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To: GJLevine who wrote (18431)	10/26/1998 1:00:00 PM
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Monday October 26, 12:38 pm Eastern Time biz.yahoo.com Bellcore, Cisco Systems in alliance SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct 26 (Reuters) - Bellcore Corp. and Cisco Systems said Monday they formed an alliance that bolsters Cisco's access to core technologies that form the basic software operating system used to run existing phone networks. Cisco, the leading maker of Internet equipment, is in a race with other data and telecommunications equipment suppliers to build a new generation of phone networks, able to handle voice, video and data. Bellcore, the former research arm for the Baby Bells, said it would bring its expertise in telephone networking to the alliance, especially in the key software used to control phone networks. Bellcore is now a unit of SAIC, a leading research and development contractor, which is privately held. The collaboration with Bellcore will bolster Cisco's position versus rivals like Lucent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:LU - news), Nortel Networks (Toronto:NTL.TO - news) and Ascend Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:ASND - news) with capacity to integrate traditional phone network features into the new Internet networks it is seeking to build. ''Bellcore and Cisco share a vision of...where communications is with anyone, anywhere over any media - delivering the reliability and scale of the telephone network and the content capability of the cable network, with the flexibility and pace of the Internet,'' Kevin Kennedy, a senior vice president in Cisco's phone carrier division, said in a statement. The two companies will focus on the development of a new open standards based telephone software system, that integrates Bellcore's Operations Support Systems (OSSs) with Cisco's Internet systems. Key to the architecture is the open connection between the call agent, which provides intelligent call control features, and the packet infrastructure, which provides intelligent transport for data, voice and video traffic. Bellcore and Cisco are teaming to forward this open architecture as an industry standard through work in the IETF and CableLabs. Together, Bellcore and Cisco are integrating Bellcore's next-generation OSSs, based on open systems and standards, with Cisco's infrastructure which will decrease service providers' operational costs, enable them to manage change, mitigate risk and deliver reliability and scale. Bellcore and Cisco said they will also collaborate on providing consulting, training and engineering services and network and systems integration. Separately, Le Groupe Videotron Ltee (Toronto:VDO.TO - news), the second largest cable television company in Canada, said Monday it has selected Cisco to provide a packet-based cable infrastructure. Cisco is teaming with Bellcore to deliver a system that enables Le Groupe Videotron Ltee to provide advanced data, voice and video services across the province of Quebec.