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Bright House Networks Collaborates with Cisco to Offer World Class Managed Security Services

Partnership Achieves Early Success as Nation's 10th Largest School District Looks to Bright House Networks for Comprehensive Managed Services

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BOSTON  – The Cable Show 2012 – May 21, 2012 – Bright House Networks and Cisco announced today that they are working together to help enterprises, government, healthcare, and education institutions better handle security defenses in their networks.  Security attacks are a key concern whether threats begin outside, or inside mission critical networks.  Additionally, the complexity is increasing daily with trends like bring-your-own-devices (BYOD).  The BYOD trend is the biggest new challenge that network managers face today to keep their networks secured and a broad array of end-user devices supported.

Bright House Networks, the sixth largest owner and operator of cable systems in the U.S., and Cisco are making available today a variety of customizable, cutting-edge solutions featuring cloud-basedmanaged security services. Bright House Networks and Cisco are also partnering to provide a better and safer Internet filtering solution and intrusion prevention system to monitor and secure the vast array of enterprise owned or BYOD devices.

Highlights/Key Facts

• The partnership has an early success supporting a public school system in Florida serving more than179,000 students. Bright House Networks was selected to help support their more than 200 schools, administrative offices, and data centers. Bright House Networks is providing MetroE transport and managed router/VPN services via virtual private LAN service (VPLS) with Cisco 3925 Integrated Services Routers Generation 2.
• Separate from MetroE and managed router/VPN, Bright House Networks' managed security services are enabled by Cisco® Smart Operate Services, a white-label service that enables service providers to provide network and application management services for the business market. Under Smart Operate Services service, Cisco delivers provisioning, service orchestration, and assurance with Bright House Networks to customers for security services, including content filtering and intrusion prevention services.
• For all managed services, whether delivered through a partnership with Cisco or provided direct from Bright House Networks, customers will directly experience Bright House Networks premium technical support across the suite of services.
• With an end-to-end network solution built with Cisco technology, including the CRS-3 at the core and the ASR9000 at the edge, Bright House Networks offers a comprehensive region-, state- or city-wide multiservice IP VPN service to enterprises and education institutions. Delivered over a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)-enabled network, this service will help enable schools, governments, and businesses to extend the reach of their networks, and utilize cutting-edge technology knowing that bandwidth is not a limitation.
• Bright House Networks and Cisco are demonstrating their joint data and security services offering at NCTA's The Cable Show 2012, May 21-23, 2012 at Cisco's booth, #1453.  

Supporting Quotes

• Craig Cowden, senior vice president, network engineering and operations, Bright House Networks

"Our collaboration with Cisco allows us to be one of the first cable operators in the United States to offer comprehensive, world-class managed security services to enterprises and our key vertical market's in education, government, and healthcare. Working with Cisco, we've already been able to quickly bring new security services to specific customers in the education vertical, while maximizing previous investment in our robust MPLS-based converged core network.

• Praveen Akkiraju, senior vice president and general manager, service routing technology business unit, Cisco

"Bright House Networks' forward-thinking demonstrates how cable operators can evolve to offer managed services for security, WAN connectivity and unified communications to their enterprise and educational customers in key verticals. Working closely with Bright House Networks, we can help advance their next-generation network with other managed services and maximize their existing distribution infrastructure investments."

Supporting Resources

• Bright House Networks
• Cisco
• Cisco Service Provider solutions
• Cisco Service Provider blog: SP360
• Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2011 to 2016,
• Follow Cisco "The Cable Show 2012" news and activities on Twitter: #CiscoCable12

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Bright House Networks, Cisco, Integrated Services Router, ISR, MetroE transport, Smart Operate Services, service providers, cable operators, managed services, network security, mobility, education, bring-your-own-devices, BYOD, Craig Cowden, Praveen Akkiraju

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About Bright House Networks

Bright House Networks is the sixth largest owner and operator of cable systems in the U.S. and the second largest in Florida with technologically advanced systems located in five states including Florida, Alabama, Indiana, Michigan and California.

Bright House Networks serves more than 2.4 million customers who subscribe to one or more of its video, high-speed data and voice services. The company also offers a full suite of phone, Internet, Ethernet and cable television services to businesses of all sizes. Bright House Media Strategies, the advertising arm of Bright House Networks, offers businesses advanced targeted advertising solutions. Bright House Networks also owns and operates exclusive local news and sports channels in its Florida markets.

For more information about Bright House Networks or our products and services, please visit (www.brighthouse.com).

About Cisco

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Information about Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.com. For ongoing news, please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com.

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Dell and Red Hat Collaborate for Embedded Solutions through Dell OEM Partner Program

RALEIGH

NC, Global, May 8, 2012

Combined Dell Hardware and Red Hat Software Solutions Help Manufacturers Save Money, Speed Time-to-Market

Dell and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced they have signed an agreement to produce Dell and Red Hat hardware/software solutions for IT manufacturers worldwide. Enabling fast time-to-market and considerable cost reductions, Dell OEM Solutions group, as part of its recently announced Dell OEM Partner Program, will offer flexible, integrated systems based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat JBoss Middleware Solutions. Now manufacturers can customize Dell Precision and PowerEdge platforms and utilize the performance and reliability of Red Hat's offerings with approved terms and conditions.

"This newly announced extension of our successful ten-year collaboration means that Dell and Red Hat today can serve the most demanding builders of technology solutions,” said Dion Cornett, vice president, Strategic Alliances at Red Hat. “Appliance and application vendors leveraging the trusted brands and proven solutions of Dell and Red Hat, integrated into a cohesive and readily consumable offering, will enjoy compelling value."

Dell designed the OEM Partner Program to be a highly customizable, one-stop shop for manufacturers. Organized into OEM Channel Partners and OEM Solution Partners, the program includes various levels and types of partnerships which tailor support according to customer needs. Red Hat and/or Dell provide IT manufacturers with several key components to enable their success including:

• deep technical resources and close collaboration with critical suppliers;
• best-of-breed technologies at competitive price points;
• product certification and regulatory compliance;
• extended-life products with locked down hardware configurations; and
• high level of product customization and branding.

“Dell OEM Solutions division collaborates with key technology providers, such as Red Hat, to enable manufacturers to build a more robust and flexible hardware platform,” said Ron Pugh, executive director and general manager, Dell OEM Solutions, Americas. “The technical integration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Middleware offerings with Dell solutions addresses customer specific requirements including regulatory compliance, product life cycles, and quality testing. We are thrilled to have Red Hat as part of the OEM Partner Program as they will help manufacturers with their unique go-to-market needs while allowing them to deliver innovative solutions faster.”

For more information, please visit the below sites.
Dell OEM Solutions and Red Hat Embedded: here
Red Hat: www.redhat.com
Red Hat News site: here

About Dell
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. Dell OEM Solutions helps its customers find more balance between execution and innovation with dedicated OEM resources, industry-standard hardware and global services and support capabilities. Dell helps its OEM customers improve their time to profit and run their operations more efficiently for increased competitive edge. Learn more at www.dell.com/oem.

About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with more than 70 offices spanning the globe. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with cloud, virtualization, management, storage and service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.

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