News Release

Cisco Announces Grand Opening of "Approvals Engineering Center"

Network Equipment Building System Testing Lab in San Jose, California
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Jan 13, 2000

Media Alert

  • WHO: Cisco Systems, Inc.

  • WHAT: To demonstrate its drive for high network availability and meet the market needs of service providers, Cisco is holding an Open House of their new state-of-the-art Approvals Engineering Center.

  • WHEN:

  • WHERE:
  • January 13, 2000 11:00-2:00 pm
    Cisco headquarters
    125 West Tasman Drive, Bldg. P
    San Jose, California 95134

  • WHY:Service providers are striving to reach network availability of 99.999% or "five nines." Cisco is committed to delivering reliability, network integrity and design robustness in its products, and recognizes the advantages of an onsite integrated design and test facility. Adding a Network Equipment Building System (NEBS) product development and testing lab in San Jose, brings Cisco another step closer to reaching high network availability with its networking products. With this new facility, Cisco will also be able to speed time-to-market for new products without compromising reliability and performance.

Key Cisco executives will attend the Open House, and expert personnel will provide guided tours of the new facility.