- Cisco News: Cisco Supports Plans for Multimedia Services Affiliate Forum
- White Paper: Networked MultimediaOverview
SAN JOSE, Calif. - March 5, 1996 - Cisco Systems Inc. today announced it isjoining the Multimedia Services Affiliate Forum, a global collaboration ofcompanies formed to support interoperable multimedia business communicationservices. The Forum is comprised of leading telecommunications serviceproviders; Cisco is joining Novell and Lotus as a Special Member technologyprovider.
Cisco will work with Forum members to develop internetworking technologythat will accelerate deployment of multimedia carrier services intended forbusiness applications. The focus will be on development of highly scalablesolutions with the quality-of-service guarantees required forbusiness-class public networking. Key networked multimedia technologiesinclude bandwidth reservation, multicast support, flexible queuingmechanisms and scalable virtual private networks (VPNs).
"Two of the most exciting trends in networking today are the businessbenefits being achieved by multimedia applications running over networksand the range of new multimedia service offerings being deployed bycarriers," said Jon Shantz, vice president for service providers at Cisco."Our long experience in the Internet and enterprise networks uniquelyenables us to accelerate the development of the scalable technologies thesecarrier services require." Shantz added, "We are committed to bringingenhanced connectivity to the 50 million NetWare users and we welcome theopportunity to work with Novell and the Forum to do so."
Cisco already supplies internetworking hardware and software totelecommunications providers worldwide, and its products have been used tobuild most of the Internet backbone.
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the leading globalsupplier ofinternetworking solutions,including routers, LAN and ATM switches, dial-upaccess servers and network management software. These products, integratedby the
Posted: Wed Mar 6 14:27:12 PST 1996
