Press Release

CISCO Becomes Platinum Sponsor of Premium Building-IT Convergence Event

DALLAS, TEXAS—January 12th, 2006 — Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader of networking for the Internet, today became a Platinum Sponsor of the 4th annual BuilConn Americas, the integrated and intelligent building community’s premier conference and exposition being held in The Palm Springs Convention Centre, May 16-18 2006 in Palm Springs California.

As a BuilConn Platinum Sponsor, Cisco will take a center stage position in the support of intelligent and integrated buildings In line with their CCRE (Cisco Connected Real Estate) initiative and confirms Cisco as a catalyst of Building-IT convergence and the increasing use of IP technologies in building systems.

As part of their participation and in partnership with BuilConn, Cisco is sponsoring the first of a series of industry roundtables, a by invitation only gathering of key stakeholders around the subject of Building-IT convergence.

BuilConn is now in its 4th year of defining building-IT convergence and is focused on the adoption, application and business development of IP centric building automation systems. "From the very beginning, BuilConn's focus has been about connectivity, it's encouraging to see the most influential player in IP connectivity take a lead role in supporting BuilConn " Anto Budiardjo, BuilConn organizer, said. "without doubt this signals Building-IT convergence as being a reality today”.

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About BuilConn
BuilConn is a three-day conference and expo uniting integrators, manufacturers, consultants and building owners from the disparate disciplines of the building systems industry to learn and discuss the trends, technologies and their applications for tomorrow’s “intelligent” buildings enabled by IP technologies. From Access Control and HVAC to Lighting, CCTV and IT, BuilConn is the only network infrastructure and integration event focusing on bridging the gaps between these sectors to deliver true Networked Building Systems.

The forth annual event will be held in the Palm Springs Convention Center, May 16-18 2006. For further information, please visit www.builconn.com.

BuilConn is co-located with the M2M Conference and Exhibition, now in its 3rd year of defining M2M and the Pervasive Internet. For further information, please visit www.m2mexpo.com.

Contact:
Heather Deal
Clasma Events Inc.
Email: heather@clasma.com
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