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Today’s Cisco Data Center 3.0 announcements include:

· Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) software release 4.1, offering
virtualized application hosting services, greater application acceleration and video
delivery for the branch office;

· Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) software release 3.1 for the ACE 4710
application switch, offering up to 4 gigabits per second (Gbps) of throughput and
up to 2 Gbps of compression capability, and multimedia readiness on a virtualized
platform;

· Cisco VFrame Data Center software release 1.2, offering end-to-end
infrastructure provisioning with Cisco ACE and VMware ESX;

· New Cisco Data Center 3.0 professional programs and services to better support
customers with data center deployments.
Cisco Application Delivery Networks: Providing Virtualization and Application
Fluency

Cisco’s application delivery networking portfolio optimizes application availability, performance and security over the wide-area network (Cisco WAAS) and within the data
center (Cisco ACE). Cisco is announcing new capabilities in the application networking
portfolio that expand application fluency and performance, as well as delivering end-toend
application delivery network support for real-time applications such as IP telephony,
video and multimedia from the data center to the branch office.
Cisco WAAS software release 4.1 supports network-embedded virtualization, enabling
customers to deploy platforms such as Microsoft Windows Server 2008 locally at the
branch office on a Cisco WAAS appliance, reducing server hardware requirements. In
addition, version 4.1 simplifies customer deployments and provides application-specific
acceleration features for Microsoft Exchange (MAPI), web applications (HTTP), live and
on-demand video (RTSP), centralized printing (Windows Print), and Unix/Linux file
sharing (NFS).

Cisco ACE software release 3.1 increases the capacity of the ACE 4710 application
switch up to 4 Gbps of throughput with up to 2Gbps of compression capability, doubling
the device’s virtualized performance in a compact form factor. Software license-based
scalability from 1 Gbps to 4 Gbps dramatically extends customer investment protection,
and provides customers with a highly scalable, yet low entry-point application switching
solution. Cisco has also enhanced the Cisco ACE appliance 4710 and module to leverage
its virtualized load balancing and security services across unified communications,
collaborative technologies, and video applications through its increased ability to
understand the popular Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Real-Time Streaming
Protocol (RTSP).

New Version of Cisco VFrame for Improved Virtualized Data Center Provisioning
Cisco VFrame is a network-driven service orchestration provisioning platform. IT
managers can optimize virtual, compute, storage and network resources with near realtime
deployment agility, based on the provisioning intelligence within VFrame. VFrame
1.2 offers integration with Cisco ACE and VMware ESX, including the ability to
virtualize servers to ACE virtual devices, and/or to select a server out of a utility pool,
and configure it end-to-end with ESX. Cisco VFrame provisions resources intelligently,
with policies and an advanced rules-checking engine, and securely, with a multi-layer,
roles-based access-control interface.

Improved Cisco Data Center 3.0 Services

Cisco announced both new and enhanced programs to help customers successfully deploy
and manage advanced data centers, including the new Data Center Efficiency Assurance
Program, extensions to the Data Center Assurance Program (DCAP) 4.0, and DCAP for
Applications.
For advanced data center technology deployments, Cisco is offering the Efficiency
Assurance Program (EAP), a web-based tool that helps customers better analyze data
center power use and establishes energy benchmarks across facilities and infrastructure.
Additionally, Cisco’s Data Center Efficiency Services help customers identify the
appropriate power and cooling infrastructure to support a highly reliable network, while
identifying steps to make the infrastructure more accessible, efficient and sustainable.

Cisco has updated its Data Center Assurance Program (DCAP) to include large-scale data
center validation, design and implementation guides, including an enhanced Service
Provider section containing an updated baseline architecture and new overlays for video
streaming and mobility services. DCAP also now supports Cisco ACE and Cisco MDS
blade server fabric switches, and solutions including Oracle 11i E-Business Suite,
Microsoft Exchange 2003, Tibco Rendezvous and active-active disaster recovery. Cisco
has also extended its related DCAP for Applications program for the Cisco Application
Delivery Networks portfolio by offering new tested and validated delivery solutions for
Oracle E-Business Suite R12 and Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007.

– Pricing and Availability

Cisco WAAS software release 4.1 is scheduled to be available for download in Q3,
CY08. WAAS Live Video Streaming and WAAS Virtualization are separately licensed
features with pricing starting at $2500 per device. The other WAAS 4.1 features included
in the WAAS Enterprise License are available at no charge to Cisco WAAS Enterprise
License customers with Cisco SmartNet Software and Support with Upgrades (SASU)
Contracts. Cisco ACE software release 3.1 for the ACE Appliance is scheduled to be
available in Q3, CY08 and is offered at no charge for Cisco SmartNet customers; the
additional Cisco ACE Appliance 2Gbps to 4Gbps upgrade throughput license is priced at
$15,000. The Cisco ACE Appliance compression license is priced at $20,000 for a 2Gbps
compression license, $10,000 for a 500 Mbps to 2Gbps compression upgrade license, and
$5,000 for a 1 Gbps to 2 Gbps compression upgrade license. Cisco VFrame Version 1.2
is schduled to be available on both primary and secondary appliances with a base starter
kit of $59,995 list; VFrame 1.2 will be available in Q3, CY08. Cisco EAP, DCAP 4.0 and
DCAP for Applications are currently available.