Cisco Systems Inc. (San Jose, CA) and General Instrument Corp. (Horsham PA) intend to work with

March 1, 1999

Cisco Systems Inc. (San Jose, CA) and General Instrument Corp. (Horsham PA) intend to work with AT&T (Morristown, NJ) on a non-exclusive basis to develop and trial a seamless, end-to-end Internet protocol (IP) solution that would allow AT&T to offer data, voice and video services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial cable (HFC) network now being deployed. Although specific agreements have not been reached, the Cisco/General Instrument IP telephony solution under development would allow AT&T to offer its customers the ability to simultaneously watch television, send and receive faxes, surf the World Wide Web, and talk on the telephone.

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