CommScope Joins Smart Cities Council as Lead Partner
April 19 2017 - 9:05AM
Business Wire
Today there are more than 250 smart cities projects in progress
globally, according to Navigant Research, and that number is
expected to increase significantly over the next several years.
CommScope, a global leader in infrastructure solutions for
communications networks, became a Lead Partner of the Smart Cities
Council to help transform cities and support the growth of digital
technology and intelligent solutions.
“The goal of the Smart Cities Council is to help city leaders
create a vision, build an action plan and measure the success of
their smart city initiatives,” said Council Chairman Jesse Berst.
“We are delighted to have CommScope working with us to help cities
better understand the technologies that will enhance livability,
workability and sustainability in their communities.”
From emergency response and transportation to citizen services
and smart living, one of the critical needs cities have today is a
reliable communications network infrastructure to enable the
integrated, cross-cutting technologies that comprise a smart
city.
“The United Nations estimates that 70% of the world population
will be urban by 2050, which means cities will need to have
infrastructure in place to support ‘supercity’ growth and
densification,” said Morgan Kurk, chief technology officer at
CommScope. “We are excited to be a Lead Partner with the Smart
Cities Council as we look at the needs of cities and the people who
live there.”
Like the Council, CommScope’s vision for smart cities is to
connect and optimize the services and resources to meet the demands
of population growth in our urban centers.
CommScope’s wireless and fiber optic solutions for smart cities
connect buildings, cell towers, street gear, people and other
devices throughout the city and within commercial buildings and
venues. Any public or private network, whether wired or wireless,
is enabled by CommScope solutions, including emergency response,
traffic monitoring and control, parking, security and access
control for buildings, cell phones, IoT devices, facial recognition
and violence detection.
About the Smart Cities Council
Launched in 2012, the Smart Cities Council is the author of the
internationally recognized Smart Cities Readiness Guide, which
provides guiding principles and best practices for an integrated,
cross-cutting smart city. The Readiness Guide is the framework used
to produce Readiness Workshops, which are delivered all over the
world to help cities create their smart city roadmaps. With
regional councils in North America, Europe, India and Australia/New
Zealand, the Council is comprised of more than 120 partners and
advisors who generate $2.7 trillion in annual revenue and who have
worked on more than 10,000 smart city projects past and present. To
learn more, visit www.smartcitiescouncil.com.
About CommScope:
CommScope (NASDAQ: COMM) helps companies around the world
design, build and manage their wired and wireless networks. Our
vast portfolio of network infrastructure includes some of the
world’s most robust and innovative wireless and fiber optic
solutions. Our talented and experienced global team is driven to
help customers increase bandwidth; maximize existing capacity;
improve network performance and availability; increase energy
efficiency; and simplify technology migration. You will find our
solutions in the largest buildings, venues and outdoor spaces; in
data centers and buildings of all shapes, sizes and complexity; at
wireless cell sites; in telecom central offices and cable headends;
in FTTx deployments; and in airports, trains, and tunnels. Vital
networks around the world run on CommScope solutions.
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News Media Contacts:Kris Kozamchak, CommScope+1
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Contact:Jennifer Crawford, CommScope+1 828-323-4970
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