CASE STUDY
IIntroduction
This premier service provider in the Middle
East offers a broad variety of ICT solutions
and digital services to consumers and
businesses. Thirty million people rely on
its mobile, fixed and Wi-Fi services to stay
connected to the world, and the company
also offers a broad range of IT, cloud and
cybersecurity solutions to businesses.
Challenge
With digital connections an essential part of
people’s personal and work lives, 4G traffic
on the provider’s mobile network was rising
sharply. An innovator, the telecom company
launched 5G in 2019 and plans to build the
largest 5G network in the Middle East.
The telecom giant needed at-scale
protection to safeguard its 4G and 5G
mobile networks.
The company had long relied on another
vendor to provide firewall and carrier-grade
network address translation (CGNAT)
services for the GiLAN segment of its mobile
network. But as traffic volumes steadily
climbed, the performance of the firewalls
began to lag.
Limited throughput and degrading
connections per-second performance
could expose the network to attacks or an
unsatisfying subscriber experience. But
staying the course meant purchasing entirely
new firewalls from the vendor. That required
a large upfront capital investment, and
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