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Zain and Huawei team...at the conference

Mobile broadband's impact in Mideast in focus

KUWAIT, November 20, 2014

Regional telecommunication leaders outlined how upcoming innovations in mobile broadband technology are likely to impact the Middle East in the coming year as the digital era brings people, ideas and businesses closer together.

The three-day annual Zain Technology Conference 2014 held this week brought together Zain’s global partners to highlight their latest services in the telecommunications and IT field, while also discussing opportunities of mutual interest between its various partners and service providers, said a statement.

The opportunities presented by Huawei, a leading ICT solutions provider, at this year’s conference focused on the areas of the smart home, the efficient office, and the future network — three domains where the company anticipates life to be changed through technology innovations in the Middle East.  

Pan En, vice president of Solution Sales and Marketing, Huawei Middle East, said: “At this year’s conference Huawei teamed up with Zain to look at how life is changed with innovation. This means looking beyond specific technology solutions to the impact that our industry is having on everyday life, on businesses, and on national economies.

“An important part of this process is developing initiatives that build a better connected world. In that future, Huawei is committed to working with Zain to create more efficient, integrated information and communication systems that connect people, things and ideas more freely.”

Scott Gegenheimer, chief executive officer, Zain, said: “ZTC is growing bigger with every passing year, reflecting the development of the dynamic telecommunications industry, where today’s innovations are tomorrow’s differentiators. Together with with longstanding partners like Huawei, technology innovation and its implementation to enhance our customer’s mobile experience lies at the heart of what Zain is doing.’

A key feature of the conference was Huawei’s demonstration of its latest work on 4.5G and 5G mobile broadband technology, which is set to open up massive connection capacity for operators and pave the way for operators to deliver richer multimedia services with fewer delays, said the statement.

The advancements of 4.5G will also provide operators with the chance to adopt new innovations in service-oriented network architecture prior to 5G mobile broadband being commercialised in 2020, it said.

For several years Huawei has been working closely with leading operators to carry out trials and tests on future technologies including 4.5G and 5G broadband. A new series of Huawei 5G base stations were previewed at the conference.

The commercialisation of 4.5G will start becoming a reality by 2016 as both an evolved and advanced mobile communication standard, according to the firm. To meet this goal, Huawei is making great investments in the future that will include a minimum of $600 million in 5G research and development by 2018.

To support Zain’s ICT strategy to explore new services in consumer and enterprise fields, Huawei also unveiled its next-generation data centre solution—Distributed Cloud Data Center (DC²)—a new data centre reference architecture based on cloud and SDN networking.

This architecture can unify and manage separated data centres, and provide customers self VDC service with application intelligent awareness and SLA guarantee by resource pool across data centre, said the statement.

All of these capabilities will help Zain shorten the service time to market and provide a variety of integrated services to their end user, it added. - TradeArabia News Service




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