Companies to co-develop business models around three growth areas

Proximus and Cisco announced at CES 2015 that they have consolidated their partnership to drive joint innovation and business development. The renewed partnership will enable Proximus to provide its customers with faster, tailored and innovative services across its entire portfolio. Cisco will benefit from technology research information from Proximus in order to co-create new service provider offerings.

Within the framework of this renewed agreement, Proximus and Cisco have defined three areas for growth: next-generation video delivery for consumers, smart city services for government organizations and service orchestration for business-to-business customers. 

Next Generation Video Delivery

Proximus already has a very successful mass market video offer through traditional digital TV set top boxes. By centralizing digital TV functionality on Proximus's architecture instead of the consumer's digital video recorder (DVR), Proximus wants to accelerate the availability of feature upgrades, and to tailor its offering to its consumer's requirements. With Cisco Videoscape, both partners will develop a next generation, cloud based TV offer for Proximus.

Smart and Connected Cities

Cities are facing new constraints such as traffic congestion or demographic pressure. Cities of tomorrow need to be safer, more efficient, sustainable, comfortable and interactive. Together with Cisco, Proximus aims to develop smart and connected cities that go further than city-wide and free wireless internet. The partnership will accelerate the development of smart & connected cities business models that both monetize coverage and improve life for consumers and income for business. 

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 themselves their network services online. Network orchestration also allows to fully automate the subsequent provisioning and management of both virtual and physical networks, further improving customer experience and agility.

Dominique Leroy , CEO of Proximus  

"This long term agreement not only reinforces our existing cooperation, it also shows Proximus' commitment to innovation and improving customer service. We want to build a future that will benefit our customers, our employees, our shareholders and our partners. That transformation strategy will help us return to growth." 

Rob Lloyd , president, Development and Sales, Cisco 

"Service providers like Proximus see the benefits of transforming their networks to a software-based, agile platform. Proximus is undisputed market leader with critical mass and scale in local markets, fitting perfectly with Cisco' renewed focus on Service Providers as go to market partners. Proximus has track record of innovation and industry reference of being ahead of the pack in bringing new solutions to the market Together with Proximus, we will co-develop a transformation roadmap towards more agile and cost efficient infrastructure that can sustainably cope with growth in volumes, rightsizing of operational resource and changes in skills and competences."

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