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Cisco Launches Networking Showcase on Wheels to Link Communities in Asia
Company Will Also Work With Nanyang Polytechnic to Develop Technology Talent
| Source: Cisco Systems, Inc.
SINGAPORE--(Marketwire - September 28, 2007) - Cisco® (NASDAQ : CSCO ) today launched the Cisco
Express Network on Wheels (NoW), a mobile showcase of Cisco's Internet
Protocol (IP) networking technologies. Packed into the specially
retrofitted 40-foot container are products, solutions and services from
Cisco and its partners including regional sponsors CNA, EMC, Emerson
Process Management, Linksys, Panduit and SingTel and country sponsors 3D
Networks, Avodaq, Common Town, Comstor, Datacraft, NCS, NEC, NexLabs, Qala
and SCS. The Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry is providing
support through awareness building amongst its member organisations.
Starting from Singapore, the Cisco Express will travel to 30 cities in
Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Taiwan. The Cisco
Express-NoW is designed to extend Cisco's reach to organisations in
vertical industries such as healthcare, public sector, manufacturing,
tourism, retail and construction; small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs);
resellers; schools; and even consumers. More than 20,000 people are
expected to have seen the Cisco Express-NoW by the end of the year-long
tour.
At the launch of the Cisco Express-NoW, Cisco also announced a joint
initiative with Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) to enrich the pool of local
networking technology talent. Cisco and NYP will work together to groom
selected students develop expertise in information and communications
technology (ICT) and gain valuable exposure to different regional cultures
as they ready themselves for the global workplace. The students will be
trained and mentored by Cisco experts, industry partners and NYP staff and
will work on industry solutions and innovations on advanced technologies.
The students will work under the Cisco Briefing Center (CBC) in Singapore
and also be a part of the regional Cisco Express project team. The
announcement marks another initiative in the continual collaboration
between Cisco and NYP to support and develop industry capabilities.
"The CBC is a fixed demonstration and proof-of-concept laboratory that we
use to showcase Cisco's technologies to our large enterprise and service
provider customers. Due to limitations in distance and time, the CBC cannot
accommodate all our customers. The Cisco Express-NoW will bring a piece of
the CBC to the doorsteps of our customers throughout the region, help
educate and train new resellers, and play a role in the communities it
visits. The collaboration with NYP will ensure that we keep the Cisco
Express-NoW strongly rooted in the community," said Tom Cheong, Cisco's
managing director for Singapore and Brunei.
"NYP is glad to work with our valued partner in the Cisco Express-NoW
project. Our students will benefit immensely from the development of
solutions and technologies for industry, and from their involvement with
the regional CBC. The exposure will better equip them with advanced ICT
skills and prepare them for the challenges of the global economy. This
project seals yet another resounding effort between NYP and Cisco in
building capabilities for industry," remarked Edward Ho, deputy
principal/development of NYP.
In addition to Cisco employees and the students from NYP, the Cisco
Express-NoW will be staffed by local channel partners and staff and
students from Cisco Networking Academy® institutions in the country where
the Cisco Express-NoW is touring, providing them with practical learning
experiences. More than 1,300 schools in the region participate in the
Networking Academy program.
Equipped with satellite and mobile Internet connectivity and rapid
deployable communications in the container, the Cisco Express-NoW can also
be called on to provide essential communications services for first
responders in the advent of a natural disaster in the vicinity.
"The Cisco Express-NoW helps reach out to cities and people that would
never have had the opportunity to touch and see Cisco's technology in the
metal. However, we want the Cisco Express to be more than just a mobile
technology showcase. It will integrate into the communities that it visits.
We see the Cisco Express as a vehicle to extend the human network further
into more parts of the region," said Christian Hentschel, Cisco's director
for marketing, commercial and channels in Asia.
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