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SAN JOSE, Calif. - March 4, 1997 - Cisco Systems, Inc. announcedtoday that Milesburg, Pennsylvania based AquaPenn Spring Water Company,Inc. has selected a Cisco family of switches and AS5200 remote accessservers for its local dial access network. The Cisco solution willenable AquaPenn(R) to deliver new Internet services to customers andenhance its bottled water business with Web-site capabilities.
AquaPenn and Cisco are working together to deploy an end-to-endscaleable access solution that provides high-performance dial accessplatforms and enables a variety of value-added network services throughthe Cisco IOS(TM) software platform. AquaPenn's customers will haveaccess to the Internet via AquaPenn's Web hosting services. Theflexibility and scalability of this solution enables AquaPenn to reduceits Internet-related operating expenses and decrease time to market fornew services.
"When we entered the Internet service provider market, we wanted to teamwith a strategic technology vendor, so we chose Cisco. The combinationof AS5200 universal access servers and Ethernet switches offered themost complete cost-effective solution. Cisco's direct service andsupport network will allow us to quickly diagnose our networkrequirements so that we can concentrate on our main business - bottlingspring water," said Edward J. Lauth III, founder and president ofAquaPenn Spring Water Company, Inc.
AquaPenn, the nation's second-largest bottling operation, is expandingits services by offering Internet access service to businesses in thelocal community, which includes central Pennsylvania - Bellefonte,Milesburg, and Bellefonte State College. AquaPenn now supportsElectronic Data Interchange capabilities, customer order status andcustomer access to internal business processes via the World Wide Web. AquaPenn Internet services are delivered through a 50-node 10Base-TEthernet Cisco dial-access network running over two T1 lines. AquaPennhas also developed a leading-edge Web page (www.aquapenn.com) whichfeatures animation, video, virtual reality tours of its water bottlingfacility and a computer game called H2O-Zone(TM).
"AquaPenn is a new breed of Internet service provider that draws fromthe power of the Internet to create new services for its customers,"said Kevin Kennedy, vice president and general manager of the AccessBusiness Unit at Cisco Systems. "Cisco is committed to supportingservice providers such as AquaPenn by delivering high-speed end-to-endintegrated solutions. The Cisco AS5200 enables service providers todecrease time to market with new services and provide customers withreliable dial access to the multimedia rich World Wide Web."
About AquaPenn
AquaPenn Spring Water Company is the fastest-growing bottled springwater company in the United States and annually produces over 100million containers of Pure American(R), Great American(R), AquaPenn andhundreds of private-label brands of certified true spring water,fluoridated spring water for babies and distilled water. The company'swater comes from naturally surfacing springs situated in centralPennsylvania.Cisco Systems
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