Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) has built its own cloud network in collaboration with Ericson and Huawei. The “flexible and agile” network aims to support the development of new services and improve customer experience.
Cloud solutions contribute in improving the core network needs to evolve an architecture that can consolidate some functions and distribute others to deliver flexibility, efficiency and low latency. Besides, the deployment of the Ericsson solution will provide Mobily’s live network with a 5G-ready core and will help the network scale as IoT adoption increases.
Maziad bin Nasser Al-Harbi, chief technology officer of Mobily, said: “Cloud solutions will help meet the growing demand for new network services to help improve productivity and efficiency.”
He said Mobily’s customers will receive many benefits, such as reduced data transfer time, dedicated vertical network solutions and optimal distribution of the network’s core capabilities.
Al-Harbi noted that Mobily is working toward digital transformation in line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 by implementing latest cutting-edge technologies to meet the increasing demand of all services, and the data services in particular.
