AT&T and Cisco Systems expanded their relationship to include joint sales and marketing activities of managed services for U.S. business customers and U.S.-based multi-national customers. As part of the agreement, the Cisco sales organization and its indirect sales channel will join in the delivery of AT&T managed services. The initial offerings covered by the partnership include 17 AT&T end-to-end managed services, including IP VPNs, metro optical and Ethernet services, managed router services, managed hosting services and voice/data integrated-access services.
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- In December 2002, SBC and Cisco Systems announced a new strategic marketing and sales agreement focused on managed business services. The relationship calls for Cisco to become the preferred provider for specific SBC managed service products, including IP telephony, network and CPE-based IP VPNs, security, storage networking, hosting, and WLANs. SBC subsidiaries also plan to use Cisco optical networking, Ethernet transport and network-based IP-VPN technology in their core network infrastructure.
- In April 2002, Cable & Wireless and Cisco Systems announced a four year strategic alliance under which Cable & Wireless will build out a global Cisco Powered Network. The companies will also conduct joint sales and marketing activities targeted specifically at enterprise data and voice convergence solutions.
- In February 2002, AT&T announced the integration of Cisco Systems’ ONS 15454 SONET Multiservice Platform and the Cisco Transport Manager as key elements of its nationwide optical network buildout. AT&T is using the Cisco ONS 15454 to provide multi-service aggregation of lower-rate customer traffic up to high-speed (OC-48 or OC-192) pipes for routing across the network. The ONS 15454 also delivers scalable bandwidth services at a variety of speeds, from 1.5 Mbps to 10 Gbps, and Gigabit Ethernet. The Cisco Transport Manager, which is the optical element management system for the Cisco COMET portfolio, provides automation of provisioning and maintenance functions for the ONS 15454. The AT&T optical network also uses the CIENA CoreDirector switch.