Middle East
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Veon has taken a step closer to relocating its group headquarters from Amsterdam to the United Arab Emirates after it received a commercial licence for its new office. -
stc inaugurated two digital infrastructure projects in Bahrain to expand connectivity in the region.
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Mobily and Telecom Egypt have partnered to launch a submarine cable linking Saudi Arabia and Egypt via the Red Sea to expand connectivity in the region.
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A recent joint cybersecurity advisory issued by the FBI, CISA, NSA, and other U.S. agencies highlights a growing threat posed by Iranian cyber actors targeting critical infrastructure sectors.
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Dutch telecom operator Veon is moving its group headquarters out of its native home of Amsterdam to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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In this exclusive interview, Thamer Alfadda, SVP Mobily Wholesale shares how Mobily Wholesale is leading the telecom wholesale market with innovative solutions for hyperscalers, carriers, and OTTs.
Forthcoming events
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Etisalat has announced the launch of the first IPX Exchange platform in the Middle East and Africa.
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Spending on data centre infrastructure equipment topped £30 billion in the Q2 2017, driven by public cloud infrastructure, which made up almost a third of all capital expenditure.
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The digital divide is in danger of becoming a “digital chasm” as broadband rollout fails to keep up with population growth, according to a pair of reports out today.
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The data traffic rate of the DE-CIX in Frankfurt on Tuesday evening reached a new record high - 5.88Tbps, with almost simultaneous new all-time peaks in Madrid and Dubai.
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Global connectivity provider Avelacom is now using Metamako, the provider of FPGA-enabled, high-performance networking devices, to significantly accelerate its network processing power and keep latency to an absolute minimum.
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Zain Group has successfully tested 5G technology achieving maximum throughput speeds of over 70Gbps over 2GHz spectrum.
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BICS is deploying a third fibre route between Marseille and Paris to reduce latency and protect inbound voice and data traffic from Asia and the Middle East.
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Juniper Networks has announced it has appointed Kristian Kerr as head of channel, alliances and commercial for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
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IDT Corporation has launched IDT VoiceHub, a powerful and flexible outsourcing service, to enhance the profitability and value of their international voice business.
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Hurricane Electric has claimed that it has become the first internet backbone in the world to connect to 4,000 IPv6 networks.
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Interconnection bandwidth is expected to grow at a 45% CAGR to reach 5,000Tbps by 2020, dwarfing global IP traffic in both growth (24%) and volume (855Tbps), according to Equinix’s inaugural Global Interconnection Index.
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Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) has announced the signing of three-year supplier framework agreements with Nokia, Huawei and Ericsson to modernise its mobile network.
