Mobily has launched its advanced connectivity services (ACS).

Marwan Al-Ahmadi, Mobily chief business officer, held a celebration to announce the launch in Riyadh, which was attended by key executives, IT and technical staff of private and governmental companies and agencies, in addition to key ICT solution providers.

Advanced connectivity services, designed for both government and the business sectors in the Kingdom, are based on Mobily Smart Network, which contains advanced fiber optics coverage and offers a range of optical transport services in accordance with safe, flexible and high reliability ranges.

The Advanced connectivity services provide a highly reliable solution for high speed data transfer up to 1 terabit/sec with high levels of security at a competitive cost. It also utilizes the latest technologies that minimize network downtime while providing a high degree of operational flexibility that enables the transfer of all types of mission-critical applications and data that require a reliable, secure, high speed and low latency world-class network infrastructure.

These services meet the needs of many sectors, including public sector, finance, health care, education and others as it adapts with the continuous exponential growth in the volume of data passing across Mobily’s secure and flexible high capacity networks.

ACS supports a wide range of customer applications such as high performance storage, large databases and data warehouses, storage backup systems and recovery systems, synchronous and asynchronous network-based storage requirements and includes many services such as Wavelength and Carrier Ethernet.

Mohammed Basafi, Mobily chief technical officer, FBN, fixed and broadband networks, stated that this service is a reflection of Mobily’s transformation plan to become a comprehensive IT services provider.

Omar Sayed, general director of Ciena in the Kingdom and sales manager of the operators in the Middle East, said: “We have services designed for meeting the Middle East demand.”