Cisco and Sitronics Form Regional Alliance to Address Telecommunications Market in Russia, CIS and other key Emerging Markets

Cisco and Sitronics Form Regional Alliance to Address Telecommunications Market in Russia, CIS and other key Emerging Markets

Cisco® and Sitronics JSC, the leading technology company in Russia & CIS, today announced a regional alliance to address the rapidly expanding telecommunications market in Russia and CIS countries (RCIS) and other emerging markets, such as Central and Eastern Europe (CEE); and Middle East and Africa (MEA).

Cisco and Sitronics will focus on providing advanced communication solutions in countries that are undergoing major economic and social transformation. This includes Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) planning and implementation to increase the productivity of businesses, ramp up connectivity and find new ways to educate the populace.

“The ability to connect countries and communities in a way that is replicable across multiple regions, in alignment with government policies and beneficial to both the population and the economy, is a major area of focus for Cisco.” commented Paul Mountford, President of Emerging Markets Theatre for Cisco, “The go-to-market model developed by Cisco and Sitronics will help telecoms operators increase their profitability and market reach, as well as help improve broadband penetration which, at present, is around 11 percent for the regions in question.”

Initially focused on migrating existing public switched telephone network (PSTN) infrastructure to an IP network platform, the modernization solution offered will be built around Sitronics’ IP-NGN soft-switching and OSS portfolio, and Cisco’s core routing and switching products, including the CRS-1 Carrier Routing System. The solution is already being successfully implemented by the leading Russian telecommunications operator, MGTS that has 4.3 million subscribers in the Moscow region.

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