisco Professional Service with software licenses for use by Professional Services (PS), Network Supported Accounts (NSA) and Critical Account Program (CAP) network consulting engineers. Jyra is to be used within key European Cisco accounts to allow Cisco's Professional Services groups to give customers a valuable service and resource view of their IT networks.

Cisco's Professional Services, NSA and CAP network engineers provide customers with access to the full range of Cisco support throughout the network life cycle, from planning through to operation. Jyra compliments Cisco's PS, NSA and CAP groups by providing the performance monitoring solution that will be used to report network performance issues in a way that businesses can understand.

Jyra's performance orientated networking solutions provide a valuable compliment to Cisco's end-to-end networking systems and services. By monitoring performance Jyra can greatly reduce the incidence of network and application delays that effect service to users.

Richard Buchanan, Cisco Professional Services CENS (Cisco Enabled Network Solutions) Technical Product Manager, commented "...enterprise networking is about more than connectivity. Network stability and overall network performance are becoming decisive competitive metrics which are visible to customers as they interact with an Enterprise's business process and create a critical first impression. Since increased network performance and stability lead to reductions in production costs and increases profits, it is critical that a network monitoring and base-lining tool can easily identify and report on network device and or service congestion points. Jyra's software provides Cisco Consultants with an easy to use tool which can be used in both the network troubleshooting and SLA base-lining roles. It was also for these reasons that Jyra was selected for use in the CENS partner program."

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. News and information are available at http://www.cisco.com. CENS is now available throughout Cisco's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) sales regions. Further information about CENS is available on Cisco's web site; www.cisco.com/warp/public/625/cens.> Jyra Research Inc is a leading provider of Business and Network Performance IP Services and Solutions for the Enterprise and Service Provider markets. Jyra measures the quality of service and response times delivered to Web commerce customers, desktop users and branch locations. As such Jyra allows network operators to provide business-oriented, revenue generating services across their Cisco Powered IP Infrastructures. Further information about Jyra is available on www.jyra.com/corporate.html.> The statements in this press release that relate to future plans, events or performance are forward looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements. Readers are, accordingly, cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as to the date hereof. Additional information about these risks and uncertainties is set forth in the Company's most recent report on Form 10-K. Jyra Research Inc. undertakes no obligation to release publicly the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect results, events or circumstances after the date hereof.