Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) Cisco was founded in 1984 by a group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Cisco has more than 60,000 employees worldwide. Corporate Headquarters is located in San Jose, California, USA. Cisco Ranks No. 1 on Fortune's 2009 most admired networking communications companies and is a market leader in all technology segments.

Networking Systems

The Cisco network systems end-to-end approach allows technical staff to manage the network centrally, as provided by the CNS managed networking solution under the Leverage!CNS brand. Scalable solutions help businesses incrementally add or upgrade equipment as their needs change. With proper management, the network reliably connects all local and remote employees and provides them with access to the same business applications and services.

• Routers
• Switches
• Network Management
• Cisco IOS and NX-OS Software
• Interfaces and Modules
• Optical Networking

 Cisco network systems solutions integrated by CNS help you create an inherently intelligent, integrated network that adapts to current and future business needs by:

• Providing secure, unconstrained connectivity between employees, customers, and information
• Delivering quality, real-time applications, such as voice and video, on a converged network platform
• Helping to ensure access to information and resources from anywhere
• Automating a manageable and self-defending network
• Reducing operating expenses 
• Enabling green business, IT, and networking practices

Collaboration, voice and video

Organizations are under constant pressure to expand business capabilities, operate more efficiently, improve real-time information access, and enhance user interactions. Globalization and new business models are breaking down traditional enterprise boundaries in the Middle East and beyond to new higher levels. Regulations are complicating information processing.  New Internet capabilities are raising customer expectations and demands on user interaction.

Private, local & federal government organizations alike must respond with a new generation of applications built for today's realities, delivering business value by making the most of the latest technologies available.

In addition to the technical capabilities that CNS can assist with, any new or developing application architecture must:

• Deliver new application and presentation models
• Support collaboration across end-to-end business processes
• Extend current practices of SOA and Web 2
• Support access at any time, from anywhere, on any device

While these network-based services can greatly enhance collaborative applications, they must also deliver on an overall technology infrastructure that is easier to manage and operate. Cisco offers collaboration capabilities as robust plug-and-play services whose functions will merge into a homogeneous, intelligent network cloud that works transparently and reliably from end to end.

CNS offers the following technologies and products to make this a reality:

• Voice and Unified Communications including IP Telephony
• Video, Cable and Content Delivery
• Service Exchange
• Universal Gateways and Access Servers  

Security

Cisco security products balance protection and the power to deliver highly secure collaboration.
With Cisco security solutions integrated by CNS, you can connect, communicate, and conduct business securely while protecting users, information, applications, and the network.

• Minimize security and compliance IT risk
• Reduce the IT administrative burden
• Lower the total cost of ownership

CNS has a security practice where a team of subject matter experts can assist you on pure Cisco technologies and also technologies that can enhance and extend the effectiveness of your solution, especially as some companies have a ‘double nock’ policy on security products where two different OEM’s are required.

• Network Security (IPS, email, web, etc)
• Physical Security and Building Systems
• Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
• Firewalls
• Security Management    

Data Center

Cisco Data Center solutions offer practical ways to overcome the limitations and constraints that affect your Data Center. This portfolio of solutions designed and implemented by CNS, will meet your current and future ICT and business needs, can help you reduce total cost of ownership, accelerate business growth, and extend the lifecycle of current infrastructure by transforming your data center into more efficient, responsive and resilient asset.

Infrastructure Consolidation

• Ensure more efficient use of data center facilities
• Gain operational efficiencies and cost savings through standardization and asset consolidation
• Increase asset utilization to increase flexibility and reduce costs 

Energy Efficiency

• Reduce energy costs
• Extend the working life of capital assets
• Optimize use of space, power, and cooling infrastructure
• Avoid or defer construction of new facilities

Mobility

Mobility solutions enable employees and customers to conduct business anywhere, anytime, from any device.  Cisco mobility solutions unify the mobility network, secure and manage mobile devices, and create an open ecosystem for mobility applications. You can even implement mobility across disparate networks. This means the barriers between personal, private, and public networks disappear, delivering a consistent mobility experience.

Evolving the WLAN to a true mobility network makes ICT managers better equipped to manage the wave of new mobile devices, unify multiple networks via a single control interface, and build an open platform for the development of mobility applications.

Above and beyond supporting many applications, Cisco mobility solutions offer the important ability to enhance application performance by providing real-time information from the network and related applications. These include:

• Wireless
• Access Points
• Outdoor Wireless
• Wireless LAN Controllers
• Service Exchange