Telecom Egypt, Egypt\u2019s first integrated telecom operator and one of the largest subsea cable operators in the region, and\u202fZain Omantel\u00a0International (ZOI),\u202fthe Middle East’s premier international wholesale powerhouse\u202fwith access to more than 20 international subsea cables in\u202fthe\u202fregion,\u202fare joining forces to establish\u00a0a unique digital corridor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This corridor will seamlessly connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Arabian Sea and\u202fArabian\u202fGulf, creating an unprecedented Eurasian data highway.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\u202finnovative\u202finfrastructure will extend from\u202fOman\u2019s Arabian Sea\u202fand Gulf\u202fshores\u202fto\u202fEgypt\u2019s Mediterranean coastline, employing a high\u202ffiber\u202fcount,\u202fcutting-edge\u00a0blend of terrestrial and subsea segments.\u202fThe\u202fterrestrial\u202fsegments, spanning\u202fOman,\u202fSaudi\u202fArabia\u00a0and Egypt, promise unparalleled reliability and protection.\u202fOn the other hand,\u202fthe subsea section,\u202fdirectly\u202flinking\u202fSaudi Arabia\u202fand\u202fEgypt\u202fthrough the Red Sea, will feature a high-capacity, repeaterless cable system.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This route design\u202fwill\u202fprovide\u202fTelecom Egypt and ZOI\u2019s partners and customers with\u202fthe best\u202fresiliency\u202fand reliability\u202ffor\u202ftheir\u202fend-to-end\u202fsolution.\u202fFurthermore,\u202fthe infrastructure will be extended to\u202fKuwait, Bahrain, Iraq\u00a0and Jordan\u202fthrough ZOI\u2019s network and collaboration with the licensed cable landing parties in each country.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This collaboration\u202falso\u202foffers a\u202frevolutionary\u202fopportunity\u202ffor subsea cable owners. By connecting\u202fto this\u202fopen access\u00a0system, they can\u202fsignificantly reduce\u202ftheir\u202fconstruction\u202fcosts\u202fand greatly\u202fenhance\u202flatency, resilience and\u202fmarket response times.\u202fTelecom Egypt will\u202fdevelop\u202fnew infrastructure across Egypt from\u202fthe\u202fRed\u202fSea\u202fto\u202fthe\u202fMediterranean\u202fand onwards to Europe,\u202fcomplemented by ZOI\u2019s robust\u202finfrastructure across\u202fthe Middle East.\u202fThis\u202fnew network\u202froute\u202fwill have\u202fthe shortest,\u202fenhanced latency profile,\u202fgiving\u202fhyperscalers, subsea cable providers, carriers and telecom operators improved\u202fconnectivity\u202foptions\u202ffrom the Indian Ocean to Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mohamed Nasr, Managing Director and\u202fCEO\u202fat Telecom Egypt,\u00a0said:\u202f\u201cWe are\u202fexcited to collaborate\u202fwith ZOI on this strategic project; it\u2019s\u202fa game-changer\u00a0in the\u202fEurasia route\u202fconnectivity landscape.\u202fAs we look for\u202finnovative ways to\u202fbetter\u202fserve our customers,\u202fwe\u202fwill consistently strive\u202fto\u202fprovide\u00a0a seamless\u202finternational connectivity network\u202fand increase our diversity layers,\u202fwithout\u202fcompromising quality, cost\u202for\u202fspeed. We will do this by\u202fleveraging\u202fon\u202fboth\u202fTelecom Egypt\u2019s established history in\u202fthe\u202fsubsea cables arena and\u202fits\u202fexperienced and competent team.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sohail\u00a0Qadir,\u202fCEO\u202fat ZOI, said:\u202f\u201cWe are\u202fdelighted to partner with\u202fTelecom Egypt\u00a0on such a groundbreaking\u00a0project. ZOI was created to revolutionize the wholesale telecom scene\u00a0and this is an example of what the future holds.\u202fWe are facilitating\u00a0the landing of subsea connections through our shareholders such as Omantel\u00a0and Zain KSA being the licensees\u202fin those jurisdictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This\u202fone-of-a-kind\u202finfrastructure\u202fwill be expanded to most of ZOI\u2019s network footprint\u202fto maximize the benefit to our\u202fgroup\u202foperations\u202facross the region.\u202fThe value that this digital corridor will create is enormous and it will be widely realized in the region and beyond not only from a connectivity point of view, but also on technological, commercial\u00a0and social levels.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Telecom Egypt, Egypt\u2019s first integrated telecom operator and one of the largest subsea cable operators in the region, and\u202fZain Omantel\u00a0International (ZOI),\u202fthe Middle East’s premier international wholesale powerhouse\u202fwith access to more than 20 international subsea cables in\u202fthe\u202fregion,\u202fare joining forces to establish\u00a0a unique digital corridor. This corridor will seamlessly connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Arabian Sea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":63849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,260,382,13,262],"tags":[16704,16701,16705,16703,16702,3114,16700,16277],"class_list":["post-63848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cabling","category-regional-news-newsletter","category-telecom","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-arabian-sea","tag-digital-corridor","tag-eurasian-data-highway","tag-mediterranean-sea","tag-subsea-cables","tag-telecom-egypt","tag-zain-omantel-international-2","tag-zoi"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63848"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63896,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63848\/revisions\/63896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}