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SAN JOSE, Calif. - July 28, 2010 - Cisco today announced that its board of directors will offer a shareholder advisory vote on executive compensation during its next annual meeting scheduled for November 18, 2010.  At the meeting, shareholders will be given the opportunity to provide input on the compensation of named executive officers by casting a non-binding vote. Cisco ...

SAN JOSE, Calif, - July 28, 2010 - Cisco has scheduled a conference call for Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 1:30 PM (PT) to announce its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2010 financial results for the quarter ending Saturday, July 31. Financial results will be released over Marketwire, as well as the European Business and Technical Wire after the close of the market on Wednesday, August 11, ...

CHENGDU, China - July 28, 2010 - Cisco today delivered its 'Connecting Sichuan' year two report to the Sichuan provincial government, detailing the company's progress in collaborating with a multitude of local partners to improve the state of education and healthcare in the province after the devastating May 12th Wenchuan earthquake struck two years ago. At a meeting held jointly by Cisco and the ...

SILICON VALLEY, Calif. - July 28, 2010 - As part of their ongoing collaboration, Cisco, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), and VMware (NYSE: VMW) today announced the industry's first certified end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution for VMware-virtual environments. This combined solution supports FCoE end-to-end to reduce the number of devices and cables needed and to drive data center ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - July 27, 2010 - NightHawk Radiology Services, which provides high-quality, cost-effective services to approximately 1,600 healthcare sites – including 26 percent of all U.S. hospitals – has selected the Cisco Unified Computing System® as a highly available and scalable platform for the company's new main data center, which consolidates many smaller server sites ...

SHANGHAI, China - July 27, 2010 - Earlier this month, Cisco TelePresenceTM equipment enabled the first virtual dance rehearsal of young dancers of the Children's Palace in Shanghai and their counterparts from National Dance Institute (NDI) in New York. These talented children began preparations for their joint performance from opposite sides of the world using Cisco's high-definition, video ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - July 23, 2010 - Cisco will host a live Internet TV broadcast and Q&A session featuring NightHawk Radiology Services, which provides high-quality, cost-effective services to approximately1,600 healthcare sites, including 26 percent of all hospitals throughout the United States. NightHawk Radiology Services has selected the Cisco Unified Computing System® as a highly ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - July 20, 2010 - TalktoCanada.com, a global company specializing in helping people to improve their English communications skills through online learning, has chosen Cisco WebEx Meeting Center to deliver full-service, online English language education to students anywhere in the world. TalktoCanada.com provides customized course content to meet individual needs. With ...

SAN FRANCISCO - July 22, 2010 - Businesses must change their mindset on security to help ensure that their networks and vital corporate information are protected from evolving security threats, according to the Cisco 2010 Midyear Security Report released today. Tectonic shifts – the increasing use of social networking, the proliferation of network-connected mobile devices, and virtualization ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - July 20, 2010 - Cisco and CIMB Group, a leading financial institution in Malaysia, today announced the deployment of Cisco TelePresenceTM suites across the CIMB Group's offices in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore. CIMB Group is the first financial services provider in Malaysia to harness the power of video and virtual meetings and aims to transform the ...

CLEVELAND and SAN JOSE, Calif. - July 21, 2010 - Cisco today announced that it has joined with OneCommunity, a leader in incubating public-private partnerships and a nonprofit broadband service provider supporting northern Ohio, to transform the region with dynamic citizen and government programs. The pilot programs, which are part of Cisco's global Smart+Connected Communities efforts, are ...

June 20, 2010 WHAT: Cisco and a leading Ohio nonprofit will announce a new partnership and series of pilot programs aimed at improving local citizens' quality of life. This relationship is the latest in Cisco's ongoing global Smart+Connected Communities initiative, with the goal of increasing access to education and government services via advanced connected ...

LAGOS, Nigeria - July 20, 2010 - Gateway Business, a Vodacom Group company and leading supplier of African telecommunications services, has selected Cisco for its multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network in Nigeria and across sub-Saharan Africa. This deployment means that Cisco technology solutions will drive an IP next generation network (NGN) for Gateway Business, employing intelligent MPLS ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - July 20, 2010 - Cisco announced today that its Internet Routing in Space (IRIS) technology has achieved another major milestone with the successful completion of in-orbit testing for the United States Department of Defense.  The first-ever deployment of an Internet Protocol (IP) router aboard a commercial satellite, this milestone represents another step in IRIS' ...

GERMANY - July 5, 2010 - Tata Communications, a leading provider of the new world of communications, today announces that it has been chosen by German reinsurance company, Hannover Re, to deploy and run its TelePresence facilities, serving the group's internal teams in 18 locations across 16 countries, worldwide. Tata Communications will roll out the Cisco TelePresence high-definition; ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. – July 16, 2010 – Cisco today announced it has completed its acquisition of privately-held CoreOptics Inc., a designer of digital signal processing (DSP) solutions for high-speed optical networking applications. Headquartered  in San Jose, with the majority of its employee base in Nuremberg and Gerlingen, Germany, CoreOptics will enable Cisco to equip service ...

Join an interactive discussion on July 27 when Cisco Futurist Dave Evans shares his predictions for the future, discusses the explosion of data and explores the coming Internet of Things – in which everyday objects such as thermometers, cars, light switches and more will have IP addresses and be connected to the Internet. Talk2Cisco Broadcast July 27 at 1 p.m. PT Upcoming Shows: ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 15, 2010 – Setting its sights on revitalizing the global events industry, Cisco today introduced Collaboration for Events, a new approach to planning, executing and extending the impact of trade shows and conferences. Collaboration for Events provides event planners and executives with customizable options for using collaboration and business video technologies like ...

LONDON, July 15, 2010 - Cisco today announced the winners of International NetRiders, its prestigious Internet networking competition, which was held July 7 across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (MEA), and Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The 117 Cisco® Networking Academy® entrants participated simultaneously online, across five time zones The winners of each ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. – July 13, 2010 – Cisco announced today that Station Casinos Inc., a large casino and resort operator in Las Vegas, has implemented one of the gaming industry's most sophisticated data center infrastructures using the Cisco Unified Computing SystemTM. The network-based infrastructure serves as a platform for virtualizing a number of operations and gaming applications, ...