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AUSTIN, TX -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), a market-share leader in integrated circuits (ICs) for communications systems, today announced that Cisco Systems, Inc. has chosen Motorola's highest performing PowerPC(TM) microprocessor, the MPC7450, as a host processor for several of its routers. "After many months of development and execution, we are delighted to announce our working relationship with Cisco," said Daniel Artusi, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola's Networking and Computing Systems Group. "Cisco is the leader in the security and virtual private network (VPN) markets, and we're pleased to be a part of their effort to securely enable the Internet economy with scalable, reliable and comprehensive solutions." "Cisco continues to be a leading solutions provider of next generation Internet routers, and the teamwork with Motorola has been tremendous," said Richard Palmer, vice president and general manager of the Cisco VPN and Security Services business unit. "The architecture, performance and roadmap of the PowerPC technology will help Cisco continue to build high performance, scalable products for our large enterprise and service provider customers." Motorola has several design programs underway for a wide range of Cisco products. For example, the development of a G4 multi-processing configuration required Motorola to work closely with Cisco in the areas of multi-processor system architecture, simulation strategy and joint simulation. Providing networking equipment manufacturers with market-leading communication ICs, Motorola's Smart Networks Platform delivers a single solution for developing networking applications such as residential gateways, routers, access concentrators, wireless base stations and optical switches. The combination of sophisticated hardware, standard networking software and over 200 companies working within the Smart Networks Alliance, further enables equipment vendors to accelerate time-to-market and add intelligent, value- added services to their solutions. For further information visit www.motorola.com/smartnetworks