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Al Gore and Cisco CEO John Chambers to Host Global Debate on Technology and Climate Change

Historic Cisco TelePresence Keynote Panel Discussion to Be Simulcast to Audiences Around the World

SAN JOSE CA--(Marketwire - March 19, 2008) - Today, Nobel laureate Al Gore, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) CEO John Chambers and Cisco Chief Marketing Officer Sue Bostrom will
host a virtual panel discussion on technology innovation and its impact on
climate change. Utilizing Cisco® TelePresence, this event marks a
technological breakthrough that showcases a new way of communicating and
collaborating in which the panelists will appear as if they are in the same
room even though they will be thousands of miles apart, addressing multiple
audiences simultaneously.

This historic panel is open to the public via a free webcast and will be
the featured keynote presentation at VoiceCon Spring 2008. To view the live
discussion on Wednesday, March 19, at 11 a.m. ET (8 a.m. PT /15:00 GMT), go
to www.cisco.com/offer/ecopanel. For more information about Cisco Green or
to view a replay of the webcast, please visit
http://newsroom.cisco.com/ciscogreen.

The discussion will be moderated from London by ITN correspondent Lawrence
McGinty, with Sue Bostrom onstage at VoiceCon, a leading conference for the
communications industry, in Orlando, Fl., John Chambers joining virtually
from Cisco headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and Al Gore from Nashville,
Tenn. The discussion will also be displayed live to international audiences
in London, Paris, Dubai, and Warsaw, creating a unique experience in which
participants will be virtually sitting across the table from these
high-profile leaders. By using Cisco TelePresence and avoiding unnecessary
travel, Mr. Gore, Mr. Chambers and their staff will avoid approximately 4.2
metric tonnes of CO2 emissions based on current calculations performed by
DOMANI, a sustainability management consulting firm, and the University of
California, San Diego. This is equivalent to the amount of CO2 associated
with the electricity use of one home for six months.

These influential leaders in technology and environmental stewardship will
discuss the top technology imperatives for the information technology (IT)
industry in reducing greenhouse gases, describe the ways that collaborative
technologies and workplace mobility can mitigate the growth of a company's
carbon footprint and provide recommendations for companies and their
employees who wish to reduce the effects of climate change. These
discussion topics were formed as a direct result of public inquiries
directed to Gore and Chambers in recent weeks.

"No one company or innovation will have enough impact to reverse global
climate change," Gore said. "However, the technology industry has a
strategic opportunity to lead the charge in helping businesses lower their
carbon footprint by embracing IT innovations."

"We all have a role to play in addressing the world's most pressing
environmental challenges," Chambers said. "At Cisco, we are taking steps to
manage our own carbon footprint as well as creating technology solutions
that are designed with the environment in mind. We believe that information
technology, with the network as a 'green platform,' can transform how we
approach the world's environmental challenges."

Cisco is committed to combining the power of innovation with collaboration
to create the most sustainable model for addressing global climate change.
Throughout the company's worldwide operations, Cisco has so far deployed
more than 185 Cisco TelePresence rooms in more than 25 countries and over
85 cities worldwide. With usage averaging around 5 hours per day per room,
compared to traditional video conferencing, which is typically used less
that 30 minutes per day per endpoint, Cisco estimates it has saved $100
million in travel costs since deploying the technology in October 2006. For
more information on the Cisco TelePresence solution, please visit:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns669/networking_solutions_solution_segment_home.html

To further quantify the environmental benefits of their products, Cisco
today announced that DOMANI will work in concert with the University of
California, San Diego, to calculate the carbon footprint of Cisco Unified
Communications products, starting with Cisco TelePresence. With this
information, Cisco will be able to help customers better calculate the
contribution of technologies to their carbon-reduction plans.

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