Cisco Surpasses One Million Mark in Access Product Shipments
Cisco Surpasses One Million Mark in Access Product Shipments
Cisco 2500 series reaches 500,000-unit milestone
SAN JOSE, Calif. -August 13, 1996 - Cisco Systems, Inc. announced today
that it has shipped more than one million access internetworking products,
solidifying its leadership in the fast-growing access market. Cisco's
access product line includes a full range of solutions for branch-, small-
and home-office environments. The Cisco 2500 series of branch-office
routers comprise 500,000 of the one million shipments.
The Cisco 2500 series began shipping in January 1994 and experienced
immediate customer adoption, reaching the 100,000 unit milestone in March
1995. In the 14 months since then, Cisco has shipped another 400,000
units.
Cisco's access products improve information access between central sites
such as corporate headquarters and remote sites like branch offices, small
businesses and telecommuters. Access solutions help companies improve
their productivity through faster, more efficient sharing of information.
One example of such a user is Safeway Stores, the nation's largest grocery
store chain.
"Information is one of Safeway's most valuable commodities; with more than
1,000 stores, we require reliable networking solutions to share information
critical to our business," said representatives at Safeway. "Along the
way, Cisco has answered our networking requirements with high-speed
backbone routers, remote access servers and store-level Cisco 2500 series
routers. Cisco is becoming a key internetworking vendor for Safeway by
delivering scalable products designed to grow as we do."
Don Listwin, vice president and general manger of Cisco's Access Business
Unit, said, "We want to thank all of our customers for using Cisco access
products to extend their enterprise information technologies to their
regional and branch offices. Our growing success in dial access solutions
will continue to extend the power of internetworking to everyone."
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the leading global supplier of
internetworking solutions for corporate intranets and the global Internet.
Cisco's products - including routers, LAN and WAN
switches, dial-up access
servers and
network management software - are integrated by Cisco IOS(tm)
software to link geographically dispersed LANs, WANs and IBM networks.
Company news and product/service information are available at World Wide
Web site http://www.cisco.com. Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, Calif.
Posted: Tue Aug 13 09:38:04 PDT 1996
