Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), the regulatory body for Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), has completed the construction of a 10,000-sq-m student accommodation complex.

The complex was built at a total investment value of Dh56 million ($15.2 million), a statement said.

Comprising four buildings with fully furnished units of varying sizes, the complex can accommodate up to 432 students. The faculty will welcome students from the DSO-based Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT-Dubai), as well as the neighbouring Dubai International Academic City.

The modern and advanced housing facility complies with the latest international standards and meets the personal and academic needs of students across Dubai. The ground floor of the buildings will include retail shops, food and beverage outlets, recreational common areas, and study halls for the students. The entire facility will offer free Wi-Fi access, through a campus-wide secure wireless network by Avaya.

Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority’s ICT department has implemented an advanced and feature-rich wireless solution, to cover each room and the entire hostel premises. The campus, with four buildings of three floors each, includes cabling to each room, connecting all buildings with fibre, procuring active network components, and wireless access points. Building on existing relationships and implementations, Avaya was selected as the preferred technology provider for this project.

Avaya has implemented indoor routers, with expandable range for maximum coverage and quality of service.

These will be connected via the new released Avaya Access Switches ERS4900 Series with high-performance and Fabric attach capability. This site is connected to the main Avaya SDN Fabric Network in the DSOA datacentre with a simple, flexible, and secure Entire end-to-end Fabric deployment. This makes it easy for DSO to deploy solutions and applications across campuses quickly and securely.

A wholly-owned entity of the government of Dubai, DSO operates as a free zone technology park for large enterprises, medium and small companies looking to set up their offices in Dubai. – TradeArabia News Service