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| 7.1 |  | Introduction to Cisco AVVID |
| 7.1.5 |  | Cisco AVVID network solutions |

IP Telephony
Built on the Cisco AVVID Network Infrastructure, a Cisco AVVID IP Telephony solution brings the promise of high-quality IP voice and fully integrated communications to reality. Through IP Telephony, single-site and multisite enterprises can use IP as a primary voice path with the traditional public-switched telephone network (PSTN) serving as a redundant voice path. The easy-to-deploy, standards-based system delivers high voice quality while decreasing the reliance on the PSTN and significantly reducing costs.

IP Video Conferencing
Using an IP based Videoconferencing solution it is now possible to run interactive video over an IP network saving companies thousands of dollars a month by converging voice, video and data traffic over a common path. H.323 builds on top of existing IP data networks, ultimately saving money and scaling to larger deployments. Distance learning and business meetings are two common applications that can be deployed cost effectively with H.323 over IP data networks.

Wireless LANs
Wireless Local Area Networks (LANs) enable users to establish and maintain a wireless network connection throughout or between buildings, without the limitations of wires or cables.

Cisco AVVID Security
Cisco offers a comprehensive array of market-leading, enterprise network security solutions to make implementation and maintenance of good network security easier and more cost-effective.

Virtual Private Networks
Enterprise VPN enables customer connectivity deployed on a shared (public) infrastructure with the same policies as a private network, where users expect the same application behavior, performance, and connectivity.

Content Networking
Content Networking allows enterprises to maximize the impact of communicating topology using the Web by overcoming the modern day bandwidth issues of delivering rich-media to the desktop. Content Networking solutions guarantee that quality video, rich audio and large graphics and other high bandwidth files can be delivered with speed, accuracy and consistency, dramatically increasing the impact of the communications programs.

IP Contact Center
An integral part of Cisco AVVID is the Cisco IP Contact Center (IPCC), which delivers intelligent call routing, network-to-desktop computer telephony integration (CTI), and multimedia contact management to contact center agents over an IP network. By combining software automatic call distribution (ACD) functionality with IP telephony in a unified solution IPCC enables companies to rapidly deploy a distributed contact center infrastructure to support their global e-sales and e-service initiatives.

Storage Networking
The Cisco Storage Networking strategy comprises four complimentary technology areas:

- IP Access to Storage – High speed access to block storage over IP Networks
- Network Attached Storage – High-performance access, data protection, and disaster recovery for file-based storage over an IP Network
- Storage over Metro Optical – Extension of storage networks across metropolitan-area networks (MANs) using an optical network infrastructure
- Storage over WAN – Fast, secure, and highly available storage network interconnect over wide-area networks (WANs)

As an element of Cisco AVVID (Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data), Cisco Storage Networking allows customers to adopt a strategy for accessing, managing and protecting their growing information resources across a consolidated IP, Gigabit Ethernet, Fiber Channel, and optical network infrastructure.

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