NEWS
UAE
UAE’s TRA chooses Cisco
infrastructure for smart cloud
connectivity and shared services to
more than 42 federal government
entities in the UAE. It will be an
integral component of the wider
UAE Mobile Government Initiative,
which seeks to create the necessary
national infrastructure to enable the
provision of all government services
via mobile platforms.
Cisco has announced that it is deploying
a Cisco Network infrastructure to power
the Telecommunications Regulatory
Authority’s (TRA) Electronic Federal
Network (FedNet), which will host the
UAE Government’s Smart Cloud and will
connect all Federal Government entities
in the UAE. This project was awarded to
Cisco through two services providers.
FedNet is a secured government
platform that will offer secured
Cisco will also build a Network
Operations Centre and a Cloud
Command Centre to operate
the FedNet infrastructure. Once
implemented, FedNet will provide
secured communication services
such as Government-to-Government
(G2G), secured Internet, e-mail, voice
and video services. FedNet will be the
very first cloud platform to offer IaaS
(Infrastructure as a Service) to Federal
Government entities.
Etisalat and Intel
partner to deploy
NFV and SDN
Etisalat has signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) with Intel to help networks cope with the new era
of Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) and SoftwareDefined Networking (SDN).
Etisalat NFV/SDN deployment is aimed to enhance user
experience and increase service agility and innovation.
Virtualisation will enable Etisalat offer customers, both
businesses and consumers, flexible, scalable, more dynamic
and innovative services.
Under the strategic partnership, Intel will share knowledge,
provide advice for competence build-up and assessment
of NFV/SDN solutions to be deployed within the Etisalat
network. The collaboration will foster both parties to
utilize Intel technology in the telecom cloud infrastructure
deployment. This will lead to a more open, standardised
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and highly efficient carrier grade SDN/NFV multi-vendor
technology deployment.
NFV allows telecom operators to virtualise existing network
functions by using customised software to work on common
standard hardware cutting down costs, shortening time to
service and creating multi-vendor scalable environment.
SDN enables carriers to use centralised software to control
and automate network functions, services and policies in the
cloud easily replicating software throughout the networks in
a flexible and highly efficient approach.
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