Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 04 | Page 58

INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Green Technology Small Cell projects to connect Middle East smart cities With ubiquitous mobile access key to businesses in today’s digital economy, experts at Huawei are seeing significant growth opportunities in the Middle East for Small Cell projects. The company recently joined the wireless community to share deployment experiences, develop business cases, and showcase cuttingedge services as Diamond Sponsor of this year’s SCWS MENA 2016 technology conference taking place in Dubai, UAE. 58 INTELLIGENTCIO “ Small Cell” is an umbrella term for operator-controlled, short range mobile base-stations used to complement mobile coverage from larger macro-cell towers. As mobile penetration continues to climb across the region, Small Cells are essential in connecting smart city applications between devices and people, as well as helping telecom operators to achieve revenue growth by addressing the challenges of surging data traffic across indoor and outdoor environments. Converging under Huawei ‘s vision for digitalising indoor coverage for smart cities, this year’s conference saw regional and global specialists explore new ways for operators to enhance existing small cell networks. “As customers continue to seek www.intelligentcio.com