Cisco opens new regional HQ in S'pore

Cisco opens new regional HQ in S'pore

    POSTED: 17 Apr 2013 7:43 PM
   
IT giant Cisco officially opened its new regional headquarters in Singapore on Wednesday -- marking its 20th year in the city-state.

SINGAPORE: IT giant Cisco officially opened its new regional headquarters in Singapore on Wednesday -- marking its 20th year in the city-state.

The new office houses Cisco's operations for Singapore and the greater Asia region -- including operations, sales, marketing, human resources, finance and Cisco services. It will also feature a customer briefing centre, where Cisco technologies will be available for demonstrations.

The 120,000 square feet office complex is located in the Changi Business Park and boasts an environmentally-friendly workspace. The building consolidates Cisco's 4 offices from around the island, putting its 1,000 employees all under the same roof.

As the IT industry continues to grow, the company said there is room to expand.

Jaime Valles, president (Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China) at Cisco, said: "We are in the process of connecting the 99 per cent that is not connected. In fact for many years, the internet, since 1994 in Singapore, we have been able to connect one per cent of the devices that can be connected.

"And when you start connecting sensors, when you start connecting machine to machine, people to machine, we know it's going to change everything we do across Asia Pacific, Japan and China.

"And Singapore is very connected.In the world economic forum, in the network readiness index, it came across as one of the top three countries in the world. So it allows us to do that."

Cisco first came to Singapore in 1993 and established the city-state as its Greater Asia headquarters in January 1998.

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