Cable & Wireless, Cisco Sign 4-Year IP Agreement (djones)
Edited Press Release
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Cable & Wireless , the global telecommunications group, Wednesday announced a four-year strategic relationship with Cisco Systems .
The agreements aim is to accelerate the development and expansion of Cable & Wireless' Internet Protocol-based communications services through a technical and marketing agreement that includes the build out of a global Cisco Powered Network combined with joint marketing and sales initiatives, for both the indirect and direct channels, as well as cooperation in developing concepts for next generation products and services.
This agreement will focus specifically on data and voice convergence solutions.
Through its relationship with Cisco, Cable & Wireless plan to be the first to provide both fully-managed local area network and wide area network components for a single IP platform required to support the latest advancements in desktop- to-desktop data, video and voice communications on a global basis.
The services, which Cable & Wireless will develop with Cisco's cooperation, branded Cable & Wireless IP Convergence solutions, will offer businesses the ability to converge their data and voice network over a single IP infrastructure.
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