Test Your Cisco Smarts. How Much Do You Know About Mobility?

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - February 9, 2009) - Cisco® (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced it is hosting a web scavenger hunt, known as Cisco Smarts, to educate service providers and mobile operators about Cisco's Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) leadership in the transformation of the mobile experience, network and business.

Highlights/Key Facts:

• Cisco Smarts begins Monday, Feb. 9 and runs through Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009. To enter, participants must submit answers to the daily questions via a custom registration form. Daily questions will appear on the program website http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns341/ns523/cisco_smarts.html and participants will be given clues to find the answers on www.cisco.com.



• Enter all four days for a chance to win. Daily winners will be selected based on the terms and agreements posted on the Cisco Smarts website and participants will be eligible for a daily prize drawing of a 16GB Apple iPod Touch. Additionally, one grand prize winner will be selected to win a USD $3,500 Bank of America Visa Gift Card.



• Register to receive text message (SMS) updates on the Cisco Smarts scavenger hunt: Get a text message as soon as the sweepstakes begins and daily alerts when new questions are posted. You can register directly from your mobile phone by texting in the U.S./Canada to phone number 24726 (which spells Cisco on your phone keypad) or outside the U.S./Canada to phone number +44779780164. In the body of the message type in the keyword "Smarts" and hit send.

Tags / Keywords:

Cisco, Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network, IP NGN, Cisco Smarts, Mobility, Mobile Internet, Mobile Transformation, 4G

URL Links:

• Cisco Smarts: www.cisco.com/go/smarts



• YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/CiscoSP360



• Twitter: https://twitter.com/CiscoSP360



• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8132918757

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Trackback URL: www.cisco.com/go/smarts

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Contact Information: Contacts Information: Kevin Petschow +1.773.444.5106 kpetscho@cisco.com Beth Mayer +1.415.593.8442 bethm@text100.com