Common use of OVERVIEW SUMMARY Clause in Contracts

OVERVIEW SUMMARY. In recognition of the changing dynamics of the telecommunications and enterprise industries, Cisco has developed its New World Ecosystem. This is an open and flexible program comprised of industry partners committed to working with Cisco in creating profitable solutions for service provider and enterprise customers. The New World Ecosystem solutions will provide faster access to new markets and return on investments for service provider and enterprise customers by delivering competitive and differentiated services to the marketplace. The solutions offered by the New World Ecosystem are based on Cisco's application programming interface set, industry standards and packet technology. Members of the New World Ecosystem will experience significant increases in interoperability through the developments that utilize existing open standards and Cisco's open architecture API set. Cisco complies with many of the international standards bodies, including the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) and the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). In addition, Cisco participates in many industry forums such as the ATM Forum, Frame Relay Forum, Optical Internetworking Forum, Multiservice Switching Forum and Telecommunications Management Forum. Cisco also works with a range of de-facto standards, such as Corba, Sun's Java, Microsoft's TAPI, and others. In addition to the technical advantages of joining Cisco's New World Ecosystem, a member of the new program will also benefit from development equipment, technology sharing, joint marketing, sales support, access to market development funds and Cisco's overall expertise in the marketplace.