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More Than 30 Industry Partners Support Cisco Strategy For Delivering High-Speed Internet Services and Products to Consumer Market

MCI Worldcom, Sony, Sprint & Samsung Among the
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Jan 07, 1999

MCI Worldcom, Sony, Sprint & Samsung Among the CompaniesSupporting Cisco's Push into Consumer Market



Consumer Electronics Show, LAS VEGAS (Booth N212) -- January 7, 1999 -- A coalition of 33 telephone companies, cable companies, Internet service providers (ISPs) and consumer electronic companies today announced support for Cisco's strategy to extend a New World of high-speed Internet services and products to the consumer market.

By selling its New World data, voice and video gear to service providers, Cisco's consumer strategy intends to create an opportunity for cable companies, telcos and ISPs to generate additional revenue by offering broadband data, voice and video services. In addition, Cisco's consumer strategy also involves licensing its Internet technology to consumer electronic companies to jump-start a new category of Internet-enabled devices that can plug into these new high-speed networks.

"Our consumer strategy brings the power of high-speed Internet access and personal networks to the Internet family," said Don Listwin, executive vice president of consumer and service provider lines of business. "We also are focusing on collaboration, partnering with service providers and consumer electronic companies to deliver faster, more innovative Internet-enabled devices and services. Our vision is to create an Internet ecosystem that will eventually connect everyone to everything."

"Samsung fully supports and shares Cisco's mission to expand the reach of Internet services and products to the mass consumer market," said Mark Stubbe, vice president of Samsung Telecommunications America's networks division. "The industry is facing an exciting new era in providing innovative, superior technologies for utilizing the Internet. Samsung's products such as the InfoRanger cable modem and other products that use Cisco's technologies will certainly benefit consumers."

Many industry experts predict a large market for new broadband services and Internet-enabled consumer devices. "As broadband Internet access drives home networking growth, the need for standardization, quality of service, advanced feature sets such as voice over IP, and overall network manageability will become important for widespread home networking acceptance," said DavidPaul Doyle, Industry Analyst of Networking for Dataquest. "Putting these elements in place today will also hasten the future integration of different home networking clusters, bringing productivity, entertainment, communications, and appliance and control systems into one unified home network."

In a related announcement today, Cisco Systems, Inc. and General Instrument Corporation announced that they intend to work with AT&T on a non-exclusive basis to develop and trial a seamless, end-to-end Internet Protocol (IP) solution that would allow AT&T to offer data, voice and video services over the hybrid fiber-coax network now being deployed by AT&T and TCI.

The New World network will combine Internet, phone and video services over a single cable line, fundamentally changing the way communications services are delivered to consumers. The network build-out also represents the first major deployment of phone services over an Internet-based infrastructure, using cable lines as the transmission vehicle.

Cisco also announced plans to introduce a new type of 'personalized' network for the home, a sort of plug-and-play local area network, connecting PCs, phones, TVs and other Internet appliances. Cisco also introduced a voice-enabled cable modem at CES, which will allow consumers to get phone service from their cable company, in addition to high-speed Internet access and television service. These personal networks begin to lay the groundwork for Cisco's long-term vision to turn the Internet into the next mass medium, eventually connecting everyone to everything.

Cisco's consumer strategy is supported by:

  • AcNet
  • Alltell Communications
  • AppliedTheory
  • Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions
  • Big Planet
  • CAIS Internet
  • Conxion Coporation
  • Digital Island
  • Equant Frontier GlobalCenter
  • Electric Lightwave
  • E-Tech
  • GTE Internetworking
  • Globix
  • GCI
  • Frontier GlobalCenter
  • InterNap Network Services Corp
  • Hitachi
  • MCI Worldcom Advanced Networks
  • MediaOne
  • Micron Internet Services
  • Netcom
  • Panasonic (Matsushita)
  • Pilot Network Services, Inc.
  • Rhythms NetConnections, Inc.
  • Samsung
  • Sony
  • Sprint
  • Teleglobe International Corporation
  • USinternetworking
  • Us Unwired
  • US West
  • Verio
  • VIP Calling

Cisco strategy relies heavily on two partner programs: Cisco NetWorks for consumer electronic companies and Cisco Powered Networks for service providers. (See attached list of partners) Both programs will help accelerate the delivery of broadband services and products from business to the home. Both programs also will help extend Cisco's recognized expertise in building standards-based Internet infrastructures, which traditionally have focused on large businesses and service providers.

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Cisco Network Partners

  • ADC
  • Askey Computer Corp.
  • Com21
  • Dassault
  • E-Tech
  • General Instruments
  • Hitachi
  • Pace
  • Panasonic (Matsushita)
  • Samsung
  • Sony
  • Teldat
  • Thomson Consumer Electronics

Cisco Powered Networks

  • @Work
  • AAPT Networks
  • AboveNet Communications
  • AcNet
  • ALBACOM
  • Alestra
  • ALLTEL
  • Ameritech
  • Applied Theory
  • AT&T Canada
  • AT&T/CERFnet
  • Bell Atlantic
  • Bell South.net
  • Big Planet
  • BT
  • BT-NIS
  • BusinessNet
  • Carrier1
  • CGX Communications
  • Chunghwa Telecom Data Communication Business Group HiNet
  • CLEAR Communications Ltd.
  • Compugraf
  • Connect.com.au Pty Ltd.
  • Conxion Corporation
  • Covad Communications
  • De DoelGroepNetwerken van KPN Telecom
  • debis Systemhaus Telekommunikation Services
  • Deutsche Telekom
  • DIGEX An Intermedia Communications Company
  • Digital Island
  • Electric Lightwave
  • Embratel
  • EQUANT
  • Esat TELECOM
  • ExodusCommunications
  • FirstCom
  • Flashnet Sp.A.
  • FORTHnet
  • GCI
  • GeoNet Communications
  • Global Center
  • Global One
  • Globix
  • group telecom
  • GTE Internetworking
  • GX NETWORKS
  • Hong Kong Telecom
  • HT.net
  • I.Net
  • ICG Netcom
  • ICL Data
  • Icon CMT Corp.
  • Info Avenue
  • Infonet
  • Infoserve Technology
  • Intermedia Communications
  • InterNAP Network Services Corp.
  • Internet Access Group
  • ITnet
  • Japan Telecom Co., Ltd.
  • KDD Co., Ltd.
  • KIVEX, Inc.
  • KocSistem
  • Linkage Online Ltd.
  • Logix Communications
  • Maritime Telephone & Telegraph
  • MediaOne
  • mediaWays
  • MetroNet Communications Group
  • Micron Internet Services
  • Netcom Internet
  • Neto Corporation
  • NetVision
  • NTL Telecommunications
  • Nursat
  • O.N. Tel
  • One.Tel
  • o-tel-o Communications
  • Pilot Network Services
  • Planet Online
  • Primus Telecommunications Group
  • Racal Telecom
  • Rhythms NetConnections
  • RiserCorp
  • Sage Networks
  • Scottish Telecom
  • SEEDNet
  • Shared Medical Systems
  • SONATEL
  • Sprint Canada
  • Svianed
  • Swisscom
  • Taiwan Telecommunication Network Services
  • Tele2
  • Tele2/UNI2
  • Teleglobe International Corporation
  • Telstra
  • TELUS PLAnet Internet Services
  • Thyssen Informatik
  • TISNet Technology, Inc.
  • TMI Telemedia
  • Tokyo Internet Corp.
  • topnet
  • Transaction Network Services (TNS)
  • unisource Italia
  • uniView Technologies
  • US Unwired
  • US West
  • USinternetworking, Inc.
  • UUNET (Denmark)
  • UUNET (Deutschland)
  • UUNET (South Africa)
  • UUNET (UK)
  • Vaultline
  • Verio
  • VIAG INTERKOM
  • VIP Calling
  • WAM!NET
  • WesTel
  • WIN S.A.
  • WorldCom Advanced Networks