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Cisco TelePresence Supports Next-Generation Commercial Services From NTT East and NTT West
| Source: Cisco Systems, Inc.
TOKYO--(Marketwire - October 24, 2008) - Cisco Systems (NASDAQ : CSCO ) Godo Kaisha (President &
CEO: Edzard Overbeek; Address: Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo; Cisco) today
announced that Cisco® TelePresence now supports the next-generation
network (NGN) commercial services provided by Nippon Telegraph and
Telephone East Corp. (President: Tsutomu Ebe; Address: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo;
NTT East) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp. (President:
Shinichi Otake; Address: Chuo-ku, Osaka; NTT West).
Cisco has added support for NTT's user network interface (UNI)(1) to Cisco
IOS® Software(2), enabling Cisco routers and switches to connect directly
to NTT's UNI. The Cisco TelePresence system can now be easily added to
commercial NGN services offered by NTT East and NTT West. Business
communications can also more easily take place between companies using the
same NTT service, while Cisco TelePresence use can be tracked via metered
billing.
Cisco TelePresence can be used as a guaranteed bandwidth application
service called "Hikari Telephone Office Type" that can be subscribed to by
users of "Flets Hikari Next Business Type," for which NTT East and NTT West
are scheduled to begin service in October 2008.
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(1) UNI: An interface specification for connecting a telecommunication
carrier's communication equipment with facilities on the end user's side.
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