News Release

Cisco to Host Press Event Announcing New Emerging Technology Area

WHAT: Cisco invites members of the press and industry
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Oct 12, 2005

WHAT: Cisco invites members of the press and industry analysts to attend a press event where executives will introduce and demonstrate an emerging new technology that is designed to deliver an interoperable communications system that will help enable true collaboration across previously separate and proprietary systems.

Join Charles Giancarlo, Chief Development Officer, as he provides an overview of this new emerging technology, Cisco's overall market opportunity, vision and strategy for solving customers' challenges in managing communications interoperability and collaboration across organizations. In addition, there will be customer presentations, a short demo and an open Q&A session.

Please note that due to space limitations, only members of the press and industry analyst communities will be invited to attend the event in-person. All others are welcome to attend the Video web cast and submit questions online during the event. Details are below.

WHEN:
Monday, October 24, 2005 from 10 a.m. ET-11:30 a.m. ET

AGENDA:
Time Agenda Item
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. ET Registration and Continental Breakfast
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. ET Charlie Giancarlo presents strategy overview, market opportunity, news announcement
10:30 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. ET DEMO
10:40 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. ET Customer Presentations
11:30 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. ET DEMO
11:40 a.m. - Noon ET Q&A with Cisco executives and customer participants
Noon. - 12:30 p.m. ET Lunch

DETAILS:
The live event will be held in New York City. To register for the live event, please contact:

Business Press: Mojgan Khalili for Cisco Systems, Inc. at mkhalili@cisco.com / (978) 936-1297. Please provide your name (as it is written on your government issued photo ID), publication, phone and e-mail address.

Industry/Trade/Vertical Press: Linda Horiuchi for Cisco Systems, Inc. at lhoriuch@cisco.com / 408 853-5464. Please provide your name (as it is written on your government issued photo ID), publication, phone and e-mail address.

Industry Analysts: Ward Wrzenski for Cisco Systems, Inc. at wwrzensk@cisco.com / (617) 589-4303. Please provide your name (as it is written on your government issued photo ID), firm, phone and e-mail address.

VIDEO WEBCAST INFORMATION:
To register for the live video Web cast of the presentation, please go to:

http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=28103&script=1010&item_id=1146642

Important note: Please be sure to click on the entire link above as it tends to wrap in text files.

PREPARTIONS TO VIEW VIDEO WEBCAST:
In order to view the video webcast you will need either RealPlayer or Windows Media Player software. If you do not have either of these software programs, you can download them at the links provided below. We encourage you to download the software at least one hour before the presentation to allow time for installation. Also, it will be important to disable pop-up window blockers as this can interfere with your ability to access the webcast.

RealPlayer can be downloaded at: http://www.real.com/player/index.html?src=downloadr

Windows Media Player can be downloaded at:http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/en/download/default.asp

CONTACT: For more information, please contact:

Business press may register by contacting Mojgan Khalili for Cisco Systems, Inc. at mkhalili@cisco.com / (978) 936-1297. Please provide your name, publication, phone and e-mail address.

Industry press may register by contacting Linda Horiuchi for Cisco Systems, Inc. at lhoriuch@cisco.com / (408) 853-5464 Please provide your name, publication, phone and e-mail address.

Industry analysts may register by contacting Ward Wrzenski for Cisco Systems, Inc. at wwrzensk@cisco.com / (617) 589-4303. Please provide your name, firm, phone and e-mail address.

We look forward to seeing you at the event!