Full Story Full Story

FEATURE

Cisco Technology Innovation Highlights: Fiscal Year 2002

August 6, 2002

Cisco's Fiscal Year 2002 was characterized by significant customer wins and technological innovation in every customer segment: Enterprise, Service Provider and Commercial (small- and medium- sized businesses). Throughout the year, Cisco expanded of virtually every product portfolio, including voice & IP telephony, security, storage, and network management, and wireless, among others. Following are the significant innovations highlights from the past year:

  • Cisco extended its leadership in IP routing with several major product introductions in high-end and mid-range routing: 12404 Internet Router, 12000 Series IP Services Engine (ISE), 10720 Internet Router, and significant enhancements to the Cisco 7200, 7300, 7400, 7500 and 7600 series of industry-leading midrange routers.

    • http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/innovators/Core_IP/index.html

  • Cisco continued its by introducing its next-generation wireless LAN products. The Cisco Aironet® 1200 Series is the industry's first dual radio wireless LAN access point that supports both IEEE 802.11b and the 5-GHz IEEE 802.11a radios.

    • http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/prod_041702.html

  • Cisco reached a major milestone by shipping its one millionth IP telephone and continues to see acceptance of voice over IP technologies with more than 8 million voice lines shipped worldwide.

    • http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/innovators/VoIP/index.html

  • Cisco introduced 14 new access routers designed to extend network intelligence to the enterprise branch office and remote worker.

    • http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/prod_043002.html

  • Cisco delivered new innovations to its leading Catalyst 4000 switching platform, which included in-house designed ASICs and a Layer 3 switching module for added intelligence and control of data, voice and video networks.

    • http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/innovators/switching/index.html

  • Cisco introduced Globally Resilient IP - a new set of features in Cisco IOS® Software that enables network-wide resilience to ensure maximum network uptime and protect against network failures.

    • http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/prod_051402.html

  • Cisco introduced new security hardware and software products including gigabit firewall technology, intrusion detection systems and enhancements to Cisco's leading virtual private networking (VPN) technology such as greater security for remote access users.

    • http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/innovators/vpn_security/index.html

  • Cisco continues to gain momentum in the storage networking market with customer deployments of the industry's first commercially available iSCSI platform, the Cisco SN 5420 Storage Router.

    • http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/innovators/storage_networking/index.html

  • Cisco extended its optical networking product portfolio with introduction of Cisco ONS 15808 to deliver data in long-haul optical transport environments and bandwidth enhancements to the Cisco ONS 15540 metro optical platform.