Cisco Controlled Technology

The U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR) provides that the release of technology or software to a foreign national is an export. A foreign national is anyone who is not a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident alien, or a lawfully admitted refugee or asylee. Exports occur in everyday disclosures of information to a foreign national via consultation, training, company visits, and conversations through e-mail, fax, and telephone.

A U.S. export license may be required before a foreign national accesses certain kinds of software or technology to a foreign national if:

1. The software or technology is export-controlled and

Controlled Technologies

Technology	Regulatory Definition	Cisco Product Examples
Total Digital Transfer Rate Exceeding 120 Gbp/s – also known as high speed data transfer rates	Equipment employing digital techniques designed to operate at a “total digital transfer rate” exceeding 120 Gbit/s (OC-768) Interpreted the speed of a single port that exceeds 120Gbp/s. This definition does not include aggregated transfer rate (4 OC-192 cards running at 40Gbp/s would not be subject to this control).	An optional CRS-1 line card, the 1-Port OC-768c/STN-256c POS Interface Card has a single port total digital transfer rate exceeding 15 Gbp/s.
Optical Switching.	The routing of or switching of signals in optical form without conversion to electrical signals.	The optional ROADM module associated with Cisco's ONS 15454 (MSTP) employs functionality meeting the regulatory definition of optical switching.

2. The individual is a citizen of one or more of the following countries:

D:1 County Group

Armenia	Kazakhstan	Russia
Azerbaijan	Kyrgyzstan	Tajikistan
Belarus	Laos	Turkmenistan
Burma	Libya	Ukraine
Cambodia	Macau	Uzbekistan
China	Moldova	Vietnam
Georgia	Mongolia
Iraq	* North Korea

* Is also a E:1 country.

E:1 Country Group (a license is required for nationals from E:1 countries)

Cuba
Iran
North Korea
Sudan
Syria

Access includes the following:

1. The release or transfer of technology through visual inspection (such as reading technical specifications, plans, blueprints, etc).
2. Oral exchange of technology including when technology is made available by practice or application under the guidance of persons with knowledge of the technology.
3. Posting information on a website or FTP site for downloading.

Note:

Simply using Cisco products does not fall within the scope of technology and hence is not subject to the regulations described below.

Technology is defined as:

1. Specific information related to all stages prior to serial production, such as design, design research, design analyses, design concepts, assembly and testing of prototypes, pilot production schemes, design data, process of transforming design data into a product, configuration design, integration design,or layouts.
2. Specific information related to all production stages, such as product engineering, manufacture, integration, assembly (mounting), inspection, testing, or quality assurance; and
3. Specific information related to an item's operation, installation (including onsite installation), maintenance (checking), repair, overhaul, or refurbishing.

Technology does not include publicly available information, marketing materials, or external or public white papers.

Technology does include "how-to" information, such as Electronic Document Control System (EDCS) documents, comments in source code, conversations, and similar knowledge transfers.

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