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June 01, 2009

Cisco Customers Cut Costs, Leverage Network Power

By Calvin Azuri


Cisco, the world’s largest maker of computer networking gear, recently demonstrated newer and more innovative ways for customers to use the network to improve mobility and collaboration reduce costs and promote environmental sustainability.
 
Officials at San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco (News - Alert) also announced the launch of new features to their Catalyst Switch and Integrated Services Router products that will contribute further financial worth to its network enabling enterprises achieve economies in energy and IT costs and promoting interoperability for the mobile personnel.
 
Customer experiences were specifically highlighted at the seminar. Among them was the Council Rock School District which has on-board over 12,000 students and 1,400 staff members. CRSD has deployed a Cisco Catalyst Platform that enables maintenance personnel to perform routine tasks online thus enabling vast savings in energy costs. From December 2005, energy costs have been cut by over 42 percent resulting in a net savings of $5.3 million. The school is now in the process of installing Cisco’s EnergyWise, Cisco’s latest enterprise energy management solution on the Catalyst Platform to extend the energy management initiatives to laptops and PCs and wireless access points, resulting in further savings of $85,000 per year.
 
The Cardio Vascular Group, a popular Virginia-based cardiology practice group, has deployed Cisco’s 2800 Series Integrated Services Routers with a combined voice and wireless capability. The latest feature to be installed in this product is the Cisco Integrated Internet Protocol (IP) fax service that is expected to bring about costs savings and simplify routine tasks like faxing documents. This feature has been installed on the ISR Cisco Application Extension Platform that serves as a host to Linux applications from the router, making use of the network as an application host and hence, doing away with the requirement of maintaining a server in every branch office.
 
The latest updates include the Cisco 880 VDSL2 and 890 Series Integrated Services Routers, Cisco 1861W Integrated Services Router, Cisco 3G Wireless Wide Area Network for the ISR, Singlewire Software offers Cisco Application Extension Platform solution, Cisco Unified Communications (News - Alert) enhancements for mobility and collaboration and Support for Cisco EnergyWise on the ISR for greater energy savings. The Cisco catalyst switch also comes with add-on features like the Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor 6L-E and Line Card, Smart CallHome and Energy wise for the same and a set of upgrades for the 6500 Series.
 
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Calvin Azuri is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Calvin’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Michael Dinan

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