TECHNOLOGY
Alsaied said : “ The past few years have moved on fast from 2G and 3G to 4G and LTE with 50 percent of the mobile data traffic coming from video downloads such as YouTube on peoples ’ handsets . The demand for bandwidth is huge in Saudi Arabia .”
Networks to carry such demand must be intelligent and have the ability to allow service providers to create new applications and offerings . Alsaied also noted that these networks must have programmable interfaces which enables its users to adapt to the explosive bandwidth in the region .
Ciena has been carrying out important work with Mobily , holder of more than 40 percent of the Saudi Arabia ’ s mobile market and our flagship company profile in this month ’ s Business
Ciena and Mobily work together to improve Saudi Arbia ’ s mobile network
“ The past few years have moved on fast from 2G and 3G to 4G and LTE with 50 percent of the mobile data traffic coming from video downloads such as YouTube on peoples ’ handsets . The demand for bandwidth is huge in Saudi Arabia ”
– Omar Alsaied
Review Europe and Middle East . Their work together in recent years neatly follows the industry ’ s gargantuan rise . In December 2013 they teamed up to trial a one terabit network trial in Riyadh for public service and enterprise customers , a tenfold increase on the breakthrough achievement of launching the first 100GB network in 2011 .
This year Mobily and Ciena have combined to provide Advanced Connectivity Services to businesses . With this financial , government , healthcare , education , information technology and manufacturing sector
26 August 2014