Dubai: Cisco joins forces with Dubai Electricity and Water Authority

Wayne Hull, director and general manager, Cisco UAE says, "Cisco is proud to work closely with DEWA to ensure that it remains at forefront of the technology developments in order to deliver customer satisfaction and promote Dubai's vision for the delivery of electricity and water services at a world-class level. Our collaboration with DEWA demonstrates Cisco's commitment to continue to support government entities in the UAE in order to build a better future for citizens through the intelligent application of information communications technology, using the network as the platform."

"Today's announcement is a significant step forward in our collaboration with Cisco. We believe that combining DEWA's comprehensive infrastructure and services with Cisco's established experience in providing network services will result in much richer ways of providing people with access to the information and services across our multiple channels," said Engineer/ Marwan Salem bin Haider - Vice President - Chief of IT in DEWA.

DEWA and Cisco intend to co-operate in the creation of new services primarily focused on aligning DEWA's ICT strategy objectives with Cisco Group's advanced technologies that add more value to DEWA than could be achieved individually.

"Initially, the focus will be on the exchanging of information on the evolution of technology solutions related to the next generation networks both for the wire line and mobile networks, evaluation, early field trials and pilots as well as collaboration on customer briefings and proof of concepts.," Engineer bin Haider added.

The announcement was made at Gitex 2010.