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PRESS CONTACT:                     INVESTOR RELATIONS CONTACT:
Jeanette Gibson                    Roberta De Tata
Cisco Systems, Inc.                Cisco Systems, Inc.
(408) 525-8965                     (408) 527-6388
jegibson@cisco.com                 rdetata@cisco.com

ANALYST RELATIONS CONTACT:
Art Rangel
Cisco Systems, Inc.
(408) 853-5705
arangel@cisco.com




                CISCO SYSTEMS COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF ARROWPOINT


     SAN JOSE, Calif., June 23 , 2000 -- Cisco Systems, Inc., today announced it
has completed the acquisition of ArrowPoint of Acton, Massachusetts.

     On May 5, 2000, Cisco announced a definitive agreement to acquire
ArrowPoint, a leading provider of content switches that optimize the delivery of
web content. The ArrowPoint organization has become the Content Switching
Technologies Business Unit within Cisco's Service Provider Line of Business,
delivering Cisco 11000 Series Content Service Switches featuring
industry-leading Web NS software. This acquisition is being accounted for using
pooling accounting.

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