Cisco and Vsys to develop Advanced Communications Services for Latin American Companies

Small and Medium Companies in the region enjoy the benefits of Unified Communications.

Acapulco, Gro. México. September 2, 2009 - Today at Networkers Mexico 2009, Cisco announced that it will join efforts with Vsys to develop a technological platform that will allow mid-size and small companies to enjoy the benefits of Unified Communications in the same way as large corporations, allowing them to increase collaboration in their business.

The goal of this collaboration between Cisco and Vsys is to help organizations overcome adoption barriers of IT business solutions by offering Unified Communications as a Service. Enabled by Cisco technology, Vsys provides Unified IP Telephony, Unified Messaging, Unified Personal Communication, Unified Voice and Web Collaboration and Unified Mobile Convergence to companies through a Monthly rent on a per user basis. With this model, companies avoid the upfront investment, deploy a set of solutions developed by highly trained experts and do not have to pay for the costs and challenges associated to operate the systems and solutions.

Comoanies of all sizes are adopting managed services or IT solutions from Virtual Service Providers as a service to gain competitive advantage in a rapidly changing business environment.

Managed Services are one of the most effective methods for a company to reduce IT costs while gaining access to innovative network technologies that can confer a competitive advantage. The service provider manages and administers the network equipment and applications, reducing hardware and operational costs.

Managed Services also eliminate the risk that the company will need to make a large capital expenditure to accommodate unplanned business changes, such as increased bandwidth or performance requirements.

About Vsys

Vsys (Vsys S.A. de C.V.) leverages technological disruption like virtualization, web 2.0 and Broadband growth in order to develop a vertically integrated set of managed solutions based on a service orientes architecture. Vsys solutions can be found at www.vsys.com

About Cisco

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Information about Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.com. For ongoing news, please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com. Cisco equipment in Emerging Markets is supplied by Cisco Systems International BV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.