COUNTRY FOCUS: OMAN
“The value in Oman for us is that it lands
all those international highways, the big
Internet backbones into Europe and Asia,
that is the value for the region.”
The company first set-up in Dubai as
a starting place for doing business in
the Middle East before expanding as
opportunities in the region increased. Based
on demand and requirements, customers
in the GCC can also leverage other Equinix
data centres in the region for dual access
to content providers, allowing carriers,
content providers and cloud providers to
further build resilience into their IT and
network infrastructure. This subsea cable
connectivity will provide customers with
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THE VALUE IN
OMAN FOR US IS
THAT IT LANDS
ALL THOSE
INTERNATIONAL
HIGHWAYS, THE
BIG INTERNET
BACKBONES INTO
EUROPE AND ASIA.
significant cost savings and an increase in
performance and security.
“In the digital age, companies need to reach
everywhere, interconnect everyone and
integrate everything, and they need to do
it out at the digital edge, where commerce,
population centres and digital ecosystems
meet. Our joint venture with Omantel will do
exactly that,” said Schlosser.
Schlosser added: “We give our customers a
true global interconnection platform so if
I’m an enterprise and operate in four or five
different cities then in the past I probably
needed to have four or five mini-data centres
and in all those locations needed to build
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