Cisco Systems Ships Its Millionth Internet Protocol Telephone in
Europe to BEC Denmark
- Aug 11, 2004 02:44 PM (BusinessWire)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 11, 2004--
Danish Customer Bankernes EDB Central (BEC) to Deploy IP
Communications in 78 Banks; Largest Project of its kind in Denmark
Cisco Systems today announced that it has shipped its one millionth
Internet Protocol (IP) telephone in Europe. The recipient is Bankernes
EDB Central (BEC), a leading Danish technology provider to 78 banks in
the country. The millionth IP phone is part of a shipment of 6,000 IP
phones being installed over the next three years, making this the
single largest IP telephony project in Denmark to date.
To mark this milestone, Tim Stone, Head of IP Communications Marketing
for EMEA, Cisco Systems, awarded Leo Svendsen, Director, BEC, with a
commemorative phone at a special ceremony at BEC headquarters in
Roskilde, Denmark on 9th August.
With the majority of BEC's customers being small- to medium-sized
banks in Denmark, it is important the solutions provided to them are
cost effective and installed with minimum disruption to business. In a
close alliance with Cisco Systems and NetDesign, a leading Danish IT
and telephony systems integrator, BEC now has the full capability to
deliver IP enabled solutions including data centres, PCs, routers and
operational systems, which Danish banks of any size can take advantage
of.
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