Citizens and Tourists in Portugal's Top Holiday Region Get Improved e-Government Services and Information Access With Cisco

The Algarve in Southern Portugal is one of the most popular tourist regions in Europe. Algarve wanted to increase knowledge sharing between local organizations and local government bodies and disconnect approach to managing and providing public services and tourism information. The challenge was to have wide disparity in level and quality of e-government services across the region and Five million tourists visit the Algarve annually and that is increasing by 10 percent a year. Algarve deployed Cisco Data Center network solution, Cisco network security technologies, CiscoWireless technologies and Cisco LAN switching solutions.