Cisco to Host C-Scape Global Forum on Dec. 9 & 10

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - December 4, 2008) - Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO)

WHAT:     Cisco's C-Scape Global Forum 2008 brings industry analyst and
          press communities together with John Chambers, his executive
          team and guest technology leaders, for discussion, debate and
          dialogue on the industry's prevailing issues and trends.

          This year's interactive forum will focus on the process of
          building the Next Internet -- a much richer user experience
          on a global scale -- and feature discussion around key market
          transitions in video, collaboration and
          data center/virtualization.

WHO:      C-Scape 2008 will feature general session remarks from members
          of Cisco's leadership team including:
          -- John Chambers, chairman and CEO
          -- Blair Christie, senior vice president, Corporate
             Communications
          -- Rob Lloyd, senior vice president, United States,
             Canada and Japan
          -- Randy Pond, executive vice president, Operations
             Processes and Systems
          -- Padmasree Warrior, chief technology officer

          General session remarks will also be given by guest
          technology leaders including:
          -- Art Hair, chief technology officer, The Walt Disney Studios
          -- Ken Harvey, group managing director, chief technology and
             services officer, HSBC
          -- Dick Lynch, executive vice president and chief technology
             officer, Verizon

WHEN:     December 9 - 10, 2008

WEBCAST:  C-Scape sessions will be webcast live:
          December 9th from 8:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. and
           3:55 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. PT
          December 10th from 8:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. and
           3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. PT

          To register for the live video webcasts, please go to:
          http://event.ciscowebseminars.com/clients/cisco/CScape2008


PLEASE    Leading the effort to develop new mobile applications, Cisco
NOTE:     is collaborating with ON24 to webcast the opening and
          closing keynotes at Cisco's C-Scape forum live to mobile
          devices.  The application was developed specifically for
          C-Scape.

          For more information on how to access the mobile
          webcast, please go to:
          http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le21/le39/mobile_events.html#~a

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