COUNTRY FOCUS : KSA
Saudi Arabia-based healthcare , beauty care and prestige products , and fast-moving consumer goods company , enhances bandwidth connectivity with InfiNet Wireless point-to-point solutions . Tamer Group , shares with Intelligent CIO Middle East how point-topoint wireless network deployment is benefitting the company ’ s business operations .
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Riyadh , Saudi Arabia – View from Faislaiyah tower at sunset
Headquartered in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , Tamer Group is a 98-year-old conglomerate that has successfully served the pharmaceutical , healthcare and consumer sectors , including the fast-moving consumer goods , beauty care and prestige products . The company ’ s core offerings and activities are in import , distribution , marketing , selling , promotion and manufacturing . In addition , the group has thriving businesses in logistics and warehousing , and investments in various industrial , trading , finance and real estate fields ( Sukoon ) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( KSA ). Over the years , Tamer Group has grown its operations in KSA and today , it has seven branches across the country , over 3,000 employees and operations in other Middle East countries .
With the growth the company has seen , having secure , high bandwidth and network connectivity to connect the increasing number of users and locations is critical to the business . However , with the increased footprint , the company ’ s networks were struggling to keep up with the rapid growth and business needs requiring the
IT division to look for a wireless solution to connect its growing user based and locations across KSA .
Mohannad Al Jammal , Head of IT Operations and Network Infrastructure , Tamer Group , said the IT team was looking to deploy a solution that was easy to implement and cost-effective , but would also serve the group ’ s demands and requirements .
“ It was clear to us that upgrading our wireless infrastructure was going to be critical to the future growth of the business . One of the big challenges we faced was the topography and the distance between our head office and the remote branches . Many of the locations are about 30 to 40 km apart . So deploying a wireless network that was reliable and stable in these harsh conditions was at the top of our priority list . In parallel , we needed to ensure that the new wireless network could provide high bandwidth that would not only support the existing business needs but also be future-proofed for demand over the next few years ,” he said .
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