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The Provider Newsletter
For Canadian Service Providers

Cisco Completes Acquisition of CoreOptics

Cisco Announces Winners of 'What If Your TV Could…?' Global Video Contest

Cisco and NetApp Unveil End-to-End FCoE Solution with VMware for the Dynamic Data Center

Cisco Delivers Data Center Architectural Flexibility to Support Virtualization and Cloud-Based Environments

Save the Date: COMPTEL Plus Fall Convention and Expo

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Cisco Completes Acquisition of CoreOptics

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 provider customers with highly advanced 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) transmission technology to scale their networks to meet the demands of rapidly growing Internet Protocol traffic driven by video, mobility and cloud services.

The next phase of innovation in optical networking will be driven by sophisticated modulation formats and advanced DSP technologies. These new capabilities enable the efficient transmission of large amounts of data over existing fiber optic installations. By enabling high speeds across an existing infrastructure, Cisco and CoreOptics will address the challenge facing service providers of accommodating the growth in network traffic while managing tight capital expenditure budgets.

Cisco Announces Winners of 'What If Your TV Could…?' Global Video Contest

Watch a replay of Cisco announcing the winners of its "What If Your TV Could… ?" contest live via a special Talk2Cisco online broadcast.

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Cisco and NetApp Unveil End-to-End FCoE Solution with VMware for the Dynamic Data Center
Long-standing Collaboration Highlights Continued Momentum With Industry's First End-to-End Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Offering for VMware-virtualized Environments

As part of their ongoing collaboration, Cisco, NetApp, and VMware 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 consolidation, virtualization, and automation. Cisco data center switches and NetApp® storage FCoE solutions are now validated by VMware to support VMware-based virtualized environments, marking a significant milestone for the progression of the FCoE protocol to help more customers achieve efficiency in their dynamic data centers and progress on their journey to cloud computing.

Cisco Delivers Data Center Architectural Flexibility to Support Virtualization and Cloud-Based Environments
Innovations Include FabricPath Technology for Data Center Scalability, WAN Optimization Solutions, and new Cloud Services

Cisco has announced new technology that supports its Data Center 3.0 strategy to help customers increase the flexibility of their data centers as they become more virtualized and cloud-based. The new technology advances Cisco's underlying unified fabric capabilities that help customers enhance the efficiency of information delivery in physical and virtualized data center environments, and manage public and private cloud resources more effectively.

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Save the Date: COMPTEL Plus Fall Convention and Expo

Cisco is proud to be a major sponsor of the upcoming COMPTEL Plus Fall Convention and Expo, which will be held at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Dallas September 12-15, 2010. COMPTEL PLUS is the preeminent networking event for innovative communications companies.

Attendees can purchase full conference passes to attend all educational sessions in addition to the EXPO, networking events and receptions. Networking passes are available for those who opt not to take advantage of the educational agenda. For more information on registration rates or to register, click here. We hope to see you there.

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