HP IS SELECTED BY CISCO AS AUTHORIZED WORLDWIDE SERVICE PROVIDER

New Agreement Enhances HP's Network-integration Services

Palo Alto, California. April 10, 1995 -- Hewlett-Packard Company and Cisco
Systems, Inc. today announced that Cisco has selected HP as a worldwide
authorized service provider for Cisco's internetworking products. In
addition to delivering comprehensive hardware, software and network
support to multinational customers, HP now will be able to offer Cisco
products as part of its network-integration services.

The strategic agreement broadens Cisco's range of support options for
meeting customers' complex multivendor networking needs. HP will provide
installation, phone-in assistance, on-site maintenance, software updates,
remote diagnostics, 24-hour technical support and other services. The new
agreement, an expansion of a previous relationship in which HP provided
Cisco with hardware support, also enables HP to procure and integrate
Cisco products as part of its network-implementation services for
multivendor environments.

Customers will have access to HP's broad networking expertise, including
such services as network integration and proactive network management for
maximum availability. In addition, Cisco's multinational clients now can
benefit from HP's single-point-of-contact services and consistent
worldwide delivery.

To ensure the highest level of responsiveness to customers, intracompany
procedures such as technical-information sharing and escalation management
of issues have been enhanced. HP service and support professionals
throughout the world will receive in-depth technical product training
through all levels of Cisco certification.

"HP is the first Cisco partner to be both a reseller and a worldwide
authorized service provider for Cisco products," said Don LeBeau, Cisco's
senior vice president of worldwide operations. "This agreement will
significantly broaden the spectrum of product sales and support choices
available to our multinational customers."

"The expanded relationship with Cisco enhances HP's position as the leading
support provider for multivendor networking environments," said Doug
Chapin, marketing manager of HP's Multivendor Services Division. "Through
this support alliance and others, HP can maximize network uptime through
rapid fault isolation and on-site services, where and when customers need
it."

HP also will become a worldwide Cisco Gold Certified Partner, the highest
level of reseller support certification. HP will address
support-infrastructure requirements in local regions by doing such things
as staffing regions with Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts who have
extensive IBM SNA and CiscoWorks router-management expertise. Thus, HP can
provide customers with a full range of services for Cisco products from a
single service provider.

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the leading global supplier of enterprise networks,
including routers, LAN and ATM switches, dial-up access servers and
network-management software. These products, integrated by the Cisco
Internetwork Operating System (Cisco IOS) link geographically dispersed
LANs, WANs and IBM networks. Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, Calif.,
and in the United States, is traded under the NASDAQ symbol CSCO.

HP offers a broad range of services to design, integrate, finance,
implement, operate, manage and maintain computing environments consisting
of multivendor hardware, software and networks. In 1994, HP generated $3.6
billion in service revenue. HP information-technology service and support
programs are delivered by 17,500 professionals worldwide.

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