Business Chief Europe Magazine February 2021 | Page 171

Putting Asiacell in the world ’ s communication landscape
Huawei has been a trusted partner of Asiacell since its inception & has been helping Asiacell reach the pinnacle of success throughout these years .
Asiacell , since its inception in 1999 has been pioneering the telecommunication landscape in Iraq . Over the past years Asiacell has been providing quality services to its 14 million plus mobile subscribers across country .
The world is changing fast and so is the technology trend and expectations of human society . Communication is ubiquitous and we are at point where Mobile technology is touching every aspect of human life . We witnessed the global adoption of LTE & 5G at a massive scale due to the richness in services they enable . This is the era of massive connectivity & seamless service experience and telco operators worldwide has been doing their best to match the end user experience .
Asiacell , being the market leader is committed in bringing latest technology and Innovations that could connect every corner of Iraq and deliver best in class service experience for its mobile & Business customers .
To achieve this goal , Asiacell has partnered with Huawei Technologies , the world leader in End to End Telecommunication solutions . Huawei Technologies has been a trusted partner of Asiacell since its inception and has been helping Asiacell reach the pinnacle of success throughout these years . With massive changes happening across Telecommunication industry and new challenges coming in , Asiacell entrusted Huawei technologies for modernizing the network infrastructure .
Using industry leading innovative solutions , Huawei technologies modernized the Network infrastructure and it ’ s Architecture . 750 Kms of fiber infrastructure has been laid across the country to strengthen the capacity & redundancy which would enable smooth transit of end user traffic across the network without bottle necks .
Multiple Edge Data centers were built across the country to reduce the latency & enhance the service experience of subscribers . In order to fulfil the current , future demands of Mobile subscribers and Business community , The transport network would be driven by state of the art next generation technology such as SRv6 ( Segment Routing over IPv6 ) which will guarantee deterministic performance and ultimately ensuring the End user service experience and SLA commitments in terms of bandwidth , latency & availability .
Together with these changes the network has been geared up for future trends & challenges in the telecom industry .
One Small Step for Asiacell , But One Giant Step for Iraq
Iraq first batch of Uptime Tier III certification data centers
“ Asiacell gets the first Tier certification in Iraq , We didn ’ t do the first one , we did the first two !” was announced by Amir Abdelazin , the Chief Technology and Information ( CTIO ) at Asiacell Communications . In fact , more than that . After the two uptime Tier III certification obtained in September 2020 , Asiacell will receive Tier III design certification in the next three data centers , which means that Iraq has a local high-quality Cloud Data Center cluster from scratch . They will provide high-quality data center services to customers throughout Iraq ( Remark : Uptime is the world ’ s most authoritative third-party organization for data center design and construction certification . The TCDD ( Tier Certifications of Design Documents of Tier III certification is the most accepted and widely used Uptime certification and is widely recognized by all industries around the world .)
The era calls for high-Tier Data Centers in Iraq
In the digital era , people enjoy the convenience of big data , but also need to face data security risks . The Government of Iraq has long taken note of the importance of the security of data assets , it has issued a clear document that if data generated in the country , and the data have to be stored and managed in the country .