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Aruba to host Annual Conference in Doha under‘ Digital Workplace
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, has announced that it will host its annual end-user conference at Hotel La Cigale in Doha, Qatar on the 30th of January. The event will showcase technology encompassing enterprise mobility for the modern mobile workforce and the Internet of Things( IoT).
The core theme of this year’ s event is“ Digital Workplace”, which seeks to challenge and change the way CIOs and IT managers think about their corporate networks and enterprise mobility. This year’ s conference is expected to be even bigger and better than last year’ s event and will bring together mobility and Wi-Fi experts, comprising Aruba’ s technology partners and resellers as well as customers and prospects.
Ammar Enaya, Regional Director, Middle East and Turkey for Aruba, says,“ The surge in mobile devices and the IoT trend means that the wired and wireless network must deliver more than just connectivity. The network is expected to provide actionable insights about the use of mobile and IoT devices to justify future investments, so that businesses
can adopt new technologies and serve the needs of # GenMobile employees and guests while keeping the network secure and the budget under control. We’ re excited to be back in Qatar with our partners, resellers and customers to share our insights as a result of our market leadership. We also intend to learn about the growth opportunities in the country.”
The Aruba conference includes keynotes sessions and will be‘ expo styled’ to deliver deep insights into how organisations can seize the advantages of new technologies, and truly unleash the potential of # GenMobile and the Digital Workplace.
Interested attendees can register for the conference at http:// marcomarabia. com / misc / en / Aruba-Conference-Qatar /
Nokia, Ooredoo Qatar trial new fibre technology
Nokia and mobile operator Ooredoo Qatar said they achieved a symmetrical 40 gigabit per second speeds using Nokia’ s Time and Wavelength Division Multiplexing Passive Optical Network fiber technology in a trial in Doha, Qatar.
The TWDM-PON technology, also referred to as next generation passive optical network 2 technology, was deployed over Ooredoo’ s existing single fibre network. Nokia said the overlay technology is capable of adding more capacity to existing networks.
Nokia’ s TWDM-PON technology is said to deliver four additional wavelengths, each providing 10 Gbps symmetrical speeds, eventually providing a total of 40 Gbps. The vendor said the enhanced speed will allow the operator to upgrade its networks from the existing gigabit PON at speeds up to 2.5Gbps to XGS-PON with speeds up to 10 Gbps and in the future to TWDM-PON at speeds up to 40 Gbps.
At the end of September 2016, Ooredoo said its fibre optic network passed more than 408,000 homes across the country with 293,000 homes connected to the telco’ s network. Ooredoo also operates in Indonesia, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Algeria, Tunisia and Myanmar.
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