Cisco Partnership

Combining Cisco’s cutting-edge technologies with local expertise in 25+ countries to deliver tailored solutions that drive digital transformation across industries.

Certified Cisco Gold Partner

Advanced Solutions Powered by Cisco and Local Expertise

With over 25 years of partnership and joint innovation, Axians combines local, industry-specific expertise with Cisco’s leadership in AI, network automation, and cybersecurity. As a Cisco Gold Partner with managed services at the core of our expertise, we design, implement, and manage advanced digital infrastructures that enable secure, scalable transformation — helping businesses meet today’s demands and prepare for what’s next.

Global Presence and Expertise

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Lifecycle Approach

Bespoke, Scalable IT Solutions with a Lifecycle Approach

Delivering tailored Cisco solutions across the entire digital transformation journey — from architecture and integration to training and managed services. We help businesses adopt secure, reliable, high-performing cloud-based networks.
We provide ongoing, personalised support to our clients to ensure effective adoption, lasting value, and continuous innovation of their infrastructures.

Cisco Gold Provider

Cisco, our Prime Managed Services Partner

Our local teams provide hands-on support to keep your systems running smoothly while you focus on core business.  Through Network as a Service (NaaS),  we handle the ongoing management, monitoring, and optimization of Cisco-powered networks, ensuring their reliability and security 24/7.

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Cisco Customer Stories
Business Applications and Data Analytics Government and Local Authorities

Axians supports customs officers on Europe’s borders
Customs officers, responsible for managing cross-border trade, still rely on slow, paper-heavy systems, causing over €450M in lost tax revenue from misclassified goods and letting nearly €600M in illicit drugs slip through, as per the European Anti-Fraud Office.
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Enterprise Networks Government and Local Authorities

Building Utrecht’s digital backbone with Network as a Service
The city of Utrecht embarked on modernizing its IT infrastructure to keep pace with a growing range of digital services, from public security systems to smart city applications. Utrecht needed a network that was secure, scalable, and capable of supporting the city’s future needs.
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Digital Workspace Government and Local Authorities

When heritage meets high-tech in Antwerp’s City Hall
When Antwerp, Belgium’s second largest city, decided to renovate its historic City Hall, the challenge was not just architectural. The council chamber, the beating heart of the city’s democratic life, needed modern audiovisual and conferencing technology that could integrate seamlessly into a protected building while meeting the demands of transparency, security, and citizen engagement.
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Business Applications and Data Analytics Government and Local Authorities

Axians’ digital overhaul of Hamburg waste services
In waste management, efficiency depends on seamless data flow. But for many operators, processes remain fragmented and inefficient. That was the case for Stadtreinigung Hamburg, the municipal service for one of Germany’s largest cities. Data from industrial sites, collection points, and disposal plants was logged in silos and re-entered manually, producing bottlenecks and mistakes.
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Cyber Security Industry

Around-the-clock IT protection worldwide with Axians
Hochland SE, one of Europe’s leading dairy product manufacturers, operates a complex IT landscape with more than 6,000 employees and over 6,000 IT assets across multiple sites. As digital processes expanded, the company faced increasing challenges in maintaining compliance, documenting data traffic, and protecting sensitive information against growing cyber threats.
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Cyber Security Education and Research

University of Santiago in Spain strengthens Cloud Security with Axians
The University of Santiago de Compostela, serving over 30,000 users and students, needed to modernize and secure its cloud infrastructure to protect critical academic and research services from evolving cyber threats.
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Business Applications and Data Analytics Government and Local Authorities

Smart mobility in Lisbon: Axians’ digital payment innovation with Carris
Lisbon’s public transport operator, Carris, set out to modernize its fare collection. With the rising demand for seamless, fast, and secure urban mobility, the existing ticketing methods no longer aligned with the habits of all modern passengers. Carris needed a solution that would improve user experience, simplify operations, and support Lisbon’s evolution into a smart city.
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Cyber Security Government and Local Authorities

Axians builds the mission critical digital core of NATO’s Summit
In June 2025, The Hague hosted the NATO Summit, a high-profile international event held at a time when tensions in Europe are rising, and global uncertainty persists. To ensure smooth and secure operations at the World Forum Convention Center, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs turned to Axians and SSC-ICT to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure digital infrastructure.
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Business Applications and Data Analytics Industry

Driving Digital Success with SAP Consulting from Axians Austria 
Across Austria, organizations from logistics firms to public institutions have faced growing challenges with outdated SAP systems, too rigid to support growth and too fragmented for real-time insight. As operational inefficiencies and scalability issues mounted, digital transformation became essential.
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Business Applications and Data Analytics Retail

Data-driven forecasting powers price leadership at Hoogvliet
Supermarket chain Hoogvliet, operating over 70 stores in the Netherlands, was striving to maintain its competitive edge by upholding its lowest price guarantee. To do so, it needed to streamline its supply chain operations and improve the accuracy of its inventory forecasting.
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Cloud and Datacenter Infrastructure Cyber Security Enterprise Networks Microsoft

How Axians is Modernizing Wi-Fi Security with Cloud-Based PKI
Axians is leading the way in helping organizations transition to a more secure and scalable approach to Wi-Fi authentication by moving certificate management from traditional on-premises infrastructure to the cloud.
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Cisco Cyber Security Partnerships

How Axians uses AI to outsmart cyber threats with Cisco XDR
Cyber threats aren't just becoming more frequent; they're getting smarter. Attackers use AI to refine phishing tactics, evade detection systems, and flood security teams with alerts, making distinguishing real threats from the noise harder. In this environment, relying on traditional defenses is no longer enough. Organizations need security solutions that don't just react but anticipate, detect, and neutralize threats in real time.
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Cisco Partnerships

How Axians helps businesses integrate Splunk’s Integration with Cisco
Managing data isn't just about storage. It's about security, efficiency, and real-time insights. Axians works with businesses to integrate Splunk and Cisco, ensuring their data works for them, not against them.
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Microsoft Partnerships

Axians is strengthening its Microsoft partnership to spark customer outcomes
As a people-centric organization, Axians’ mission is to improve people's lives through digital innovation. Axians has been a strong Microsoft partner for many years and holds a wide range of Microsoft based Partner Designations and Advanced Specializations. 
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Partnerships Telecom Infrastructures

Axians Portugal and Nokia support REN in building a state-of-the-art mission-critical transmission network with DWDM/OTN technology.
Nokia announced its first optical switch contract in Portugal with Redes Energeticas Nacionais (REN), the Portuguese Transmission System Operator (TSO), which has renewed its optical transport network using Nokia's packet DWDM/OTN technology as part of its telecommunications network transformation program.
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Cisco Partnerships

Axians & Cisco are digitizing and expanding enterprise’s IOT in Germany and the Netherlands with Cisco Private 5G
Cisco is collaborating with Axians to provide Cisco private 5G to enterprises across industries in Germany and the Netherlands.
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10 November 2021 Enterprise Networks Expertise Innovation Partnerships

Axians Receives EMEAR Award as Transformation/Innovation Partner of the Year at Cisco Partner Summit 2021
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Enterprise Networks Partnerships

Delivering IT more as a utility with Cisco Plus
Businesses are looking for providers like Axians to deliver and manage their services – more like a utility
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Cloud and Datacenter Infrastructure Partnerships

Cisco Customer Experience with Axians
Axians and Cisco Customer Experience collaborate in a close partnership to apply a lifecycle approach to serving customers, enabling them to better realize their ambitions and drive innovation.
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