AXTEL Launches “Colaboración Nube Privada” in Mexico, a Collaboration as a Service Platform Supported by the Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution

Cisco Live! Cancun, November 7, 2013 – AXTEL (AXTELCPO), a Mexican telecommunications company, launched at Cisco Live! Cancún its “Colaboracion Nube Privada” service, based on the Cisco® Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS).

The Private Cloud Collaboration from AXTEL is a key component of the company’s business portfolio called “Colaboración Total”, a family of products and services that includes voice, video, email, unified messaging, instant messaging, audio and video conferences, work space and enterprise social networks, and more.

AXTEL’s Private Cloud Collaboration offer includes Cisco® Unified Communications, mobility and video solutions as well as Cisco Customer Collaboration and a suite of Cisco collaboration applications such as Cisco WebEx®, for effective online meetings, and Cisco Jabber®, an all-in-one Unified Communications client that allows users to interact via presence/IM, voice, video, voice messaging and conferencing from any device.

The solution, supplied and administered by AXTEL, can help customers realize significant savings, as they do not need to invest in equipment or licenses, and only requires a monthly fee which gives them quick and simple access to the solutions. Additionally, end users will enjoy the ability to collaborate any place, with any content and from any device.

AXTEL also provides a complete Hosted Communications Solution to their customers that offers high implementation flexibility and quickness for companies with more than 1,000 employees.

The additional benefits for final users include the delivery of collaboration solutions in any place, with any content, from any device.

AXTEL’s Colaboracion Nube Privada may reduce the general operating expense and allows a greater focus on strategy and IT planning, and it’s designed to be updated with the latest releases of the collaboration applications that this solution helps to enable.

Supporting Quotes 

Leonardo Antopia, Marketing and Innovation Director, AXTEL

“Colaboración Nube Privada will allow our customers to maximize the whole potential of their organizations regardless of their location. Besides, it promotes the innovation and development of new and better ways of giving service to customers and markets “.

Carlos Torales, Architectures Business Development Director for Latin America

“Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solutions helps partners differentiate themselves and promote value in the collaboration market. Applications are delivered within a highly secure, cloud-ready, virtualized platform under a centralized management system, advantages that now AXTEL can offer to their customers”.

About AXTEL

AXTEL is a Mexican telecommunications company with significant growth in the broadband segment, the most advanced pay television service, and one of the leading companies in information and communication technologies solutions in the corporate, financial and government sectors. The Company serves all market segments – corporate, financial, government, wholesale and residential – with the most robust offering of integrated communications services in Mexico. Its world-class network consists of different access technologies like fiber optic, fixed wireless access, point to point and point to multipoint links, in order to offer solutions tailored to the needs of its customers. AXTELCPO trades on the Mexican Stock Exchange since 2005.

Visit the AXTEL website on axtel.mx.

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