Cisco Ships Integrated Access Devices

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2001--Cisco Systems, Inc., the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, today announced the availability of new IAD2400 Series -- a family of Smart Integrated Access Devices (IADs) for service providers which dramatically reduce the time and cost of delivering managed data and voice services to small and medium businesses (SMBs). The Smart IAD2400 customer premise equipment (CPE) devices are the first and only IADs that provide a proven seamless service migration from circuit-switched voice to packet-switched Next Generation IP services. IAD2400 Series significantly reduces the installation costs with the industry's first Simple Network-enabled Auto Provisioning (SNAP)(TM) technologies. The first product in this family, the IAD2420, is currently in early stages of nationwide deployment with several next-generation service providers who are deploying unique bundles of data and voice services.

The IAD2420 is currently in market trials with BroadRiver Communications' customers. BroadRiver Communications is an Atlanta-based Managed Service Provider developing advanced IP-based voice and data internetworking services for retail and wholesale deployment. "The IAD 2400 Series represents a significant piece in the transformation of the telecommunications infrastructure from a legacy PSTN to a true, Quality of Service-enabled IP infrastructure with voice as the 'killer application,' " said Tom Buttermore, BroadRiver Communications CEO. "With the IAD 2420, Broadriver has accomplished a number of achievements including commercially deploying a distributed MGCP (media gateway control protocol) soft switch, SS7 interconnection and the first deployment of the IAD 2420 as an integral component of BroadRiver's next generation, convergent architecture. The capital and operating impacts for service providers are significant and we are delighted to have been a lead collaborator with Cisco in the development of the IAD 2420."

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