Mobile Service Providers Benefit from Cisco IP NGN Innovations

Wataniya Telecom of Kuwait simplifies and cost-effectively provisions network bandwidth while improving architectural flexibility.

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 8, 2007 - Cisco® today announced two significant innovations to its Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture: a Mobile Transport over Pseudowires (MToP) solution and an enhanced Cisco Content Services Gateway.
These Cisco IP NGN innovations will enable mobile service providers to dramatically improve traffic backhaul, ease second-generation (2G), third-generation (3G) and fourth-generation (4G) service convergence, and manage content access and billing more efficiently - while offering greater mobile user personalization capabilities. Both innovations are designed for providers using Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) or Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) technologies.

Cisco and Apple Reach Agreement on iPhone Trademark

CISCO weds Apple

Cisco® and Apple today announced that they have resolved their dispute

involving the "iPhone" trademark. Under the agreement, both companies are free to use the "iPhone" trademark on their products throughout the world. Both companies acknowledge the trademark ownership rights that have been granted, and each side will dismiss any pending actions regarding the trademark. In addition, Cisco and Apple will explore opportunities for interoperability in the areas of security, and consumer and enterprise communications. Other terms of the agreement are confidential.

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