Cisco Aironet® 340 Series of
Wireless LAN Products
CISCO FACTS: 2000
Headcount for Fiscal year:  34,613
Revenue for Fiscal Year:  $18.9 billion
Patents filed:  751
Patents issued:  150
Networking Academy locations:  4,901
Cisco acquisitions:

CISCO INNOVATIONS:

  • 2000 Pioneer Technology Awards: Catalyst 65XX Multilayer Switch; and Toaster: High Speed Packet Processing Engine

  • Cisco introduces the Parallel Express Forwarding (PXF) Network Processor, revolutionizing the way packet processing is done in hardware. PXF enables multiple million packet per second forwarding rates while allowing customers to continuously upgrade their feature sets without swapping hardware.

  • Cisco introduces open platform for Internet Homes. (Jan 00)

  • Cisco releases Cisco Catalyst Mid-market LAN Switching solution (Jan 00)

  • Cisco introduces the Cisco Catalyst 4006 and brings in-line power to the mid-market. (Jan 00)

  • Cisco 2600/3600 Modular Access Multiservice Platform shipments exceed 500,000 units. (Jan 00)

  • With patent number 6,018,650. Cisco earns a key patent in wireless technology for a cellular communication device for a cellular communication network that includes a radio-frequency (RF) transmitter for transmitting an RF signal at an output power level to one or more other devices in the cellular communication network. (Jan 00)

  • In VoIP technology, Cisco earns patent number 6,044,081 for a subsystem for communicating a private network-signaling message over a packet network and bridges for communicating a Media Access Control (MAC) layer frame over an isochroous channel and for communicating an isochroous signaling frame over a non-isochronous network. (Mar 00)

  • Cisco introduces the Aironet® 340 Series - a Wireless LAN solution for small-to-medium businesses and corporate enterprises. (Mar 00)

  • Cisco delivers ten new IP telephony products including enterprise-class solutions for IP Call Processing, second-generation IP Phones, integrated packet telephony features into the Catalyst 6000 family of switches and additional platforms for gateway functionality. (Mar 00)

  • Cisco announces the Cisco 10000 Edge Services Router (ESR). (Apr 00)

  • Cisco engineers develop a method of integrating hardware encryption technology into the Cisco 1700 Family of routers by shrinking the technology to fit into a space the size of a PCMCIA card. (Apr 00)

  • In wireless technology, Cisco earns patent number 6,049,533 for a network communication system in which access points providing wireless access to the system reroute misrouted information packets in the event the location of a mobile unit has changed. Regardless of whether a host computer or other network device is capable of updating in its position table the changing locations of the mobile units, information packets directed to the mobile units from the host computer or other network device are still properly delivered. (Apr 00)

  • Cisco announces the availability of the Cisco Metro 1500 Series Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) Dense-Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) platform. (May 00)

  • Cisco unveils new Internet Communications Software Group and a five-phase Unified Communications software strategy. (May 00)

  • Cisco makes motion picture history with first-Ever Internet transported and digitally screened movie. (Jun 00)

  • Cisco earns a key patent in IP technology, No. 6,097,718, for a method and system for maintaining and updating routing information in a packet switching network for a set of quasi-dynamic routes, in which intermittent routing updates are permitted, so that routes are no longer "always static" or "always dynamic," but may change over time between static and dynamic, and are treated accordingly. (Aug 00)

  • Cisco earns patent number 6,115,468 for Power Feed for Ethernet Telephones via Ethernet Link. (Sep 00)

  • Cisco announces the industry's first complete solution for automating the end-to-end DSL flow-through provisioning process. (Sep 00)

  • Cisco develops the Cisco Catalyst 6000 IDS, also called a "security switch blade." The product addresses network security switched environments by integrating Intrusion Detection System functions directly into the switch. (Sep 00)

  • Cisco unveils SAFE Blueprint, Extending Cisco AVVID for Secure E-Business. (Sep 00)

  • Patent number 6,147,996 is issued to Cisco for a key innovation in IP technology—a pipelined multiple issue architecture for a link layer or protocol layer packet switch, which processes packets independently and asynchronously, but reorders them into their original order, thus preserving the original incoming packet order. (Nov 00)

  • Cisco announces Cisco Internet Mobile Office for business professionals on the move. (Nov 00)

INTERNET FACTS:

  • There are 72,398,092 Internet hosts and 9,950,491 websites.

  • IPv6 debuts.

  • Internet2 backbone network deploys IPv6. (May 00)

  • ICANN selects new TLDs: .aero, .biz, .coop, .info, .museum, .name, and .pro.

  • Web size estimates by NEC-RI and Inktomi surpass 1 billion indexable pages