Cairo's Heliopolis Complex Adopts Cisco's VoIP Architecture

The Citystars Heliopolis Complex, a new commercial development underway in Cairo, Egypt, is using Cisco’s Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data (AVVID) in what is described as one of the largest IP telephony deployments in the Middle East. Heliopolis features three huge pyramids in its commercial center, including a 170,000 square meter retail and leisure complex, 75,000 square meters of purpose-built office space, 450 premium residential units, a 20,000 square meter international exhibition center and four hotels. The network design, proposed by systems integrator Raya, is based on 20 Cisco Catalyst 6500 series and 300 Catalyst 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. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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