Smart+Connected Communities
Cisco Smart+Connected Communities uses intelligent networking capabilities to weave together people, services, community assets, and information into a single pervasive solution. "Smart+Connected" acknowledges the essential role of the network as the platform to help transform physical communities to connected communities. It also encapsulates a new way of thinking about how communities are designed, built, managed, and renewed to achieve social, economic, and environmental sustainability.

Community+Connect
Cisco's Community+Connect transforms constituent experiences as they live, work, learn, and play in a Smart+Connected Community by leveraging real-time information and applications. With the network as the underlying service delivery platform, Cisco and its public and private partners can deliver services for home, work, school, hospitals, malls, stadiums, travel, and government and spur growth, a better quality of life and a greener society.

Community+Exchange
Cisco's Community+Exchange, is a back-office operations center that helps with the planning and day-to-day operations and management of a community. By providing the network as a highly secure and resilient service delivery platform, you can share information and collaborate across a community's ecosystem of government agencies and private sector partners to facilitate utilities, transportation, telecommunications, safety and security, building systems, health, and government social services.

S+C in Action: Amsterdam Smart Work Centers (video - 7:33 min)
Amsterdam is a showcase example for city planners tackling sustainability initiatives at the intersection of innovation and information technology. Smart Work Centers represent the future of work as this community pursues aggressive CO2 emissions goals. See how TelePresence Exchange Service drives global collaboration and hear from community and business leaders who have come together to solve mutual challenges.

Cisco Smart+Connected Communities Overview (video - 1:49 min)
Watch this brief video and learn more about Smart+Connected Communities. By leveraging the network as the platform, physical communities can be transformed into connected communities, achieving economic, social, and environmental sustainability.

Digital Urban Renewal
Read the Smart+Connected Communities study by Ovum and how they have defined the opportunity, market and landscape to retrofit European cities with Smart+Connected Solutions. (PDF - 207 KB)

Smart+Connected Communities - The Cisco on Cisco story
See how Cisco is transforming its own communities - making the Cisco campuses around the world Smart+Connected. Watch this video for our first Platinum Leed certified Cisco building, the start of a drive to create Economic, Social and Environmentally Sustainable Cisco communities by leveraging the power of the Network as the Platform.

Is your City Smart Enough?
Learn how digitally enabled cities can enhance economic, social, and environmental sustainability. (PDF - 209 KB)

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