MENLO PARK, Calif., March 3, 1993 -- Cisco Systems, Inc., the leading worldwide supplier of internetworkingrouters, has moved to further strengthen its customer supportin the Asia Pacific region by opening a subsidiary company,Cisco Systems (HK) Ltd in Hong Kong. The subsidiary, Cisco'sthird in the region after Australia and Japan, will beresponsible for supporting the sales efforts of Cisco'sdistributors and reseller partners in Asia Pacific.

"The opening of this new support center in Hong Kongdemonstrates Cisco's commitment to maintaining our positionas the leading global provider of internetworking solutions,"said John Morgridge, president and CEO of Cisco Systems. "Acritical part of our continued success will be our ability todeliver top quality, consistent service and support to theintra-Asia-Pacific market. By expanding our operations atthis time we hope to participate in a significant way in theconstruction of the new telecommunications infrastructurethat is currently being installed to support the rapideconomic growth of emerging economies and new industrializedeconomies (NIE) in Asia Pacific."

Cisco Systems, Inc., is the leading worldwide supplierof high-performance, multimedia and multiprotocolinternetworking products, including routers, bridges,communication servers and network management software. Ciscotechnology can be used to build enterprise-wide networkslinking an unlimited number of geographically dispersed LANs,WANs and IBM SNA networks. In the Japanese and Asia-Pacificmarkets Cisco's major customers include Nikkei, NTT, Fuji-Xerox, BHP, Commonwealth Sugar Refineries, and a number oflarge research networks, such as the Korea Open ResearchEnvironment network, Taiwan III SeedNet, and AustraliaAcademic Research Network. In the United States, Cisco ispublicly traded over-the-counter under the NASDAQ symbolCSCO.