Cairo's $750 million Citystars Heliopolis development is using Cisco's Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data (AVVID) as the basis for their IP Communications network infrastructure.
The infrastructure will provide the complex's customers with the latest information and communications technology services, including one of the largest IP telephony deployments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
The network design, proposed by systems integrator Raya, will provide Citystars with an advanced IP Communications infrastructure to match the exacting standards set by the rest of the development. This includes a 150,000 square meter retail and leisure complex, 70,000 square meter of purpose-built office space, 266 premium residential units, a 20,000 international exhibition center and three world class hotels.
In future phases, Cisco AVVID will be the basis for the roll out of additional Cisco technologies to support wireless hotspots, content networking, call centers and other services.
The Citystars network is built on a scale to match the Pharaonic proportions of the complex itself, which has employed 10,000 workers around the clock for its construction and features three huge pyramids in its commercial center. The AVVID infrastructure is based on 20 Cisco Catalyst(R) 6500 series and 300 Catalyst(R) 3524 series switches.
The infrastructure is connected via 45,000 Ethernet ports and in the first phase the overall IP telephony deployment comprises 7,000 IP phones as well as 40 Cisco Media Convergence Server 7835s running Cisco Call Manager for call processing and Cisco Unity for voice messaging. — (menareport.com)
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