ActiveMania announces eco partnership with Cisco on digital home/community solution

This Interactive Digital Home was showcased at the Cisco-X Next Generation Communications and IT Show on November 19 and 20 at Mina Al Salam Hotel. This event provided visitors with the opportunity to experience the latest digital home/community technologies from ActiveMania on Cisco's high performance networking solutions.

ActiveMania's digital home framework seamlessly integrates with the Cisco networking solutions to offer state-of-the-art digital home/community interactive entertainment and services platform.

This digital home/community solution, by ActiveMania, establishes a one-stop-shop virtual digital operator catering digital entertainment services to the community, while providing edge TV technology, dynamic ethnic content, telecommunication services (Voice over IP, Video Conferencing, Instant Messaging), home automation (control of home appliances) and a variety of interactive services (Video, Music, Games & Education on Demand) to instill a unique sense of comfortable community living.

Cisco's networking solutions are designed to enable users to share digital content, communication and entertainment services among different devices within the home and among offices, hotels, and shops within the community. With Cisco's one core network, tenants of a community are able to enjoy ActiveMania's state-of-the-art E-services (e-learning, e-concierge, e-storefront, e-banking, etc.) and its ever-growing value-added entertainment, telecommunication and home automation services, on one TV interface and reachable on any mobile device. This is made possible with Cisco's wireless networking technologies, which permit users to enjoy all ActiveMania's services and solutions on Digital Media Adapters, Ultra Mobile PCs, Set-Top Boxes, PDAs, Mobile Phones, Electronic Picture Frames, Portable Media Centers, and other wireless devices.

"The future is about ubiquitous connectivity inside the home and among multiple elements in a community. With Cisco's high-end networking solutions, we are able to seamlessly connect various devices in the home and link them to the community" said Dr. Gaby Kassab, Chief Managing Consultant of ActiveMania. "Our eco partnership with Cisco systems promotes the sharing of different types of digital content between users, devices and elements in a community" he added.

"Cisco's collaboration with ActiveMania strengthens our partner network and commitment to meet customers' needs. The value-added services delivered through this partnership will help us capture a large share of the home connectivity market and build on our existing investments," added Amr Salem, Manager Vertical Segment, Cisco Systems, Inc.