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<<More Than 30 Industry Partners Support Cisco Strategy For Delivering High-Speed Internet Services and Products to Consumer Market
Business Editors and Computer Writers
CES99
Booth N212
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 1999--
MCI Worldcom, Sony, Sprint & Samsung Among the Companies
Supporting Cisco's Push into Consumer Market
A coalition of 33 telephone companies, cable companies, Internet
service providers (ISPs) and consumer electronic companies today
announced support for Cisco's strategy to extend a New World of
high-speed Internet services and products to the consumer market.
By selling its New World data, voice and video gear to service
providers, Cisco's consumer strategy intends to create an opportunity
for cable companies, telcos and ISPs to generate additional revenue by
offering broadband data, voice and video services. In addition,
Cisco's consumer strategy also involves licensing its Internet
technology to consumer electronic companies to jump-start a new
category of Internet-enabled devices that can plug into these new
high-speed networks.
"Our consumer strategy brings the power of high-speed Internet
access and personal networks to the Internet family," said Don
Listwin, executive vice president of consumer and service provider
lines of business. "We also are focusing on collaboration, partnering
with service providers and consumer electronic companies to deliver
faster, more innovative Internet-enabled devices and services. Our
vision is to create an Internet ecosystem that will eventually connect
everyone to everything."
"Samsung fully supports and shares Cisco's mission to expand the
reach of Internet services and products to the mass consumer market,"
said Mark Stubbe, vice president of Samsung Telecommunications
America's networks division. "The industry is facing an exciting new
era in providing innovative, superior technologies for utilizing the
Internet. Samsung's products such as the InfoRanger cable modem and
other products that use Cisco's technologies will certainly benefit
consumers."
Many industry experts predict a large market for new broadband
services and Internet-enabled consumer devices. "As broadband Internet
access drives home networking growth, the need for standardization,
quality of service, advanced feature sets such as voice over IP, and
overall network manageability will become important for widespread
home networking acceptance," said DavidPaul Doyle, Industry Analyst of
Networking for Dataquest. "Putting these elements in place today will
also hasten the future integration of different home networking
clusters, bringing productivity, entertainment, communications, and
appliance and control systems into one unified home network."
In a related announcement today, Cisco Systems, Inc. and General
Instrument Corporation announced that they intend to work with AT&T on
a non-exclusive basis to develop and trial a seamless, end-to-end
Internet Protocol (IP) solution that would allow AT&T to offer data,
voice and video services over the hybrid fiber-coax network now being
deployed by AT&T and TCI.
The New World network will combine Internet, phone and video
services over a single cable line, fundamentally changing the way
communications services are delivered to consumers. The network
build-out also represents the first major deployment of phone services
over an Internet-based infrastructure, using cable lines as the
transmission vehicle.
Cisco also announced plans to introduce a new type of
'personalized' network for the home, a sort of plug-and-play local
area network, connecting PCs, phones, TVs and other Internet
appliances. Cisco also introduced a voice-enabled cable modem at CES,
which will allow consumers to get phone service from their cable
company, in addition to high-speed Internet access and television
service. These personal networks begin to lay the groundwork for
Cisco's long-term vision to turn the Internet into the next mass
medium, eventually connecting everyone to everything.
Cisco's consumer strategy is supported by:
AcNet
Alltell Communications
AppliedTheory
Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions
Big Planet
CAIS Internet
Conxion Corporation
Digital Island
Equant Frontier GlobalCenter
Electric Lightwave
E-Tech
GTE Internetworking
Globix
GCI
Frontier GlobalCenter
InterNap Network Services Corp
Hitachi
MCI Worldcom Advanced Networks
MediaOne
Micron Internet Services
Netcom
Panasonic (Matsushita)
Pilot Network Services, Inc.
Rhythms NetConnections, Inc.
Samsung
Sony
Sprint
Teleglobe International Corporation
USinternetworking
Us Unwired
US West
Verio
VIP Calling
NetWorks for consumer electronic companies and Cisco Powered Networks
for service providers. (See attached list of partners.) Both programs
will help accelerate the delivery of broadband services and products
from business to the home. Both programs also will help extend Cisco's
recognized expertise in building standards-based Internet
infrastructures, which traditionally have focused on large businesses
and service providers.>>
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