Cisco and Proximus Renew Strategic Partnership

Cisco and leading Belgian telecommunications and IT service Proximus today announced at CES 2015, which cemented their partnership to co-innovation and development. The company's renewed partnership promoting allows Proximus to offer their customers more quickly, the measuring and innovative services in its portfolio. Cisco will benefit from the technology research experience Proximus' local market penetration and to create new offers of service providers together.

The delivery of video art for the consumer, smart city services to government organizations and orchestration of services for business-to-business customers: under the new agreement have, Proximus and Cisco defines three growth areas.

·         Next Generation Video Delivery: 

Proximus has a video service for mass market success through digital television, traditional decoders. By centralizing the functionality of digital TV open cloud architecture Proximus' instead of the recorder of consumer digital video recorder (DVR), the telecommunications provider plans to move faster, accelerating the delivery of new capabilities customized video. For example, making an open cloud-based architecture is easy to digital TV with third party applications, such as evaluations and recommendations based programs integrating cloud. And subscribers that run from the DVR space for your favorite shows in the future, simply lease more space in the cloud. With NDS Group, both partners have developed a new generation TV service based on the cloud for Proximus.

·         Smart And Connected Cities: 

The cities are facing new challenges such as congestion or demographic pressure. Cities of tomorrow must be safe, efficient, sustainable, comfortable and interactive. Together with Cisco Proximus has developed a framework for smart cities and switched beyond wireless Internet access throughout the city and free. The partnership will accelerate business models to monetize both the coverage and improve the lives of consumers and sales for the company's development of intelligent and connected cities (S + CC).

Service Orchestration And SDN: 

Future proof network and IT infrastructure must be able to meet exponential growth in traffic and have a native ability to enable new services. With Cisco's network service orchestration technology, Proximus customers would be able to configure their network services online. Network orchestration also allows to fully automating the subsequent provisioning and management of both virtual and physical networks, further improving customer experience and agility.