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Cisco, Nortel Team Up
By Mark Evans | October 23, 2007
Don’t get too excited about the headline. 
It’s not an acquisition but a contract that Intercontinental Hotels Group announced earlier this week with Cisco and Nortel to provide telecom and networking technology in its hotels in the MIddle East and Africa.
Cisco will provide its Hospitality Solutions technology to offer hotel guests connectivity through IHG’s hotels, while Nortel will be installing a VoIP network, IP phones, data networking equipment and other network equipment.
“The idea behind us being aligned with two vendors is to give our owners the choice,” said Ali Saeb, director of IT at IHG, Middle East and Africa. “The main challenge for us in enhancing the guest experience is having the right equipment. When we have an agreement in place, we have the luxury of getting more and paying less.”
IHG, which owns the Holiday Inn chain, currently operates 74 properties across the Middle East and Africa region, and has plans to double this number by the end of 2010.
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