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du is the exclusive UAE partner for the PEACE subsea cable project, becoming the exclusive partner of the country’s landing point.
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Learn about the desert data centre campus powering Dubai's Silicon Oasis
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Hussain Sajwani, founder and chairman of Dubai-based Damac Properties, has unveiled plans to invest $20 billion in US data centres.
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The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has unveiled Falcon 3, a powerful open-source AI model poised to rival Meta’s Llama 3 series.
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Nokia has completed the UAE’s first live transport slicing deployment with du, enabling the operator to manage its network infrastructure more efficiently.
Forthcoming events
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Abu Dhabi-owned Mubadala Investment Company has bought a stake in Scandinavian carrier GlobalConnect from Swedish investor EQT.
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du says it has pushed the download speed of 5G to more than 4.5Gbps, in a project with Nokia and MediaTek.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched its second cloud region in the Abu Dhabi, known as the AWS Middle East (UAE) region.
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G42 and the former Etisalat – now e& – have combined their data centre operations, forming what they claim is the Middle East’s largest data centre provider, aiming for 300MW by the end of next year.
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With ambitions to capture the growing potential of enterprise transformation, Abou Mustafa, VP enterprise business and Datamena at EITC, is rolling out a new strategy to target verticals in addition to individual customers. Melanie Mingas reports
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Etisalat has offered to increase its stake in Saudi Arabia’s Etihad Etisalat Company (Mobily) in a deal that could be worth more than $2.2 billion.
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Yahsat, which began trading on the Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange (ADX) today, is planning to launch a new satellite in 2023.
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Amazon Web Services says it plans to open an infrastructure region in the United Arab Emirates in the “first half of 2022”.
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Etisalat has announced the expansion of its SmartHub data centre footprint with a third location at Kalba, UAE.
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In the past year, UAE-IX powered by DE-CIX has seen a 63% increase in total customer bandwidth – reaching more than 1400 Gbit – while the number of customers increased by almost 15%.
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Nokia has deployed its AirScale radio platform in the UAE, based on 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) standards, for Etisalat.
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The UAE-based Khazna Data Centers is to add 160MW of capacity to 2023, as the megascale operator positions to further CONTRACTS WITH private sector and government.
Forthcoming events
Datacloud Asia 2025 co-located with ITW Asia
3 DECEMBER - 4 DECEMBER 2025 Singapore, Singapore
