Cisco announced it has completed the purchase of San Jose-based Nuova Systems, a startup focused on the development of next-generation products for the data center market.

NetQoS® Inc. has teamed with Cisco® to help network engineers quantify the performance improvements derived from Cisco application delivery networks deployed using Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) modules and appliances, and Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) products.

Continuing its commitment to the small and medium-sized business (SMB) marketplace, Cisco® today announced a suite of new additions and updates to the Cisco Smart Business Communications System (SBCS). Extensions to the portfolio include technical services, the tripling of unified communications capabilities up to 48 users, and the addition of four new Ethernet switches.

The world's largest Islamic bank, Al Rajhi Bank, has deployed the Cisco® Unified Communications system as a strategic move to drive its business expansion in Malaysia. The solution has been implemented across the bank's 182 existing branches to provide a highly scalable, cost-effective and highly secure communications system and it will accommodate future growth plans for up to 50 branches by 2010.

Cisco® (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced that the Cisco® Application Control Engine (ACE) module, a member of the Cisco family of Data Center 3.0 solutions, has been deployed at leading higher-education institutions to consolidate and virtualize data center resources, and to enable faster application delivery to students, administrators and faculty.

BEA Systems Inc., BMC Software Inc., CA, Cisco Systems Inc., Dell Inc., EMC Corp., HP, IBM Corp., Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced they have submitted a specification to the World Wide Web Consortium for review as an industrywide standard.