Cisco Accelerates WAN Adoption

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Cisco(R) (NASDAQ: CSCO) todayannounced that Cisco Wide Area Network (WAN) Optimization solutions thatease management of branch offices are achieving rapid adoption from hundredsof customers. Customers including freight forwarding company Panalpina Groupof North America, architecture firm Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc., andtravel leader Sabre Holdings Corporation, are using the award-winning CiscoWide Area Application Services (WAAS) to share centralized files andincrease remote users' productivity and collaboration across theorganization. As part of Cisco's Application Networking Services Advanced Technologysegment, these Cisco WAAS customers help demonstrate Cisco's success inimproving the availability, performance, and security of applicationsdelivered across the network platform.

"Customers are rapidly deploying Cisco WAN Optimization solutions tosimplify branch data management, enable collaboration and accelerate accessto consolidated application infrastructures," said George Kurian, vicepresident of the Application Delivery business unit of Cisco Systems. "Weare pleased that customers are endorsing our core design approach to enableCisco WAAS to be deployed and implemented seamlessly within our customers'existing network services, provisioning and operational frameworks."

Freight Forwarder Used Cisco WAAS to Enable Data Center Consolidation whichHelped Save the Company One Million Dollars

An industry leading freight forwarding and logistics company, the PanalpinaGroup of North America, deployed Cisco's WAN optimization solution as partof their data center centralization project resulting in a one milliondollar savings in capital expenses. To maintain end-users productivity, thecompany's IT organization needed a WAN optimization solution to ensure thatthe 200 employees working out of their Toronto office would have the sameperformance for email, file access, and print services as when theapplications were delivered by local servers.

"Cisco WAAS offered us a complete solution, accelerating all theapplications we were looking to optimize, including Exchange, SAP, fileservices and print services," says Armin Heinlein, corporate vice president,North American IT Competence Center for Panalpina. "Also with Cisco, we areconfident that they deliver a global solution that can be deployed andmaintained at all our locations world wide."Cisco Systems Inc.