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California Educational Data Processing Association
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The DataBus - Vol. 37, No. 4
June-July, 1997
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Cisco Systems Announces Networkers ’97 Conference and Catalyst Switch Discounts
Los Angeles: Event provides opportunity to enhance skills, learn about technologies.
Sue Mangiapane, Cisco Systems
The time has come for the most important networking conference of the year - Networkers ’97, Cisco Systems’ 8th Annual User Conference.
Designed specifically for Cisco customers, Networkers ’97 helps you become more knowledgeable and proficient in your field - whether you’re an enterprise network manager, a networking professional, or a service provider. In short, it’s the one networking conference you can’t afford to miss.
Networkers ’97 will be held in Los Angeles on June 18-20 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Networkers ’97 is the best opportunity you’ll have all year to:
- Take detailed technical courses taught by Cisco’s networking experts.
Customize your own course curriculum. With more than 120 courses divided into seven tracks and taught at three different levels of technical depth, you’ll be sure to get the information you need most. Tracks include:
WAN Access - wide-area network design and product direction issues.
Dialup Access - remote access design and product direction issues.
Campus - key enterprise design and emerging technology issues for the wiring closet, backbone, and data center.
General Enterprise - network design, management, and products of interest to all enterprise customers.
Core Network - network infrastructure design and emerging technology issues as they relate to service providers.
Customer Premises - product direction and emerging technology of interest to service providers who sell and install on site.
General Service Provider - design, management, and products of interest to all service providers.
- Have your individual networking questions answered.
Small network design clinics give you one-on-one access to technical experts.
- Hear Cisco’s President and CEO, John Chambers, and other industry leaders speak about the major issues in networking today.
Other speakers include Cisco Systems’ Chief Technology Officer, Edward R. Kozel, and special guest, Douglas Adams, best-selling author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
- Network with colleagues and peers.
Share information with fellow networking professionals at special events, functions, and informal gatherings.
If you’d like more information about conference courses and/or registration, call the Networkers ’97 hotline toll-free at 800 250-4800, ext. 74215. Don’t miss out on the most complete networking solutions conference of the year and your chance to get the technical training and information resources you need.
Networkers ’97 Conference is pleased to offer a special discounted rate for our Public Sector customers representing government and educational institutions, state, local, and federal.
The special rate of $600 is available beginning Tuesday, April 22. It is important that those who register for this special discount use the registration form on our fax-back service. (This way we will be able to insure that the special discount price is applied to the appropriate individuals). The Networkers web site and Hotline will announce the new discount, as well as instructions on how to register using the fax-back form. This will be posted on Monday evening.
Government and education customers should call the Networkers ’97 fax-back service at (800) 978-9651, or (415) 596-4447. Voice prompts will give instructions on how to request the special discounted registration form.
New Discount Programs
In preparation for the peak summer education purchasing season, Cisco is happy to announce a very special promotion designed to offer affordable ethernet switching to qualified US education customers for as low as $78 per port for the Catalyst 1900 Series, the fastest selling line of Cisco switches! This is a savings of an additional 25% off the standard 30% education discount from the US list price of $3995:
WS-C1900
Model # |
US List |
Education
Price
(30% off) |
Promo Edu
(25% off
Education Price |
$3995 |
$2797 |
$2097($78/port) |
WS-C1900C |
$4495 |
$3146 |
$2360($87/port) |
Available dates: April 21-July 31, 1997 |
Sue Mangiapane is Account Manager for Cisco Systems, Inc. She can be reached by telephone at (714) 789-5006, by FAX at (714) 789-5005, or by e-mail at .
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