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BT Select Cisco Aggregation Services Routers for Next-Generation Managed Services
| Source: Cisco Systems, Inc.
LONDON--(Marketwire - July 14, 2008) - Cisco (NASDAQ : CSCO ) announced today that BT Global
Services intends to deploy the new Cisco® ASR 1000 Series Aggregation
Services Routers. BT Global Services has been involved in testing the Cisco
ASR 1000 Series Routers prior to the product's launch in March this year.
"One of our key challenges is to quickly roll out new services whilst at
the same time managing the operational complexity of delivering those
services," said David Stark, vice president, CPE and Converged Services, BT
Global Services. "Unlike past generation routers, which are dependant on
specific service blades, the Cisco ASR 1000 supports multiple services such
as high-speed firewall, security and flexible packet matching on the
platform in hardware. There is no need for engineering site visits to
install service blades and services can be turned on instantly with minimal
network downtime," Stark added.
The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers are driven by the new Cisco QuantumFlow
Processor (QFP), the industry's first fully-integrated and programmable
processing engine. The ASR 1000 Series features software virtualization to
enable 'instant-on' provisioning and the simultaneous use of a wide range
of service functionality, including firewall, IP security virtual private
networks (IPsec VPNs), deep-packet inspection (DPI) and Session Border
Control (SBC). Such broad-ranging embedded capabilities eliminate the need
to deploy multiple single-function appliances in addition to a router,
offering dramatic savings in capital costs and operations expenses and a
reduction in users' carbon footprints. Such capabilities also allow BT
Global Services to more quickly respond to their customers changing needs,
as new services can be activated remotely instead of requiring a truck roll
and service call.
"The Cisco ASR1000 Series offers the quality of service and
high-availability functions needed for us to provide service quality
guarantees to our customers," said Stark. "BT Global Services has been
engaged in ASR testing early in the product lifecycle, and we are satisfied
with the test results so far and by the potential of the ASR1000 for
delivering
next-generation services. We look forward to deploying the ASR1000 range of
routers in our major finance and enterprise markets for critical managed
service applications such as highly secure encryption and VPN, as well as
Cisco TelePresence. We believe this represents an opportunity for BT Global
Services to deliver features and functionality to our customers in an
efficient and cost effective manner."
"We believe that BT Global Services' world-class management capabilities,
combined with the price-performance and power efficiency offered by the ASR
1000 Series make an attractive proposition," said Stefan Dyckerhoff, vice
president and general manager of the Cisco Aggregation Routing business
unit. "Enterprise and financial customers of BT Global Services can look
forward to a range of new services that will help them meet the challenges
of a rapidly-changing and environmentally-aware world."
Further information about the groundbreaking Cisco ASR 1000 may be found at
www.cisco.com/go/asr.
About BT Global Services
BT Global Services are a global service provider helping multi-site
organizations master the complexity of business communications. BT GS
professionals have built and managed some of the largest, most complex and
most reliable ICT networks in the world. We offer a comprehensive set of
services including managed voice, managed LAN and managed VPN to our global
customer base covering over 180 countries. Our suite of next-generation
services are based upon Collaboration, Security, and Application Assurance
and form a part of our core offerings.
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