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Salam Partners with Nokia to Boost Digital Drive

Salam, a leading Saudi company in the broadband experience using the latest services in the Kingdom. “We are
ICT sector, has signed a partnership high-speed bandwidth technologies. committed to supporting its vision to help
agreement with Nokia for implementation “The project further strengthens our individuals reach new heights in digital era,
of two projects to enhance its digital company to continue playing a leading and business customers be smarter, more
infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, using role in supporting our nation’s digital digital, more integrated and secure. We are
the latest technologies with advanced transformation journey, and achieving confident that this partnership is just the
capabilities. Radwan Al-Mufleh, Salam the Saudi Vision 2030 aimed at building a beginning of a journey and will last long,
Chief Commercial Officer, said: "This prosperous digital economy and a better creating a strong positive impact for the
agreement with Nokia, one of the world's future for the Kingdom.” Roger Ghorayeb, people and businesses in the Kingdom.”
largest and leading global companies in Customer Team Head for Middle East Nokia is upgrading Salem’s existing fiber
the ICT sector, supports Salam's efforts Growth Accounts, at Nokia said: “We are access nodes in its central offices in three
and future plans to develop our digital proud to have been chosen by Salam to cities in the Kingdom, with 10x speed
infrastructure to provide our customers play a vital role in modernizing its digital increase. Nokia’s solution will modernize
advanced digital services and best infrastructure and providing pioneering Salam’s existing GPON networks to a
future proof, highly scalable solution,
leveraging the Nokia's Quillion chipset-
based line cards. The deal also includes
fiber modems for customer’s homes in
addition to Nokia’s 5G Fixed Wireless
Access gateways featuring WiFi 6, Easy
Mesh compatibility and eSIM capabilities,
and Nokia’s FastMile Controller. This
agreement comes as a continuation of a
series of significant and fruitful agreements
signed by Salam with many leading local
and global companies to boost its user
experience with the latest technologies,
and to support its efforts in providing the
best ICT services to all its customers in
the government sector, companies and
individuals, with high quality services at
competitive prices.

Nokia and Rakuten Mobile Demo 1Tbps Per Channel Transmission
Capability in Live Network

Nokia and Japan’s new fourth mobile coherent transmission powered by its to enable 5G connectivity, video, and other
operator, Rakuten Mobile, have announced Photonic Service Engine (PSE) supporting new applications. Commenting, Tareq
the successful demonstration of what they 1Tbps capacity over a 150GHz optical Amin, Representative Director and CEO of
claim is the first live 1Tbps per channel spectrum. It went on to say the test Rakuten Mobile, said: ‘We are delighted
transmission over the latter’s commercial ‘demonstrated the ability to deliver 32Tbps with the performance of 1Tbps per channel
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexer per fiber in C-band which can be expanded on our optical network in collaboration
(DWDM) network, a speed increase of to 64Tbps by adding L-band over a Nokia with Nokia. This technical milestone will
500% on its existing network running DWDM line system used in Rakuten allow us to maximize bits per fiber and
at 200Gbps. The trial reportedly took Mobile’s optical network, vital to providing achieve improved power efficiency. The
place over two days in January 2022 and maximum capacity for the ever-increasing enhanced capacity will also support our
connected data centers located 135km data demands and to support the latest traffic growth, deliver higher bandwidth
apart in Japan’s Kanto region. In a press generations of routers delivering 800Gbps and enable Rakuten Mobile to provide new
release dated 30 March, the Finnish vendor Ethernet.’ The trial comes as Rakuten service offerings.’
said the 1Tbps speed was achieved using Mobile is scaling up its network capacity

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