Reports and Coverage

By Francisco Sant’Anna, Industry Advisor for Regional Services Providers, Ciena

Fiber has never been as critical as it is today, and this trend is likely to continue for a long time. With the evolution of 4G and initial 5G deployments underway we will see an almost six-fold increase in mobile data-traffic between 2018 and 2023 (according to Ovum’s Network Traffic Forecast: 2018-23, published in December 2018). The result? Massive demand for transport capacity. Combining this with the cell densification needed to deliver suitable coverage at a higher spectrum, mobile services will be a major driver for extending fiber reach.

Saudi Payment’s SADAD, the national electronic bill presentment and payment service provider for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has chosen Oracle solutions to implement a robust payment security system, develop digital economy ready services and drive cost efficiencies.

The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) saw agreements signed by some 3400 delegates from around 165 Member States which were enshrined in the Final Acts of the Radio Regulations, the international treaty governing the global use of radio-frequency spectrum and satellite orbits.

Arthur D. Little (ADL) announced that Dr. Karim Taga, Managing Partner in its Vienna office, has received the Austrian Infrastructure Red Arrows 2019 award for his work on 5G and its impact on digital transformation. The leader of ADL’s global Telecommunications, Information Technology, Media & Electronics (TIME) practice, Karim is the only consultant to ever win the award since the establishment of the platform 14 years ago.

In cooperation with Kaspersky, the world's leading provider of cybersecurity technologies and services, Umniah has launched Kaspersky Safe Kids a product that promotes parental control to protect children on the internet, making Umniah the first telecommunications company in Jordan to offer this product on a monthly subscription basis.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), a subset of the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to transform a variety of industries. Digital transformation has reverberated across several, if not all, industries and it will definitely continue to do so over the next few years, especially with the rise of 5G network adoption across the globe, it will give IoT the power to function in the best way imaginable.

NXN and Microsoft have ventured into a partnership to launch NXN’s digital transformation platform “DNX” and its digital services on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform for government entities, real estate developers and enterprises across the region.

Organizations in every industry are embarking on their digital transformation journey to improve the efficiency, capability and quality of their product or service. Digital transformation is the integration of technology into all areas of a business, resulting in fundamental changes in how a company operates with the ultimate goal of maximizing what that technology can do for business. To keep up with the needs of today's unpredictable and complex enterprise networks, IT needs a new approach, and software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) is the perfect technology to enable this. Forward-thinking organizations with multiple sites are appreciating the benefits that cloud-friendly SD-WAN can offer in addressing the necessity for flexible, scalable and cost-efficient networking. 

du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), has developed a joint white paper with Huawei to illustrate the need for service oriented programmable core for “all access” and “all services”.

Sharjah City Municipality and EVOTEQ, the Middle East’s leading digital transformation catalyst, announced their collaboration for a new Artificial Intelligence solution that will significantly enhance the Emirate’s parking management system, serving citizens and residents alike.