Mobily, Integrated Telecom Company (ITC) and Cisco have announced their collaboration on a project to modernize and upgrade the Saudi National Fiber Network (SNFN) to prepare it for the next phase of growth in the field of ICT.
Cisco’s task is to modernize and unify the partners’ networks by implementing state-of-the-art optical, packet technologies and architectures, providing Mobily and ITC with unprecedented geographic reach in main cities, rural and remote areas, which will enable it to fulfill customer demand in a fast and cost-effective way.
Maziad bin Nasser Al-Harbi, chief technology officer of Mobily, said: “The new network will enable Mobily to reduce network operating costs. In addition, it will increase our capability to provide high-speed connectivity at 1G, 10G and 100G speeds to most of our targeted remote areas at a low cost, which is in line with the company’s plans to support one of the key goals of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030.”
The project aims to migrate Mobily and ITC synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) network to a modern and high-capacity gigabit ethernet-dense wave division multiplexing (GE-DWDM) network.
Furthermore, the project’s purpose is to integrate two parallel long-haul networks and build a unified long-haul DWDM network supporting up to 200G and 400G speeds and extend Mobily’s long-haul networks in rural and remote areas to DWDM network.
