San Jose, California-based Cisco Systems Inc has called on the Roanoke, Virginia-based Litton-Fibercom unit of Litton Industries Inc for its Asynchronous Transfer Mode video and circuit emulation technology. The strategic partnership has two main elements: the companies will sell each others’ products – from Cisco comes the LightStream 100 and 2020 Asynchronous Mode switches, while Litton-Fibercom contributes the 7640 and 7650 Asynchronous Mode Cell Adaption Multiplexors, or CAMs; secondly, Cisco is licensing a subset of its Internetwork Operating System – providing multiprotocol local network interconnection – for integration into Litton’s CAM products. According to Litton, its CAMs can support the transport of constant bit rate traffic, such as PABX speech traffic, as well as video traffic: Cisco is touting applications, for example video training, inter-office conferencing, long-distance interactive teleconferencing, and distance learning, for the products coming out of the alliance. There is no word yet from the company on price or availability.
