Reports and Coverage

By: Dr. Ibrahim J. Gedeon, chief technology officer, TELUS

By Honoré LaBourdette, vice president, Telco, Media & Entertainment, Red Hat

Mobile operators have used GEO satellite connectivity for years to backhaul traffic from cell sites in remote or rural areas without fiber or have low bandwidth needs.

The Internet in the Gulf States region has made enormous strides over the past decade in terms of growth. This has largely been driven by the digitalisation across different industries, economic development in general, and innovation in mobile Internet services. However, one factor consistently acting against this has been a lower level of interconnection compared to what we see in other regions. Less peering means higher latency, increased costs, and lower security (as local traffic passes through foreign centres of interconnection). As more people come to rely on latency sensitive applications like streaming, gaming and IoT, this approach might not be very sustainable over the long term.

By Mounir Ladki, President and CTO, MYCOM OSI

By: Anas Al-Hammouri, regional sales manager, Telco and SPs, Middle East & Turkey at Infoblox

AWS is unlocking the potential of 5G and powering business outcomes for CSPs by co-innovating and enabling cloud-based, end-to-end 5G networks that deliver consistent, cost effective performance from core to the edge.

The annual Telecom Review Leaders’ Summit will be back in its 15^th edition on December 8^th at Intercontinental Hotel, Dubai Festival City, UAE. The Summit will be both physical and virtual which will allow panelists to join the panel discussions in Dubai from anywhere in the world and anyone will be able to virtually participate.

Operators must use cutting-edge transformation software to move beyond connectivity and offer new services for greater revenue growth in the 5G era. This software, particularly on the IT side, must be able to intelligently unify edge cloud, monetize different cloud domains, automate virtual RAN and leverage partner-centric revenue streams for multiple verticals. Operators must create multi-partner business models to monetize 5G and match the rapid pace of innovation in the industry. This will require business models with rapid service innovation and dynamic settlements in a B2B2X setting for consumers, businesses, government agencies and other entities.

Distributed system architectures, including Cloud and big data are changing how network data in organizations is viewed. Network-generated data analysis is increasingly gaining momentum with service providers for network detection and response (NDR) as well as improving the overall quality of customer experience by gaining insight of the network activities and acting upon the flaws.