Cisco ties-up with IIT-Roorkee

MUMBAI

SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

Cisco Systems announced its collaboration with the Indian Institute of
Technology — Roorkee, for advanced research on mobile agent technology.

According to the collaboration, Cisco will set up networking infrastructure to
facilitate research and development on 'mobile agents' in the wide area
network (WAN) and wireless environments. The infrastructure will also enable
research in the area of mobile security in the delivery of mobile agents, a
Cisco statement said.

The Cisco networking infrastructure will help to improve the study
environment for networking security protocols and architecture. Currently, these
studies are being done in a Local Area Network (LAN) setting, which limits their
applicability in networking research.

Kumkum Garg, professor of Computing and head ISC — IIT —Roorkee, said,
“Mobile Agents are increasingly being used across enterprises for applications
such as meeting-scheduler and intrusion detection. Cisco's networking
infrastructure and its expertise in networking and security will allow us to
extend the scope our research and develop mobile agent technology and deliver
its benefits beyond the LAN environment.”

Cisco networking infrastructure includes catalyst 6509, ISR 2851, ISR 2811
with Cisco call manager express, IP Phones-7970, 7940 for deploying IP
communication solution based on call manager express with high capacity core LAN
switch and ISR routers as part of the mobile agent solution.