Italtel and Cisco extend strategic relationship to develop new converged solutions in EMEA and Latin America
Companies further develop relationship to address business opportunities in the Next Generation Network and Business Voice Services markets.
Italtel, one of the leading companies providing solutions, products and services for Next Generation Networks (NGN) and Next Generation Services (NGS), and Cisco Systems have announced the signing of a new agreement to extend their strategic technology and commercial alliance to 2008, with an expanded market coverage beyond Europe, Middle East and Africa to include the Latin America region.
Since signing the original strategic alliance agreement in early 2005, Italtel and Cisco have worked together on joint technology solutions for service providers focused on optimization of network infrastructures, multimedia communication services for the consumer segment, and hosted and managed Unified Communication services for the business segment.
Recent successful deployments include BT-Albacom, Belgacom, EITC (du) in the United Arab Emirates, Telecom Italia and Telekomunikacja Polska, among others.
As part of the extended agreement, Italtel has identified a set of solutions to help service providers deliver fixed-mobile converged services and embed intelligence in the network to accelerate service creation and reduce operational costs.
The extension of the agreement to support the Latin American market resulted from successful joint activities including implementation of VoIP infrastructure in Brazil and Argentina for fixed and wireless service providers with the goal of optimizing and expanding existing networks.
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