强强合作2.0：爱立信将与思科联手扩大客户群

全球电信设备制造商爱立信北美区负责人瑞玛·库雷希在采访中向路透社表示，2017年计划与思科系统公司扩大合作，在企业与公共领域共同开拓新客户。

库雷希称，通过贯彻两家公司2015年末宣布的合作协议，有望实现到2018年营业收入各增加10亿美元的既定目标。

库雷希说，爱立信与思科合作的第一年达成60多宗交易，主要在服务电信运营商方面。明年，两家公司计划攻克企业和公共部门领域。

“两家公司合作后，显然能更深入研究如何提高企业（领域）的服务，”库雷希还说，“我们还在研究产业与社会（Industry & Society）、物联网（Internet of Things）、智能城市等方面合作机会，公共事业领域会成为下一个目标，比方说在交通和公共事业等方面。当然也会关注其他领域业务，比如安全保障。”

库雷希透露，爱立信预计到2020年，从电信运营商以外客户赚得的收入将达到四分之一。 （财富中文网）

译者：Pessy

审校：夏林

Global telecoms equipment gear maker Ericsson plans to expand its partnership with Cisco Systems by serving new corporate clients and the public sector in 2017, its North American chief told Reuters in an interview.

Rima Qureshi says Ericsson and Cisco (csco) remain on track to achieve an extra $1 billion each in revenues by 2018 through a partnership which was announced late in 2015.

Qureshi says Ericsson's Cisco partnership, which generated over 60 deals in the first year, has been mainly focused on telecom operators. Next year, the firms plan to target enterprises and public sector as well.

"The two of us together definitely are looking much closer into how we can work on the enterprise (segment)," said Qureshi. "We are investigating what we can do together within Industry & Society, IoT (Internet of Things), smart cities, and we're going to target specific public sector segments, specifically for example transportation, utilities ... And then of course we're looking at other segments such as security," she added.

Qureshi says Ericsson's forecast to generate up to 25% of revenue from business outside of telecom operators by 2020.