Win your own personal assistant with Cisco Valet's "Your Valet Life" Contest

San Francisco – January 26, 2011 – Want to simplify your life? Cisco, the worldwide leader in wireless home networking and maker of the easy-to-use Cisco Valet wireless router, is going to help simplify your life. Cisco today is announcing the “Your Valet Life” contest, which will award one lucky winner the services of a personal assistant for six months.

How it Works:

• Submit a 60-second video telling us why you need a personal assistant in your life and how you could use a dose of the “Valet Life” for the chance to win a personal assistant for six months.
• Upload your video submission to the Cisco Valet Contest Tab on Facebook.
• The contest submission period is open from now until February 16, 2011.
• The five videos with the most “likes” on February 23, 2011 will move on to the final judging round for a chance to win a personal assistant for 6 months -- so rally your friends, family and colleagues to log on and vote!
• Additionally, everyone who submits a contest entry will be automatically entered into a weekly drawing to win a Valet Plus Wireless router.

Highlights:

• Valet is a breakthrough product line designed to transform how families use the Internet in their homes so they can enjoy the freedom of wireless access without the usual frustration and complexity of setting up a network.
• Valet gives consumers a simple and convenient way to connect all of their wireless devices including laptops, game systems and mobile devices without the need for a tech expert to make it all work.
• Valet can simplify your life even further by giving one lucky winner a personal assistant for six months.

Resource Links:

• Enter now at www.facebook.com/ciscovalet
• Your Valet Life video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeDm_5Mb75M
• Become a Cisco Valet Facebook fan: www.facebook.com/ciscovalet
• Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ciscovalet
• Watch us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/ciscovalet
• Cisco Consumer Blogs: http://blogs.cisco.com/consumer

Quotes:

• Scott Kabat, director of marketing, Cisco Consumer Products “We all lead busy lives – and we know the last thing you want to worry about is your wireless network, so we created Valet to give users simple and secure wireless access for their families. The ‘Your Valet Life’ contest aims to help simplify consumers’ lives even further.”

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About Cisco
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, this year celebrates 25 years of technology innovation, operational excellence and corporate social responsibility. Cisco’s vision for the consumer is to enable people to live a connected life that is more personal, more social, and more visual. Further information about Valet can be found at www.thevalet.com. Further information about Cisco and its full line of consumer products including Linksys and Flip Video can be found at www.linksys.com, www.theflip.com, and www.cisco.com/consumer.