Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 05 | Page 7

NEWS UAE du partners with Huawei to launch its Transport Software-Defined Network improvements in the region such as the deployment of the first 400G OTN network in the Middle East. On the T-SDN network, a Bandwidth on Demand (BoD) application has been successfully deployed between data centres in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, transforming the traditional network to a Data Centre based SDN host network. Huawei and UAE-based telecommunications service provider du have jointly launched the Transport Software-Defined Network (T-SDN) on the host network. This innovation by du follows a string of Under the new industry structure, introducing new technologies such as SDN helps carriers quickly respond to and implement service transformation, and therefore overcome new challenges in their network operation. By constructing a T-SDN network with Huawei, du has achieved accelerated service connections while fully utilising network resources. The BoD (Bandwidth on Demand) service provided by the T-SDN network helps implement more flexible Data Centre service scheduling and greatly improves user experience while managing services through effective bandwidth optimisation and interval of time. In addition, the T-SDN network provides functions such as intelligent optical-layer commissioni