Alcatel-Lucent At Zain’s Technology Conference In UAE, Dubai, 5-7 Nov 2012
Alcatel-Lucent participated at Zain’s conference with a wide variety of solutions and demos demonstrating Alcatel-Lucent’s world Class technology.
Alcatel-Lucent is fully aligned with Zain’s operations and future strategies and is aiming at providing its best technologies to offer Zain’s customers an exceptional experience.
After a gap of two years following the sale of the Zain Africa and the successful restructuring of Zain Group, the company has brought together over 40 of its Network and IT partners in order to align all operating companies and partners around a renewed commitment to superior technological performance and deeper relationships with the company’s customers.
A wide range of related issues were explored and new approaches agreed around themes such as energy efficiency, full IP networks, WiFi offloading and convergence. Case studies from around the world were presented and reviewed and the results of the conference will be integrated into the company’s evolving strategy for its continued growth and leadership.
In line with focusing on customer service and customer experience, Alcatel-Lucent regional teams worked on a strong presence in having on-booth demos on our Microwave solution MPR 9500 and features, as well as 4G/LTE Overview, 7750 SR router & 100G Board Hardware showcase, as well as introducing the following speaking sessions:
Evolving SDH Networks with Hybrid Packet/TDM Solutions and Scalable Intelligent Core Optical NW (By Paolo Fogliata, Optics Cometence Center, Vimercate – Milan, ALU Italy)
Driving LTE Monetization and Operational Efficiency, RAN Offload with LR Wi-Fi (By Bashar Boudiab, IPD Regional CC, ALU UAE)
Wireless Network Guardian (By Mustafa Soliman, META Customer Marketing, KSA Leader) WNG 9900 and S3G Portfolio Overview (By Tarek Belghith, META Customer Marketing, Middle East)
4G/LTE, Light Radio and Small Cells Solutions and Trends (By Olivier Taffin, ALU UAE Wireless CC)
Mobile Backhaul Evolution for LTE and IP/MPLS Core Router Evolution (By Bashar Boudiab, IPD Regional CC, ALU UAE)
Alcatel-Lucent Microwave Solution Strategy : MPR 9500 (By Kamel Djidi, META Microwave Awareness, ALU France)
Quotes:
Jacques Querel, Alcatel-Lucent, Country Senior Officer Kuwait
“Alcatel-Lucent’s has always been a leading player in the region. We are happy to share our expertise with Zain and work with them in setting their strategies as per “Ghadduna” challenging plan for enhancing mobile broadband experience for their customers. With demand for mobile broadband growing rapidly in the region, Alcatel-Lucent’s expertise in network optimization will enable Zain to deliver mobile broadband services more efficiently and at a lower cost even as subscriber numbers grow.”
Hisham Allam, Zain’s Group CTO
“We at Zain Group believe that deploying technology is aimed at serving the customer first and foremost. Having had this large number of partners and service providers under one roof was an ideal opportunity for all involved to share their experience, value added services and smart networks”
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