Cisco Networkers 2007 is designed to open up new horizons for you, with fascinating insights into technology innovation and vision, plus training and networking opportunities.

At this event you'll be able to experience first hand some of the Next Generation technology solutions from Cisco. Demonstrated live at the event, they bring to life the latest possibilities of emerging technologies.

This year's technology demonstration program will feature the following technologies:

• Unified Communications
  - Cisco Call Manager 5
  - Cisco Unified Presence Server
  - Unified Communication Applications
  - SMB and Branch Office solutions
  - Unified Operations Manager
• Security
  - Compliance Validation – Cisco NAC appliance
  - Endpoint Security - Cisco Security Agent
  - Multifunction Security Management - Cisco Adaptive Security Device
  - Manager
  - Multifunction Security Management - Cisco Security Manager
  - Network Intrusion Prevention – CS MARS
  - SSL VPN Solution
• Cisco Unified WLAN advanced technologies and vertical mobility solutions
• Wide Area Application Services
• Network-Connected Video Surveillance
• VFRAME - DataCenter Dynamic Provisioning
• Delivery of Residential Internet access user experience via Intelligent Subscriber Management Solution based on distributed BRAS architecture
• Product Display

Specific areas included in the demonstration are:

Cisco Call Manager 5
Cisco Unified CallManager software is the call-processing component of the Cisco Unified Communications system. It is a scalable, distributable, and highly available enterprise IP telephony call-processing solution.

Cisco Unified CallManager Version 5.0 enhances application delivery through the support of line-side Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and SIP trunk-side enhancements. These enhancements facilitate increased interoperability with third-party applications and devices, and provide the foundation for supporting innovative new presence-based applications.

In addition, Cisco Unified CallManager 5.0 simplifies deployment and management by supporting a Linux-based appliance model implementation. This version also features networking and administration enhancements, including support for Cisco RSVP Agent which enables more efficient use of networks.

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Cisco Unified Presence Server
The Cisco Unified Presence Server is a critical component that helps realize the full value of a Cisco Unified Communications system. It collects information about a user's availability status and communications capabilities, including whether or not you are using a communications device--such as a phone--at a particular time, or if you have Web collaboration or videoconferencing enabled on your system.

Based on information captured by the Cisco Unified Presence Server, applications such as Cisco Unified Personal Communicator and Cisco Unified CallManager can improve productivity by helping users connect with colleagues more efficiently through determining the most effective avenue for collaborative communication.

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Unified Communication Applications
Cisco Unified Communications Applications can help your organization streamline its business processes by integrating solutions that support effective communication and collaboration, including:

• Messaging
• Voice, video, and Web conferencing
• Unified communications clients

Using integrated directories with intelligent presence and preference information, these standards-based applications integrate seamlessly with common desktop business tools, helping users reach the right people and resources the first time.

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SMB and Branch Office solutions
Cisco Unified CallManager Express is a solution embedded in Cisco IOS Software that provides call processing for Cisco Unified IP phones. This solution enables the large portfolio of Cisco access and integrated services routers to deliver a comprehensive set of features commonly used by business customers, facilitating the deployment of a cost-effective and highly reliable unified communications solution for the small office.

Cisco Unity Express enables small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and enterprise branch offices to cost-effectively integrate voice mail and auto attendant services inside Cisco routers for a lower total cost of ownership and increased employee productivity.

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Unified Operations Manager
Cisco Unified Operations Manager is part of the Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite. It provides a real-time, service-level view of the entire Cisco Unified Communications system and presents the current operational status of each element. It continuously monitors the current operational status of elements and provides an integrated set of diagnostic capabilities for faster trouble isolation and resolution.

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The security demonstration models the real-world architecture of a central office/branch office organisation, focusing on the following key areas:

• Integrated: Every element in the network acts as a point of defense. Switches, routers, appliances, and endpoints all incorporate security functionalities including, but are not limited to, fire walling, virtual private networking, and trust and identity capabilities. This integration incorporates technologies inherent in the secure operation of network devices.
• Collaborative: Various network components work together to provide new means of protection. Security involves cooperation between endpoints, network elements, and policy enforcement. For example, with Network Admission Control, endpoints are admitted to the network based on their adherence to security policy as enforced by network devices such as routers and switches.
• Adaptive: Innovative behavioral methods automatically recognize new types of threats as they arise. Mutual awareness can exist among and between security services and network intelligence, thus increasing security effectiveness and enabling a more proactive response to new threats. This effectively mitigates security risks by broadening threat-recognition capabilities and addressing threats at multiple layers of the network through behavior recognition, application awareness, and network control.

Specific areas included in the demonstration are:

Compliance Validation - Cisco NAC appliance
The Cisco NAC Appliance is an easily deployed Network Admission Control (NAC) product that uses the network infrastructure to enforce security policy compliance on all devices seeking to access network computing resources. With NAC Appliance, network administrators can authenticate, authorize, evaluate, and remediate wired, wireless, and remote users and their machines prior to network access. It identifies whether networked devices such as laptops, IP phones, or game consoles are compliant with your network's security policies and repairs any vulnerabilities before permitting access to the network.

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Endpoint Security - Cisco Security Agent
Cisco Security Agent software protects server and desktop computing systems by identifying threats and preventing malicious behavior. It mitigates new and evolving threats without requiring reconfigurations or emergency patch updates, providing robust protection with reduced operational costs.

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Multifunction Security Management - Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager
The Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) delivers world-class security management and monitoring services for the Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances, Cisco PIX 500 Series Security Appliances and the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Firewall Services Modules through an intuitive, easy-to-use Web-based management interface. The Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager accelerates security appliance deployment with intelligent wizards, robust administration tools, and versatile monitoring services. Its secure, Web-based design enables anytime, anywhere access.

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Multifunction Security Management - Cisco Security Manager
Cisco Security Manager is a powerful but very easy-to-use solution to centrally provision all aspects of device configurations and security policies for Cisco firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs), and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS). The solution is effective for managing even small networks consisting of fewer than ten devices, but also scales to efficiently manage large-scale networks composed of thousands of devices. Scalability is achieved through intelligent policy-based management techniques that can simplify administration.

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Network Intrusion Prevention - CS MARS
The Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (Cisco Security MARS) recognizes and correlates real network attacks, then defines how to stop them. Cisco Security MARS works with Cisco and non-Cisco devices and can:

• Greatly reduce false positives
• Define the most effective mitigation responses
• Provide quick and easy access to audit compliance reports
• Make precise recommendations for removal of threats - including the ability to visualize the attack path and identify the source of the threat

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SSL VPN Solutions
By converging IP Security (IPSec) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) VPN services with comprehensive threat defense technologies, the Cisco ASA 5500 Series delivers highly customizable network access tailored to meet the requirements of diverse deployment environments while providing a fully secured VPN with complete endpoint and network-level security.

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Two alternating demonstrations showcase the latest developments in the Cisco Unified WLAN product portfolio and some of the joint technology partner vertical mobility solutions.

The first demonstration will focus on the latest technology developments of the Cisco Unified WLAN. Specific areas that will be addressed include security, guest access, location services, voice over WLAN and RF spectrum management.

The second demonstration will showcase some examples of Cisco's 2710 Location Appliance combined with key technology partner solutions which together solve real business problems.

These vertical demonstrations will include:

• Location based services solutions in a healthcare environment, delivering asset tracking information, alerts and alarms across the WLAN to handheld devices and voice over WLAN handsets.
• Applications for a retail/logistics environment including context aware solutions and active/ passive RFID solution integration.

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The WAAS portfolio of technologies and products give branch and remote offices LAN-like access to centrally hosted applications, servers, storage, and multimedia in a common, easy-to-manage form, all with LAN-like performance. The solution provides a powerful application delivery, acceleration, and WAN optimization solution for the branch office that optimizes the performance of any TCP-based application operating in a WAN or MAN environment.

The demonstration shows how Cisco WAAS achieves superior results by applying optimization at three separate layers:

• Latency and bandwidth reduction at Layer 7 using application-specific optimizations that suppress unnecessary messages, perform message and operation batching, and employ sophisticated caching techniques to minimize data transfers across the WAN
• Bandwidth and throughput improvement at Layer 4 using techniques such as Data Redundancy Elimination (DRE), LZ Compression, and Transport Flow Optimization (TFO) based on extended TCP standards
• Transparent network integration at Layers 3 and 4, allowing WAAS to take advantage of traffic classification, QoS, policy-based routing, high availability, load balancing, and other network policies

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In this demonstration Cisco will demonstrate video surveillance across the IP network, enabling remote video viewing, configuration and monitoring.

Analog fixed and Pan Tilt Zoom (PTZ) cameras will be connected via Cisco IP Gateway Encoders to Cisco Service Platforms which are Network Video Recorders (NVRs) and provide up to 4.4TB of storage.

In addition Panasonic IP cameras will be shown connected across the network to the Service Platforms, eliminating the need for encoders, and providing a cost effective video surveillance solution.

This enables the viewing of live and recorded video streams, using MPEG-4 and H.264 encoding.

Dedicated video surveillance monitors and keyboards will be connected to the Service Platforms using Cisco IP Gateway Decoders, enabling viewing and camera control.

Cisco's solution enables legacy analog and IP based video components to operate as a single integrated system, providing an easy migration plan.

Cisco's Stream Manager Software running on the IP Gateways and Service Platforms, provides distributed virtual matrix switching of video streams.

Finally for viewing, configuration and system health monitoring, Cisco will demonstrate a suite of windows-based Stream Manager Applications.

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VFrame 3.1 is a powerful tool designed to simplify the management of physical resources in the datacenter. By leveraging an InfiniBand Multi-Fabric I/O environment, a single IB cable provides both Fibre Channel boot services for diskless server operation and Ethernet service access for client, IPC, and backup operation. The InfiniBand infrastructure provides host network abstraction making a number of innovative server management techniques possible all driven by an easy to use GUI interface.

The VFrame Datacenter edition focuses on dynamic provisioning of network resources, both LAN and SAN, providing the infrastructure to accelerate Virtual Server deployments. This system is designed to provide flexible provisioning for both Physical Server virtualization as in VFrame 3.1, and more importantly for today's datacenters, provide dynamic network service provisioning for Hypervisor based server virtualization such as VMware ESX platform.

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Solution based on distributed BRAS architecture.

This Cisco demonstration showcases the "Delivery of Residential Internet access user experience via Intelligent Subscriber Management Solution based on distributed BRAS architecture".

The focus of Cisco's Intelligent Subscriber Management demonstration is on how Cisco's Service Provider customers can put service plans in place to be offered to their subscribers as well as the ease of management and maintenance of this solution.

To show examples of services plans and to prove the ease of management and maintenance following items are being shown in this demonstration:

Service Plans that can be offered by SPs to their subscribers

• Bandwidth on Demand
• High Priority Applications (Here: Gaming)
• QoS Impact on user experience
• Per subscriber ACL

Ease of Management & Maintenance

• Dynamic Policy Updates
• User Self Subscription

This demonstration is based on Cisco's 7200VXR solution.

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Catalyst LAN Switching

The Catalyst switching portfolio provides industry-leading performance, density and intelligent services for campus, branch and data center networks by integrating advanced technologies with intelligent switching services. On the Catalyst product display booth, you will get an overview of the Catalyst LAN switching campus solutions as well as demonstrations on some of the Cisco High Availability and Security benefits.

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