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Sydkraft Bredband Adopts Cisco IP NGN Featuring Multiservice Optical Network to Extend Wholesale Regional Broadband Service Across Southern SwedenCANNES, France & MALMO, Sweden --(Business Wire)-- June 28, 2005 -- Hospitals, Municipalities and Service Providers to Benefit From Broadband Access Relying on Cisco IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) Featuring ONS 15454 Series Optical Networking Platforms Cisco Systems(R) (Nasdaq:CSCO) today announced that Sydkraft Bredband has begun migration to a Cisco IP Next generation Network (IP NGN), including one of the largest deployments to date of Cisco optical networking platforms within Europe, the Middle East and Africa, to support the rollout of broadband Internet access services to hospitals, municipalities, schools and businesses across Sweden. IP NGN is a Cisco strategy enabling service provider migration to all-Internet Protocol (IP) networks. IP NGN migration will increase Sydkraft's ability to deliver innovative new services, improve its operational and capital expenditure efficiencies and advance the network and service control that it and its customers need for long-term business success. Sydkraft's deployment also covers villages and towns in 32 local councils in the Skane region. The Skane councils, comprising some of the most highly-populated areas of Sweden and part-funded by the central government, have contracted Sydkraft Bredband to provide the infrastructure for broadband access to all villages or towns with more than 200 people. The service provider will use the Ethernet and Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) capabilities of the Cisco ONS 15454 Series Optical Networking Platform to provide Metro Ethernet aggregation for DSL equipment in telephone exchanges. Based on the Cisco IP NGN, Sydkraft Bredband is working with regional authorities throughout Southern Sweden to provide high-speed connectivity services to hospitals, schools and universities, as well as offering individual municipalities a service to develop a custom high-speed local network that takes advantage of the reach of the infrastructure. "Cisco was able to provide us with a highly effective method of bringing infrastructure for DSL access to a wide range of centers across the south of Sweden," said a Sydkraft Bredband spokesperson. "This Cisco IP NGN approach shows leadership with intelligent Ethernet aggregation of DSL traffic, it meets our needs for capacity and redundancy and will play a critical role in helping to grow the local economy through the delivery of connectivity to public sector bodies, such as hospitals and schools, and Internet service providers." The Sydkraft Group works closely with local authorities in providing energy, environmental and communications services across Sweden and is using Cisco technology to create two optical multiservice SDH networks. The first is a national STM-16 (Synchronous Transport Module level 16) network, predominantly for business users, that covers two thirds of the country (by population), with hubs at Skane, Halland, Goteborg, Kalmar, Ostergotland, Orebro, Stockholm and Gavleborg. The second, SkaNet, is a regional network made up of STM-64 rings which connect Skane's city councils, healthcare centers, businesses and residential users. This provides high-speed backhaul over optical fiber behind the DSL infrastructure in local telephone exchanges. "Sydkraft Bredband has been delivering broadband access for nearly half a decade, but this deployment clearly positions it for wide-scale expansion in the future as it has a track record in the provision of high-density access to public sector bodies and residential hubs," commented Andy Lockhart, VP Northern Europe for Cisco Systems EMEA. By choosing a Cisco IP NGN featuring the multiservice provisioning platform, Sydkraft Bredband enables its network infrastructure to support future extensions of its telecom services portfolio. The Cisco ONS multiservice optical platform allows companies to deliver time-division multiplexing, Ethernet, storage area networking and Lambda services by simply plugging new cards into already-deployed network elements. Cisco Advanced Services worked closely with Sydkraft Bredband and Dimension Data on the project implementation. The core optical technologies used are the Cisco ONS 15454 SDH Multiservice Provisioning Platform, with ML Series interfaces providing Resilient Packet Ring network resilience and optimization features, the Cisco ONS 15305 Multiservice Customer Access Platform and the ONS 15216 Regional Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) system, operating with Cisco Transport Manager Centralized Network Management System. Sydkraft Bredband also has a range of IP routers and switches offering point-to-point connectivity for public sector and business customers. These include Cisco 7609 and 7304 Routers, Cisco Catalyst 4500 and 3550 Series Switches and Cisco 837 ADSL Broadband Routers. About Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO), the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, this year celebrates 20 years of commitment to technology innovation, industry leadership and corporate social responsibility. Information on Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.com. 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