Ooredoo Group at present introduced a partnership with du, the main telecom and digital companies supplier, to land the Fibre within the Gulf (FIG) subsea cable system within the UAE, marking additional progress within the growth of a high-capacity worldwide connectivity platform designed to assist the area’s rising information and digital infrastructure necessities.
FIG is the biggest subsea cable system ever constructed within the GCC, designed to ship an unprecedented capability of as much as 720Tbps throughout 24 fibre pairs. The system is being developed to satisfy sustained demand from hyperscalers, cloud suppliers, AI platforms and information centre operators, enabling environment friendly, low-latency information flows throughout Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq and Oman.
The undertaking is led by Ooredoo Fibre Networks (OFN), a just lately established impartial entity created to handle and scale Ooredoo Group’s worldwide connectivity and subsea infrastructure investments, below the management of its CEO, Khalid Al Hamadi.
The UAE touchdown at du’s cable station provides additional depth to the system’s structure, supporting extra diversified information routing and strengthening the general effectivity of regional and intercontinental connectivity between the Center East, Europe and Asia.
Aziz Aluthman Fakhroo, Group CEO, Ooredoo, stated: “FIG displays our continued deal with constructing high-capacity, resilient connectivity infrastructure aligned with how demand is evolving. This partnership with du marks one other step within the execution of the undertaking. Mixed with the progress already made throughout different touchdown factors, it reinforces the function of worldwide connectivity in supporting the area’s long-term digital development.”
FIG introduces higher route variety and redundancy, offering different information pathways that strengthen connectivity resilience and assist uninterrupted worldwide information flows.
Fahad Al Hassawi, CEO, du stated: “Touchdown the FIG subsea cable within the UAE strengthens our worldwide connectivity capabilities and reinfources the UAE’s place as a number one international hub for information, cloud and AI. Our partnership with Ooredoo permits the size, resillience and efficiency required to assist hyperscalers, enterprises and digital ecosystems as demand for superior connectivity continues to develop. This initiative aligns with the UAE’s digital transformation and financial agenda, supporting the nation’s imaginative and prescient to construct a globally aggressive, knowledge-based digital economic system.”
FIG will assist the subsequent part of digital infrastructure growth throughout the area, offering scalable, high-capacity routes for cross-border information trade and enabling continued development in cloud, AI and digital companies.