COUNTRY FOCUS: KUWAIT
WITH THE SURGE OF IoT
DEVICES CONNECTING TO
ENTERPRISE NETWORKS,
CONVENTIONAL BYOD
METHODS OF SECURING
ACCESS HAVE BEEN
RENDERED INADEQUATE
country and will run marketing campaigns and
participate at relevant industry events.
Aruba was acquired in mid 2015 by HP, now
HPE. Aruba will bring its best-of-breed wireless
LAN infrastructure and policy management
to the access layer, complementing HPE’s
strong footprint in wired LAN and data center
switching. Together, Aruba and HPE are
offering a unified networking solution to help
customers in Kuwait and globally successfully
manage their networking needs throughout
the transition to a ‘mobile first’ infrastructure.
Sabahat says, “The key areas that will drive
the business focus for Aruba are the advent
of 802.11 ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi, the growing trend
around the Internet of Things (IoT), and
a vertical focus through the channel. The
introduction of Wave 2 technology has been
a pivotal moment for wireless networks; finally
enterprises have an access medium that
allows Wi-Fi to be faster than wired.”
“With the surge of IoT devices connecting
to enterprise networks, conventional BYOD
methods of securing access have been
rendered inadequate. Enterprises in Kuwait can
safeguard their networks with Aruba’s unique
mobility technologies to help ensure mobile
devices communicate securely and efficiently
across the network,” concludes Sabahat.
IoT BOOST
A
ccording to a recent report by
Arab Times, Ericsson and Ooredoo
Kuwait announced a partnership
to expand the established M2M and IoT
partnership between both companies
during MWC 2016, which took place
recently in Barcelona.
Ooredoo Kuwait is launching the advanced
M2M/IoT Connectivity Management
Service using Ericsson DCP platform, a
service that will promote the creation of IoT
business in Kuwait for them.
Ericsson Device Connectivity Platform
(DCP) Service will be developed for
the first time in the Kuwaiti market
and Ooredoo is the pioneer operator
enabling the service.
Further to this announcement, Ericsson
and Ooredoo Kuwait also launched their to
deploy Ericsson’s City Site and Ericsson state
of the art indoor small cell solution Radio
Dot System for the first time in Kuwait.
As a result of the deployment, Ooredoo
will be able to provide superior network
performance and faster data speeds to
enterprise and in-building consumers with
a short time to market. The solutions will
also blend with the city landscape without
impacting performance, a requirement that
is increasingly high on operators’ agendas.
Following the initial deployment, Ericsson
will continue to cooperate with Ooredoo
Kuwait to apply the City Site solution more
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extensively throughout the country.
In addition to providing customers with
advanced mobile broadband se