The Cisco Analyst Relations group sponsors Speaker Series as an ongoing communications forum. The intent is to create a two-way dialog with industry analysts about Cisco's strategic initiatives, business/product strategies and technologies. An invitation by e-mail to the industry analysts precedes the Speaker Series and includes details about the teleconference. If you'd like an invitation to future Speaker Series, please contact AR Programs Team.

C-Scape APAC

Cisco recently held the first C-Scape analyst event for the APAC region on September 29th. The day's agenda included executive speakers and partner/customer guests from the region.

An important highlight of the event was an interactive presentation and discussion between Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Padmasree (Padma) Warrior and the analyst guests. Leveraging Cisco TelePresence solution, Padma spoke with a group of industry influencers located in Asia Pacific about Future Trends, Next Generation Internet, Cloud Computing and Architectural Plays. You are invited to view the session and download the presentation here

The session between Padma and the influencer community was very interactive and we hope you will find the information useful and insightful. As usual, your feedback is always welcome and please feel free to contact member of the Global Analyst Relations team should you have questions

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C-Scape Europe 2009

Cisco has just finished hosting our C-Scape Europe event which took place June 17th and 18th.  The goal of this year's C-Scape engagement was to continue to spark discussion, debate and dialogue with our global influencer community; with the network as THE platform being central to all of these interactions.

If you are interested in the position of Chris Dedicoat, President European Markets and his executive staff; as well as Cisco Development leaders such as Kathy Hill, Don Procter, John McCool and Bob Mcintyre, around these topical areas, please visit Cisco_Insights to hear and download from the Auditorium all the sessions delivered by this executive staff (registration is required to access site).   

In the Cisco_Insights auditorium are on-demand replays of 14 breakout sessions, hosted by Cisco, ranging from Collaboration and Virtualization to our partner and strategic alliances strategy.

Finally, if you are interested in Cisco presentations, white papers, podcasts, URL hyperlinks and more around key areas of collaboration, virtualization, globalization, Green and Video, please visit the Cisco_Insights booths in The Forums space to peruse through this content, any of which you can download into your own personal briefcase for takeaway.

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Cisco Global Analyst Relations invites you to attend a Web seminar on Thursday October 1st at 4pm UK time to learn more about Cisco Capital and how Cisco's capital financing organisation enables partners and customers through the provision of flexible financing solutions. Tim Shockley, Director & Head of Cisco Capital Europe and Maryann Von Seggern, Director, Cisco Capital WW Channels, will provide an overview of Cisco Capital's presence and activity in the European theater and discuss changing business requirements for financing as Cisco enters new technology and geographic markets.

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Speaker Series on Cisco Capital: This webinar is about Cisco Capital and how Cisco's capital financing organisation enables partners and customers through the provision of flexible financing solutions.

Cisco speaker:
Tim Shockley
Tim Shockley is the Director of European Sales at Cisco Capital, managing the sales strategy and leading a team of financing and leasing experts who combine expertise in flexible, competitive financing with a comprehensive knowledge of Cisco technology. Cisco Capital manages a European asset portfolio of $700 million.

Previously as US Enterprise Sales Director at Cisco Capital, Shockley led the US Enterprise and 3.0 Teams. Through the creation of value-driven partnerships between Cisco and customers, he led the team in creating tailored financing solutions, increasing the enterprise asset portfolio from $400 million to more than $1.2 billion.

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Speaker Series on Delivering Enterprise-Class Wireless Performance: What 802.11n Ratification Means to the Enterprise

The demand for 802.11n enterprise wireless equipment has dramatically increased in the past year due to the growing mobile workforce and the emergence of high-bandwidth applications. The session will cover the significance of the upcoming 802.11n ratification to the enterprise

Cisco speakers:
Ray Smets, General Manager of Cisco's Wireless Networking Business Unit
Chris Kozup, Senior Manager of Cisco's Mobility Solutions Marketing Team, will discuss the significance of the upcoming 802.11n ratification to the enterprise

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Speaker Series - Cisco Services Strategy on Emerging Markets

During this session, Glen Cox, VP, CA Emerging Markets, will provide an update on Cisco Services strategy and momentum in Emerging Markets and will demonstrate Emerging Markets Services' role in Globalisation, one of Cisco's five key strategy objectives. Cisco believes that the world's GDP growth will come from these markets and investment in Emerging Markets is vital to Cisco's strategy. Cisco is determined to expand these relationships during the current tough times in order to be well positioned when the market upturn comes.

Cisco speaker:
Glen Cox is responsible for Cisco's Services business in the Emerging Markets theatre. This business includes Cisco's Technical Support and Advanced Services offerings to Customers and Partners. Glen has direct responsibility for all services sales and associated programs, and for the overall success of Cisco's services for this theatre. The Emerging Markets theatre comprises 130 countries consisting of Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe including the new EU entrant countries, Russia and the CIS states and the Middle East and Africa, including Pakistan. Glen has been with Cisco for 9+ years.

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Speaker Series on Medianets in Action: Service Provider Profiles

Last December (2008), Cisco introduced the notion of medianet-products/technologies that address the transition to an all IP network that's optimized for rich media delivery. Driven by the dramatic growth invideo traffic on the network, medianets represent the next major evolutionof IP networks.

The focus of this call will be to provide an update in terms of the progressmany of our cable, telco and satellite customers are having as they continue to embrace the evolution toward medianets. This call will focus onhighlighting several, real-world examples of how service providers from around the globe are deploying medianets as a strategic means for evolving their business in a ultra-competitive environment.

Cisco speaker:
Murali Nemani, Senior Director of Marketing, Service Provider VideoSolutions. Murali heads up Service Provider Video marketing at Cisco and isresponsible for driving Cisco's video solutions into telco, cable andsatellite/broadcaster markets.

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Speaker Series on Understanding changes in Cisco Set-Top Box shipment reporting

Each quarter, Cisco releases its quarterly shipment information to the industry analysts responsible for compiling market sizing and market share data for the overall networking industry. Beginning this quarter, Cisco will alter the way it reports this information related to its Set Top Box (STB) business. This speaker series is designed to explain these changes to ensure they are understood by the key quantitative analysts tracking this space.

During this call, we will provide a detailed reasoning behind this reporting change as well as how it relates to the Cisco video strategy. We will also discuss some of the key market drivers shaping video and the set-top box business. The discussion will be led by executives from Ciscos Service Provider Video Technology and Marketing organizations and will offer attendees the opportunity to ask questions and engage in dialogue around this change.

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Speaker Series on Testing of IP-NGN Solution

Recently, to demonstrate the importance of real-world performance, Light Reading commissioned an independent test by the European Advanced Networking Test Center AG (EANTC) to see if Cisco's IP-NGN solution could stand up to its marketing claims. This was a thorough, unbiased test of Cisco's end-to-end service provider offer.

The test of Cisco's solution showed excellent results, including:

• 8,188 multicast groups were replicated across 240 egress ports in a point of presence (PoP), showing that Cisco could serve 1.96 million IP video subscribers in a single metro PoP.
• Accurate in-line video monitoring was demonstrated for video distribution and contribution over IP.
• Sub-50 millisecond failover and recovery times were shown for video distribution and secondary distribution networks using, for the first time in a public test of Cisco equipment, point-to-multipoint RSVP-TE.
• No video quality degradation in the face of realistic packet loss in the network.
• Excellent quality of service (QoS) enforcement in Cisco’s new ASR 9010 router for both fabric oversubscription and head-of-line blocking.

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Speaker Series on Collaboration: Enthusiasts and Laggards

In December 2008, Cisco conducted one of the first comprehensive studies on the factors associated with successful adoption of network-based collaboration. The study, Collaboration: Enthusiasts and Laggards, surveyed 800 people in a wide variety of U.S. medium-sized and enterprise organizations.

Join Alan S. Cohen, Vice President, Enterprise Solutions, to learn and discuss the habits and characteristics of high-performing collaboration groups. Alan Cohen will review 5 key findings and evidence that contradicts some common perceptions about today's collaborators.

Cisco Speaker:
Alan S. Cohen, Vice President, Enterprise Solutions, Cisco Systems Inc.

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Speaker Series on Cisco Small Business Strategy

Come hear an overview of Cisco' Small Business Strategy from our executive speakers: Rick Moran, Vice President Worldwide Marketing for Cisco Small Business and Stuart Hendry, Managing Director, Commercial Asia Pacific.

They will provide insights into Cisco's 360 degree approach to Small Business including marketing/branding, go-to-market/channel programs, services and technology solutions. They will share Cisco's view and definition of the market, how it approaches small business as a unique market segment and ways that Cisco helps address small business problems with IT solutions.

Cisco Speakers:
Rick Moran is the Cisco Vice President responsible for enabling small and medium size businesses (SMBs) around the world to recognize and apply Cisco technologies and resources to serve their needs. With an understanding and appreciation of the challenges faced by small businesses, Moran focuses on delivering small business owners and operators with a Cisco experience built on their terms. The key to this experience is a dedicated partnership delivering the right technology and appropriate business advice.

Stuart Hendry, Managing Director, Commercial Asia Pacific
Since joining Cisco in 2005, Hendry has lead Commercial, a successful growth engine, which includes mid-market and SMB segments. His leadership has resulted in strategies to help Commercial capitalize on emerging customer and market needs. Hendrys charter includes ensuring continued growth in this extremely dynamic marketplace and highlighting Ciscos value proposition to partners, customers and the industry at large.

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Cisco: The Move from Contact Center to Customer Collaboration

This session will focus on Cisco's enhanced go to market strategy, market success, and partnerships. The Cisco team will provide both a formal update and host an interactive Q&A.

Cisco speaker:
Ross Daniels is a Director of Solutions Marketing for Unified Communications. In this capacity, Mr. Daniels is responsible for product positioning, solution messaging, and go-to-market activities for various aspects of Ciscos Unified Communications portfolio, with primary emphasis on Cisco Unified Contact Center, Messaging, Web and Audio Conferencing, Mobile Unified Communications, and Presence solutions.

Christopher G. Botting is the Director of Product Management for Cisco's Customer Contact Business Unit. In this capacity, Mr. Botting is responsible for Cisco's contact center product strategy and all aspects of bringing the company's contact center solutions to market.

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Speaker Series on Smart Connected Communities, A Cisco Globalisation Initiative (APAC audience)

This Speaker Series will introduce and discuss Cisco's latest initiative driven out of our Globalisation Centre East headquarters in Bangalore called Smart Connected Communities. 500 million people will be urbanised over the next five years. 100 new one million-plus cities will be built by 2025. Trillions of dollars in stimulus packages have been announced, much of which will go into infrastructure. And the resulting environmental impact of this massive urbanisation will be significant; already the top 20 megacities use 75 percent of the world's energy. The ability to sustainably balance social, economic and environmental resources is more urgent than ever before.

Cisco speaker:
Syed Hoda, Chief of Staff Cisco Globalisation Office

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Speaker Series on Smart Connected Communities, A Cisco Globalisation Initiative

This Speaker Series webinar introduced and discussed Cisco's latest initiative driven out of our Globalisation Centre East headquarters in Bangalore called Smart Connected Communities. 500 million people will be urbanised over the next five years. 100 new one million-plus cities will be built by 2025. Trillions of dollars in stimulus packages have been announced, much of which will go into infrastructure. And the resulting environmental impact of this massive urbanisation will be significant; already the top 20 megacities use 75 percent of the world's energy. The ability to sustainably balance social, economic and environmental resources is more urgent than ever before.

The Smart Connected Communities initiative provides a blue print for how Cisco aims to capture this market transition through the development of visionary vertical solutions and new global ecosystems.

Cisco speaker:
Syed Hoda, Chief of Staff Cisco Globalisation Office

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Speaker Series on Visual Networking Index

The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) is an ongoing Cisco initiative designed to forecast, track, and analyze IP networking growth and trends worldwide. Cisco has developed a forecast methodology based on custom modeling tools and analysis using inputs from a variety of independent analyst data.

Cisco recently released a significant VNI Forecast and Methodology update covering 2008-2013. This includes new findings and usage trends for consumer, business, and mobile segments.

Here are just a few of the top-level findings from the updated research:

* By 2013, annual global IP traffic will reach two-thirds of a zettabyte (673 exabytes). (Last years forecast anticipated a run rate of 522 exabytes per year in 2012.)
* Global IP traffic will quintuple from 2008 to 2013.

By 2013, the sum of all forms of video will exceed 90% of global consumer traffic

* Global consumer Internet video traffic will increase at a 39% CAGR from 2008 to 2013.
* By 2013, the Internet will be 4 times larger than it is in 2009.

You can replay this 60-minutes webcast to learn more and have an interactive dialogue with Cisco representatives on VNI.

Topic: Speaker Series on Visual Networking Index-20090708 0133
Date and Time:
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 6:33 pm San Francisco (Pacific Time, GMT-07:00) 56 Minutes

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Speaker Series on Cisco Capital in Asia Pacific

In today's Service Provider reality, CapEx dollars and investments being scrutinized more heavily than during any time in recent memory. As such, service providers are paying closer attention to the features and functionality of what they are buying than ever before. Now, attributes such as reliability, scalability and performance have become non-negotiable requirements for network infrastructure products that now must live up to the promises listed on the data sheet. Service providers need assurance that what they buy can support current traffic, and also the exponential IP traffic growth they expect due to interactive media and the explosion of video content across multiple devices.

To demonstrate the importance of real-world performance, Light Reading commissioned an independent test by the European Advanced Networking Test Center AG (EANTC) to see if Cisco's solution could stand up to its marketing claims. The test represented the world's first comprehensive test including an end-to-end IP-NGN, data center and monetization of consumer and business video experiences. This was a thorough, unbiased test of Cisco's end-to-end service provider offer.

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Speaker Series-Collaboration- Business Update on Western Europe

Cisco Global Analyst Relations invites you to attend a Web seminar at 16:00 UK//17:00 CET//08:00 PDT//11:00 EST on June 2nd using WebEx. This event requires registration.

Come hear about Cisco Collaboration business in Western Europe. Tim Stone, Senior Marketing Manager for Collaboration , will provide an update on Cisco's continued momentum in the region as well as discuss our initiatives in video, Unified Communications, and Web2.0 technologies. In addition we will provide you with a country update spotlighting the Netherlands, with special guest Roger Verburgt, Senior Manager, Sales and Technical Unified Communications.

Cisco Speaker:

Tim Stone is Head of Collaboration Solutions, Cisco Europe. Tim heads Collaboration Solutions team for Europe and in this role, he is responsible for the business planning of Ciscos European UC strategy, directing the marketing campaigns, and working closely with the media and industry analyst communities.

Tim joined Cisco in July 1999 with the aim of driving the company to be the number one in the convergence area, transforming the 100 year old telecommunications market into the converged communications market we see today. Tim has lead the development and execution of go-to-market strategies for a variety of converged communications solutions and recently launched Cisco's Unified Communications offering in EMEA.

Tim has over 24 years experience in the industry and has held a number of marketing management positions focusing on PBX and call centres. Topics of particular interest include convergence, the business value of converged applications, mobility, collaboration, telepresence, and contact centre technology.

Topic: Speaker Series on Collaboration - A Business Update on Western Europe
Date and Time:
June 2, 2009 8:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco)

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Speaker Series - Collaboration with Confidence

Cisco Global Analyst Relations invites you to attend a Web seminar on Tuesday, May 19, 2009, from 9:00 - 10:00 am Singapore Time. This event requires registration.

Cisco is making a stronger commitment to the Collaboration market and the cloud computing arena at large by announcing its "Collaboration with Confidence" initiative. Cisco believes a network with comprehensive security is integral to supporting online collaboration.

In this session, Cisco will show how its security initiatives help enable collaboration, virtualization, and mobility, and how Cisco is uniquely positioned to provide robust security for complex networks and business processes.

Cisco speakers:

Alex Hadden-Boyd, Director, Marketing, Collaboration Software Group

Alex and her team are responsible for marketing Cisco Collaborative solutions based on Software as a Service for Cisco, including email, instant messaging, teamspaces, and conferencing. Alex joined Cisco in 2000. Prior to Cisco, Alex was at Octel Communications for ten years holding senior roles in product management and product marketing, including Director of Enterprise Messaging Products, and Director of Unified Messaging. Prior to that she spent 8 years at ROLM/IBM as a product manager for PBX and voicemail products.

Fred Kost, Director, Marketing, Security Solutions

Fred and his team are responsible for delivering security solutions that enable Cisco's Self-Defending Network strategy. Fred has extensive security experience and has held technology marketing and development positions with Recourse Technologies, Symantec, nCircle and Blue Lane Technologies. Fred has over eighteen years of experience in marketing and product development in emerging technologies spanning the network security, voice applications, internet payment and the personal computer industries. He has held management positions with Compaq, Intel Corporation, VeriFone Internet Commerce, and Genesys Telecommunication Laboratories.

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Speaker Series: APAC Thriving in Turbulent Times - A Cisco Platform Update

You're invited to hear an update that focuses on Cisco's Intelligent Network Routing and Switching Platform. We want to share and talk with you about innovations across the infrastructure which allows:

* Increasing network productivity and efficiency
* A continued drive toward innovation in the network
* Re-architecting client business processes to cut costs

Specifically, Cisco would like to have a discussion and update around the:

* Evolution in the Cisco ASR 1000 and Integrated Services Routers (ISR)
* Innovation and security enhancements in the 4500 and 3xxx switching families
* Security and mobility enhancements across the platform
Re-architecting and cost reduction transformation across the Campus and Branch infrastructure

Mick Scully
VP of Product Management
for the Access Routing Technology Group. Mick  leads the marketing and strategy efforts for Cisco's integrated security and voice access routing products and solutions.

Jennifer Geisler
Senior Manager Network Systems and Security Marketing
Jennifer is responsible for the Campus solution and modular switching products consisting of the Catalyst 4500 and 6500 series.

Please join Cisco to attend a Web seminar using WebEx. This event requires registration.

Topic: Speaker Series: Thriving in Turbulent Times - A Cisco Platform Update
Date and Time: May 8, 2009 9:00 am - 10:00 am, Singapore Standard Time (GMT +08:00, Singapore)

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Speaker Series: Europe Thriving in Turbulent Times - A Cisco Platform Update

Cisco Global Analyst Relations invites you to attend a Web seminar on Friday, May 8, 2009 9:03 am San Francisco (Pacific Time, GMT-07:00) . This event requires registration.

Please join Cisco as we host a WebEx conference introducing Cisco Data Center Solution for Service Providers. During this session,we will disclose a new innovative solution for service providers to offer cloud-based services that integrates compute, networking and virtualization in a single Internet Protocol Next Generation Network (IP NGN) platform. Additionally, we will discuss how Cisco IP NGN architecture and data center expertise transform service providers into experience providers enabling them to deliver the Connected Life and how experience providers are adding new revenue opportunities with a reduced time to market by delivering voice, video, data and mobility services.

Cisco Speaker:

Simon Aspinall, Senior Director, Service Provider Marketing, SP Data Center and Mobility Solutions

Simon Aspinall leads teams that are responsible for the marketing of Cisco's mobility and data center solutions to Telecoms, Cable, Media and Broadcast customers worldwide. The teams are responsible for developing, launching and driving successful marketing campaigns across the entire product range for Mobility and SP data-centers (including the evolution towards SP cloud computing).

Topic: Speaker Series on Service Provider Data Center - Discussion on the Pathway to Cloud Services
Date and Time:
May 8, 2009 9:03 am San Francisco (Pacific Time, GMT-07:00)
Event number: 208 047 611
Event address for attendees: https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/onstage/g.php?d=208047611&t=a

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Speaker Series - Cisco's Green Commitment: Helping Customers meet Green and Business Goals through Cisco's Network Sustainability

April 23, 2009 9:00 - 10:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco)
In this second series of updates from Cisco regarding our "Green Strategy", we would like to host invite you to come and speak with Jeff Tonn, President of Confluence Dynamics - Former Vice President of IT for Lauth Property Group , a leading national development and construction firm.
Jeff's commitment to Lauth has been to create and implement the strategy around energy management programs. Cisco's EnergyWise Product and Network Sustainability strategy around:

• -Helping customers Optimize business operations and cut costs
• -Aiding in the reduction of GhG emmissions
• -Reducing Energy Consumption and Cost
• -Complying with Government Directives
• -Creating Competitive Differentiation have helped Lauth begin the next evolution in a competitive Green Strategy

Berna Devrim
Sr. Manager
In the Cisco Product Team will lead Jeff through a q/a in which we will learn how Jeff is using Cisco EnergyWise to meet his company and client goals.

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Speaker Series - Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast Update Provides Insights to Global Mobile Traffic Trends

For more than two years, Cisco's Visual Networking Index (VNI) has regularly provided data and projections for global IP networking growth and video usage based on Cisco analysis and independent analyst forecasts. A significant part of that effort is the VNI Mobile Forecast for 2008-2013, which provides findings on a variety of mobile IP networking trends. The forecast projects global mobile traffic to increase by 66x and have a CAGR of 131% between 2008 and 2013. In addition, we expect global mobile traffic to exceed two exabytes per month by 2013.

Arielle Sumits
lead-analyst for Cisco VNI research
Thomas Barnett
senior manager, service provider marketing

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Speaker Series: Medianet and What it Means for the Future of the Cable Market

Last December (2008), Cisco introduced the notion of Medianet - next generation products/technologies that are media, end point and network-aware. Driven by the dramatic growth in video traffic on the network, medianets represent the next major evolution of IP networks.
Monday, March 23rd at 12 pm (noon) - 1 pm EST to learn about how cable operators are adapting to this evolution by embracing new medianet technologies designed to enable the delivery of the new bandwidth-intensive services consumers are demanding globally.
During this call, we will provide a more detailed discussion focused on how this evolution toward medianets will impact cable operators worldwide. This will include a look at the continued growth of video traffic the impact on the Connected Life at Home and how Cisco's end-to-end medianet capabilities serve cable customers as they deliver innovative new services.

Bob McIntyre
Chief Technical Officer
Robert C. McIntyre currently serves as chief technical officer of Cisco's Service Provider Video Technology Group.
From 1991-1997, McIntyre held leadership roles in Scientific Atlanta's Transmission and Subscriber businesses, and is well-known as both a business and a technical leader. Prior to joining Scientific Atlanta, McIntyre was VP/GM of Augat's Interconnection Products Group. Earlier in his career, he was VP/GM of GTE Communication Systems in both their Telephone Switching and Transmission businesses. McIntyre also spent 11 years at General Electric, working in a variety of technical management positions. He also participated in General Electric's General Management Development Program.

Murali Nemani
Senior Director of Marketing, Service Provider Video Solutions
Nemani heads up Service Provider Video marketing at Cisco and is responsible for driving Cisco's video solutions into telco, cable and satellite/broadcaster markets.

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Speaker Series: IronPort Email Security Services

Cisco is making a stronger commitment to the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market and the cloud computing arena at large by announcing new managed, hosted and hybrid hosted email security services that provides the industry's first, and most flexible, content security offering. The Cisco IronPort Email Security services are aimed squarely at businesses that want complete choice and control over their email security solutions.

Monday, March 23rd, at 9:00am (Pacific Standard Time) for a WebEx event presented by Nick Edwards, Manager Product Marketing for IronPort and Joel McFarland, Senior Manager VSEC Marketing.

Nick Edwards
Manager Product Marketing for IronPort
Nick Edwards is responsible for product management of IronPort's email security product line. Before joining IronPort, he was a product manager for Redback Networks, responsible for the company's Subscriber Management System. Edwards began his career in data communications in the U.S. Navy, and served as a submarine officer for five years. He has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Control Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy.

Joel McFarland
Senior Manager VSEC Marketing
Joel McFarland is a Senior Manager in the Product Management team within the Security Technology Group at Cisco Systems. Joel has been in the computer security industry for over twelve years where he has served multiple product management and business development leadership roles. Currently, Joel leads the Cisco IronPort Email Security Services team focusing on hosted and hybrid hosted markets.

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Speaker Series: Digital Media Systems

In today's challenging economic climate, it's more important than ever for organizations to engage with key customers, partners, employees and other audiences in a high touch model. Additionally, it needs to be done in a cost-effective manner. Given the economic climate, many businesses are turning to networked rich media applications such as digital signage, enterprise TV, desktop video, among others to provide a high touch interaction model with their key audiences in a cost-effective manner.

Thomas Wyatt
Vice President and General Manager, Digital Media Systems & Media Processing Business Units
Thomas Wyatt is the vice president and general manager of the Digital Media Systems Business Unit and the Media Processing Business Unit at Cisco. In this capacity, Wyatt is responsible for two emerging technology businesses with billion dollar potential in the digital media market. Wyatt also serves on multiple board and councils including Cisco's Emerging Technology Board, which is responsible for evaluating and creating new billion dollar market opportunities.

Thomas Wyatt is an honors graduate with a B.S. in Finance and in Managing Information Technology from Syracuse University. Wyatt also has completed the Executive Development Program at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

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AR Speaker Series: Taking the WAN Edge to the Next Level Helping Governments & Global Customers Transform Their WAN Edge and Resolve Business Challenges

Cisco's WAN Advantage helps resolve the following business challenges:

• Increasing numbers of remote and branch office workers, all needing the same access to information-at the same speed-as workers at headquarters
• Compliance requirements mandating you to audit and report security for large quantities of confidential data....
• New innovations such as distance learning, video, or medical imaging placing huge demands on your network capacity...
• Operational costs dwarfing capital expenditure...

Please, join us on Wednesday, March 4th at 9:30am (Beijing Time) to hear how organizations can meet the above challenges now without decreasing network performance while lowering their operational costs and preparing their network for the future.

We will present how the new Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router with 20G Embedded Services Processor can transform their WAN edge and offer the highest performance secure WAN.

Jonathan Davidson
Director of Product Marketing, Enterprise Routing
Jonathan Davidson, CCIE Number 2560, is the Director of Marketing for the Edge Routing Business Unit. He has co-authored Voice over IP Fundamentals and Deploying Cisco Voice over IP. He has been with Cisco for over 10 years in post sales support, marketing and engineering divisions.
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Speaker Series Unified Communication: Cisco's voice and unified messaging portfolio

This session will focus on the latest features and capabilities of our messaging solutions and provide an opportunity for you to interact with key subject matter experts regarding any product line questions you might have. Teams for Cisco Unity, Cisco Unity Connection, and Cisco Unity Express will each provide an update on the latest release of each solution (version 7.0) and discuss our vision for the role of messaging in unified communications.

Mark Gervase, Solutions Marketing Manager for Cisco's voice and unified messaging solutions
Mark joined Cisco in 2004 out of the Berkeley MBA program and has held a variety of roles in Cisco's Unified Communications marketing organization.

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AR Speaker Series: Networked Sustainability - Helping Customers Meet Green and Business Goals

February 12, 2009 Helping governments, global customers and partners meet "Green" and business initiatives is the goal of Cisco's network sustainability strategy . Major milestones for this strategy are areas such as:

• optimizing business operations and cutting costs
• reducing energy consumption and costs
• complying with government directives
• offering a competitive differentiator

Kumar Srikantan
VP of Product Management

Berna Devrim
Senior Manager of Access Switching Marketing

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Analyst Relations Speaker Series: Cisco Consumer Strategy

As consumers continue to embrace technology in their day to day life, Cisco is enabling people to live a connected life that is more personal, more social and more visual by utilizing the network as the platform for easily sharing experiences across devices, locations and applications. Cisco's unique expertise enables us to build intelligent end to end media ready networks that extend from the content source to the consumer.

Please join us on Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 9:00am (PST) for this online event. In this session, Cisco executives will share our consumer vision, strategy and discuss some of the products and solutions we recently announced at CES 2009. 

Ken Wirt, Vice President of Consumer Marketing
Ken Wirt is the Vice President of Consumer Marketing for Cisco. In this role, he leads Cisco's overall consumer marketing efforts. Over the course of his 25 year career, Ken has been instrumental in the development and launch of several new categories of electronic products including: home computers (Atari), CD-ROM drives (NEC), the Newton PDA (Apple), and the Rio MP3 player (Diamond). Additionally, Ken was the founder and CEO of Riffage.com, a leading independent music site.  Ken has an MBA from Stanford and an undergraduate degree in "The Psychology of Kinetic Media" from the University of Michigan.

Chris Dobrec, Senior Director World Wide Strategy & Business Development Chris Dobrec is the Senior Director World Wide Strategy & Business Development for Cisco's Consumer Business Group. In this role, he is responsible for worldwide corporate strategy, business development, and new-market development initiatives.Prior to joining Cisco, Chris held leadership positions at successful startup and established technology organizations.  Chris had a double major at the University of California at Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Analyst Relations Speaker Series: Cisco Media Solutions
Cisco's Platform for the Next Generation Entertainment Experience

The digitization of content and the increasing availability of broadband is changing Consumers' expectations for entertainment... and fundamentally changing the economics and business of entertainment.

Please join us on Thursday, January 15th, 2009 at 9:00am (PST) for this online event. In this session, Cisco Media Solutions Group executives will discuss the new Cisco Eos™ software platform which seeks to bridge the digital divide between content owners and consumers by creating online communities where audiences can interact with and around the content they love.

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Emerging Markets Speaker Series - Unified Communications

Please join us on Friday 5th December 2008 to hear about Cisco's Unified Communications business in Western Europe. The web conference will address Cisco's continued momentum in the region as well as an update on our initiatives in the Contact Centre arena. In addition we will be discussing some of the research and development work taking place in our Galway (Ireland) labs and hope to provide you with an in-country update on Germany.

The web conference will take place at 16:00 UK//17:00 CET//08:00 PST//11:00 EST on the 5th December and our presenters will include Tim Stone, Senior Marketing Manager for Unified Communications and Dave Thomson, Marketing Manager for Contact Centres.

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Globalisation Speaker Series

Date: October 21st, 2008

Time: 9:00am (India Standard Time)

Cisco would like to invite you to discuss our globalisation strategy highlighted by the first anniversary of our Globalisation Center in Bangalore, India.

Innovation, new business models and Cisco's global talent assessment strategy are levers that Cisco is using to create impactful country and business transformation solutions and best practices.

At the heart of this approach is the Network which is THE platform for global collaboration, customer and business intimacy.

We would like to both share, and gain your perspective on our globalisation strategy and wins over the past year.

Speaker: Syed Hoda, Chief-of-Staff, Cisco Globalisation Office
Syed Hoda is based in Bangalore, India (recently relocating from San Francisco, CA). His responsibilities include globalisation strategy development, planning and operations. As a key globalisation leader, Mr. Hoda is responsible for working with HQ business functions to implement and accelerate Cisco's globalisation strategy at an enterprise level - to fuel Cisco's next generation of growth, innovation and talent.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Hoda was with Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). In that capacity, he advised many of the world's leading companies in achieving business results through enterprise process innovation and the strategic application of technology. While based in Paris, he led the retail, consumer, and transportation verticals for EMEA. Later, he returned to San Jose and co-led development of the retail sales vertical within North America. Mr. Hoda was an editor of the recently published Cisco publication, Connected Transportation.

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APAC Speaker Series - Service Provider Quarterly Update

Please join us on Friday, October 10, 2008 at 10:30AM, Singapore time as we host an update via teleconference on Cisco's Service Provider segment to provide a regional update for the quarter, share the latest solution introductions and showcase the recent customer wins. This event will be hosted by Cisco's head of Service Provider business segment in Asia Pacific.

Presenter: Hanh Tu, Vice President, Service Provider Asia Pacific

Hanh has over twenty-three years of experience in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry and has been with Cisco for more than 9 years. He leads Cisco's Asia Pacific service provider sales team to focus on the infrastructure build out, new business formation, and NGN transformation of the wired line, wireless, cable and internet service providers.

Hanh is a leading member of Cisco's worldwide service provider business council and an Executive Councilor of the China Association of Communications Enterprises which is chaired by four minister level officials of Ministry Information Industry and represented by all leading service providers in the country..

The format of the teleconference will be approximately 120 minutes of presentations by Hanh, his leadership team and subject matter experts in three informative sessions with Questions and Answers time after each session.

Date: Friday, October 10, 2008

Time: 10:30AM - 12:30PM Singapore Time

If you're interested in attending the teleconference, please reply by return email to apoon@cisco.com. The dial-in and other detail will be sent upon your confirmation to attend.

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Cisco AR Speaker Series: Cisco Datacenter Announcement Update

The Cisco Datacenter team invites you to attend a Speaker Series event providing a detailed update on the Storage Area Networking and Server Virtualization announcements that were released at VMworld on September 16 in Las Vegas.

• New 8-Gigabit-per-second Fibre Channel Switch Modules and NX-OS Operating System
• Cisco Virtual Networking embedded into VMware infrastructure

Please join us to discuss the opportunities and challenges presented in a world of pervasive mobility. Learn how Cisco enables enterprises to take advantage of mobility services in the network to enable new applications that drive increased productivity, customer satisfaction or competitiveness.

What this presentation will cover:

• Cisco and VMware deliver joint solutions to incorporate Cisco Virtual Networking capabilities into VMware infrastructure and improve performance of virtual desktops across wide area networks.
• Cisco Delivers New Data Center 3.0 Technology for Storage Area Networks: New 8-Gigabit-per-second Fibre Channel Switch Modules and NX-OS Operating System; High Performance and Investment Protection Combined with Cisco SAN Services for Virtual Machine Environments.

Presenters:

Paul Fazzone is a Sr. Manager, Product Management working in Cisco's Server Access & Virtualization Business Unit.

He is responsible for planning and bringing to market data center access layer connectivity solutions for servers, both physical and virtual. Paul has more than a decade of experience in the data center and networking space combining end user, system engineering and product management roles. With a strong customer focus, Paul is passionate about creating a great experience for the data center administrator.

Omar Sultan is the Solution Manager for Data Center Switching for the Data Center Solutions team at Cisco Systems.

Omar has been at Cisco Systems since 1999 and his current responsibilities focus on marketing and positioning of the Cisco data center switching portfolio. Omar has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry working work for a number of Fortune 500 companies and also owned his own consultancy.

Prior to joining Cisco, Omar developed a broad range of experience including data center management, network operations, system engineering, field sales, and business systems analysis. Omar has also been an active CCIE since 1994 (CCIE # 1284).

Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008

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Cisco AR Speaker Series Teleconference: Visual Networking Index (VNI)

Please join Cisco on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 10:30AM, Singapore time as we host a Speaker Series teleconference on the most recent update to its Visual Networking Index (VNI). Visual Networking is the combination of video and social networking/collaboration (Web 2.0) technologies. The Cisco VNI is an initiative to track and forecast the suite of visual networking applications. The VNI studies IP traffic trends and the primary factors fueling the continued rapid growth in IP traffic through 2012. Cisco content experts will be on hand to present key findings, explain the methodology, and address questions and comments from attendees.

Presenter: Arielle Sumits

Arielle Sumits is a senior analyst with Cisco Systems' worldwide service provider marketing group. She currently leads the company's IP traffic forecasting effort, the results of which have garnered extensive media coverage, recently appearing on the front page of the New York Times and page B1 of the Wall Street Journal. She has also engaged with some of the world's largest service providers on traffic measurement and forecasting.

Arielle has been an analyst with Cisco for eight years, and during that time has had the opportunity to cover a wide range of topics related to the telecommunications industry, from managed services to mobility, with a special focus on market sizing and end-user adoption patterns. Prior to joining Cisco, Arielle was a product manager for start-up Frictionless Commerce (acquired by SAP in 2006). Arielle holds a degree in Physics from MIT.

Presenter: Thomas Barnett, Jr.

Thomas Barnett is a senior manager of strategic communications and messaging for Cisco Systems worldwide service provider marketing group. In that capacity, he has responsibilities for marketing and content development focused on the company's IP Next-Generation (IP NGN) vision and architecture for service providers. Thomas has also helped coordinate the Cisco Connected Life messaging platform as well as the company's focus on the service provider to experience provider transformation, enabling network operators to deliver personalized services to consumers at home, at work, and on the move. Thomas has played a leadership role in the Cisco Visual Networking Index as well as a wide range of marketing projects designed for customer, press, analyst, and internal audiences.

Thomas has more than 10 years of telecom industry experience in a variety of service provider marketing roles (supporting optical, Ethernet, storage and other technologies). He was previously the marketing communications manager for start-up Fibex Systems (acquired by Cisco in May 1999). His focus has been in marketing programs and communications writing and developing product/marketing collateral, creating strategic partnerships and reference-sell relationships, etc. Thomas has more than 20 years of professional experience including previous marketing positions at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Parker Hannifin Corporation.

He earned a B.A. degree in Journalism from Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, IN.)

Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008

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Cisco Channel Strategies in Asia Pacific

Please join us on Friday, September 12, 9AM - 10AM, Singapore time to receive an update via teleconference on Cisco's Channel organization, our value proposition and strategy in transforming the customer experience with the world's best partners. This event will be hosted by Cisco's head of Channel organization in Asia Pacific.

The format of the teleconference will be approximately 40 minutes of presentation followed by a Questions & Answers session.

The presentation will focus on Cisco Channel Strategies in Asia Pacific.

Presenter: Mike Allen, Managing Director, Asia Pacific Channels.

Mike Allen is the Managing Director of APAC Channels for Cisco Systems in Asia Pacific. Mike has responsibility over driving the strategy and development of Cisco's Asia Pacific network of more than 6,000 sales channel partners, including distributors, global strategic alliance partners, systems integrators and resellers. Mr. Allen has had two previous roles in the Asia Pacific theater including two years in Tokyo Japan and is based in Singapore.

If you're interested in attending the teleconference, please reply by return email to Amy Poon, apoon@cisco.com. The dial-in and other details will be sent upon your confirmation to attend.

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Cisco Virtual Office: An Executive Overview

The environment for remote workers is rapidly changing as enterprises seek to provide tools and processes that incorporate the appropriate mix of IT and network security, service, and support. Productivity can only be maximized via a thorough understanding of the myriad teleworker requirements for hardware, software, features, and functionality.

The Cisco Virtual Office solution offers the end user a reliable, flexible, seamless experience while affording the enterprise a secure and cost-effective manner for enabling teleworkers to increase productivity. Furthermore, the Cisco Virtual Office offers the enterprise ease of management, continuity of operations and sustainable cost savings.

Please join us for an interesting discussion on how Cisco allows organizations to enable their remote workforce with advanced, secure tools. Examples will include citations of successful home office, branch and call center deployments of the Cisco Virtual Office solution set. Speakers will include Cisco's Fred Kost and Robert (Bob) Berlin.

Presenters:

Fred Kost is Director of Security Solutions Marketing for Cisco, responsible for delivering security solutions that enable Cisco's Self-Defending Network strategy. Fred has extensive security experience and has held technology marketing and development positions with Recourse Technologies, Symantec, nCircle and Blue Lane Technologies. He has held management positions with Compaq, Intel Corporation, VeriFone Internet Commerce, and Genesys Telecommunication Laboratories. Mr. Kost earned a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina.

Bob Berlin is Director, Product Management for Cisco Systems and is chartered with the product and strategic direction for Cisco's IOS Security portfolio. Prior to joining Cisco in 1996, he contributed to a number of start-up networking companies including Stratacom and Primary Access. He holds a MBA from Pepperdine University.

Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008

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Cisco AR Speaker Series: IP Traffic

Cisco will host a Speaker Series event on the most recent update to its Visual Networking Index (VNI). Visual Networking is the combination of video and social networking/collaboration (Web 2.0) technologies. The Cisco VNI is an initiative to track and forecast the suite of visual networking applications. The VNI studies IP traffic trends and the primary factors fueling the continued rapid growth in IP traffic through 2012. Cisco content experts will be on hand to present key findings, explain the methodology, and address questions and comments from attendees.

Presenter: Arielle Sumits

Arielle Sumits is a senior analyst with Cisco Systems' worldwide service provider marketing group. She currently leads the company's IP traffic forecasting effort, the results of which have garnered extensive media coverage, recently appearing on the front page of the New York Times and page B1 of the Wall Street Journal. She has also engaged with some of the world's largest service providers on traffic measurement and forecasting.

Arielle has been an analyst with Cisco for eight years, and during that time has had the opportunity to cover a wide range of topics related to the telecommunications industry, from managed services to mobility, with a special focus on market sizing and end-user adoption patterns. Prior to joining Cisco, Arielle was a product manager for start-up Frictionless Commerce (acquired by SAP in 2006). Arielle holds a degree in Physics from MIT.

Presenter: Thomas Barnett, Jr.

Thomas. Barnett is a senior manager of strategic communications and messaging for Cisco Systems worldwide service provider marketing group. In that capacity, he has responsibilities for marketing and content development focused on the company's IP Next-Generation (IP NGN) vision and architecture for service providers. Thomas has also helped coordinate the Cisco Connected Life messaging platform as well as the company's focus on the "service provider to experience provider transformation" - enabling network operators to deliver personalized services to consumers at home, at work, and on the move. Thomas has played a leadership role in the Cisco Visual Networking Index as well as a wide range of marketing projects designed for customer, press, analyst, and internal audiences.

Thomas has more than 10 years of telecom industry experience in a variety of service provider marketing roles (supporting optical, Ethernet, storage and other technologies). He was previously the marketing communications manager for start-up Fibex Systems (acquired by Cisco in May 1999). His focus has been in marketing programs and communications-writing and developing product/marketing collateral, creating strategic partnerships and reference-sell relationships, etc. Thomas has more than 20 years of professional experience including previous marketing positions at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Parker Hannifin Corporation.

He earned a B.A. degree in Journalism from Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, IN.)


Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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Cisco Data Center 3.0 Update

Over the past year, Cisco has virtualized key elements of the data center network. This has yielded the industry's broadest virtualized data center infrastructure solutions in the industry. The key theme of this session will focus on how Cisco is better enabling the Data Center and Branch infrastructure for applications by expanding application fluency and integration while leveraging virtualization to minimize branch and data center costs. The session will also include the introduction of new solutions. Ample time will be reserved for a question-and-answer session right after the presentation.

Presenters: Mark Weiner and Peter Linkin
Mark Weiner is Director of Market Management for Data Center Solutions at Cisco. In this role, he leads the marketing strategy for Cisco's Application Delivery technologies and solutions. Prior to joining Cisco, Weiner held executive level positions for both VC funded and publicly traded networking organizations including NetDevices, NetScaler, Redback Networks and Juniper Networks.

Peter Linkin brings over 20 years of industry experience in Application Infrastructure to his current role as Senior Marketing Manager for Cisco's Data Center Network Architecture, where he is responsible for driving awareness of the "Network As a Platform" for next-generation data center infrastructure. Prior to joining Cisco he was Snr. Director of Product Marketing at BEA Systems, and has held senior marketing roles with pioneering hardware and software technology vendors in Europe and USA.

Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008

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Cisco and Mobility - The Network Is the Platform for Mobility Experiences

Mobility is a rapidly growing market, and many innovative technologies are being developed by companies that are well-positioned in the space. Whether they touch devices or applications, these companies have one thing in common: the network. To enjoy innovative new devices, cool new software or greater productivity, organizations and their employees must be connected, which is why Cisco is in a unique position to define and evolve the mobility marketplace.

Please mark your calendars and join us on Wednesday, June 4th at 8 A.M. PDT/ 11 A.M. EDT for a Cisco Speaker Series on the evolving Mobility market. Cisco Executives will share Cisco's vision and strategy to foster and drive the mobility market, as well as advance the mobile experience for users. In addition, you will hear about Cisco MOTION and the recently announced Cisco Mobility Services Engine (MSE) -- a new open Mobility platform that brings the Cisco Mobility strategy and vision to life.

Speaker bio: Chris Kozup
Senior Manager, Mobility Solutions, Cisco

Chris Kozup is a Senior Manager within the Mobility Solutions team with Cisco. He is responsible for market development and strategy for Cisco's portfolio of enterprise wireless networking products and solutions.

Chris has a specific focus on articulating the business case for how a unified wired and wireless approach to enterprise-wide mobility can improve business profitability, increase productivity and lead to sustainable competitive advantage. He is responsible for the strategy and marketing of next generation wireless technologies including IEEE 802.11n, enterprise wireless mesh, and secure wireless solutions. Additionally, Chris is responsible for helping to ensure the success of Cisco's wireless team within the vertical markets through relevant collateral including ROI and TCO models and business cases. Prior to joining Cisco in 2006, Chris was with META Group where he served as a Program Director for Infrastructure Strategies, with a particular focus on enterprise communications. He has a B.A. from Ohio University and a Masters of Business Administration from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain.

Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008

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Cisco AR Speaker Series: Cisco's Empowered Branch Strategy Evolution

The role of today's branch offices are changing as they take a bigger role in driving business innovation. Trends such as data center consolidation and virtualization, Green IT and collaboration and Web 2.0 tools combined with a proliferation of huge growth with the remote or virtual worker drives the need for a new approach to the branch IT infrastructure and business practices.

Please join Cisco executives to discuss the next evolution of Cisco's Empowered Branch strategy and how it enables branch offices to take advantage of application customization and delivery, unified communications, physical security, mobility and network management while driving a more consolidated branch footprint with robust solutions and capabilities.

Presenter: Joel Conover, Senior Marketing Manager
Joel Conover, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Systems, oversees product marketing for Cisco's Empowered Branch portfolio.

Conover brings over 13 years of competitive analysis and hands-on testing experience from his prior roles as Research Director at Current Analysis and Senior Technology Editor at Network Computing Magazine. Conover has published thousands of research notes and over 250 hands-on reviews, tutorials, and primers on technologies and products, and has presented in numerous panels, industry forums, and trade show events in the routing and switching market space.

Joel holds bachelor degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Joel is an avid Teleworker, telecommuting from his Empowered Virtual Branch in De Pere, WI.

Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008

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Cisco AR Speaker Series: Cisco's Commercial Business Segment - Our Value Proposition and Strategy

Please join us on Tuesday, March 18, 11AM - 12PM, Singapore time to receive an update via teleconference on Cisco's Commercial business segment, our value proposition and strategy in the evolving mid-market and fast pace SMB landscape. This event will be hosted by Cisco's head of Commercial business segment in Asia Pacific.

Presenter: Stuart Hendry, Managing Director, Commercial Asia Pacific.

Since joining Cisco in 2005, Hendry has lead Commercial, a successful growth engine, which includes mid-market and SMB segments. His leadership has resulted in strategies to help Commercial capitalize on emerging customer and market needs. Hendry's charter includes ensuring continued growth in this extremely dynamic marketplace and highlighting Cisco's value proposition to partners, customers and the industry at large.

The format of the teleconference will be approximately 40 minutes of presentation followed by a Questions & Answers session.

The presentation will focus on Cisco's view of the market including a 360-degree view of our whole offer across the Commercial space.

If you're interested in attending the teleconference, please reply by return email to Amy Poon (apoon@cisco.com) by Monday, March 3. The dial-in and other details will be sent upon your confirmation to attend.

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Cisco AR Speaker Series: Data Center 3.0 Infrastructure Transformation

Please join Doug Gourlay, Senior Director for Cisco's Data Center Solutions Group as he shares the next phase of Cisco's Data Center 3.0 vision and solutions. Cisco recently announced an innovative family of data center-class switching platforms, the Cisco Nexus Series, to meet customer demands for next-generation mission-critical data centers. As the data center transitions to a more services-centric model, the network plays a pivotal role in orchestrating virtual IT resources and scaling workloads. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series was designed with this environment in mind, delivering the infrastructure chapter of Cisco's Data Center 3.0 vision.

During this presentation, Mr. Gourlay will provide an overview of the new data center platform with both hardware and software innovations, including:
- The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series, the flagship data center-class switching platform combining Ethernet, IP, and storage capabilities across one unified network fabric
- The Cisco Trusted Security (TrustSec) architecture
- An advanced operating system, the Cisco Nexus Operating System (NX-OS), and the Cisco Data Center Network Manager

Ample time will be reserved for Q&A after the presentation.

Presenter: Doug Gourlay
Doug Gourlay has been a leader in the creation of Cisco development, investment, and architectural strategies combining emerging technologies with core infrastructure. As Senior Director for Data Center Solutions, Mr. Gourlay defines and executes Cisco's global marketing strategy for data center products and technologies, including storage and application networking, data center switching, high-performance computing, and WAN optimization. Under his leadership, the data center solutions segment has grown from a nascent business to a multi-billion-dollar global concern.

Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Time: 9:00 AM Pacific Time/ 12:00 PM Eastern Time
For your local time of teleconference, please visit www.timeanddate.com.
Please call in ten minutes prior to start time so we may begin promptly.

US Dial In: 800.381.2165 *for your local country dial in, please click this url
Passcode: 766 879 87
International dial in: Please send an email to Denise Terrasas to request for your specific country (dterrasa@cisco.com)

Please send RSVP directly to Denise Terrasas (dterrasa@cisco.com) by Friday, February 22nd. The presentation will be mailed directly to you on Monday, February 25th.
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