SAN JOSE, Calif., June 8, 2006 - Cisco Systems, Inc., (NASDAQ: CSCO) - Cisco Systems® today announced a definitive agreement to acquire the privately-held companies Metreos Corp of Austin, Texas, and Audium Corp of New York, New York, in two separate deals. Both of these companies offer easy to use, drag and drop, application creation/integration environments which will strengthen Cisco's Service Oriented Network Architecture (SONA). With these acquisitions, Cisco will help enable its ecosystem of development partners to easily create and deploy value-added business applications.

In March 2006, Cisco announced its Unified Communications system, based on Cisco's SONA, which enables enterprise customers to integrate their communications systems with their IT infrastructure, thereby creating a single enterprise-wide communications platform. The Cisco Unified Communications system of voice, video and IP communications products and applications enables organizations of all sizes to communicate more effectively by leveraging all services located in the network from anywhere, with any device, at anytime.

By acquiring Metreos and Audium and their standards-based creation and integration tools, customers and partners will be able to rapidly build customized communications applications that are fully integrated across the enterprise IT infrastructure, enterprise applications, and enterprise contact centers.

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