SBC and Cisco Clinch Alliance

SBCCommunications Inc. (NYSE: SBC), one of the nation's premier providers of data communications and network integration, and Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO), the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, today announced a strategic marketing and sales alliance to accelerate delivery of open-standard New World broadband services to customers.

Through the multi-billion-dollar agreement, Cisco becomes SBC's preferred provider of data networking equipment for five key platforms - Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Enterprise Virtual Private Network (EVPN), Virtual Point of Presence-Dial Access Service (VPOP-DAS), Broadband Capabilities Gateway (BCG) and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) services. http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/146/pressroom/2000/apr00/sp_041900.htm