Nokia says it has won a contract from Infonas W.L.L. Bahrain, which provides infrastructure and applications services to business customers, to supply equipment to create a passive optical LAN. Infonas will use the optical LAN to serve its enterprise customers in downtown Manama. Omniclouds, a Nokia regional partner, will integrate the technology into Infonas’s network.
The GPON-based optical LAN will leverage Nokia’s 7360 Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) FX as a high-capacity access node and 7368 Intelligent Service Access Manager (ISAM) optical network terminals (ONTs) as end points. Nokia notes that such an optical LAN requires less space to deploy and power to run than standard copper-based networks. An optical LAN also provides 200X longer reach from a single central location, eliminating the need for equipment closets on each floor or at every 100 m.
“We needed a long-term, fully scalable, and cost-efficient solution to provide our business customers access to high-speed internet and IT services via a state-of-the-art network,” explained Rafik Shafik Abdelmessih, CTO of Infonas W.L.L. Bahrain. “We are confident Nokia’s solution will provide that. It is an ideal fit for us to meet our customers’ demands and achieve our ambition to grow fast.”
“Adoption of this technology continues to increase globally as enterprises in all industry segments look at this alternative LAN architecture to help lower capital and operating costs,” added Mohamed Salama, Head of Fixed Networks, Middle East and Africa, for Nokia. “This project demonstrates the benefits of Nokia Optical LAN and how it can deliver a high-capacity, resilient, and scalable network that simplifies operations and ultimately helps to reduce costs for enterprises.”
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