LONDON -- Cisco Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq:CSCO), the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, today announced that FastWeb SpA, the Italian broadband telecommunications arm of e.Biscom SpA (Milan's Nuovo Mercato:EBI), is deploying a Cisco Ethernet to the X (ETTx) solution to provide business and residential customers with 10/100/1000 Mbps Internet connectivity. Cisco's Metro Ethernet solutions help enable service providers such as FastWeb to deliver profitable comprehensive, Ethernet services in a Metropolitan Area Network. Over this connectivity, FastWeb is delivering carrier-class quality H323 voice over IP, broadcast TV, video-on-demand for residential customers and storage/back-up services, IP video surveillance, IP VPN, video conferencing and innovative video streaming services for business customers. Cisco's technology helps enable the delivery of these bundled services over Ethernet on a single optical fibre. "From the very beginning our mission has been innovation -- not only in terms of the services we supply to our customers, but in the type of technology we use to support them," says Guido Garrone, FastWeb Network Operations Director, "Our decision to select Cisco was a direct consequence of their leadership in the IP arena. Cisco was not only able to offer the key technologies, but also made it easy to set up and tune the solution to handle a mixed bundle of voice, video and data services with proper end-to-end quality of service." Cisco Systems Inc.