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10 09 September 2015

Khan Abid Aziz Special Corespondent Haroon Rashid, Camilla Urdahl Fakher Khan

10th year of publication

Islamabad Muhammad Shafiq Khan

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Qatar P.O. Box. 20927, Doha Ph: (+974) 66780756, 33279600 Contents

Editor’s Picks

09 Stepping into the world of 5G The Etisalat Group

13 “We can see sustained growth in video distribution and DTH services” William Wade, CEO, AsiaSat 09

Internet & Telecommunications

11 Huawei aided China Mobile with commercial VoLTE services debut in Zhejiang

11 Smart cities: Operator success closely linked to network robustness and convergence

12 Google rebrands itself as Alphabet

16 Tomorrow’s connectivity today

16 The network must protect the Internet of Things

20 Ericsson leads European Union 5G standardization projects

33 GSMA disappointed by lack of progress made by Asia-Pacific Telecommunity ahead of WRC-15

35 New Federal Decree permits Foreign Investment in Etisalat

37 du successfully trials Network Function Virtualization (NFV) in the UAE

38 Nokia Networks bags $100 million IMS deployment deal from Reliance Jio

40 Ooredoo announced network upgrade in Qatar

42 Vodafone takes network experience to newer heights with 3 band carrier aggregation 26 Satellite & Broadcasting

22 Satellite communications initiative set to transform lives in emerging markets

26 Intelsat launches Latin America satellite

27 BBV is first to sign on to ABOX42-powered IPTV service

29 NOAA signs first U.S. Government deal with SES for O3b High Throughput solution

30 Thaicom takes 8th in Global Rankings; Standout results continue in 1H 2015 24

Event Reports

18 Development and design of 5G is industry focus and on display at PT/EXPO China 2015

24 Better than ever, the IBC2015 Conference examines ‘The Future of Media in an Age of Disruption’

44 Huawei redefines innovative ICT to enable smart energy at its Global Energy Industry Summit 2015 22

ICT Reports 46 UAE ICT Fund announces 100 new scholarships to enhance the sector

47 Infor to Acquire GT Nexus

48 Information and Communications Technologies will help accelerate digital transformation in the UAE

48 Report states “Teradata Intelligent Memory delivers a credible power pack for analytics” 30 Letter to Readers

Dear Reader, Welcome to the latest edition of IBC Amsterdam scheduled to Teletimes International. take place during the 10th to 15th The telecommunications industry September, 2015. Asiasat will be is evolving day by day, shifting participating in the event and from voice to data, from 3G showcasing some of its latest to 4G and now we are at the solutions. Teletimes International verge of an industry shift that is also a media supporter of the is to come in the form of 5G event for Print and Digital Media telecommunications. With all the and we plan to see many of you efforts being made in research at the event. commissioned by the European In other major news, Google has Union and by equipment rebranded itself as Alphabet, an manufacturers such as Huawei, umbrella organization looking we have the Etisalat Group at over Google and other ventures the forefront of this quest for of former Google such as Calico. 5G as Etisalat plans to become You will find inside this edition the first operator to bring 5G to a report on the subject citing the Middle East. Recommended the blog post announcement by for a read, we have inside an Larry Page and some comments editorial piece from the Etisalat from Ovum. Group inside on the subject titled As per routine, you will find the “Stepping into a world of 5G”. latest news regarding all major My second recommendation industry players. from this edition is an exclusive For any queries regarding interview with Mr. William Wade, meetings at IBC, you the CEO of Asiasat who talks can personally contact about Asiasat’s future plans me on khalidathar@ and foreseen growth in DTH & teletimesinternational.com Video Distribution Services. The Please enjoy reading this edition interview is featured ahead of of Teletimes International!

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At Etisalat Group, innovation remains at the heart of what we do and we are committed to being proactive in deliv- ering for our customers. The accelerated rate of high tech development is at the heart of the pursuit of 5G. The migration of the bulk of media output from traditional medi- ums to the digital landscape has resulted in significant demands on the ICT sector, and telcos in particular. As video becomes almost entirely digital-driven, there will be an increased need for high-capacity data networks. Data already comprises 35 to 50 percent of the telecom

The Lab follows a series of recent

memorandum of Etisalat Group Headquarters - UAE understanding signed between increasing data requirements will demand that we telcos Etisalat Group deliver. This of course, is again Etisalat invested USD $680 million in and Huawei to where 5G comes in. 2014 to bring 4G to its fullest potential Digital identity is another bring technology critical factor. A recent sur- in the UAE, and will do so for 5G. firsts to the vey found that on average we each have 20 separate region. passwords to access a variety enormous and will continue that Etisalat Group is eager to of websites from Gmail to to grow as societies seek to meet. industry, and mobile data traf- Government services. While empower smart city initiatives The number one thing is to fic has grown 46 times in the every service may be smart, and further establish the improve the connectivity or past five years. Media is now unity and collaboration across Internet of Things (IoT). This the quality and the speed. more video-driven than ever these different services is not technology is essential, but it That is why Etisalat invested before, and this trend shows yet simple. is not the driver and a lot of USD 680m in 2014 to bring 4G no signs of slowing down. One of the biggest industry other things need to happen to its fullest potential in the Video consumes massive challenges is Big Data. The for these things to become UAE, and will do so for 5G. The amounts of bandwidth, and its demand for data delivery is a reality. This is a challenge concept of 5G will continue

September 2015 www.teletimesinternational.com 9 to evolve, but what we are where we must continually develop and implement new develop both technologically certain of is that it is the key provide the required band- technologies effectively, but and conceptually. Etisalat to establishing the capacity width in order to maintain also results in better mon- is working with a variety of for keeping pace with digiti- this progress. And develop etization of achievements, partners to pave the path zation of society, allowing IoT a portfolio of services that therefore making our efforts towards making 5G a reality. to truly flourish. It is partly is geared towards fostering financially sustainable. This is Together with our strategic about speed, but it is also improvements in education, the only way in which we can partners Huawei, we are con- structing a Joint Innovation Lab in the UAE. The Lab follows a series of recent memorandum of un- derstanding signed between Etisalat Group and Huawei to bring technology firsts to the

Etisalat Group is working to be the first telco in the Middle East to roll out 5G for commercial use.

region. The Lab’s mandate will be to explore and deploy super-speed 5G mobile broad- band services in the region, as well as create a joint research and development framework to investigate Ahmad Julfar, CEO - Etisalat Group how IoT applications can be adopted in various industries about efficiency, intelligence, healthcare, finance and many create a holistic, working re- to enhance business efficien- effective management, and other essential areas. lationship that reinvests in it- cy and lead to smarter public boundless innovation. Etisalat’s Group CEO, Mr. self and spurs further growth services. When Etisalat talks about Ahmad Julfar, has repeat- and development. It is only This sort of vigorous com- 5G, we’re talking about more edly called for the advent of with this approach that we mitment to research and de- than just a faster network. velopment is vital to keeping 5G will be a comprehensive pace with the demands of the enabler, not only for tele- Etisalat’s Group CEO, Mr. Ahmad Julfar, digital future. At Etisalat we communications, but in every has repeatedly called for the advent of take 5G very seriously, and aspect of life. It will help we are proud of the work we revolutionize the world in a collaborative value addition. are already doing with part- myriad of ways, far beyond ners like Huawei, and Etisalat the confines of our industry. Group is working to be the The expansion of the Inter- collaborative value addition. will deliver the consistent in- first telco in the Middle East net of Things further into What this means is telcos and novation necessary to enable to roll out 5G for commercial everyday life, with countless other digital players working the digital revolution. use. As an innovator, and in activities and services migrat- together, collaborating and It is a technological revo- line with our aspirations and ing to the digital landscape, cooperating. This not only lution that requires strong goals, it will be a heavy focus it has created a situation allows us to more efficiently international partnerships to in the years to come.

10 www.teletimesinternational.com September 2015 Huawei has announced that service experiences to field verification, and roll out VoLTE networks in China Mobile has rolled out customers, China Mobile trial commercial use of VoLTE developed coastal provinces its VoLTE HD voice services in introduced a next-generation services. as well as metropolitan Zhejiang, the first province in convergent communication The official commercialization cities, including Beijing, China to enter into the VoLTE strategy at the beginning of of VoLTE services in Shanghai, and Shenzhen. era. The announcement is 2014. Zhejiang is a new industry Due to its industry-leading the culmination of more Key highlights of the strategy milestone for China Mobile end-to-end solutions and than a year’s work by include Zhejiang Mobile and unveiled the start of powerful integration Zhejiang Mobile, with the making the first VoLTE VoLTE commercialization delivery capabilities, help of partners including call in China and the first in China. Huawei recently Huawei is increasingly Huawei, to take the lead international VoLTE video won nearly half of China becoming the preferred in China Mobile’s VoLTE call in 2013, as well as being Mobile’s nationwide VoLTE strategic partner of leading commercialization process. the first in China to deploy procurement project and was global operators in 4G To continuously offer fixed mobile convergence selected to be responsible for evolution and VoLTE improved communication (FMC) networks, complete deployment of commercial services.

Smart cities offer new reve- centralisation. Traffic conges- the business market,” says assets and a strong position nue streams for operators in tion was a priority in London Ozgur Aytar, research director in the business market have a maturing markets, but a less and Stockholm, for example, at Pyramid Research. clear advantage. risky approach is to address while improving the efficiency Connectivity is a means to “More importantly, there is an various verticals that are of cargo transportation was an end in itself. The report opportunity for operators to attractive in themselves on a important in Hamburg. Not highlights that in most cases become an indispensable part- nationwide basis which can only does a smart city have a operators have not invested ner in smart city projects by also form part of a broader number of different opera- significantly in dedicated providing IoT/M2M platforms smart city project. tional layers, its implementa- smart city resources, but rath- in partnership with technol- A new report by Pyramid Re- tion requires that a variety of er offer a range of services ogy vendors, for example search finds that smart cities different services are planned, that can contribute elements by providing fleet tracking are fundamentally attractive designed, built and operated of smart city projects. “Op- services tailored to the needs propositions for network as an integrated system that erators will leverage their of emergency services,” says operators because they drive enables centralised control, connectivity assets needed Ramos. The report notes that demand for core connectivity yet each service must also in order to provide smart China Mobile had over 43 mil- services. However, only in have its own discrete opera- city services, such as cellular, lion IoT/M2M SIMs at the end certain circumstances does tional organisation. “By their xDSL, Ethernet, fiber optics of 2014, making it the largest it make sense for operators nature, smart city projects and Wi-Fi networks,” says IoT/M2M player globally. The to invest in dedicated smart are complex, long term and Daniel Ramos, senior analyst operator is involved in hun- city resources. The develop- unique, with many stakehold- at Pyramid Research. High- dreds of smart city projects, ment of a standardised value ers and a variety of business er-capacity and wider-cover- both with horizontal capabili- chain across different smart models. age converged networks are ties and standardised services cities is nearly impossible, The smart city opportunity an early requirement of many such as construction site noise given the individual require- is therefore unpredictable, smart city projects and those monitoring, real-time trans- ments of cities in terms of competitive and limited to operators that boast robust port information and surveil- size, priorities and degree of operators with exposure to fixed and wireless network lance/security.

September 2015 www.teletimesinternational.com 11 Larry Page, CEO - Alphabet Sergey Brin, President - Alphabet Sundar Pichai, new CEO - Google

Google has rebranded itself as Alphabet, a more, and to do important and meaningful among other businesses. Removing the new umbrella company which will oversee things with the resources we have.” moonshots and connected home activities eight firms, including the search engine “We did a lot of things that seemed crazy from Google’s portfolio should enable it to Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin an- at the time. Many of those crazy things focus on increasing its penetration in key nounced the surprise move in a blog post. now have over a billion users, like Google markets such as India and China – the lat- It means the firm will be able to lend more Maps, YouTube, Chrome, and Android. ter is a large market for so-called “forked” focus on risky ventures at its ‘moonshot And we haven’t stopped there. We are still versions of Android, which don’t connect factory’ Google X developing robots, trying to do things other people think are to the wider universe of Google services, self-driving cars and studying life sciences - crazy but we are super excited about.” effectively putting the company in compe- while keeping investors happy. “We’ve long believed that over time tition with itself. In the shake-up, Page will become the chief companies tend to get comfortable doing What’s less clear is the implication for Goo- executive of Alphabet, while his fellow the same thing, just making incremental gle’s IoT-related businesses. Projects such founder of the $367.6 billion company, changes. But in the technology industry, as Thread and Nest weren’t mentioned in Sergey Brin, will become the holding com- where revolutionary ideas drive the next CEO Larry Page’s letter announcing the pany’s president. big growth areas, you need to be a bit restructuring. However, these businesses, Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai, a uncomfortable to stay relevant.” like Google X, will benefit from the tighter rising star in Silicon Valley, will receive a “Our company is operating well today, but focus on their respective areas of interest long-awaited promotion to become CEO of we think we can make it cleaner and more by being separated from the search and Google, which will now solely be a search accountable. So we are creating a new YouTube businesses. engine. company, called Alphabet. I am really ex- Another benefit is that less successful Larry Page sums it up in his blog cited to be running Alphabet as CEO with products won’t necessarily tarnish the announcement help from my capable partner, Sergey, as main brand as severely – examples include “As Sergey and I wrote in the original President.” the Google+ social network, which was founders letter 11 years ago, “Google is Francesco Radicati, Senior Analyst recently decoupled from YouTube and not a conventional company. We do not from Ovum comments on the move other Google products, and Google Glass, intend to become one.” As part of that, we While the move is primarily intended to which has been placed under the responsi- also said that you could expect us to make make the company’s operations more bility of Tony Fadell at Nest. Unsuccessful “smaller bets in areas that might seem transparent, it has implications for each ventures won’t be associated with the very speculative or even strange when of the core businesses. First is the core Google name, while successful ones will compared to our current businesses.” Google brand, which will retain control be more easily tied into the overall brand From the start, we’ve always strived to do of Android, YouTube, search, and maps, once they’re established.

12 www.teletimesinternational.com September 2015 William Wade was appointed as the President and Chief Executive Officer on 1 August 2010 after serving as the company’s Deputy Chief Executive Officer for 16 years. Mr. Wade has over 29 years of experience in the satellite and cable television industry. Prior to joining AsiaSat in April 1994, he was with Hutchison Whampoa Limited as Director of Business Development for Pan Asian Systems and was in charge of all sales and regional operations. Mr. Wade also served as Executive Director for Echosphere International (Echostar), where he established Echosphere’s permanent Asian operations in Singapore while managing the company’s activities in Asia and the Middle East. Mr. Wade speaks Mandarin and holds both a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Communications from the University of Utah and a Master of International Management degree from Thunderbird (the Global School of International Management). Mr. William Wade has recently given Teletimes International an exclusive Interview, the excerpts of which are given in the following.

September 2015 www.teletimesinternational.com 13 TT: First of all, we would like to begin with the new organi- “In the area of zational structure at AsiaSat. telecommunications, What is the ideology behind this new structure? Is it part higher-bandwidth of a new strategy at AsiaSat? WW: We have launched our applications are rebrand campaign earlier this emerging in the Asia year with an aim to re-en- ergize our brand presence and Middle East and our team. We are also regions. In the more hoping to move closer to our customers and partners. The developed markets, introduction of a renewed the trend is to move organizational structure is part of our rebrand initiatives. towards applications We believe with the restruc- turing, we are able to utilize that demand higher our resources more efficient- throughput and ly. And by focusing our efforts more deeply in our markets, faster speeds” we can provide services that best meet our customers’ demand for UHD content needs. delivery will predominantly TT: Please also share with be for broadcasting interna- us the idea behind your new tional sports events, such as brand identity launched earli- the 2016 Rio Olympic Games er in March 2015? and the 2018 FIFA World WW: AsiaSat has been taking Cup. AsiaSat satellites offer the lead in the Asian satel- high-powered capacity over lite marketplace for over key television markets in Asia. 25 years. Last year, AsiaSat With the launch of our new underwent a few major UHD platform in the coming transitional changes. These “In the coming years, we expect months, we are able to play a included the launch of two demand for UHD content delivery will more active role in promoting new satellites AsiaSat 6 and this new technology in Asia. AsiaSat 8, the more powerful predominantly be for broadcasting TT: AsiaSat has recently an- AsiaSat 7 in service to replace nounced the plan to deploy AsiaSat 3S, and with a new international sports events, such as the Asia’s first dedicated Ultra shareholder on board. These 2016 Rio Olympic Games and the 2018 HD (UHD) broadcast platform developments have strength- in the next few months. ened our capability to expand FIFA World Cup.” Please give us some details our coverage and services to regarding this plan? our clients. We thought this a significant capacity require- TT: Please talk in detail about WW: Last year we established was the right time to make a ment to support this shift the impact of high resolution UHD research laboratory at change to our brand and the over the next few years. The broadcasting services such as our Tai Po Earth Station in philosophy of our company drivers behind this shift are UHD. How is AsiaSat catering Hong Kong. Over the past culture, so as to find an ever the increased competition to such demand? months, we are working better way to serve our cli- among Asian pay TV plat- WW: Without doubt, UHD has closely with our content ents and fulfill their needs. forms and growing consumer gained more and more atten- and technology partners to TT: How do you see the demand for better picture tion over the past year. How- evaluate this new broadcast current growth in the market quality and viewing expe- ever, its development is still technology. In early June, we demand for Broadcast ser- rience. Also the continued limited by a lack of UHD video announced our plan to launch vices? What are the drivers trend towards localized con- content. In addition, the cost a Free-to-Air (FTA) UHD plat- behind this demand and tent has increased broadcast- of delivery of UHD content form based on Digital Video how will it grow in the near ers’ requirements for satellite will remain high unless we see Broadcast-Satellite-Second future? capacity. These ongoing a significant breakthrough in Generation (DVB-S2) and WW: As the Asian broadcast developments are expected the current compression and High Efficiency Video Cod- sector is moving to upgrade to boost our businesses in the transmission technologies. In ing (HEVC) solutions on an from SDTV to HDTV, there is near and intermediate term. the coming years, we expect AsiaSat satellite in the coming

14 www.teletimesinternational.com September 2015 months. Our objective is to We are looking at launching promote and incubate the “AsiaSat’s enormous footprints cover the new satellites that will add reception of UHD content in entire Asia-Pacific region, spanning from capacity to these slots. Our Asia, and allow broadcasters next satellite is AsiaSat 9, to evaluate the economic fea- Russia to New Zealand and from Japan which now remains on track sibility of satellite delivered for completion by late 2016 UHD broadcasting in our part to the Middle East and parts of Africa. or early 2017. It will replace of the world. We serve over two-thirds of the world’s AsiaSat 4 at 122 degrees East, TT: What, in your opinion, where it will increase signifi- are the new market trends population.” cantly our Ku-band capacity that are shaping the satellite at that orbital slot. The addi- industry, especially in the and from Japan to the Middle tion among content providers tional Ku-band transponders Asian and Middle East region East and parts of Africa. We and pay platform operators on this satellite will enable today? serve over two-thirds of the to expand market share, us to meet capacity demand WW: Looking into the TV world’s population. For the and government initiatives in China, Australia, Mongolia, market, continued advances China market, we have a rep- to introduce competition to Indonesia and Myanmar. Lon- in satellite broadcasting tech- resentative office in Beijing. the media sector. With the ger term, we are also looking nology are the biggest driver. For the rest of the global mar- additional C-band and Ku- to put a new satellite to one Advanced techniques for of our existing orbital slots channel coding, modulation where our spectrum resourc- and error correction, along “Our objective is to promote and es can be more fully utilized. with the latest video com- TT: In your opinion, how will pression technology, DVB-S2 incubate the reception of UHD content in the satellite markets of the have enabled the widespread Asia, and allow broadcasters to evaluate Middle East and Asia evolve commercial launch of HDTV over the coming years? How service. Using this new tech- the economic feasibility of satellite do you see AsiaSat’s position nology, broadcasters enjoy in these markets for the com- greater bandwidth efficiency, delivered UHD broadcasting in our part of ing years? thus cost savings when they the world.” WW: I believe Asia and the introduce new and localized Middle East will continue to services into new markets. provide plenty of opportu- In the area of telecommuni- ket, we operate through our band capacity from our new nities for satellite despite cations, higher-bandwidth agents and strategic partners satellites, we look forward to increased competition and applications are emerging in around the world, and effec- supporting the rapid growth capacity oversupply in some the Asia and Middle East re- tively through our sales and of these services, in particular markets within these regions. gions. In the more developed global account teams based the more widespread deploy- In the near term, we hope markets, the trend is to move in Hong Kong. ment of HD television in Asia. to see reviving economies towards applications that de- TT: What is the current key TT: Please tell us about your and government support for mand higher throughput and focus of AsiaSat in terms of future plan for growth? Will broadcasting and telecom- faster speeds, for example, services? there be any new satellite munications projects in these rapid upload of video to web markets. With our expanding pages, connection of televi- satellite fleet including our sion to the Internet. In addi- “I believe Asia and the Middle East new AsiaSat 8 satellite that tion to continued demand for provides the capacity and improved communications will continue to provide plenty of services tailored to meet the infrastructure in some under- opportunities for satellite despite demand for DTH television developed countries, we also and data broadcasting in see bandwidth demand grow- increased competition and capacity these regions, and a re-ener- ing for mobility services such gized team, we endeavor to as maritime, aviation and high oversupply in some markets within these serve our clients with high speed railway. regions.” quality and reliable satellite TT: In terms of coverage, services. how vast is AsiaSat’s cu- TT: Would you like to com- mulative footprint? Do you WW: Video will continue to launches in the near future? ment on Teletimes Interna- have commercial operations contribute a major portion Will you be entering any new tional? throughout this coverage? of our growth. There are markets in terms of services WW: Teletimes provides WW: AsiaSat’s enormous two areas where we can see or geographical regions? many interesting articles to footprints cover the entire sustained growth – video WW: Our satellites operate keep us abreast of devel- Asia-Pacific region, spanning distribution and DTH services, at some of Asia’s very best opments in the markets we from Russia to New Zealand driven by increased competi- coordinated orbital locations. operate in.

September 2015 www.teletimesinternational.com 15 Azercosmos, completely baijan, on February 8th 2013, the channels are foreign. enhancing the coverage owned by the government of the company provides highly Currently, in 2014, Azercosmos area, supporting the growing Azerbaijan, was established on reliable, satellite-based commu‐ entered into the commercial demands in the region for May 3rd 2010 and has achieved nication services to enterprise business of Earth observation DTH, government and network a reputation for being a trust‐ and government customers for services, including geo-infor‐ services by launching a second ed, dependable, and reliable DTH, voice, data and mobility mation services. Azercosmos telecommunications satellite, regional satellite operator and. applications. Azerspace-1 at signed a strategic coopera‐ Azerspace-2 at 45 degrees East Customers from commercial to 460 E is equipped with C-band tion agreement with Airbus orbital location in 2017. With government and military mar‐ and K-band transponders. With Defence and Space to take the launch of Azerspace-2, kets depend on Azercosmos the Ku-band and C-band we over the rights to operate Azercosmos will meet the to consistently deliver high cover the markets in Europe, and commercialize the Spot 7 growing demand in Europe, quality, customized, secure, Central Asia, Africa, the Middle high resolution (1,5m imagery countries of Central and South and end-to-end satellite com‐ East, the European part of Rus‐ products) optical Earth obser‐ Asia, the Middle East as well as munication solutions. Having sia and Caucasus. Over 130 TV vation satellite under the name the Sub-Saharan Africa. launched the Azerspace-1, the channels are being broadcast Azersky. first-ever satellite of Azer‐ over the satellite and 90% of Azercosmos plans also include

The business world and gies; Education Technologies; R&D and Innovation Special area and introduction of the re‐ every area of the society are Satellite Broadcasting, Cable Section quirement to build data centers undergoing a major transfor‐ and TV Industry; and ERP Spe‐ CeBIT Bilişim Eurasia 2015 will belonging to banks in Turkey mation under the influence of cial Section. bring together the information has brought about 60% growth the wave of digitalization as it Hannover Fairs Turkey General technology companies who in the data center area and spreads rapidly. This transfor‐ Manager Alexander Kühnel conduct R&D and develop put Turkey in the first position mation which determines the says, “CeBIT Bilişim Eurasia is Innovative products in Turkey in the world growth list. This future of almost every industry gearing up this year. Together with foreign and domestic year the manufacturers of the from finance to health, is push‐ with Global Conferences, , the companies in the R&D and In‐ industry are coming together in ing companies to seek proper renewed exhibition is focusing novation thematic area. In the the CeBIT Bilişim Eurasia Data solutions. Focusing 100% on the on digital solutions, challenges specially designed area, R&D Center special section. business world with a concept and opportunities for compa‐ Centers, Technoparks, Tech‐ Satellite, Broadcasting, Cable& that was renewed last year, Ce‐ nies, industries and the public nopark companies, Technology TV Industry Special Section BIT Bilişim Eurasia is preparing sector. Having hosted the Transfer Offices, Public Sector, The Satellite, broadcasting to present a comprehensive newest technological products Angel Investment Networks, and Informatics industry in response to this need. Concen‐ for years, the event brings to‐ Entrepreneurs, Academicians Turkey is one of the major trating on the digitalization gether the technologies of the and International Buyer Delega‐ markets in the Eurasia thanks process around the “Innova‐ future under one roof and once tions will come together. Major to its success and continuous tion and Future Technologies” more undertakes an important business opportunities will be development. In addition to main theme, special sections mission in Turkey’s transi‐ offered to the exhibitors with the growth of local satellite have been planned for the tion to the digital. This year, bilateral negotiations, con‐ industry year by year, high industries in which the most among the issues which will be ferences and activities at the quality manufacturing capacity up‐to‐date information and highlighted in the exhibitions fairground. also provides competitive ad‐ communication technologies and conferences, there will be Data Center Special Section vantage in Turkey. While the TV are used. This year the event is Mobile Economy, Education, Major developments have been and broadcasting techniques addressing to digitalization of Health, Communication, Sat‐ observed in Turkey in the data direct the industry into internet vertical and horizontal sectors ellite Communication, Innova‐ center area in recent years. The and associated smart product with different thematic areas tion, Network, IT Security, BIG increase in the number of inter‐ markets, 2015 will be the year such as R&D and Innovation; Data, E‐Government Solutions net users, the intensive compe‐ of transition from satellite and Data Center, Health Technolo‐ and Metropolitan Solutions.” tition in the Telecommunication cable into mobile and IPTV.

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GITEX CONFERENCE AD TELETIMES INDIA 216X279.indd 1 19/08/2015 09:20 5G will be the future of the cessors and storage modules, giants from home and abroad, 5G technical standards by the wireless communication indus- this will be a dream for the but offer an opportunity for end of 2018. The 5G commer- try. The latest industry upgrade consumer electronics industry. audiences to peek at and expe- cial application schedules to 5G will bring fast transmis- 5G will affect various aspects rience the 5G era in advance. have been published by many sion speeds, reaching 10Gb/s of an ordinary person’s life. Developing 5G technology countries. South Korea plans to (10x faster than 4G). For this reason, the PT/EXPO Telecommunications has make a small-scale 5G demon- Many countries have started China 2015, which is the largest largely been regulated by stration at the 2018 Winter the R&D necessary for 5G. ICT event in Asia with 24- governments. It is an incredibly Olympic venues and start the China, which boasts a large year history and the greatest difficult industry to break into. commercial use in 2020; Japan wireless communication base, influences, will set up 2 special Developing 5G technology is plans to provide 5G commer- is expected to lead the way. areas to display “5G individual a priority among priorities as cial services during the 2020 Many of the technological de- world” and “5G life circle” no one would like to miss such Olympics; Europe is building velopments will be on display to exhibitors and visitors, rare opportunity. South Korea 5G research and innovation at the PT/EXPO China 2015, respectively reflecting the two and Japan have established platforms and a 5G technology from September 22-25 . characteristics of “high band- some industrial organizations innovation platform has been How will 5G revolutionize the width and big data” and “wide like 5G Forum and 5GMF suc- established in UK’s universities industry? connection and extensive cessively, aiming to develop 5G while the 5GPPP will conduct With its tremendous data application.” The two areas technology in a short period 5G technical tests in 2018. The capacity, a lot of telecom will also specifically exhibit with government support. The Chinese company Huawei has uses can be realized with 5G, the application situations and European Union has set up established its 5G testing fields such as big data analysis and expectations including mobile several 5G technology-related in Chengdu and other places real-time alarm, with which, Internet surfing in 5G era and research projects in EU Frame- to conduct tests on key 5G the traditional manufacturing networking experience with work Program 7, and launched technologies and systems. industry could put into practice wearable devices from head to a “5G PPP” based on the pub- China a willing pioneer its innovative automatic ideas toe. They will demonstrate, in lic-private cooperation mecha- The crisis consciousness and upgrade to a new efficien- terms of the basic necessities nism, which plans to invest 700 developed by Chinese telecom cy level. of food, clothing, housing and million euros to 5G researches enterprises during years of With high stability and transportation, how 5G will before 2020 so as to maintain competition enable them to almost-zero-latency, it will substantially improve people’s Europe’s competitiveness in exert earlier efforts on 5G tech- provide more possibilities every day quality of life. It advanced wireless technology nology research. Both Huawei for unmanned driving. The will also provide individuals sector with financial support. and ZTE have made some con- mature 5G technology will an opportunity to experience America is actively exploring tribution to 5G technical stan- upgrade people-to-people a new lifestyle that is more the commercial using fields of dards. But it’s still uncertain communication to the smart efficient. Intelligent manufac- 5G. There’s no doubt that a 5G what the specific 5G technical connection of thing-to-thing turing, remote maintenance, exploration fever is sweeping standards will be in future. For and people-to-thing, thereby drone express delivery and the world, and China has the this reason, great support and extending mobile communica- other high-end applications opportunity to take a lead. cooperation are needed from tion technologies to a broader depict the penetration of 5G In March 2015 , the 5G White the government, operators application field. In 2020, when technology in social production Paper draft was completed at and terminal manufacturers. 5G is designed to be fully im- as well. the NGMN forum led by global Experience from former plemented, and future, mobile There is an expectation and operators. In June 2015 , the communication reforms shows healthcare, smart transport, imagination of the “Internet of 5G vision and key performance that, the state and government smart homes, industrial con- Everything,” although there’s indicators were determined by play important roles in the trols, environment monitoring still no clear definition on 5G the ITU. In April, 5GPPP defined early stage. As is known to all, and other fields will develop technology, global mainstream its first 5G subjects. The 3GPP, the East Asian countries and with a great leap forward with enterprises and countries have an international standardiza- governments always exert en- 5G. been eager to usher in the 5G tion organization that made 3G ergy to guide industrial devel- Moreover, it’s likely that real era. The three 5G technolo- and 4G standards, will launch opment. The governments of cloud processing and cloud gy-theme exhibition areas “In- its demand research on 5G China , Japan and South Korea access may come into reality dividual World,” “Life Circle,” in September 2015 , start 5G provided necessary guidance thanks to the excellent data and “Work Circle,” specially standards research based on and support towards the devel- transmission capability of set at the PT/EXPO China 2015. the R14 version in 2016, finish opment of technical standards 5G. By reducing the energy They will not only provide good its 5G technical plan by the in the deployment consuming and space for pro- exhibition stages for telecom end of 2017, and complete the Contd on P-19

18 www.teletimesinternational.com September 2015 CITIC Telecom has announced tual mobile operators, handset through in the conventional of operators and social media the launch of the self-devel- manufacturers, OTT internet overseas roaming business platforms (such as WeChat and oped “DataMall Global Data companies, financial and tour- and technological model in the Weibo), etc. Traffic Trading Platform” ism related companies, etc. internet era. Users can easily access over- starting 1st October 2015, These partners can use the It marks a departure from seas networks by combing the providing an innovative and innovative DataMall platform the ‘mutual agency model’ of technologies of smart phone revolutionary business model to provide a greater range of conventional roaming service. apps and ‘Cloud SIM Cards’ as a for global data roaming ser- services to customers, provid- DataMall delivers a ‘direct local user, as they can purchase vices, to capture the enormous ing dynamic local mobile data transaction’ between local local data service packages potential of global mobile data services to customers and low- operators and consumers, anytime and anywhere they consumption and combat the ering the costs of international giving consumers the choice want.” Mobile operators and challenge of high service costs. mobile data. of choosing a specific overseas major handset manufacturers The DataMall platform is a key Data traffic has become an data network and turning data in the Greater China region will component of the Group’s irreplaceable service for smart- traffic into a tradable commodi- become the first batch of transformation, business and phone users, but the rocketing ty around the world. Therefore, cooperative partners to join the innovative strategy. charges of international data wider acceptance of the Data- DataMall platform. Mobile DataMall is the first internation- roaming has been a hot global Mall model will bring greater operators from Hong Kong, al mobile data traffic trading topic. Market data shows that convenience to end-users and Macau, Taiwan and Singapore platform in the world. Through more than 47% users of data lower their spending, as well as will also join DataMall as this platform, operators may roaming service are “Silent creating new business op- merchants, providing online provide local data services to Roamers”, they are concerned portunities for the platform’s transaction service for mobile mobile phone users visiting about the charges that they partners.” Mr. Sutton Cheung, data traffic products. It is from overseas, these users can choose to disable the data Chief Technology Officer of expected that the coverage of do it without changing their roaming function, and there are CITIC Telecom explained, the DataMall platform will fur- SIM card, mobile phone num- as many as 70% users that do “DataMall leverages CITIC ther expand to countries and bers or using any external de- not have data roaming, which Telecom’s technical capabilities regions including the United vices, and they can subscribe, in turn suppresses the demand and business understanding, States, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, pay for and use the service for related services. it has achieved innovations in Indonesia, Thailand and Europe through the devices and mobile Thus, many companies cannot network construction, oper- by the end of 2015. apps of the platform’s business secure data roaming customers ations and services, allowing Looking ahead, mobile opera- partners. Thus, it is one of the and for this reason lose busi- platform partners to provide tors, virtual mobile operators, most convenient international ness opportunities. DataMall non-roaming, local mobile data OTT internet companies, mobile data traffic solutions has been created under such service through smart phone financial and tourism enterpris- available on the market. Data- operating environment. apps (iOS or Andriod), mobile es from around the world will Mall is an open platform aims Dr. Lin Zhenhui, Chief Executive phones of specific brands, also become potential cooper- for win-win cooperation that Officer of CITIC Telecom said, internal website interfaces of ative partners of the DataMall supports mobile operators, vir- “DataMall is a major break- other applications, platforms platform.

Contd from P-18 generation mobile communi- ogy R&D. Currently, the 5G results in such fields as 5G net- of previous generations of cation technologies (5G) and technical development mainly working architecture, spectrum communication networks, actively carry out commercial includes two aspects: new field usage, air interface technology, effectively facilitating various pilots. This is a positive signal exploration and the re-evolu- and base station realization. industries’ development. In the for domestic organizations and tion of 4G. Both Huawei and Alcatel-Lucent and its subor- future 5G era, policy support enterprises, encouraging them ZTE have done some trials in dinate Shanghai Bell Lab have will continue to support the be bold. these respects. For example, done specific researches on 5G growth and development. As for the network operators, ZTE introduced a “Pre-5G” wireless air interface design, The Minister of MIIT of China the three major Chinese oper- plan, which can be perceived as large-scale antena array MIMO noted that, while we’re con- ators all proactively participate a technology between 4G and design, MMW technology, tinuously strengthening the in the R&D of 5G network 5G, to enable users experience NFV and the planned design development of 4G networks, technologies, and are clear some 5G-like communication for deploying SDN technology we will speed up the R&D and about their roles. For enterpris- services in advance. Huawei into mobile communication standardization of the fifth es, they still focus on technol- has achieved some practical networks.

September 2015 www.teletimesinternational.com 19 Ericsson demonstrated key critical area.” establish software-defined data technologies from its cloud “We look forward to showing centers built on Ericsson’s HDS infrastructure portfolio at the Ericsson’s industry-leading 8000 datacenter system and Intel Developer Forum 2015 cloud portfolio. Combining our Intel® Rack Scale Architecture, (IDF15), an industry and media Networked Society vision and leading to the creation of event held August 18-20 in San long experience of designing, automated and TCO efficient Francisco, US. deploying and running the hyperscale cloud infrastructure. The event showcased world’s most advanced “RSA is the key technology Ericsson’s cloud technology communication systems, makes to make the cloud extremely leadership to a broad industry Anders Lindblad us a highly relevant ICT change- scalable, flexible and TCO and media audience, and will maker as the transformation of efficient. SK Telecom believes highlight the strength of the Unit Cloud & IP, says: “Cloud the industry accelerates,” says this partnership will accelerate company’s open developer eco- technology is rapidly disrupting Anders Lindblad. SK Telecom’s software-defined system including our strategic the ICT industry, and we see At the event, Ericsson also data center vision to be partners Apcera, Guardtime, IDF15 as a unique opportunity announced a close cooperation realized,” says Alex Jinsung Cleversafe and Intel. Anders to engage with decision- with South Korean operator SK Choi, Chief Technology Officer Lindblad, Head of Business makers and developers in this Telecom. The partnership will at SK Telecom.

Ericsson leads European Union 5G standardization projects

Ericsson continues to South Korea and the US) regulatory and standards bringing them to the 3GPP spearhead 5G system and involving most of the bodies. The METIS II project (3rd Generation Partnership development as coordinator major international vendors, will leverage the success of Project). of the new METIS-II EU major operators, and key METIS, the first integrated Making 5G a global standard project to develop the overall researchers. 5G project also driven and is the most critical factor for 5G radio system design and METIS-II will therefore have coordinated by Ericsson. the digitalization of industries, roadmap recommendation for the unique capability to drive In addition, Ericsson the Internet of Things, and 5G standardization. consensus-building globally, will take the lead as the broadband everywhere. On a strategic level, METIS- to consolidate a full picture technical coordinator of the Standardization is necessary II will provide the 5G of the needs of mobile as well mmMAGIC (Millimetre-Wave to connect people all over the collaboration framework as vertical industries, and to Based Mobile Radio Access world. within the 5G Infrastructure disseminate the results to the Network for Fifth-Generation Over several generations of Public Private Partnership relevant bodies, forums, and Integrated Communications) mobile networks, it has been (5G-PPP) for a common standardization groups in all project. This project will the cornerstone that allows evaluation of 5G radio access regions. develop and design new networks all around the world network concepts and a The project is co-funded in the concepts for mobile radio to work seamlessly together, recommended 5G spectrum EU H2020 research program access technology for providing users with the same roadmap. It will also lead to and has a budget of EUR 8 deployment in the 6-100 GHz experience. the preparation of concerted million. range. Ericsson’s unparalleled actions toward regulatory and As the main driver and Both projects are important global scale, its respected standardization bodies. coordinator of the METIS-II in preparing a pre- position in research and The project centers on project together with the standardization consensus development, and its strong a strong international global consortium, Ericsson in the mobile industry. relationships with global consortium, consisting of will integrate technologies They provide the different players in the market puts the 23 partners from all regions into a radio access design consortia with an opportunity company in a unique position with strong 5G R&D initiatives and provide a platform for to discuss and evaluate to contribute to research in (China, the EU, Japan, concerted actions toward various research ideas before Europe and beyond.

20 www.teletimesinternational.com September 2015 When traveling across sub- project planning, but this small initial sizing with a fairly Saharan Africa, commodities is even more important in aggressive future expansion that are essential for life – such emerging markets. Required plan. This makes for an ideal as water and electricity – are components, tools, and environment for a modular often in very short supply. But spares will be very hard if not data centre, where capital even in the remotest of villages impossible to source locally, so expenditure can be matched you will regularly encounter carefully managing the project with data centre service plenty of people using mobile inventory will be essential in growth. phones, and mobile cell order to avoid potential delays. 5. Don’t forget about energy towers are continuing to pop Taking a prefabricated efficiency up all over the continent at a approach will also help as The primary concern in many staggering rate. it allows much of the initial emerging markets, given a lack This, of course, is driving a construction to be managed of reliable electrical power phenomenal growth in mobile Thomas Rahkonen, in a controlled factory infrastructure, is to achieve data services, which in turn CTO - Flexenclosure environment. targets on data centre service is driving an ever increasing And having the right people uptime. At the same time, requirement for modern turnkey delivery of the data available is of paramount the dependency on diesel- data centres that can deliver centre site will extend that importance, which is why at generated power also means high service uptime at low predictability to the entire Flexenclosure we use a project operational costs for electricity operational costs. So here are project. Full turnkey projects model where the supervisors will be three-to-five times my top five considerations for will not only include the data that manage the prefabrication higher compared to developed successfully deploying data centre itself, but also peripheral work in our factory in Sweden markets. This said, even small centres in emerging markets: improvements in power usage 1. Prefabrication for effectiveness will translate to predictability Dimensioning a data centre for large savings in operational Traditional brick and mortar costs, so making the right building projects in emerging an emerging market often means decisions on insulation and markets are often impacted cooling options will be critically by significant cost overruns combining a relatively small initial important. In the last two years and long delays in delivery. sizing with a fairly aggressive future we have successfully deployed Further, the specific know- six prefabricated eCentre data how and experience required expansion plan. centres to customers in Chad, to build technical facilities Cote d’Ivoire, Mozambique, capable of appropriately and Tanzania – countries housing sensitive and expensive equipment (diesel gensets, also lead the construction with 2014 GDP growth rates equipment is not commonplace fuel tanks, energy substation, and final commissioning of of between 7.2 and 8.3 per in developing countries. So outside fire fighting, etc.); site our flagship data centre, cent and where mobile data the best way, in most cases, civil works (foundations, roads, the eCentre, on site – thus service use is shooting through to deliver a data centre that is street lighting, a perimeter wall, minimising information gaps the roof. And when GDP predictable in terms of cost, etc.); and other elements such and maximising efficiency and growth in many developed time, energy efficiency and as office space, security room, project continuity. countries is only around 2 overall functionality is to use a storage facilities, and so on. Needless to say, site supervisors per cent, it is clear why the highly prefabricated approach Having a single supplier need to be experienced, developing world is becoming where work (and risk) on site is customise and manage the resilient and resourceful in increasingly interesting for data minimised. overall design of the full site order to successfully undertake centre deployments. At first 2. Turn-key site delivery layout also makes it easier to projects in locations that are glance, project logistics may Many new data centres in optimise the total design and often in harsh climates and appear somewhat daunting emerging markets will be costs for items like cabling, have very little if any support for countries like these, but green-field deployments. Just surface materials and fencing, infrastructure. with detailed planning, a as prefabrication can offer amongst others. 4. Go modular for future prefabricated facility, turnkey invaluable predictability for 3. Careful project planning and growth project execution and the the data centre building itself, experienced site supervisors Dimensioning a data centre right experience, modern data appointing a single supplier to Deploying a data centre for an emerging market often centres will be quickly and take on responsibility for full anywhere requires detailed means combining a relatively successfully deployed.

September 2015 www.teletimesinternational.com 21 A project that will revolutionise tions in Kenya. Each site has be funnelled into further pilot e-commerce and maternity a BGAN internet connectivity projects in Brazil, Ethiopia, services in remote communi- terminal which is pre-loaded Nigeria and the Philippines. ties across Nigeria and Kenya with a range of educational Rupert Pearce, CEO of Inmar- through the delivery of reliable, materials and apps covering ag- sat, said: “Satellite remains the space-based internet connec- riculture and business among only viable means of provid- tivity services has completed other topics. ing universal internet access its installation stage and is In Nigeria, Inmarsat is part- beyond the reach of terrestrial ready to be rolled out. Titled nering with MAMA to deliver communications in emerging Digital Frontiers, the initiative maternal and child health markets, particularly in Africa. forms part of the UK Space services to 50 remote, rural This initiative has the poten- Agency’s £32 million, two-year communities. tial to significantly transform International Partnership Space Called The MAMA Connect areas which have previously Programme, in which Inmarsat, Project, the onsite system is been denied resilient internet Rupert Pearce, CEO - Inmarsat the leading provider of global preloaded with a MAMA’s connectivity due to the cost mobile satellite communication nications satellite, Alphasat, evidence-based, culturally-sen- and logistical difficulties in services, is a central partner, to deliver data connectivity sitive health information. extending terrestrial networks working alongside a group of solutions to these sub-Saharan The satellite network updates into remote communities. international organisations in- communities. the content and provides We are very pleased to cluding Equity Bank Group and The rationale is to demonstrate real-time connectivity for have completed the installation Mobile Alliance for Maternal how companies can provide pregnant and new mothers to phase with all BGANs now in Action (MAMA). Inmarsat was social or economic benefit to interact online. place; people and communi- awarded funding for projects areas that do not currently In tandem with the Kenya and ties are set to benefit from in key East and West African have communication capabili- Nigeria projects, Inmarsat is transformed communication growth hubs, where for many, ties as well as evolve business also working alongside a range capabilities. basic digital services such as a models which mean more of of partners to examine the “We are also looking at the resilient data communication these projects can be sustained business model affordability wider benefits for other re- infrastructure or local mapping, from a commercial perspective. of providing connectivity to gions as part of this project. are not available due to a blend Working in partnership with remote locations. The commercial viability of of economic and geographic the Equity Bank Group, Inmar- The idea is to identify relevant using satellite connectivity to factors. The initial projects, sat has provided connectivity cultural and social dynamics ensure services can successful- in Nigeria and Kenya, will to enable financial services, which can help foster and ly penetrate the most remote see Inmarsat deploy its most welfare and other content sustain future connectivity areas of emerging markets is advanced L-band commu- access to more than 200 loca- programmes. The results will important.”

The third satellite in the satellites have all been built both the public and private sec- communications which will transformational Global Xpress by Boeing Satellite Systems tors, to significantly enhance change the future for us all. We (GX) has been launched at the International Inc. (“Boeing”) in their connectivity and to access believe that our GX technol- Baikonur Cosmodrome in Ka- California. The launch was be- bandwidth-hungry applica- ogy will drive innovation and zakhstan on Friday 28 August. ing undertaken for Inmarsat by tions, even in the remotest and support value-added services The satellite will cover the International Launch Services most inaccessible regions of and solutions for our govern- Pacific Ocean Region and will, (“ILS”) using a Proton launch the world. ment and enterprise customers together with Inmarsat-5 F1 vehicle. Rupert Pearce, CEO of Inmar- on land, at sea and in the air; and Inmarsat-5 F2, create the Global Xpress will deliver sat, said: “The completion of in opportunities as diverse world’s first globally available, broadband speeds around 100 the Global Xpress constella- as the merchant maritime, high-speed mobile broadband times faster than the compa- tion is a significant milestone business and commercial avi- service, delivered through a ny’s fourth generation (I-4) for our organisation and is ation, government, energy & single provider. constellation. It will offer new fundamental to the delivery of resources and enterprise VSAT Inmarsat’s 5th generation opportunities for customers, in a new era in mobile satellite segments.”

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The IBC Conference is an internet era of television? Will unrivalled global destination new entrants with no legacy for networking, discussion but an internet background and debate, presenting a mix take over? How fickle is the of visionary keynotes, panel TV consumer and just what discussions and master classes are the positions of leverage with the most influential to combat the players with thought-leaders and innovators nothing to lose and everything in their fields. With the rapid to gain? With the future of all convergence of broadcast, video delivery shifting towards IT and telecoms, this year’s IP, is the internet a distribution conference theme ‘The Future system capable of delivering to of Media in an Age of Disrup- everyone, in high quality, the tion’ provides the forum to TV experiences they demand? explore new strategies, gain And who ultimately pays for insight into business disrup- that infrastructure, given the tors, chart future technological recent moves in the Net Neu- progress and examine how trality debate. In the meantime, the industry can seize the new how well are broadcasters, opportunities being created platforms and content owners by the explosive growth in the embracing the big issues consumption of TV and video of content rights as the EU content on smartphones, tab- looks towards a Digital Single lets and laptops. Market? Each day of the conference As media companies face will address the myriad issues ‘The Future of Media in an Age of an increasingly fragmented facing the industry, prefaced by viewing environment, the a keynote address that will set Disruption’ provides the forum to explore keynote ‘Programming with the stage. Attracting top-level new strategies, gain insight into business Global Ambition’ promises to executives, technical experts disruptors, chart future technological offer valuable insights into how and visionaries from over 170 one of the biggest players, countries, with business inter- progress and examine how the industry can Discovery Communications, ests spanning the full spectrum seize the new opportunities being created is tackling the future and of content creation, manage- by the explosive growth in the consumption redefining its business models. ment and delivery, as well as Discovery’s extensive digital emerging markets and key of TV and video content on smartphones, portfolio includes leveraging industry disruptors, the confer- tablets and laptops. its global channels and content ence ensures valuable access to live broadcast and stream to insights and contacts. East and North Africa will show of the new the three “tradition- to consumers on all manner of The opening IBC Forum ses- how quality content always al” broadcasters in the opening platforms. The international sion, ‘Broadcasting in an Age wins in the end. Philip Luff, conference session with be business run by JB Perrette, of Challenge’, will reveal how Managing Director UK and joined by Thomas Riedl to ex- President of Discovery Net- four top media power houses EMEA for Scripps Networks plain Google’s latest forays into works International, is key to are solving the challenges Interactive will explain how the TV. Riedl is head of Android TV the company’s future. Today, they face. Fran Unsworth, the Knoxville, Tennessee Company Global Partnerships at Google Discovery reaches 3bn subscrib- first woman to run the BBC is expanding around Europe – in California. ers around the globe with an World Service, will explain how the latest deal winning control In Thursday afternoon’s average of 10 channels in each she plans to use technology of Poland’s TVN. The big online keynote ‘Is TV facing up to the of its 220 countries and while to expand despite squeezed players such as Google and Am- Internet Era?’ Andrew Neil will it operates predominantly pay budgets and well-funded op- azon are increasingly expand- be posing the big questions to TV channels it has branched out ponents such as Russia Today ing into internet television with industry leaders most affected into advertiser-funded channels and China Central Television. Amazon’s deal with Jeremy by the connected era. How will both through the acquisition of David Butorac, who runs 146 Clarkson of Top Gear fame the TV industry transform itself the SBS channels in the Nordic pay TV channels in the Middle simply the latest. In the shock to ensure it delivers on this Contd on P- 25

24 www.teletimesinternational.com September 2015 SGO is doing something a emerging technologies such as presentation is cutting-edge es. SGO continues to develop little bit different this IBC. To HFR, HDR and VR. and a great exhibit for tech- Mistika and Mamba FX with the engage and indulge the creative In addition, the very latest nology that supports this guidance and feedback of its senses, the SGO team is hosting evolutions of Mistika and game-changing technology much valued customers who informative, thought-provoking Mamba FX are being show- of HDR, it is an exceptional are experts in their field and and compelling sessions on cased on SGO’s booth. Mistika space to demonstrate a new work on some of the world’s their booth (6.A11). Relevant is a complete post production colour-finishing process.” SGO’s most demanding market-lead- for all professionals, such as platform, seamlessly integrating Marketing Strategies Manager ing productions. SGO also colourists, compositors and edi- colour finishing, compositing Sofia Pensado confirms. Mistika offers a unique one-to-one tors creating content for broad- and delivery. empowers its users to possess a bespoke support service on an cast, commercials and feature Mamba FX is low cost, high competitive edge by providing ever-evolving, business-building films, SGO has it covered with a power, node-based compositing freedom from the limitations of basis. session to suit everyone. software for Mac, Windows incumbent mass-produced post SGO’s Director of Global Sales Pertinent topics range from and Linux. Both are resolution, systems. & Operations Geoff Mills states, how to succeed in a compet- colour-space and frame-rate Its advanced toolset is agile “Mistika is the only true differ- itive post market; focussing independent. Mistika features enough to deal with new entiator that enables its users on opportunities for small and real-time performance, even at industry requirements as they to stand out from the crowd medium-sized commercial 4K 60P and above. happen. Latest developments by allowing them access to facilities; to the challenges of Also new this IBC: - SGO is part- on show include leading colour incredible opportunities created delivering high production-value nering with Canon to display grading features to make the by innovation and stunning long-form drama and documen- its pioneering advancements in most out of HDR images, linked performance. taries; as well as delving into the HDR technology with a state-of- to the stylish Mistika Precision What we are doing at IBC this cutting-edge workflows used the-art Mistika system on Can- finishing control surface. year, gives industry profes- in some of the world’s biggest on’s stand E50, Hall 11. Mistika An entirely new media man- sionals a chance to see how blockbusters. will drive an end-to-end HDR-4K agement sub-system will be investing in SGO’s future-proof The future of post is the salient “Glass-to-Glass” colour-process launched too, along with new technology brings immense theme threaded across a workflow demonstration. features that allow transparent value, by providing a huge com- number of subjects including “The Canon HDR-Mistika migration between colour spac- petitive advantage.”

Contd from P-24 creating streaming services to this year adds another platform the chance to experience the region and FTA launches of satisfy the demand for multi- to BT’s ambition to offer con- realities of these sectors. some of its pay brands in mar- ple-device TV. tent and services across devices. A free-to-attend event, kets like Italy and Spain. In 2014 Sunday will see BT TV Managing IBC’s key streams are structured students, graduates and new it purchased sports channel Director Delia Bushell discussing to allow delegates to navigate entrants to the industry will Eurosport, with a reach across how BT sees the future, how the the conference with ease and have tailored and exclusive both Europe and Asia and in a broadcasting model is changing maximise time at the show. conference sessions tackling deal with John Malone’s Liberty and how communications tech- The key themes discussed each topics that really matter to Global, purchased TV produc- nology will evolve in the session day are seen through the lens young professionals. Delegates tion company All3Media. ‘Telcos Tune Into Broadcasting’. of the different streams, each will get to see the latest tech- Sling TV’s CEO Roger Lynch will BT Sport and BT TV products providing a unique angle and fo- nology and learn about how the speak in Saturday’s keynote are shaking up the competitive cus - be it technical, strategic or industry is developing. They will ‘Over the Top Comes of Age’ landscape for TV and commu- operational. Streams for 2015 in- meet established, successful to discuss how Sling TV (part nications services in Europe. clude: Advances in Technology, and highly influential industry of DISH) is pioneering the Having agreed to pay £7.6m for Business Operations, Content figures, as well as some of the next-generation TV service. each of the 12 Premier League Innovation, New Disruptors, brightest and most ambitious Consumers’ appetite for on- games it will air exclusively from Strategic Insights as well as the young entrepreneurs working in line-delivered video is growing 2016, BT is taking its TV business free to attend streams: Industry the industry today. and some iconoclastic broad- seriously and through integrat- Insights and the IBC Big Screen They will have exclusive oppor- casters, pay TV platforms and ed broadband, TV and phone Experience. The IBC Rising Stars tunities to interact with a huge content providers like HBO, the packages it’s trail blazing how Programme offers a new gen- and varied number of people: UK’s Sky TV and DISH in the a 21st Century Telco looks. The eration of students and young all experienced, knowledgeable US are following (and trying £12.5bn agreement to purchase professionals who want to join and keen to communicate with to better) the Netflix model by mobile operator EE in February the content and media industry a new generation.

September 2015 www.teletimesinternational.com 25 Intelsat has announced that TV Cultura, a part of The Padre Anchieta Foundation, has signed a new contract to leverage Intelsat’s satellite solutions to enhance its Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) offering in Brazil and strongly position the company to distribute its programming internationally. Under the agreement, TV Cultura, a leading Brazilian TV “Ensuring reliable, high in Latin America, supported neighborhood,” said Carmen broadcaster that produces quality and secure content by advanced technologies Gonzalez-Sanfeliu, Intelsat’s and distributes educational distribution on a global that facilitate efficient use Regional Vice President, television programming, will basis is often a complex, of bandwidth and improved Latin America and Caribbean leverage C-band capacity on exercise,” said Gilvani Moletta, reception quality, enabling Sales. “Not only will their Intelsat 11 at 317°E to distribute Technical Director, TV Cultura. Latin American audiences to presence strengthen our video content to its approximately “However, Intelsat’s satellite enjoy the benefits of digital neighborhood, but Intelsat 11 300 terrestrial towers for network provides us with television. Intelsat offers the will also provide TV Cultura DTT services and also to the a seamless, cost-efficient premier pan-regional cable with unparalleled reception Pay-TV Operators nationwide. solution that maintains the distribution neighborhoods quality, reliability and reach, Intelsat 11 is a premier Latin integrity and reliability of in Latin America, with three enabling them to expand their America cable distribution our programming. Most high performance, fully DTT service offerings and neighborhood and with 178 importantly, the strength of penetrated satellites carrying penetrate the international channels, 31 of which are High its video neighborhood at the biggest programming cable and PayTV operators Definition (HD). It will not only Intelsat 11 will enable us to names from Latin America, in regions outside of Brazil. enable TV Cultura to provide expand our customer base and the United States and Asia, Intelsat has a strong track DTT services and distribution increase our product offering making it an ideal platform record of supporting DTT and to Pay-TV operators to all of outside of Brazil, allowing us for programmers that want DTH deployments globally and Brazil, but expand its content to capture new audiences in to expand their content we look forward to working distribution to other parts Latin America, the Americas distribution. “TV Cultura is with TV Cultura as they expand of South America, North and Europe.” Intelsat currently a wonderful addition to our their DTT services in Brazil and America and Europe as well. provides proven DTT solutions premier Intelsat 11 video abroad.”

Intelsat has launched its distribution services for blue “With services spanning from latest craft, a C- and Ku-band chip media powerhouses DTH and cable programming satellite to be placed into including Fox Sports and distribution, to broadband for service at the 304.5ºE orbital HBOLA. vessels and planes traversing location, from French Guiana The satellite also hosts a the North Atlantic, Intelsat aboard an Ariane 5 vehicle. direct-to-home platform 34 demonstrates our role Intelsat 34 will replace in Ku-band as well as a in delivering broadband Intelsat 805 and Galaxy 11 as specialised Ku-band payload infrastructure and media the third in Intelsat’s Latin serving the North Atlantic Stephen Spengler distribution with superior America, pan-regional video that will support broadband reliability.” distribution neighbourhood services for the fast growing Intelsat’s satellites are able Intelsat also has two launches (which includes Intelsat 11 and aeronautical and maritime to provide to communities scheduled for the first quarter Intelsat 21). mobility sector. around the world,” said of 2016, including the first of Intelsat 34 includes a C-band “Intelsat 34 is a great example Stephen Spengler, CEO at its Intelsat EpicNG satellites, payload that will deliver media of the breadth of services that Intelsat. Intelsat 29e.

26 www.teletimesinternational.com September 2015 Working in the mining industry somebody physically on site in News, and provides each user count as needed,” added in Australia is one of the a timely manner,” comments member of staff with the Jon. UNCONVENTIONAL BUT toughest and most extreme Jon O’Brien, IT Manager at ability to record and store TV PAINLESS INSTALLATION careers in the world, the work Chinova Resources. shows; meaning they never The Tripleplay IPTV platform is tough, temperatures high Jon researched the IPTV need to miss their favourite was installed into a shipping and staff are often isolated industry and came across shows even when working container and delivered to site from the outside world for Tripleplay, a solution already unsociable shifts. STARTING before being connected to the long periods of time. Ensuring deployed in a number of mines SMALL AND GROW IN TIME existing Chinova IP network they are properly looked after and the stand out solution that Initially the system would have and managed remotely by an is something that Chinova Chinova considered. to provide an IPTV services to IT team located 40km away at Resources has gone to great He added; “We needed just twelve staff at the camp, another mining operation. lengths for; both during a seamless IPTV solution scaling to over 300 end points Implementation was simple working hours and rest. that allowed us to deliver over the next eighteen months and effective, scalability is in- Their operation mines a variety entertainment to all of our as the construction of the mine line with the business’s plans of minerals and precious sites that was scalable and high commenced and completed. for the future and the quality metal including copper, quality; as the camp grew then Prior to engaging with has been highly appreciated by gold, molybdenum, rhenium, the solution needed to grow Tripleplay and, Tripleplay the staff in the mine camps. uranium, lead, zinc and silver in too. When we saw Tripleplay Authorised Partner, Jon added; “Our staff on site remote Queensland. With the we knew this was the right Streamvision, Chinova had are rapt with the solution. nearest major city almost 3 and solution for us.” been using an out-dated The channels for both free-to- a half hours away by airplane, Chinova selected TripleTV IPTV analogue TV infrastructure air and pay-TV are crystal clear staff often spend their personal delivered via the TripleChoice which was proving very and staff can record TV shows time on site and so providing Interactive TV Portal, giving cumbersome following to watch back at another time. them with some home from them the opportunity to brand broadcast’s move to digital We’re delighted that it is giving home comforts, including the television service with their distribution. “We were having our staff a greater home from a good TV service, was own logos and photography to patch a digital solution onto home experience while they something Chinova felt was and provide information a very out-dated analogue are with us.” necessary. “We have a very services to staff through special system which was hugely time Chinova Resources feel they remote camp at one of our pages in the TV system. consuming, painful and was have made the right choice in mines and needed a solution The Tripleplay solution delivers not easy to add new channels implementing the Tripleplay that was very ‘hands-off’ and fourteen channels to staff to our line-up. Using Tripleplay solution and working with required limited support as, including ABC1, Channel 9, Fox it is now much easier for us to a knowledgeable partner, should something go wrong, Sports 1, 2 and 3, Premiere manage our room costs as we Streamvision, the project has it would be very difficult to get Blockbuster, Action and Sky can decrease or increase our been well executed.

Only weeks after DNMG top boxes provide the first most operators move into IPTV, already existing platform with confirmed cooperation with screen experience for the new there are normally a couple the essential ingredients fully ABOX42 and Zattoo. German platform, with Zattoo enabling different stakeholders involved operated by ABOX42 and broadband provider BBV first and second screen – providers for the middleware, Zattoo. has signed to become the functionality. The new white the headend system, There’s no hardware service’s first adopter. BBV’s label IPTV multiscreen platform transcoding, DRM, playout to investment for the IPTV new multiscreen offering will is a full-service solution for set top boxes. solution itself, no maintenance go live this autumn. DNMG’s members of DNMG wanting It ends up being a complex and no major development new IPTV white label solution to quickly and easily deploy an project with 12 months required from operator side. is a collaboration between IPTV-enabled cable TV offering. development time or ore, and a The only thing the customer set-top box experts ABOX42 Oliver Soellner, ABOX42’s VP lot of cost and frustration.” needs to do is roll out the and IPTV white label solution Business Development & Sales, The customer can roll out a set top boxes and do the provider Zattoo. ABOX42’s described why the service is customized IPTV service within marketing for the service and M20-Series SmartSTB set unique in the industry: “When one quarter because it’s an the billing.

September 2015 www.teletimesinternational.com 27 SpeedCast has announced that oil sector,” said Pierre-Jean it has been awarded a multi- Beylier, CEO of SpeedCast. year communications contract “Our Ku-band service is from Gulf Marine Services unrivaled, providing seamless (GMS). The new dual-beam connectivity and a powerful Ku-band satellite service will business solution to enable provide high-performance GMS to maintain its focus broadband connectivity for on providing its clients with client office applications and efficient and cost-effective voice services across nine GMS solutions.” barges. “The Middle East is a critically GMS is one of the largest Pierre Jean Beylier Piers Cunningham, VP Maritime important market for the providers of self-propelled, CEO - SpeedCast Services - SpeedCast offshore oil sector,” said Piers self-elevating accommodation Cunningham, Vice President jack-up barges in the world. achieve this, but they are capabilities the vessels will of Maritime Services, The vessels work in offshore also able to deliver an benefit from enhanced SpeedCast. “SpeedCast oilfields, often in harsh advanced, globally accessible communications and VoIP has continued to invest in weather conditions, and communications solution that services for operations and its network and infrastructure therefore require a reliable is reliable and has a proven crew welfare. to service the demanding and high-quality connection operational deployment SpeedCast will deliver principle requirements of its offshore between the vessels and the record.” support for GMS from its customers. land-based operations. SpeedCast’s solution will Dubai, U.A.E. sales and support Likewise, SpeedCast has “We have a modern fleet initially deliver MBR 2048/512 centre, backed by its global continued to invest in that enables us to serve our CIR 512/256 links for each support network. products and services, for clients’ needs, which require vessel, with scope to upgrade “We are delighted that we both FSS and MSS, that allow sophisticated communications as necessary depending can support the modern, us to serve as a one-stop- systems,” said Simon Cook, on client requirements. innovative and sustainable shop for our maritime and COO of Gulf Marine Services. With SpeedCast’s strong solutions that GMS provides energy customers’ critical “Not only does SpeedCast global network and support its partners in the offshore communications.”

SpeedCast has been awarded vessels (up to 110 passengers). tender process to find a services in order to fulfil our a multi-year communications Vroon operates and manages a new VSAT supplier for client clients’ current and future contract by international diverse fleet of approximately Internet access on board the needs,” said Rob Frenks, shipping company, Vroon. The 170 vessels, with more “hotel experience” vessels. Vroon Group ICT Manager. new Ku-band satellite service than 400 shore-based staff SpeedCast was selected for SpeedCast’s solution will will facilitate high-performance and around 4,000 marine its ability to meet a stringent provide seamless broadband connectivity personnel worldwide. Vroon’s set of requirements, which connectivity, enabling high- with multi-megabit speeds, modern vessels are active will enable Vroon to deliver speed Internet access and providing “hotel experience” in livestock transportation, future-proof, high-capacity voice services for the “hotel Internet facilities for Vroon offshore support, offshore and scalable VSAT Internet experience” vessels. The clients aboard specific wind turbine installation services to accommodate always-on 24x7 broadband categories of vessels. These and maintenance, dry cargo, clients’ demanding Internet communications platform include subsea-support vessels container and other segments, requirements. will support a wide range of (10-25 passengers), walk-to- including product/chemical “With an ever-increasing services, including Internet, work vessels (with up to 60 tankers, asphalt/bitumen demand for Internet services voice and video streaming, passengers) and wind turbine tankers and car carriers. Vroon from our clients, we selected with real-time connectivity at installation/maintenance conducted a competitive SpeedCast to deliver these sea.

28 www.teletimesinternational.com September 2015 Global satellite solutions for the protection of life and requirements. This particular stations, including weather provider SES Government property. implementation will enhance maps and seismic sensor Solutions (SES GS) has agreed The WSO also provides NOAA’s existing terrestrial data. to a one year contract with critically important tropical connectivity with the use of By connecting over the O3b the National Oceanic and cyclone warning information O3b’s high throughput and constellation, NOAA can Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) to portions of the Pacific. low latency bandwidth. accelerate their analysis while to provide O3b Networks’ The contract allows NOAA An uninterrupted high-speed reducing reaction times to services and ground to expand their broadband data connection between weather or seismic events. equipment to the National connectivity outside the the NOAA station at Pago The addition of O3b’s ‘fiber in Weather Service Office (WSO) continental U.S. to facilitate Pago and the primary Pacific the sky’ solution to NOAA’s in Pago Pago, American the wider dissemination of NWS center on Ford Island current ground network is a Samoa. weather and data forecasting. in Honolulu, HI is essential prime example of how NOAA’s WSO supports the The O3b ground equipment for NOAA to update forecast O3b’s capabilities National Weather Service and services at WSO Pago models and issue safety can enhance the U.S. (NWS) mission to provide Pago will be key elements warnings in near real-time. Government’s current weather, water, and climate of NOAA’s communications Many Big Data files are data dissemination data, forecasts and warnings link to meet these mission transferred between the two networks.

Cloud based services have Industry Forum. is making on end users and been the hot topic for several Moving servers into the cloud markets. years. A recent report from puts more demands on the One of the changes has been IDC says that cloud spending connectivity needed to reach the adoption of cloud based now accounts for a third of all those services. Transactions services. In the Cook Islands IT infrastructure spending. that remained within the LAN one of the local banks has There are a lot of good (Local Area Network) now moved their servers into reasons for moving traditional need to go over the internet the cloud. This provides IT functions to the cloud. connection. them with the economic Massive cloud service This drives up the bandwidth and scalability benefits that I providers can leverage requirements which must described earlier. economies of scale in their be weighed against the Cloud services are even David Burr data centers to provide the infrastructure savings. more important in a remote same services to enterprises Performance is a bigger location like the Cook Islands been available for several at lower costs, while at the concern to enterprises. LANs where it can take a long time years these end users have same time eliminating the provide rapid response times to get physical shipped and found that the previous GEO CAPEX spend necessary to and moving these services installed. satellite services did not deploy new infrastructure. to a slow connection will kill Cloud based services are support cloud-based services. Cloud services can be productivity and negate any much faster to deploy and The high latency and low deployed faster and are more gains from infrastructure upgrade than traditional throughput degraded the scalable than traditional savings. The move to cloud is servers. performance to the point approaches, allowing only viable if the connectivity There is also a shortage of IT where it wasn’t viable. business to innovate by trying can support it. skills needed to operated and Moving to O3b’s low latency out new applications quickly A number of our customers maintain equipment on-site. connectivity has allowed and at low cost. “Not only have been enjoying O3b’s Moving to the cloud provides them for the first time to does cloud change how IT high speed, low latency them with CAPEX and OPEX properly take advantage is delivered, it also changes services for more than a year. savings which are widely of all of benefits that The the way that the business We’ve taken the opportunity available in well-connected Cloud has to offer and to performs” – Dr. Richard to go back and see what kind markets. experience the internet as it Sykes, chairman of the Cloud of impact the connectivity While cloud services have was truly meant to be.

September 2015 www.teletimesinternational.com 29 Thaicom was ranked 8th has increased continually and among Top Fixed Satellite LTC still maintains the top slot Service Operators in the 2014 in the Laotian market, with world rankings by SpaceNews, 49.52% of the market share and a space industry publication. over 1.8 million subscribers. In another recent success, Use of Internet services, Thaicom’s telecommunications particularly HSPA mobile subsidiary in Lao PDR was broadband, has increased and granted a 25-year extension of there has been consistent its concession, strengthening growth in the number of CDMA potential for international Fixed Wireless Phone users. business growth. The Company Based on the clear direction reported its operating results of the market in Lao PDR, and for the first half of 2015, the large unmet demand of posting a consolidated net the target group, Thaicom profit of Baht 1,112 million, up decided to increase investment by 24.0% compared to the same in telecommunications in period of 2014. Lao PDR by providing a loan Suphajee Suthumpun, Chief through its subsidiary that Executive Officer of Thaicom Suphajee Suthumpun, CEO - Thaicom would allow LTC to extend PLC, said: “In the first half of its concession to conduct 2015, Thaicom advanced to 8th telecommunications business in the world among satellite “Our objective is to promote and in Lao PDR. As an opportunity operators in the 2014 rankings incubate the reception of UHD content in to expand LTC’s business and (up from 10th in 2013) by also a possibility to be a part SpaceNews. Asia, and allow broadcasters to evaluate of the Lao Securities Exchange The ranking reflects Thaicom’s the economic feasibility of satellite in the future, Thaicom is strong progress and leadership confident that this investment potentials as a world-renowned delivered UHD broadcasting in our part in LTC will generate longterm Asian satellite operator.” of the world.” gains for Thaicom,” Mrs. In the first half of 2015, Suthumpun added. Thaicom’s consolidated revenue from Internet and media services sale of goods and rendering through increased use of converge to sustain and subsidiary, CS LoxInfo Public of services totaled Baht THAICOM 7 since the end of propel Thaicom’s satellite Company Limited (CSL), saw 6,013 million, increased by 2014. “Even amidst slowing business,” Mrs. Suthumpun continued growth in its ICT Baht 201 million or 3.5% from economic growth and stated. Beyond success in business, with the number Baht 5,812 million Baht in the instability in exchange rates satellite business, Thaicom of subscribers to corporate first half of 2014. Increased between currencies, Thaicom also succeeded in obtaining leased line and Internet data year-over-year revenue from has maintained stable earnings an early extended concession center services increasing by 2% satellite services, combined through appropriate financial for its subsidiary, Lao and 5%, respectively, from the with significant growth in management policies and Telecommunications Company previous quarter. profit from investment in joint efficient management of risks Limited (LTC), to operate DTV Service Public Company ventures, lead to consolidated associated with exchange mobile network services in Lao Limited (DTV) is focused on net profit of Baht 1,112 million, rates, as well as capable PDR for an additional 25 years, business expansion through up by 24.0% compared to the management demonstrated beginning in 2022 and ending the DTV Multi Dwelling same period of 2014. There was by creating added value in 2046. Thaicom is confident Unit Project which provides also sizeable revenue growth through end-to-end services that this particular investment end-to-end solutions for generated from broadcasting and controlling administrative in the telecommunications condominiums, apartments, services, with the number of costs. sector will generate revenue and hotels through a variety television channels boarded All of these factors, and strengthen potential for of customizable products. on Thaicom’s conventional coupled with the enduring international business growth. DTV also continues to provide satellite platform reaching necessity of satellite use “All along, LTC has had good platform services, developing 766 channels, in addition to as the infrastructure for performance results. new platforms and applications growth in revenue realized telecommunications, The number of subscribers to meet customer needs.

30 www.teletimesinternational.com September 2015 Asia’s leading satellite Wifi broadband Internet, best possible entertainment operator Asia Satellite streaming TV and videos, and connectivity solution Telecommunications Co. streaming gaming, cellular to their passengers. We Ltd. (AsiaSat) has reached connectivity, and real-time are excited that AsiaSat’s an agreement with in- Duty Free shopping and travel satellite capacity was flight entertainment and services, enabling passengers selected by Aircom Pacific to connectivity service provider to enjoy more comprehensive deliver more sophisticated Aircom Pacific, Inc. (Aircom entertainment options during in-flight communications Pacific) for using AsiaSat’s their flight while staying and entertainment services transponder capacity and connected to their work and that meet passengers’ uplinking services. Under the social networks at all times. growing demand for higher- agreement, Aircom Pacific Philip Balaam “Advanced satellite solutions quality entertainment and will use Ka-band and Ku- are playing an increasingly connectivity,” said Philip band capacity on AsiaSat 7 connectivity services for important role in enabling Balaam, Vice President, Sales and AsiaSat 8 to deliver its airlines flying routes over in-flight service providers and Business Development of in-flight entertainment and Asia. These services include and airlines to offer the AsiaSat.

Lockheed Martin scientists are like satellite sensors and camer- for very high-resolution images. The High Power Microcryo- packing three times the power as need to be cooled to detect Despite its increased capabil- cooler is the industry’s highest density into a key satellite what they’re designed to ity, the component’s power power density cryocooling cooling system whose previous capture, even to temperatures efficiency rating is roughly the system. It delivers more than design is already the lightest in as low as -320 F (-195C). Smaller same as lower-power coolers. 150 watts per kilogram, a sig- its class. This project continues cryocoolers mean more afford- The new system cools optics nificant advancement from the the company’s effort to reduce able satellites and launches, and electronics to as low as 30-60 watts per kilogram rating component size, enabling com- and they have applications on -320 F (-195 C). The High Power most space-rated cryocoolers pact, higher-power spacecraft Earth, too. With higher power, Microcryocooler is a high-re- deliver. It also weighs less than payloads and smaller sensor this microcryocooler enables liability system designed for a pound, which is less than half platforms back on Earth. larger, more sensitive IR sen- continuous operation over a the weight of similar cooling Highly sophisticated electronics sors, which is especially useful lifespan in excess of 10 years. systems.

Aiming to reduce the digital comes from a joint venture communal Internet access “Satellites are a very divide across Colombia as between the two companies, point. important infrastructure in a part of the public project who in December 2013 won So far, the Amazonas, countries where the land Kioscos Vive Digital, Hispasat the government bid to Boyacá, Caldas, networks are less extended and NEC are to provide install, operate and manage Cundinamarca, Guainía, and there are still regions universal connectivity services 648 digital kiosks in seven Risaralda and Vaupés that do not have access to via satellite in rural and provinces. provinces have been given the information society.” remote areas of the country. The current project is the access to the Internet, Also in Colombia, Hispasat Taking those living in the second stage of the Kioscos national and international is providing satellite largest cities into the digital Vive Digital initiative, which telephone services, among connection for video and era and opening new aims to ensure 100% of towns many other services. voice to the Ruta BBVA opportunities for over-the-top with over 100 inhabitants in Elena Pisonero, Hispasat’s organisation, formerly Ruta (OTT) services, the project Colombia have at least one president, commented: Quetzal.

September 2015 www.teletimesinternational.com 31 Yahsat has announced a major that we are on track for our spacecraft integration phase of milestone in the construction scheduled launch. construction. of its third satellite; Al Yah 3, Our customers have told us Mr. Murphy went on to say, “Al due to be delivered by the end they need more services, Yah 3 will be all Ka-band, which of 2016. In partnership with greater speeds and a wider we’ve found works extremely Orbital ATK, Yahsat has now coverage area and we’ve well in the African markets we completed the Critical Design listened; Al Yah 3 will provide already serve. With this new Review (CDR) on the Al Yah 3 all three of these things.” investment in infrastructure, satellite. David Murphy The Critical Design Review was we are looking to enhancing David Murphy, Chief the last chance to make any our services and providing Commercial Officer at Yahsat moment for us. Today’s changes to the satellite design. more reliable connectivity even said, “This is an important achievement demonstrates Al Yah 3 now moves into the in the most remote areas.”

Action-packed news, sport, over IP circuits such as 3G/4G, tiple cellular modems. Razor- and reliable as possible. Simul- entertainment and corporate Inmarsat’s BGAN and other por- Link™ technology benefits both taneously, making its debut on footage is top of the agenda table satellite systems such as live and file based workflows, the Livewire stand at IBC 2015 with new versions of Liveire’s Ka-band/VSAT and Thuraya-IP, offering exceptional resilience is the ‘commercial release’ of M-Link Live X and M-Link M-Link Live-X now comes with and outperforming some com- NetCaster® designed to allow NewsCaster portable HD and SD integrated RazorLink™ technol- petitive products by a factor groups of untrained personnel news gathering solutions for de- ogy enabling users to transmit of three or more, offering low to contribute to a broadcast or ployment by a single reporter. high quality low latency video latency high quality video and streamed shows from an iPhone Designed to support live video over bonded links such as mul- ensuring file delivery is as fast or iPad.

Federal Minister for Planning minister for development said Chinese Ambassador to collaboration on broader sides. and Development Pakistan, that bilateral association on Pakistan, Sun Weidong, was The forum will also be utilised Ahsan Iqbal put forward a space technology will earn also present in the CPEC forum. to ensure the projects real space technology alliance both countries a new level of He termed the meetings goals of promoting Pakistan- between Pakistan and China. bondage. as successful in boosting China ties. The minister proposed the He stressed upon a understanding among the Meanwhile, China is a member idea during a meeting forum collaborated launch of associated stakeholders of the International Space for China-Pakistan Economic space missions consisting of for implementing the Station and has a vast network Corridor (CPEC) that held in astronauts belonging to both CPEC. At least 300 officials, of global satellites serving Karamay-Xinjiang last week. countries. “This is the strength businesspersons and public military and civilian purposes. The proposal is made a part of the CPEC to increase more figures had also taken part in So, if the written association of the Karamay-Xinjiang connectivity between the the two-day forum. project achieves a substantial after getting approval as the two friendly countries. It will It has also been decided at recognition and includes some declaration got approved shape up the future destiny the forum that such meetings joint operations, it could let unanimously after the two- of both the nations through should be made a permanent Pakistan to learn a lot from day meeting concluded. At communication linkages,” said platform to examine China’s experience in the space the end of the session, the the minister. the project and present technology field.

32 www.teletimesinternational.com September 2015 John Giusti, Deputy Chief Reg- data. With 4G rising and 5G on spectrum in higher frequency it is critical that governments ulatory Officer, GSMA, com- the horizon, and without more bands is vital, particularly in identify more spectrum for mented on the outcome of the spectrum identified, this means those countries where the mobile now to meet this future final meeting of the Asia-Pacific that Asia Pacific cannot benefit 2.7-2.9GHz band is an important demand. Telecommunity’s Conference from economies of scale and af- alternative to the C-band (3.4- The GSMA will continue to work Preparatory Group (APG) in fordable connectivity and puts 4.2GHz). “It is vital that we find with governments in the region Seoul, ahead of the World Ra- the future of its digital economy additional spectrum for future to ensure that their citizens are dio-communication Conference at risk. “While we are pleased use by mobile broadband in the not left behind, further explor- 2015 (WRC-15): that the APG has identified a Asia Pacific region to meet the ing options for supporting more “The GSMA is disappointed with portion of the L-band for mo- increasing mobile data needs sub-700MHz, L-band, 2.7-2.9GHz the APG’s decision to date to bile broadband, we encourage of consumers and businesses in and C-band spectrum at the identify only 51MHz of addition- Asia Pacific countries to follow the years ahead. WRC-15.” al spectrum for mobile broad- the lead of governments in According to GSMA Intelli- The GSMA represents the band at WRC-15. This represents Africa, the Americas and Europe gence, in the first quarter of interests of mobile operators an increase of less than five per in looking to make more of 2015, Asia Pacific was home to worldwide, uniting nearly 800 cent over the total amount of the L-band spectrum (1427- 1.8 billion unique subscribers operators with more than spectrum currently identified 1518MHz) available for mobile and nearly 3.8 billion connec- 250 companies in the broader for the region. The International broadband during WRC-15. “We tions, accounting for half of mobile ecosystem, including Telecommunication Union (ITU) are also disappointed that the the world’s unique subscribers handset and device makers, estimates that governments APG has decided not to make and connections. As the region software companies, equip- need much more – double the spectrum in the under-utilised is also expected to grow at a ment providers and internet amount of mobile spectrum 2.7-2.9GHz band available for faster pace than the rest of the companies, as well as organ- available today – to meet the mobile broadband in dense world, with 600 million new isations in adjacent industry growing consumer demand for urban areas. Additional capacity subscribers anticipated by 2020, sectors.

The GSMA has published a new ternational Telecommunication A joint position among the but in some Arab States mobile report finding that terrestrial nion’s (ITU) World Radiocom- ASMG member states in favour broadband growth is restricted digital television broadcasting munication Conference (WRC- of a co-primary allocation in the by a lack of available spectrum. in the Arab States does not 15) in November 2015. UHF spectrum for broadcast The report finds that demand need an exclusive allocation of “Spectrum is a scarce resource and mobile at WRC-15 would for broadcasting capacity in the the UHF spectrum band (470- and regulatory authorities in foster the option to roll out region has been overestimated 694MHz). The report “Terrestri- the Arab States are looking to low-cost mobile broadband in previous policy decisions. al Broadcasting and Spectrum maximise flexibility so that their services in the future, especially Viewership of terrestrial televi- Use in the Arab States”, devel- networks are ready to meet in underserved areas. If action sion in many Arab countries is oped by Plum Consulting, high- consumers’ growing demand is not taken now, it will make low, with consumers choosing lights how a significant amount for mobile data,” said John it more difficult for regulators to watch television over sat- of the UHF band could also be Giusti, Deputy Chief Regula- to release additional spectrum ellite, cable and, increasingly, used for mobile broadband, tory Officer, GSMA. “Adding a from the UHF band for mobile IPTV. unlocking significant socio-eco- mobile allocation would allow until as late as 2030 or beyond, According to the study, all UHF nomic benefits throughout the countries to make the best an unnecessary and avoidable spectrum above 582MHz may region. The report calls on Arab and most valuable use of this outcome. potentially be released for Spectrum Management Group spectrum to meet the needs According to Cisco, the Middle other services, including mobile (ASMG) countries to agree of their citizens, especially for East and Africa will experience broadband, while still on a co-primary allocation for underserved communities, the strongest mobile data supporting all current and broadcast and mobile in the while still supporting over-the- traffic growth of any region projected terrestrial TV require- UHF spectrum band at the In- air television in the band.” between 2014 and 20191, ments in the region.

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In a historic move, UAE Federal holder”), pursuant to the Law 1 of 1991 has been amend- approval of Etisalat Group’s ed by Federal Decree by Law Board of Directors. no. 3 of 2015 and new Articles Etisalat Group will also be enti- of Association have been tled to issue different classes of issued by the UAE Cabinet of shares. Other than the issuance Ministers. The new regime in- of the Special Share, Etisalat troduces momentous changes, Group does not intend to issue including the possibility of for- any additional shares at this eign investors owning shares time. in Etisalat Group and Etisalat’s Ahmad Julfar, Group Chief Ex- legal name will change to ecutive Officer, Etisalat added: Emirates Telecommunications “This is a historical moment for Group Company PJSC, but con- Etisalat which will allow us to Eissa Al Suwaidi Ahmad Julfar tinue to be known as Etisalat build on the years of success Chairman, Etisalat Group CEO - Etisalat Group Group. the company has enjoyed and The changes permit legal/judi- Group’s general assembly Etisalat Group’s equity is anoth- provide additional impetus in cial persons wholly-owned by (however, holders of such er significant milestone in the our pursuit of excellence in all UAE nationals to hold shares shares may attend general history of Etisalat Group. It will that we do. in the company. Also, non-na- assembly meetings). have a positive impact for both It will enable Etisalat to contin- tional individuals and entities Commenting on the changes, Etisalat Group’s shareholders ue to invest in the innovative may own up to 20% of Etisalat Eissa Al Suwaidi, Chairman, and the Stock Exchange. It also products and services, which Group’s shares, subject to the Etisalat Group said: “I whole- sends out a strong signal that our customers demand and approval of the Etisalat Group heartedly welcome the Federal the UAE is open for business are vital in the highly compet- Board of Directors. However, Decree and praise the Govern- d will enhance Etisalat brand itive global telecommunica- restrictions in respect of voting ment for their leadership and recognition around the world.” tions sector. As a result I am rights shall be applied to the support of the telecommunica- In addition to ordinary shares, confident that Etisalat will go shares owned by non-nationals tion sector. a “Special Share” will be issued from strength to strength and and such shares shall not hold The approval to allow institu- to the Federal Government of continue delivering long-term any voting rights at Etisalat tional and foreign ownership of the UAE (the “Special Share- value to our shareholders.”

Abdulaziz Al Sawaleh Alshehhi, enhancement of young our people. Etisalat Group’s Chief Human leadership talents at Etisalat I would like to extend my Resources Officer, received a Group. Al Sawaleh leads special thanks and appreciation prestigious international award Etisalat Group’s strategy that to Etisalat Group management in recognition of his role in delivers excellence in the and family that I am proud leading Etisalat Group’s Human field of Human Resources to be part of, for creating an Resources across its footprint. through creating a positive environment that allows us to Highly contested by multina- work environment and offering deliver excellence in leadership tional companies, Al Sawaleh advanced training programs, and encourages innovation in won the award for ‘Excellence which effectively contribute to everything that we do.” in improving performance strengthening and motivating As Group Chief Human through leadership’ at the 6th the staff to innovate in their Resources Officer, Annual Asian Business Awards. day to day performance. Abdulaziz Sawaleh leads Eti- The award was an acknowl- He has designed programmes Commenting on the award Al salat’s Human resources func- edgement of Al Sawaleh’s that focus on professional Sawaleh said: “I am honoured tion throughout its operations commitment to establishing development and employee to receive this remarkable in 19 countries in the Middle innovative initiatives morale, which have directly recognition that reiterates our East, Africa and Asia, with a throughout his career with contributed to an increase in success as an organisation in customer base of 168 million Etisalat. employee performance and the developing our greatest asset: people.

September 2015 www.teletimesinternational.com 35 Seiichiro Toda

NEC Corporation has devices to which explosion- Director, Global Safety announced its receipt proofing processes have been Division, NEC Corporation of an order from applied in order to reduce the said, “We are pleased to be JGC CORPORATION risk of fires and explosions, able to contribute to JGC’s for the delivery of and designs that physically cutting-edge refinery project. telecommunications and isolate networks that NEC possesses some security systems for the handle highly confidential of the world’s top-level Kuwait National Petroleum communications from image recognition and Company’s large-scale Mina regular telecommunications communication technologies, Al-Ahmadi Refinery, the networks. such as facial recognition, construction of which JGC The NEC Group has an crowd behavior analysis, CORPORATION is involved in. extensive track record super-resolution technologies The value of this order is and experience in and Software Defined approximately Yen1.3 billion, constructing plant-oriented Networking (SDN). Tan Boon Chin, and NEC will commence communications and security Moving forward, by working MD Global Safety - NEC delivery of the systems from systems, including systems in collaboration with December 2015. management and emergency for large-scale oil plants in engineering companies, The systems that NEC will broadcast systems. Saudi Arabia. we’d like to propose provide to the Mina Al- The construction of NEC considers the receipt solutions that integrate these Ahmadi Refinery consists telecommunications and of this order to be a result technologies with plant- of telecommunications security systems for oil of the high appraisal of its oriented systems in order to systems, including VoIP refinery plants requires cutting-edge technological contribute to the even safer phone and wired/wireless industry-specific system capabilities, in addition to its and more secure operation in-plant LAN systems, and design and construction long track record of system of important facilities such as security systems such as know-how, such as the building and operations. refineries and power video surveillance, access utilization of electronic Tan Boon Chin, Managing plants.”

NEC Corporation has verification and evaluation announced the launch of of the connection to the SAP M510,M710 its “SAP HANA Tailored HANA appliance server are also Datacenter Integration completed prior to delivery. Solutions (NEC Storage),” With this solution, customers which are designed to simplify can eliminate the burdensome the installation of SAP work of satisfying all the NEC High-Performance Appliance for SAP HANA + HANA(R) in-memory database performance and availability software. requirements set by SAP in M310 This solution is a combination the construction of a SAP of the NEC’s SAP HANA HANA environment, thereby appliance server, the “NEC drastically shortening the M110 High-Performance Appliance installation time. for SAP HANA,” and four “We have seen rapidly models from the NEC M Series increasing demand from of storage products. enterprise customers for SAP NEC Corporation. “The new Enterprise Storage, will simplify All of the four models’ HANA as a big data processing solution, which combines our the installation of SAP HANA storage have been certified platform,” said Hiroyuki SAP HANA appliance server and enable more customers to by SAP for the SAP HANA Asaga, General Manager, and storage products that have benefit from the high speed Enterprise Storage. Operation Partners’ Platform Division, been certified for SAP HANA in-memory processing.”

36 www.teletimesinternational.com September 2015 Paramita Chakrabarti

du announced that it has space. This permits du to offer is critical to our future of successfully completed a “plug & play” solution for consumer and enterprise customer premises equipment the anticipated demand for growth plans and potentially virtualizations trials in the virtualized solutions in future, introduce du to the OTT UAE. When commercially making service activation market, which will entail that rolled-out in future, CPE achievable in matter of few du can provide its services virtualization is expected to hours. The service simplifies over other service providers provide an enhanced service the provision of Software infrastructure like Google and whilst optimising OPEX and Defined Networking (SDN) Amazon. The introduction will CAPEX costs for residential and driven service. Jasim AlAwadi, give us the ability to provide enterprise customer in addition Vice President - Network multiple services over a virtual will equip du to offer these Infrastructure & Services, network. This takes du a step services within a much shorter du, said: “We are delighted closer to an application aware Jasim AlAwadi, VP Network time frame. Virtualized CPE to be the first in the region of network” vCPE seamlessly Infrastructure & Services - du (vCPE) technology offer the to successfully complete the extends the benefits of a ability to service providers to vCPE trials reiterate du’s trials of this promising new programmable network and lower the cost of end premises position as a market innovator technology. Network Function application aware abstraction equipment and reduces the and a provider that wants to Virtualization (NFV) - and in to branch locations and complexity of these devices have services which disrupt particular vCPE is an exciting homes, paving the way for a while hosting the complicated the market in consumer and emerging new growth area dynamic and more responsive services in the du cloud. The enterprise data communication in our existing portfolio and operational environment.

du University, started earlier relevant tools and fostering an support last year, allowing All du Retail store staff in both this year, is set to launch its environment that enables our walk-in customers to interact own and franchisee operated latest addition to hone the staff to directly impact cus- with service agents through a stores will be enrolled in the talents of employees and drive tomer experience across the video conferencing system. Academy to ensure a uniform customer satisfaction levels various touch points: online, In an ongoing effort to customer experience across all higher. The Retail Sales & Ser- through our call centre, and engage customers and meet retail touch points. vice Academy and the Enter- face-to-face at du retail stores their changing needs, du will The du Retail Sales & Service prise Sales Academy, launched and outlets. As an Emirati continue to update its re- Academy and du’s Enterprise in August, aim to provide the business, our aim is to set tail experience across store Sales Academy, offer training relevant training and develop- the benchmark for all other locations around the region. programmes that teach en- ment to du employees that is organisations within the UAE These updates will eventually terprise sales staff to diversify aligned with evolving customer when it comes to training and encompass all of du’s customer from product based expectations. development of staff to consis- interactions; at its online shop, to solution based sales. Speaking about the planned tently improve the customer social media channels, as well Staff are being trained also training to cater to evolving experience.” as face-to-face. to understand both customer customer needs, Ibrahim du is collaborating with experts In line with this initiative, needs and retention in the Nassir, Chief Human Capital from Vodafone, so that it can du offers staff that engage enterprise segment. and Administration Officer, du deliver global best practice cus- directly with the customer the All Enterprise Business staff said: “Our aim is to facilitate tomer service training through opportunity to become more including Directors and a transformation by chang- its Retail Sales & Service than just sales representatives, Account Managers will go ing mindsets and creating a Academy. and to act as trusted advisors through the training programs ubiquitous culture of service. Always looking to improve its - consulting subscribers about as a part of their role require- With the Retail Sales & Service customer service models, du offers, services, promotions ments towards building the Academy we are providing the introduced in-store video retail and deals best suited to them. du way of sales & service.

September 2015 www.teletimesinternational.com 37 Finnish telecom gear maker has been highest since Reliance Jio. IMS will allow Nokia Networks expects a 2008,” Nokia Networks’ head voice calls to be made on IP strong performance in India of India region, Sandeep network, a basic requirement this year, buoyed by a half- Girotra, said. “This has been for voice over LTE or VoLTE. year deal tally that is close driven by lifting of regulatory It will compete with first to surpassing the number of uncertainty, availability of mover Bharti Airtel and orders the company bagged liberalised spectrum, data potential entrants Vodafone in the country in 2014. growth and its monetisation India and Idea Cellular. In the first half of 2015, for telecom operators,” he Nokia Networks’ worldwide Nokia Networks won 30 said. Girotra said the company revenue in June quarter rose deals in India, including one had landed the world’s largest 6% to $2.99 billion year-on- for IP multimedia system IP multimedia system (IMS) year on the back of more deployment needed for calls deployment deal for a leading sales of mobile broadband over 4G, and other rollout and operator which will enable and global services. Globally, managed services deals. It had Sandeep Girotra, best in class VoLTE in line with the company is expecting an won 35 contracts in 2014. VP & Head - Nokia India the company’s aggressive LTE 8-11% increase in sales in 2015. The company expects deal rollout plans. He did not name The company did not share momentum to continue in expenditure by nearly a the operator, but people numbers. the second half this year, quarter over last year, mostly aware of the deal said the Nokia Networks also renewed with larger value sizes, as on building data networks. two-year contract, valued at two key managed services operators increase capital “In H1, the revenue growth about $100 million, was with contracts.

Bharti Airtel has commercially MD & CEO, Bharti Airtel of thousands of movies and launched its high-speed 4G (India & South Asia) said, in a other popular videos. services in 296 towns across statement. The telco is offering 4G India, following the successful “We also believe that an services at 3G data prices trial of services in select cities open platform is critical to with packs starting at Rs 25. and the feedback received developing an ecosystem In addition, with every 4G from customers. that nurtures innovation SIM swap, Airtel is offering The launch of Airtel 4G, now and enabling our consumers six months of unlimited music available to customers across to access a myriad set of streaming and downloads a range of smart devices Gopal Vittal possibilities on their mobile on ‘Wynk Music’ and five including mobile phones, phones. Our 4G network is free movies per month for dongles, 4G hotspots and or early next. therefore built on an open six months on the Eros Now Wi-Fi dongles, comes even “With the help of the partner ecosystem model that channel of ‘Wynk Movies’. as Mukesh Ambani-owned feedback received from the brings together the best in In addition, the telco has Reliance Jio Infocomm is beta launches, we have now the industry and introduces introduced a new range of readying to launch its own 4G built India’s first commercial the market to these never ‘Infinity Plans’ starting Rs services commercially around 4G network that will make before experiences,” Vittal 999. These high-end plans December. Incumbent rivals high speed mobile broadband added. offer unlimited voice calls on Idea Cellular, Vodafone India a reality. The national roll-out Airtel also launched a new mobile (first time in India) and Reliance Communications today is another small step carrier agnostic mobile app along with data benefits and have also announced launch in our journey to be the most - ‘Wynk Movies’ - a first of its access to ‘Wynk Movies’ and plans for their respective 4G innovative and customer kind movie mall that will offer ‘Wynk Music’, the company services - either later this year focused brand,” Gopal Vittal, a specially curated library said.

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#iraqtels Ooredoo has announced the most streamlined Internet Ooredoo’s fixed fibre network, launch of Ooredoo SuperNet experience, and we continue including continued expansion in one of the most significant to deliver real technological to bring world leading internet network evolution in Qatar’s upgrades that offer direct speeds to business and history. benefits for our customers. residential customers across As part of the upgrade, Our fixed and mobile networks Qatar. Ooredoo is introducing three- have been designed to be fast. Successful trials of up to band carrier aggregation, We were the first company in and beyond 1 Gbps were building on its position of being Qatar to offer a 4G+ experience completed earlier this year and the first and only company to delivered through aggregating the company plans to bring combine 20+10 MHz bands two bands on the network and additional speed options to on its 4G+ network, enabling now we have made the leap to customers in the near future Ooredoo to reach higher three, as we offer a continuous using SuperNet. maximum top speeds and offer upgrade for our customers.” Ooredoo press release in Ooredoo customers faster on- To ensure customers have this regard further says, on Sheikh Saud bin Nasser average Internet speeds. access to next-generation top of the expansion and Al Thani, CEO - Ooredoo Qatar Now, the company is services wherever they are upgrades, the company plan expanding to aggregate speed of 4.1 Gbps over TDD- in Qatar, Ooredoo has also an all-network optimization spectrum across three bands FDD LTE, in an experiment launched “Operation Desert”, to further increase speeds to deliver another evolution to demonstrate future user which aims to significantly for customers and boost the in speed and performance for demand. At this speed, even improve coverage in Qatar’s download speeds across Doha Qatar’s mobile Internet. The the most demanding mobile popular desert locations on both its fixed and mobile aim is to provide a theoretical users who would be able in time for the upcoming networks. maximum speed of 375 mbps, to download a full-length camping season. The upgrade was designed which will be available to 5 GB high-definition (HD) As part of the upgrade to provide a better customer customers as and when high- movie in just 11 seconds and Ooredoo will invest in the experience on the Ooredoo speed devices come onto the simultaneously upload a latest wide band antenna network, as well as contribute market. 5-minute 30 MB video clip from systems, which provide the to the Qatar National Vision’s Ooredoo demonstrated the a concert in less than a second. flexibility to smoothly upgrade aim to boost the knowledge- superiority and capacity of its Sheikh Saud bin Nasser Al capacity as per customer based economy, by enabling a network in December 2014, Thani, CEO, Ooredoo Qatar requirement, as well as meet host of new customers access when Ooredoo Qatar, Nokia said: “Ooredoo’s SuperNet existing and future capacity to the financial, educational Networks and China Mobile has been designed to give our needs in the country. and social services the Internet achieved a record-breaking customers the smoothest, SuperNet also encompasses can provide.

H.E. Sheikh Abdulla Bin situation improves soon and For inaccessible regions, the Ooredoo actively supports Mohammed Bin Saud Al- flood waters recede so that company will make the same the GSMA’s Humanitarian Thani, Chairman of Ooredoo recovery work can begin as donations to local authorities Connectivity Charter, launched has expressed his deep quickly as possible.” for their distribution. at the GSMA Mobile World concern on the losses from Ooredoo Myanmar is utilising Ooredoo Myanmar provided Congress earlier this year, the severe floods in myanmar. its nationwide network of support of over 20 million which demonstrates the He announced that Ooredoo employees, dealers, and MMK in two affected states commitment of the mobile is working to help ease their distributors to assess local earlier this week and is making industry to support customers burden during this critical time. conditions and needs. donations in other flood and first responders before Besides providing essential The firm intends to directly affected regions of up to and during humanitarian support, we are working distribute food, water, US$170,000. Ooredoo Group emergencies. diligently to minimize network medicine, blankets and has pledged to match this Ooredoo has longstanding disruptions to help ensure that assist with the provision of donation with an additional commitments to support we can continue to provide temporary shelter to the US$200,000 to contribute to the communities across its a vital lifeline to affected communities that it can safely reconstruction efforts after footprint during challenging communities. We hope that the access. flood waters recede. times.

40 www.teletimesinternational.com September 2015 Qatar’s telecom services penetration rate in Qatar Pyramid Research outlook for growth,” says market is set to generate is set to increase to 191% by Operators are deploying Bostanji. US$2.8 billion in service year-end 2020, one of the next-generation high-speed Room for improvement with revenue by 2020, driven highest rates in the world. technologies Operators new cloud solutions by operators’ consistent Average per capita spending Ooredoo and Vodafone have According to the research, investment in next generation on telecommunications invested to ensure that the operators still have room networks capable of services now stands at over highest speeds and the best to improve their efficiency delivering new innovative US$1,000 per year. quality of service are offered through upgrading OSS and products and services to the This makes Qatar – the fourth to mobile subscribers; LTE-A BSS with new cloud solutions market. largest economy in the GCC deployments through carrier offered by major vendors Pyramid Research expects the – one of the most developed aggregation, for example, including Huawei, Alcatel- Qatari telecommunications telecom markets in the have yielded downlink speeds Lucent and Ericsson. market to generate total Middle East. of 150-225Mbps. The improved service service revenue of US$2.8 “Alongside similar markets According to the report, quality of fixed high- billion in 2020, up from a such as the UAE and Saudi Qatar will see deployments of speed broadband will help forecast of US$2.3 billion in Arabia, Qatar is on its way to the newest technologies on enterprises explore new IT 2015. becoming a digital society offer by vendors. solutions such This translates to an annual supported by smart city “Many Qataris will adopt the as cloud computing, hosting compound growth rate of initiatives,” says Houda latest compatible devices, solutions, M2M and big data 3.6%. Moreover, the mobile Bostanji, senior analyst at supporting the positive analytics.

Launching a new phase of its 100Mbps, which handles breeze with plenty to spare; nationwide fibre rollout plan, downloads and online gaming if families want to download Ooredoo has introduced its like never before. a HD movie, it can now be on new Superfast Fibre as part of “This life-changing technology their screens in less than 10 its suite of Home Broadband is the most powerful minutes.” services. domestic connection that the Phase 1 of the rollout has Featuring unlimited data with Sultanate has ever seen, and been completed which means download speeds reaching by introducing Superfast Fibre that 11,000 homes in Mabella as high as 100Mbps, up to Home Broadband services, are able to subscribe to 25 times faster than the as an addition to our popular our Superfast Fibre company’s current Home wireless Home Broadband service and feel the power Broadband packages, services, we are delivering a of Ooredoo’s industry-leading these are the fastest and whole new online experience broadband technology. Greg Young most powerful residential for local communities,” said The next phase of the rollout Chief Executive Officer - Ooredoo broadband packages Greg Young, Chief Executive will see an additional 20,000 currently available in the additional 250 minutes of Officer at Ooredoo. “With homes In Al Khoudh able market. voice calls between fixed unparalleled connection to use our Superfast Fibre Ooredoo is introducing Ooredoo lines each month; strength and speed, this is Service at the beginning of four Superfast Fibre Home the second, 25Mbps with the what home broadband is September, thereafter the Broadband packages, each same 250 minute allowance supposed to be. service is expected with unique benefits and on calls; the third raises the Where previously customers to expand gradually to unlimited data. bar to 50Mbps with unlimited may have downloaded cover the majority of the The first value-added Ooredoo to Ooredoo fixed movies or streamed data that Muscat Governate, Salalah, subscription comprises line voice calls per month; used the majority of their Sohar and Duqm areas and speeds of 15Mbps, with an and the fourth, the ultimate bandwidth, it will now be a beyond.

September 2015 www.teletimesinternational.com 41 Vodafone has announced that it 3 bands. What this means is experience to an entirely new is the first telecom operator in that when we launched 4G+, level. “With the roll out of 3 Qatar and one of the first in the our network provided more Band Carrier Aggregation, we world to have the top speed of than double the speeds our are getting ready for the launch up to 375 Mbps live on its net- customers had earlier from of the newer smartphones work. This was completed after Vodafone 4G. Today with 3 which will enable such technol- it tested and rolled out 3 band band LTE, our network provides ogy levels and this is expected LTE Carrier Aggregation across more than four times the orig- to happen towards end of its sites in Doha Corniche and inal 4G speeds.” The 3 Carrier August 2015 when some mobile the Qatar Science & Technology Aggregation roll out, which phone manufacturers will start Park (QSTP) with other addi- will cover additional sites over offering these handsets in tional sites across Doha to be Ramy Boctor, Chief Technology the next few months in key the market. Having said that, progressively ready by Novem- Officer - Vodafone Qatar locations such as West Bay, all Vodafone 4G+ customers ber 2015. The step re-asserts cant milestone in our plans to Katara, The-Pearl and others, can now see improvements in Vodafone’s position as a leader continue to offer our customers is another hallmark in the com- speed bringing the maximum in technology and innovation. enhanced network experience. pany’s steadfast commitment speed up to 300 Mbps, a signifi- Ramy Boctor, Chief Technolo- The ultra-speed of up to 375 to provide its customers with cant increase over the existing, gy Officer of Vodafone Qatar, Mbps is achieved by aggregat- state-of-the-art infrastructure but also substantial, 225 Mbps.” said: “This is another signifi- ing 50MHz of Spectrum across that takes their data and calling Boctor added.

Vodafone has announced that on in January 2015, and which 43% more of that area, and pro- Following the launch of its 4G+ is has completed the upgrade aims at offering customers su- viding better LTE, and thus data network in May 2015 and a of its network cell sites in the perfast voice and data services, coverage there. nation-wide network enhance- areas of Al-Wakrah and Al-Wu- wherever they are. Furthermore, the company also ment initiative with an invest- kair achieving thus a faster and The upgrade covered 30 sites expanded 15 sites with HSDPA ment of over QAR 500 Million, stronger network experience in Al-Wakrah and Al-Wukair Dual Carrier uplifting existing Vodafone achieved increased for customers living and work- uplifting their 3G capacity by 3G speeds up to a significant 3G and 4G coverage and ing there. around three times and their 4G 43.2 Mbps. Lastly, the company capacity which produced a The initiative is part of the com- capacity by around four times. announced that all 4G sites in significantly better customer pany’s network upgrade initia- Vodafone also added 13 new 4G Al-Wakrah and Al-Wukair have experience in both voice and tive, which Vodafone embarked LTE sites to Al-Wakrah, covering been uplifted to 4G+ capacity. data services.

Vodafone India has said the licence will enable it to build on 90,000 ‘M-Pesa’ agents, it is bank licence will enable it to payments bank licence will this further and offer a more already providing people in build on this further. enable it offer a comprehen- comprehensive portfolio of remote areas a convenient way “We remain committed to sive portfolio of banking and banking and financial products to transfer money and make actualise the government’s financial products and services, and services, accelerating payments. vision of financial inclusion by accelerating India’s journey into India’s journey into a cashless Vodafone said the company has leveraging the reach of mobile a cashless economy. economy,” Vodafone India MD partnered with several govern- technology to service the “We are grateful to the RBI and CEO Sunil Sood said in a ment bodies to run pilots for unbanked and underserviced for giving us the licence for statement. enabling direct transfer of wag- sections of the society,” the setting up a payment bank. The The company said with over es/subsidies and the payment statement added.

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THIS FAIR IS ORGANIZED WITH THE INSPECTION OF THE UNION OF CHAMBERS AND COMMODITY EXCHANGES OF TURKEY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW NUMBER 5174. With energy as a driving force nologies can be applied to the for global economic devel- entire oil and gas production opment, energy companies process to drive the trans- around the world are encoun- formation of the oil and gas tering a multitude of challeng- industry.” es as they move towards dig- “In our world today, eighty- ital transformation. Against five percent of crude oil and this backdrop, Huawei hosted seventy percent of natural its Global Energy Industry gas are transported by pipe- Summit 2015 with the theme lines that stretch thousands of “Innovative ICT Enables of miles around the world. As Smart Energy” in Almaty, a result, it is important for oil Kazakhstan, from August and gas companies to ensure 19 to 20, 2015. The summit safe, reliable and efficient gathered over two hundred operations across these attendees to discuss the long-distance pipelines. At application of innovative ICT the summit, Huawei is joined Huawei launches Joint Digital Pipeline Solution with Partners technologies and solutions by CNPC Richfit, CPPE, ABB, in the energy industry to en- tion maturity. These are key collaboration technologies and Honeywell, to launch an hance production efficiency, considerations that negatively can be leveraged to ensure end-to-end digital pipeline enable scientific management impact the profitability of oil safe operations.” solution to provide integrated and ensure secure operations. and gas companies.” Also at the summit, Jerry services covering consultation Attendees included represen- Zhang Zhilin, Ex-CTO & Vice Ji, President of the Energy and design, ICT infrastructure, tatives from Huawei’s custom- President, Information De- Industry, Huawei Enterprise production automation, appli- ers from the energy sector in partment, Sinopec Group, said Business Group, delivered a cations, and services,” Jerry China, Egypt, Turkmenistan, the biggest cause of these keynote speech titled “Inno- Ji added. Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, challenges can be attribut- vative ICT Empowers Smart At the summit, Huawei also Tajikistan and Kazakhstan; ed to international oil price Energy”, in which he said, “In- showcased a series of smart global partners such as CNPC fluctuations, adding that, novative ICT will drive growth energy solutions, including Richfit, China Petroleum Pipe- “It is only through constant in the energy industry, and digital pipeline, digital produc- line Engineering Corporation innovation, cost reduction, we expect the world to have tion, cloud data center, and (CPPE), Honeywell, ABB, and and efficiency improvement 100 billion data connections mobile office. These solutions SAP; senior analysts from the that oil and gas companies across industries by 2025. cover all the operations Forrester Research consulting can remain competitive. The The oil and gas industry will processes in the oil and gas in- company; as well as experts informatization of the energy witness the ever-increasing dustry, from discovery to pro- and media from the global oil industry will focus on areas application of smart devices, duction, transportation, and and gas industry. including Internet of Things which generate large volumes information management. As “In the future, ICT technolo- (IoT), big data, cloud comput- of data. This data will need to part of the discussions around gies will substantially change ing, mobile and coordination, be analyzed and stored. As the development of digital the entire oil and gas industry, and intelligence, facilitating such, traditional OT devices pipelines and related trends, and will redefine business the evolution from digital will gradually develop new IT attendees at the summit strategies and efficient pro- energy to smart energy.” features to keep pace with also had the opportunity to duction methods in the pro- Phil Millette, a Senior Con- industry trends. Huawei, visit the Huawei and Asia Gas cess,” said Bobby Cameron, sultant from Honeywell, in efforts to address this Pipeline (AGP) Almaty Control Vice President of Forrester. highlighted that oil and gas emerging trend, launched its Center (ACC) prototype locat- “Today, the industry’s ecosys- companies need to focus on innovative ‘cloud-pipe-device’ ed in the central Almaty, an tem faces many difficulties. security and efficiency, and architecture to apply inno- overall control center for the Specifically, these challenges said, “The key of production vative ICT technologies and AGP-AB line and the future include constant pipeline process optimization is to en- solutions. This includes cloud AGP-C line. The center is capa- security issues, the inability sure the safety of employees data center and big data, agile ble of monitoring natural gas to perform quick analyses and to protect the environ- networks and LTE, Internet pipelines across Kazakhstan. and sharing of real-time data ment while improving collab- of Things (IoT) gateway and During the visit, Huawei show- exploration, low operational orative operations. Real-time open-source IoT operating cased the center’s site-based efficiency, and low produc- video surveillance and remote system ‘LiteOS’. These tech- Supervisory Control

44 www.teletimesinternational.com September 2015 and Data Acquisition (SCADA) end ICT solutions and services companies, including Kazakh- Kazakhstan-China natural gas system, satellite images of to telecom carriers, enterpris- stan AGP, Kazakhstan’s Beineu pipeline AB line (AGP AB line), pipelines and video images of es, and consumers by bringing Bozoi Shymkent Gas Pipeline which is the world’s first and the sites. cutting-edge communications (BSGP), PetroKazakhstan, Ka- longest digital natural gas “Central Asia is the world’s technologies and products into zMunaiGas (KMG), Uzbekistan pipelines. In the future, Huawei third largest oilfield and plays the region,” said Mike Han, Asia Trans Gas, Turkmenistan will continue to leverage its ICT an important role in the global President of Huawei’s Central Amu Darya, CIK, and Sinopec expertise to help customers in oil and gas industry. Asia & Caucasia Enterprise Kazakhstan. Huawei’s Digital Central Asia improve efficiency, Since we established our Business. Pipeline Solution has been reduce energy consumption, business in Central Asia in 1997, In Central Asia, Huawei has applied to a total of 4,623 enhance operational safety Huawei has been committed to provided products and services kilometers of gas pipelines and eventually enable digital providing competitive end-to- to a number of oil and gas in Central Asia, including the transformation.

The tremendous growth of with a 69% increase the sales $ in comparison to 16 billion $ dle-East and South Pacific Huawei in the first half of the recorded are 9.09 billion $. last year.” have recorded respective, year 2015, has brought the It has also been announced The remarkable growth 54%, 45%, 164%, 48% and 41% company to another level that the contribution of con- strategy adopted by Huawei year on year growth. and the Consumer Business sumer business revenue has is inciting business growth in The shipments of Huawei’s Group has forecasted that the also grown to 32%, which was both China and the interna- high-end smart phones has full year sales of Huawei will 24 % year last year. tional market as the Revenue grown 70%, according to the surely increase to 20 billion $ Huawei Pakistan, Director has spurred to 124% y-o-y report and it states that the this year. Marketing Devices, Mr. in China whereas in some total smart phone shipment The reports that have been Fanhong Bruce has said, other regions more than 40% ratio has grown to 31%, the released by the company “Because of the rapid growth growth has been recorded. growth of revenue is 388%, have shown the incredible scored in the year 2015, the The regions such as total consumer revenue 42.9% sales growth that Huawei has Consumer Business sales North-East Europe, Western and the contributed share achieved in the H1 of 2015, forecast for 2015 is 20 billion Europe, North Africa, Mid- profit has increased to 44%.

Huawei has announced that the band industry develops rapidly, concept for developing its prod- and challenges delivered by vid- 2nd Ultra-Broadband Forum regulatory organizations have ucts and solutions to support eo services and the Smart Home (UBBF) will run from September improved, or plan to improve UBB 2020 is ultra-broad, simple, field. Other hot topics on the 8-9 in Madrid, Spain. Jointly broadband. The global fixed and agile. agenda include how business organized with the UN Broad- broadband industry has entered Also at the event, futurists models and service innovation band Commission and Telefon- an important evolutionary from Singularity University, a optimize the industry structure, ica, this year’s UBBF is themed phase, defined by Huawei as the California Benefit Corporation and how to implement network UBB 2020: Towards a Gigaband Gigaband era. part university, part think-tank, reconstruction. World, and will bring together At UBBF, Huawei will explain part business-incubator located The UBBF not only provides a industry experts and futurists and demonstrate the results of in Silicon Valley, will discuss how communication platform for to discuss the evolution of the its UBB 2020 Strategy, which future technologies such as the industry players, but also builds ultra-broadband industry, the aims to utilize Gigaband and ultra-broadband era will change a bridge for industry develop- future landscape of broadband, fixed mobile convergence people’s lives with input from ment and future innovation. as well as share their experienc- 2.0 (FMC2.0) to build a better top industry experts. Huawei believes that it is this es and success stories. connected world that enables What’s more, experts from the openness and cooperation that Currently, over 100 global industry players to embrace world’s top operators, over-the- will lead to an all-win situation operators have announced new applications, business mod- top content players, together for industry players in the that they will increase their els, and an industry ecosystem with industry chain Chief Expe- Gigaband era, taking it another investment in fixed broadband brought about by ultra-broad- rience Officers (CXOs), will give step closer to realizing a better and networks. As the broad- band. Huawei’s key network their views on the opportunities connected world.

September 2015 www.teletimesinternational.com 45 The General Authority for role in this field. This trust is knowledge gained in the UAE in Regulating the Telecommunica- built upon the strong and varied this regard. We will work with tions Sector (TRA) has received initiatives that were proposed all the esteemed members of a formal invitation from His by the country represented by the commission towards our Excellency Paul Kagame, Presi- the TRA which aim to develop desired goals that act in the dent of the Republic of Rwanda, the ITU’s efforts and strengthen best interest of the interna- delivered on behalf of His Excel- its position as the international tional community,” added Al lency Houlin Zhao, International organization responsible for Mansouri. The Broadband Com- Telecommunications Union telecommunication and infor- mission for Digital Development (ITU) Secretary-General and mation technology globally. established in 2010 is known Her Excellency Irina Bokova, This trust was also reinforced for its unlimited support for ev- Director-General of UNESCO, to through the UAE’s hosting of erything related to broadband join the high-level Broadband Hamad Obaid Al Mansouri, several ITU conferences which networks in the world, including Commission for Digital Develop- resulted in the implementation applications and services. This Director General - TRA ment. The commission is one of of several laws and regulations stems from the absolute faith the joint-international com- also includes a participation in that serve to spread digital liter- and full confidence in the role mittees between the ITU and the commission’s next gather- acy across the global commu- that communication networks UNESCO that aims to boost the ing to be held on 26 September nity,” said H.E. Hamad Obaid Al are playing in advancing the importance of broadband on 2015 in the U.S.A New York city. Mansouri, TRA Director General. development efforts aimed the international policy agenda “This choice demonstrates the “Through the membership in at meeting the Millennium and expand broadband access international telecommunica- this important commission, Development Goals set forth globally to accelerate progress tion and information technol- I will do my utmost with the in UN resolutions as well as the towards the Millennium Devel- ogy community’s trust in the other commission members in global sustainable development opment Goals .The invitation UAE’s pioneering and central the transfer of expertise and goals.

The ICT Fund, a subsidiary of the dent who wishes to study a sub- Minister of UAE and Ruler of General Authority for Regulating ject relating to the ICT field in Dubai to develop the ICT sector, the Telecommunications sector the UAE. Mahmoud added: “The we feel it is imperative to help (TRA), has announced that ICT sector is experiencing an un- spread this message and convey it will be offering around 100 precedented growth in the UAE the importance of investing in new scholarships to a number and has witnessed remarkable both our people and the ICT of leading universities in the change as the rate of technolog- sector as the two key pillars of country. The new scholarships ical developments has contin- growth for UAE. target both high school grad- ued to evolve in the country. We will continue to promote uate students and those who That being said, we feel that it is our scholarship program in the have already graduated from our job to invest in our country’s upcoming years to ensure we university and wish to pursue young talent and put a strategy leave a good imprint on the higher education within the for continuous growth. With the overall success of the country Information & Communications Omar Mahmoud country being a regional leader decades from today, which is Technology (ICT) field. Acting CEO, ICT Fund in terms of easy access and our ultimate aim,” he added. Omar Mahmoud, Acting CEO, use of internet and providing a The Betha Program is an initia- ICT Fund said “The ICT sector is to achieving the 2021 vision that number of quality universities, tive of The ICT Fund created to a key economic pillar, growth aims to secure first-rate educa- our goal is to create a positive enhance the stature and role driver and source of national in- tion for the new generations impact through our scholar- of the ICT sector for the aim of come, which is one of the main to lead and play an active and ships. Further to the goals put promoting the general author- drivers for launching the Betha positive role in society. forward by His Highness Shaikh ity the sector, given it is the scholarships program back in It also represents a fantastic Mohammed bin Rashid Al Mak- organizing body to promote this 2013. Today, Betha contributes opportunity for any Emirati stu- toum, Vice-President and Prime sector on the national level.

46 www.teletimesinternational.com September 2015 Infor has announced that it has currencies. Buyers and financial will also be able to leverage In- entered into an agreement to institutions offer pre and post for Rhythm, Infor’s omnichan- acquire GT Nexus, the world’s export financing and payment nel e-commerce platform for largest cloud-based global protection through the GT engagement and direct order commerce platform, for $675 Nexus cloud. flow into the commerce cloud. million. The deal is expected to “Infor is a great home for GT The combination of Infor close within 45 days, pending Nexus, and we’re excited to CloudSuite applications and GT regulatory approval. join forces with a company Nexus will represent the future Approximately 25,000 busi- with a strong manufacturing, of multi-enterprise manufactur- nesses rely on GT Nexus, retail, and supply chain pedi- ing and commerce. Increasing including six of the top ten gree,” said Sean Feeney, CEO specialization creates more logistics service providers and Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor. of GT Nexus. complex supply chains that 30 global financial institutions, Infor CloudSuiteTM industry require a unifying cloud service all managing more than $100bn was designed to enable this suites, including Infor Cloud- that are replacing monolithic in goods each year using its collaboration. Suite Fashion, are multitenant ERP systems. cloud-based business network. “Together, Infor and GT Nexus applications tailored by indus- True Cloud Architecture GT Nexus customers include will provide customers with try delivered on Amazon Web GT Nexus and Infor CloudSuite adidas Group, Caterpillar, unprecedented visibility into Services. have similar architectures; both Columbia Sportswear, DHL, their supply chains to manage Infor has more than 3,200 fash- have a single canonical map Home Depot, Levi Strauss & production and monitor goods ion and retail customers, many for orders, are event driven, Co., Maersk, Pfizer, Procter & in transit and at rest,” said of which use GT Nexus. and make use of open source Gamble, and UPS. Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor. The addition of Infor Cloud- components. Infor is one of the world’s lead- “In a complex, high velocity Suite technology to the GT Unlike other B2B information ing suppliers of ERP software, supply chain, all partners need Nexus network will enable exchanges, GT Nexus is a which helps manufacturing to know what was ordered, businesses to go further by network cloud service with one companies orchestrate produc- when it was built, where it integrating merchandising, code base for all customers tion inside the walls of the en- is in transit, if the order has marketing, and demand providing a single view of the terprise. The continued shift to changed, and has it cleared data instead of extrapolated order across the value chain. contract manufacturing moves customs. Specialization and forecasts for improved sales, The canonical map allows the shop floor outside of the speed are moving the future of operations, and production suppliers to join the network brand owner’s ERP system manufacturing into the com- planning. once and talk to all buyers, to the ERP of their suppliers merce cloud.” Infor also provides status as opposed to implementing – many of which are existing The GT Nexus network inte- about work-in-process for custom maps and portals for Infor customers. It is now com- grates directly into the order orders still in production. Ad- each buyer, which is required in mon for a single product to be management system of the ditionally, collaborative design legacy networks. designed, manufactured, and buyers and suppliers. Buyers will be facilitated on the net- Direct vs Indirect shipped by different compa- transmit order information work as will capabilities such as GT Nexus is a direct procure- nies, requiring a common cloud through GT Nexus to their transmission of changes in the ment network which ties for coordination. suppliers, financial institutions, bill of materials from Infor’s directly to the goods being sold GT Nexus provides a global freight carriers, and logistics Product Lifecycle Management to the enterprise’s end custom- order management system providers. GT Nexus becomes (PLM) solution. ers. This is a much larger mar- that coordinates commerce the order management system Infor will also enable the social ket than indirect procurement across partners. Retail, fashion, for the entire network by man- collaboration for unstructured which primarily targets the ad- and manufacturing companies aging the master record of the processes within the supply ministrative goods and services can collaborate with suppliers order across multiple partners. chain on GT Nexus through for internal consumption. to manage and optimize ship- GT Nexus also facilitates more Infor Ming.leTM, one of the The GT Nexus direct procure- ments to customers, distribu- than $20 billion in payments leading social platforms for col- ment network optimizes critical tion centers, and retail outlets between buyers and their sup- laborative business processes. orders that generate revenue to meet demand. The cloud pliers in 90 countries and in 8 Retailers and manufacturers for the buyer/brand owner.

September 2015 www.teletimesinternational.com 47 The UAE is advancing in the Internet is depriving many UAE digital era. Embracing new se- World Economic Forum’s citizens of the opportunity to curity, cloud, mobile, social and Network Readiness Index in the take full advantage of e-learn- analytics technologies required Global Information Technology ing as well as online financial, to fully digitize takes Report 2015 (GITR). The country data, and health services. imagination, investment and must take full advantage of the Crucial to achieving societal expertise. potential offered by informa- and economic transformation This is why Networked Readi- tion and communications tech- is the ability to embrace the ness is such a crucial indicator nologies (ICTs) to drive social Internet of Everything (IoE), the of a country’s ability to imple- and economic transformation. connections between people, ment and take full advantage of Out of 143 countries, the UAE Rabih Dabboussi process, data and things to ICTs. The GITR report suggests ranked 23rd, moving up one General Manager, Cisco UAE create unprecedented opportu- that investing in infrastructure place and leading the Arab nities for the UAE’s citizens, and and education; supporting the World. In response, senior Cisco population enjoys access to the public and private sectors. development of local content; executives are commending the Internet despite the fact that In order to embrace the IoE, the and creating an enabling envi- country, and highlighting the more than half now owns a UAE’s government and busi- ronment by promoting compe- considerable challenge facing mobile phone, according to the nesses must be fully digitised, tition through sound regulation the UAE as it seeks to develop World Economic Forum. supported by a highly robust will correct the imbalance in the the infrastructure, institutions, In the UAE, despite having one and secure network. UAE. Cisco executives stressed and skills needed to reap the of the highest mobile phone Becoming digital requires an that government can shape pol- full benefits of ICTs. subscription rates (171.9 per- agile IT model, and the ability to icies that will spur development Only 39 percent of the global cent), the lack of access to the rethink core processes for the of broadband access.

Teradata has announced that broad integration with tools these dimensions. current offering, strategy and Forrester Research, Inc., an and programming languages. Teradata also scored 5.0 for market presence. independent analyst firm, Teradata’s road map includes partners in the Market Pres- “We believe Forrester’s recog- named Teradata a leader in The enhancements to in-memory ence category. nition of Teradata as a leader Forrester Wave™: In-Memory processing and optimizations Forrester also stated in the in in-memory is a testament of Database Platforms, Q3 2015 to Intelligent Memory.” report: “Teradata Intelligent our innovations. With Teradata evaluation. Teradata uses a The Forrester evaluation was Memory delivers a credible Database 15.10 we are again hybrid approach to in-memory published August 3 and was power pack for analytics.” raising the bar with advanced that intelligently puts the right written by principal analyst “Business demands more in-memory techniques such as data in memory to deliver high- Noel Yuhanna, with Leslie Ow- data and analytics and at the pipelining, vectorization, bulk speed in-memory performance ens, Elizabeth Cullen, and Diane same time, expects better qualification and columnar at a fraction of the cost of Lynch. The findings were based system performance as a core storage, delivering in-memory putting all data in memory. on scoring for the Teradata Da- requirement,” said Teradata performance through an inte- In the In-Memory Database tabase 15.0 in current offering, Co-President Hermann Wim- grated automated solution,” Platforms Wave, Forrester strategy and market presence. mer. “We believe the Forrester said Oliver Ratzesberger, presi- recognized that, “Teradata’s Forrester’s scores included evaluation recognizes Teradata dent of Teradata Labs. strength lies in delivering categories such as Analytics Intelligent Memory delivers on On August 11 Teradata hosted a high performance and scale Support, Data Movement, both of those expectations.” live one-hour free webinar with for analytical workloads, Performance and Scale, and Teradata was among 11 select guest Forrester analyst Noel appliance integration, and Scale-out Architecture, where companies that Forrester invit- Yuhanna on “In-Memory Pro- strong high availability and Teradata scored 5.0 – the high- ed to take part in the evalua- cessing for High-Performance disaster recovery, as well as est score possible -- for each of tion against 19 criteria for the Analytics.”

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OpenSCAP • Multiple Network Support Vice President, Enterprise based with Role-Based Access automatically verifies the for provisioning systems System Management Software, Controls, auditing and a robust presence of patches, checks with complex networking IDC API are now available for system security configuration requirements, including VLANs, “The shift in enterprise developers seeking to manage settings and examines systems Bonds and Aliased interfaces. infrastructure towards systems in a container-based for signs of compromise in daily/ Satellite 6.1 includes newer distributed and container-based environment. weekly/monthly cadences that provisioning templates and systems means that a holistic Security can be customized by end users workflows that enable the approach is needed when it Satellite 6.1 brings upgrades to best fit their own internal setup of complex interfaces as comes to managing these to errata management, security protocols. systems are initially provisioned. disparate systems. allowing users to quickly Provisioning • Isolated Capsule Server, a Red Hat Satellite 6.1 continues and easily address security, Red Hat Satellite helps to key component of large Red to move towards providing bugfix and enhancement simplify the provisioning Hat Satellite installations, just such a solution, based errata. Improved reporting process through new discovery now features a number of on community innovation, now enables organizations processes, allowing automatic communication improvements. to help give enterprises a to more quickly identify and bare metal discovery of Communications between the level of standardization and respond to hosts affected unknown nodes on the managed host, Capsule Server control over these emerging by a security vulnerability, provisioning network. New and Satellite Server are now technologies.”

50 www.teletimesinternational.com September 2015 DNS Threats up 58 Percent information at risk once The Infoblox DNS Threat Index, exploited, organizations should powered by IID, reached a also deploy technology that record high of 133 in the second leverages current threat data quarter of 2015, up 58 percent to block traffic to and from from 84 in the second quarter these malicious sites. of 2014. Exploit kits are collections Overview of malicious software that The Infoblox DNS Threat Index take advantage of security is an indicator of malicious holes in operating systems activity worldwide that exploits and popular applications such the Domain Name System as web browsers. When a (DNS). Cybercriminals create user unintentionally visits a new domains as a foundation malicious or compromised for unleashing a variety of Rod Rasmussen Craig Sanderson, SD website, the exploit kit is threats ranging from simple Chief technology officer - IID Security products - Infoblox delivered and a malicious malware to exploit kits, payload is subsequently phishing, distributed denial help an organization to prepare that data to block access to downloaded and executed of service (DDoS) attacks, by prioritizing investments malicious domains.” on the victim’s computer. and data exfiltration. The between perimeter protection Phishing Infrastructure for exploit kits index tracks creation of and other technologies that Phishing attacks are launched accounted for 41 percent of malicious domains related to provide visibility into infections, through emails containing malicious domain creation in 67 separate threat categories protection, and post-breach domain names that are the second quarter of 2015. globally, using data from a response. deliberately crafted to look like Exploit kits have ranged from range of sources including “DNS is critical infrastructure those of well-known sites. The less than 20 percent to more government agencies, Internet for the Internet that can’t goal is to lure unsuspecting than 70 percent of the index, service providers, enterprise be turned off. Through our users into clicking on the and this quarter’s volume was network operators, and open analysis, it’s apparent that misleading links, sending them roughly the average across the sources. For details on how cybercriminals recognize this to web sites that in some cases previous 11 quarters. Although the index is calculated, see the and see DNS as a vector for are indistinguishable from the far from being the only set Methodology section at the penetrating government, real ones. When users enter of threats within the index, end of this report. corporate, and personal their authentication credentials, changes in the number of Q2 2015 Findings networks,” said Rod credit card numbers, or account observed new exploit-related While the first quarter of Rasmussen, chief technology information, the details are domains is highly correlated 2015 saw a surge of malicious officer at IID. “The Infoblox captured and used later to steal with a change in the overall domain creation driven by the DNS Threat Index, powered by either money or proprietary index. Angler, Neutrino, and Nuclear IID, is intended to give insight data. Phishing has been The Endless Cycle of Planting malware families, the second into the extent to which bad around for a long time, and the and Harvesting quarter’s record number was actors are leveraging DNS for most recent index numbers Attackers and malicious agents driven by a significant increase illicit activities.” show attackers are using it are waging a constant cat- in phishing activity. Exploit kit “DNS sits at the center of the enthusiastically. Criminals and-mouse game with threat activity was down from the Internet, connecting people, stick with phishing because it researchers. Malicious actors previous quarter, but was still applications, and devices— works, and because it’s often rapidly create infrastructure a significant threat and was making DNS a powerful tool for easier to trick humans into and set up domains as a base higher than four of the previous protecting networks as well as giving up sensitive information for launching attacks. During five quarters. penetrating them,” said Craig than to overcome increasingly this “planting” phase, there is a These types of malware often Sanderson, senior director of sophisticated cybersecurity significant rise in the number of use DNS as a communication security products at Infoblox. systems. Teaching internal malicious domains associated path for command and control “Organizations can enhance users to be diligent and aware with malware and exploit kits, as well as exfiltrating sensitive their security by acquiring and of the links they are clicking leading to a larger Infoblox DNS data. Knowing the threat level understanding DNS threat on is one level of protection. Threat Index number. of DNS-based malware can intelligence data, then using But with such important Contd on P-52

September 2015 www.teletimesinternational.com 51 A report published by Aruba regard to mobile security. ducing added risks into the Networks, an HP company, Sweden, the USA, Canada, the business. The results suggest has found that the ‘West is UK and Norway are found to that while risk can be bad, it Best’ for mobile security and have the safest employee hab- can also be good for business pinpointed the most at-risk its while Malaysia, Thailand, – something that more con- nations based on a survey of South Korea, China and the servative westernised markets the mobile security habits of UAE came bottom of the list. should take note of. 11,500 workers in 23 countries. The findings, included in Aruba “If the workforce thinks noth- It finds established Western Networks’ Running The Risk ing of sharing passwords or markets display by far the report, names the ‘#Gen- devices in order to get things world’s safest employee Saadi Kawkji Mobile’ demographic as a done, this presents an inter- behaviours when it comes to major driver for more pro-risk esting productivity vs security using mobile devices at work, UK, only one in ten (12%) do behaviours, with the younger, challenge for IT managers the and conversely, emerging not password protect their mobile-savvy workers often world over.” Eastern regions rank the work smartphone. In Malaysia, prioritising productivity over Aruba Network’s ‘Running lowest for mobile security that figure is nearly three in traditional security concerns. The Risk’ report highlights practices. ten (29%) Quote: Saadi Kawkji, Regional the potential pitfalls busi- • Greater data loss in Mid- • Higher device sharing in Technical Manager, Gulf and nesses should expect given dle-East: Nearly half of UAE China: The Chinese will give Pakistan at Aruba Networks their employees’ computer workers (48%) admit to having their work mobile device “It appears that emerging security habits. Aruba’s online lost personal or company away on average 19 times per markets are seeing more self-assessment tool help data through the misuse of a month, whereas the Swedes self-empowered workers who companies assess their risk mobile, this was just a quarter just seven are embracing new technolo- levels and compare it against in the US (24%) Overall the report establishes gies and new ways of driving other countries’ industries in • Risk-adversity in UK: In the a clear East/West divide with growth, but are also intro- the study.

Contd from P-51 factored out. Next, the data Once this phase ends, the is categorized by threat type. attackers begin to “harvest” the their plans. represents the average for The 67 most active threat types extensive infrastructure they Summary threat activity during the eight are factored into calculations have built to launch attacks, The Infoblox DNS Threat Index quarters of 2013 and 2014. for the index. As new threat steal data, and generally cause has risen consistently for the To create the index, IID classifications emerge and harm to their victims. In this last three quarters. This could examines domains worldwide become more active, and as phase, the threat index number indicate cybercriminals are associated with malicious some become less active or may be lower. However, that expanding the infrastructure activities, based on the disappear, the categories are doesn’t mean that malicious to leverage in targeted attacks proprietary methods and adjusted to reflect the mix of activity has subsided. for spreading malware and/or capabilities IID utilizes on a actual threats in use. These The Infoblox DNS Threat Index exfiltrating data. DNS is critical daily basis. Malicious domain threats include distribution shows this endless cycle of network infrastructure that indicators observed by a and command and control planting and harvesting, when can be used as a detection and broad network of partner for a wide variety of malware, looking across the twelve enforcement point to disrupt organizations, Internet phishing, pharmaceutical scams, quarters to date. If the index communications to these infrastructure players, and and malvertising. Because the is lower in a given quarter, this malicious domains. Infoblox law enforcement agencies index can be artificially inflated may correspond with a period in and IID will continue to monitor are added. This is not a or distorted by the activities of which the malicious agents are new malicious domain creation comprehensive list of bad domain generating algorithms harvesting the infrastructure activity to help their customers domains, but rather a (DGAs) and sub-domain they have already created and better prepare to handle these representative sampling. resellers, these are removed are not setting up new bad threats. Index Methodology Domains that have been from the calculations. There is domains at the same pace. If The Infoblox DNS Threat Index, observed as malicious for the also a check for any variation the index is higher in a quarter, powered by IID, is intended first time during that quarter due to harvesting anomalies. If this could indicate that the to reflect the level of new are factored into the index. certain sources report a sudden attackers are in a planting malicious domain creation Domains that are still active, spike or dip in the number of phase, establishing domains and within the quarter. The baseline but were first observed threat indicators, the cause is other infrastructure to execute for the index is 100, which in previous quarters, are investigated.

52 www.teletimesinternational.com September 2015 COMSATS Internet Services obtained from another server (CIS) has announced the is secure and authentic. successful implementation Essentially, DNSSEC protects of Domain Name System data by utilizing a digital Security Extensions (DNSSEC) signature. To guarantee the in Pakistan. authenticity of DNS records, This initiative, along with the DNSSEC uses public key recent deployment of L-Root cryptography signatures. servers in Islamabad and In addition to that, it also Lahore, and the launch of a affirms “non-existence of RIPE Atlas Anchor (sponsored records.” by APNIC), is the result of CIS’ “ICANN applauds CIS’ research and development implementation of DNSSEC in Amir Malik, CEO - CIS Baher Esmat, VP ICANN - ME activities to help improve the Pakistan,” said Baher Esmat, experience of Internet users Malik. “CIS is very keen The Domain Name System ICANN’s Vice President, regionally and globally. to work with the Internet holds a pivotal position in Stakeholder Engagement – The Domain Name System is community to ensure the the Internet’s infrastructure Middle East, “Internet Service the backbone of the modern success of DNSSEC broadly. and it has been the target Providers and Enterprises who Internet and DNSSEC is a By implementing DNSSEC, of a variety of cyber attacks have not yet implemented valued tool that supports we hope to strengthen users’ since its inception, including DNSSEC are encouraged to the integrity of the DNS. trust by helping to protect having been embedded follow suit and play a role in The adoption of DNSSEC their websites from cyber with malicious software strengthening the security around the world is increasing attacks. and redirecting users to and reliability of the Internet.” rapidly because it has New service offerings, fraudulent websites. DNSSEC must be deployed become fundamental to the such as zone signing, can Protecting this infrastructure at each step in the lookup development of a safe and be generated and it will became mandatory to from root zone to final reliable Internet. help us initiate secure data ensuring it functions properly. domain name (e.g., www. “DNSSEC will bring new transactions. We expect DNSSEC technology benefits yourwebsite.example) prospects and opportunities these additional features to security aware servers, in order to eliminate to Internet users,” said CIS be attractive to security and as it ensures them that vulnerability from the Chief Executive Officer Amir reputation focused users.” information Internet.

A four member delegation visitors. from Zong, led by the Chief PTCL NOC is Pakistan’s most Technical Officer (CTO), Miao advanced network manage- Qiao and senior technical ment system, fully capable of experts visited the state-of- proactive identification and the-art Network operations resolution of faults through control center of PTCL in real-time network monitoring. Islamabad. The state-of-the-art system PTCL NOC team presented is designed to enhance and a brief overview of PTCL’s tion showed keen interest in agement system and how it optimize Network Manage- network management system developing stronger bilater- facilitates carrier customers ment through a transparent and technical capabilities, al ties with PTCL and were in enhancing their business and centralized platform and followed by a visit to the enthusiastic about exploring across the country, from a provides a highly available, network operations center futuristic technology collabo- single point of contact (POC). adaptable and fault resilient facilities, where real time rations with PTCL. Technical competence of PT- network that is designed to operations management During the visit, GM NOC, CL’s NOC team and network meet the market demands was exhibited by the PTCL PTCL elaborated the various strength around the country and exceed customer expec- NOC team. Zong’s delega- aspects of the network man- was also shared with the tations.

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