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Wireless
Wireless access via wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) is a fast growing enterprise technology with companies and public institutions
across the globe investing to provide indoor and outdoor coverage with seamless roaming for voice, video, and data
applications. We aim to deliver an optimized user experience over Wi-Fi and leverage the intelligence of the network to solve
business problems. Our wireless solutions include wireless access points; standalone, switch-converged, and cloud managed
solutions; and network managed services. Our wireless solutions portfolio is enhanced with security and location-based
services via our Mobility Services Engine (MSE) solution. Our offerings provide users with simplified management and
mobile device troubleshooting features that are designed to reduce operational cost and maximize flexibility and reliability.
We are also investing in customized chipset development to deliver innovative radio frequency (RF) product functionality
such as our CleanAir proactive spectrum intelligence, our ClientLink solution for mobile devices, and our VideoStream video
optimization technology.
Key product areas within our Wireless category are as follows:
Cisco Aironet Series
Access point modules for 3600 Series (802.11ac, 3G, WSSI)
Controllers (standalone and integrated)
Meraki wireless cloud solutions
In fiscal 2013, we introduced Connected Mobile Experience (CMX), a Wi-Fi location data analytics platform designed to
enable our business customers to enhance the mobile device experiences of their customers and thereby create new
monetization opportunities. We also expanded our Unified Access portfolio with our Cisco 5760 Wireless LAN Controller and
Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switches with the aim of converging wireline and mobile networks into one physical infrastructure
and, additionally, achieving greater network intelligence, performance, and integration with our Cisco ONE platform. Our
acquisitions of Meraki, Inc. (“Meraki”), a cloud managed networking company, and ThinkSmart Technologies Limited, a
specialist in Wi-Fi data location analytics, in our view strengthened our Unified Access platform. The acquisition of Meraki is
intended to expand our strategy by providing scalable, easy-to-deploy, on-premise networking solutions for midmarket
businesses that can be centrally managed from the cloud.
Data Center
Our Data Center product category has been our fastest growing major product category for the past three fiscal years. Cisco
Unified Data Center unites computing, networking, storage, management, and virtualization into a single, fabric-based
platform designed to increase and simplify operating efficiencies and provide business agility. Unified Data Center is
specifically designed for virtualization and automation and enables on-demand provisioning from shared pools of
infrastructure across physical and virtual environments.
Key product areas within our Data Center product category are as follows:
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS):
• Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
• Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers
• Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects
• Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco UCS Central Software
• Cisco UCS Director
Server Access Virtualization:
• Cisco Nexus 1000V
• Cisco Nexus 1000V InterCloud
During fiscal 2013 we expanded the systems management capabilities of the Cisco UCS management domain with the
addition of Cisco UCS Central, which platform is designed to expand the Cisco UCS management domain to encompass
thousands of servers across one or many data centers. We continued to invest in data center and cloud management software
by our acquisition of Cloupia, Inc., from which our Cisco UCS Director product evolved. In addition, we continued to invest in
data center-related technologies obtained from prior acquisitions, and we developed new management software innovations
related to Cisco UCS. We also introduced our Cisco Nexus 1000V InterCloud offering, which provides the architectural
foundation for secure hybrid clouds, with the aim of allowing enterprises to easily and securely connect the enterprise data
center to the public cloud.
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