Bordeaux goes broadcast with total IP solution from NextiraOne

PARIS, FRANCE: NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has been chosen by the Bordeaux community to design a new, secure, all-IP network that delivers voice, data and video communications, video surveillance and a range of applications. These include centralised technical building management, badge reading, access control and IPTV.

The Urban Community of Bordeaux is made up of 27 municipalities with more than 660,000 inhabitants and is the sixth largest community in France with over 2,500 employees. It has a central head office and 32 additional sites.

The community’s IT network was too old to support new technologies and the Bordeaux administration wanted to make use of new applications to increase staff efficiency, improve communications internally and with the general public. It also wanted to be able to broadcast the activities of elected representatives at council meetings and to integrate video surveillance into one single network.

NextiraOne, with its technology partner Cisco, won the tender for the implementation of the single multi-service infrastructure which includes voice, video and data communications plus building management and which is accessible for a range of users, from employees and councillors to the general public, citizens of the Bordeaux community. The new network uniquely integrates secure wired and wireless connectivity for all user populations.