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stc Achieving New Milestone With O-RAN Carrier Aggregation on Live
Network

stc the leading digital enabler, announces deployment of new emerging technologies Eng. Bader A. Allhieb, VP, Infrastructure,
that in collaboration with Solutions by stc, in cloud-native RAN technology is in stc, said: Anchor “Our commitment
Rakuten Symphony and Cisco became one alignment with stc’s strategic drive to has always been to deliver a best-in-
of the first operators in MENA region to deliver the foundation for a strong digital class Mobile Network to our deserving
successfully deploy a Carrier Aggregation future, while augmenting the Digital customers. Technological transformation
capable O-RAN Mobile Infrastructure. Transformation Strategy of the Kingdom of is a keystone of stc’s business strategy
Deployment was made on a truly open Saudi Arabia. With the global race to adopt and Carrier Aggregation feature is an
stack nature with different radio suppliers O-RAN for broader network deployment, exciting milestone in stc’s O-RAN journey.
which showcases the true potential of stc’s latest success demonstrates its stc will continue to endeavor to always lead
O-RAN technology to transform Radio direction and leadership in the development the market towards digital transformation,
Access Networks towards an Open and of O-RAN with maturity to fulfill variety of in line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030.”
Fully Interoperable RAN. Development and capabilities required by our customers.

Etisalat Digital and Oracle to Host Business
Solutions for Transguard Group

Etisalat Digital has announced that an OCI cloud solution enables Transguard with minimal downtime and operational
Transguard Group, the UAE’s leading to better operate from anywhere. The impact.” Salvador Anglada, CEO Etisalat
business support and outsourcing migration will also allow the company Enterprise Digital & Group Chief Business
provider, has selected Oracle Cloud to re-use its existing infrastructure, Officer, said: “Today more customers are
Infrastructure (OCI) to migrate their which will bring down the CAPEX and moving to the cloud, enabling Transguard
on-premises solutions. This will lower OPEX of hardware, maintenance and IT. to be flexible and automate their functions,
the total cost of ownership (TCO) while “Transguard Group chose to migrate to achieving its business objectives and
giving Transguard the flexibility to serve OCI mainly to effect faster, more powerful meeting customer demand cost-effectively
requirements of mission-critical systems performance across our enterprise,” and sustainably. Transguard will reduce its
and respond quickly to dynamic market explained Dr. Greg Ward, Managing total cost of ownership by over 40 percent
conditions, emerging technologies and Director, Transguard Group. “Moving to for five years with this implementation.
customer demands. Transguard Group, an the cloud offers us greater cost savings We look forward to working with *Oracle
Emirates Group company, has over 60,000 and supports the business to be as lean and guiding Transguard Group in their
employees located at the customers’ as possible, all while delivering greater cloud journey by helping it to accelerate
facilities and their own, on the road or, now, scalability. The ease of migration and their digital transformation and adapt to
working at home. The company will move support was also a major deciding factor ever-changing market conditions. “OCI’s
its existing Oracle Database Appliance to because we are able to move our entire next-generation architecture provides a
the Oracle Cloud Dubai Region. Moving to on-premises environment to the cloud high-performing, resilient foundation for
cloud services, while its design maximizes
performance and security,” said Abiy
Yeshitla, Vice President, Technology,
Middle East and Africa, Oracle. “By
transitioning its existing core ecosystem
to OCI, Transguard Group will be able to run
any application, faster and more securely
for less. It will also make it far easier
to manage security, performance and
scalability,” Transguard Group will leverage
Oracle’s Bring Your Own Licenses (BYOL)
program for database licenses into the
Oracle Cloud; it also includes providing OCI
FastConnect with last mile connectivity to
Transguard locations provided by Etisalat.

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