ADVISORY/Kevin Kennedy, Senior Vice President of Cisco's Service Provider Line of Business, Keynotes SUPERNet Show

Business Wire, Jan 12, 2001

News/Assignment Editors and High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Monday and Tuesday (Jan. 15 - 16)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Executive Keynote to Address Global Communications Market

Cisco Booth No. 219 Showcases Industry-Leading DSL,

Broadband Fixed Wireless and Cable Solutions

WHO:    Cisco Systems, Inc.

WHAT:   Cisco's senior vice president of the Service Provider Line
        of Business, Kevin Kennedy, will deliver a keynote
        presentation at SUPERNet focusing on the direction of the
        global communications industry and New World solutions for
        service providers, cable and wireless operators. In addition,
        the Cisco booth (No. 219) will showcase Cisco's market leading
        broadband technology in the areas of DSL, Broadband Fixed
        Wireless and Cable. Cisco solutions on display include the
        Cisco VN 5900 Video Networking solutions that demonstrate
        broadcast quality video with the Cisco DSLAM 6160, Cisco's new
        WT-2750 Multipoint Broadband Wireless System and the Cisco
        Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP).

WHEN:   Keynote          January 16, 2001          8:30a.m. - 9:30a.m.
        Demonstrations   January 15-16, 2001       9:00a.m. - 6:00p.m.

WHERE:  SUPERnet, Santa Clara Convention Center, San Clara, Ca. --
        Cisco Booth No. 219

WHY:    Cisco Systems is committed to enabling service providers to
        transport high-quality video and audio efficiently over
        broadband networks, optimizing bandwidth and making it
        possible for customers to introduce leading-edge video
        services and applications. Keynote speaker, Kevin Kennedy, is
        responsible for shaping Cisco's overall strategy and execution
        in the public access market and has extensive knowledge of the
        broadband market and its future capabilities. Prior to his
        role at Cisco he spent 17 years at Bell Laboratories where he
        was responsible for product definition and development,
        including packet-switched data, private branch exchange (PBX)
        adjunct processors known as Datakit and ISN, fiber distributed
        data interface (FDDI), synchronous modems, speech recognition
        and voice response solutions.

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