SAMENA Accelerator policy-level roundtable on Fiber & IPv6/IPv6+ deployment, organized as a part of the SAMENA Council – Huawei collaboration during the UBBF 2021 conference in Dubai, focuses on policy, regulatory, and business enablement issues relating to fiber deployment and industrial digitalization. The SAMENA Accelerator is in continuation of the SAMENA Accelerators held last year in collaboration with Huawei, with special focus placed this year to correlate fiber deployment with socio-economic growth, especially in the rural areas of the region, and to build the case for accelerated fiber deployment as an essential ICT pillar, which can dramatically add to and support sustainable national GDP growth by engaging rural communities. Key incentives and enabling environment need to be provided and key challenges need to mitigated at an unprecedented pace to achieve universal access. Furthermore, accelerating Industrial Digitalization in the era of Industry 4.0 and IoT, with the aim of accommodating complex and distributed network applications, and allowing for Telecom Operators’ search for new streams of business growth, including through intelligent cloud network capabilities, demands speeding up the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 and also to IPv6+.

SAMENA Accelerator on Fiber & IPv6/IPv6+ is a hybrid event, with leaders and the audience participating both physically and virtually. The event will take place in Dubai, UAE.