By: Basel Khaled – Nahla Makled

Telecom Egypt, the first integrated communications operator in Egypt and one of the largest telecom service providers in the Middle East and Africa region, revealed its cooperation with IBM and Red Hat to develop communications networks and accelerate digital transformation using a hybrid cloud strategy based on open sources.

This cooperation comes within the framework of Telecom Egypt’s strategy to achieve growth by developing and updating the infrastructure to provide computing services, infrastructure services and software services, in a way that contributes to meeting the changing and accelerating requirements of its customers.

Telecom Egypt relies on IBM Cloud Pak for Automation solutions to raise the efficiency and flexibility of the services provided to its customers and make them more ready for the future, and through this cooperation with IBM, Telecom Egypt implemented IBM Cloud Pak for Automation solutions based on Red Hat OpenShift to integrate artificial intelligence technology to expand Scope of automating its projects based on open source technology.

So that the company updates its platforms to speed up and make them more flexible, and it also manages and automates its networks to obtain real-time analyzes of its operations and compare them with previous processes to evaluate performance and identify any problems that affect the general performance of communications networks and solve them. In addition, IBM Cloud Pak for Automation solutions help reduce network maintenance time by automating operations, which increases the quality of services provided to customers.

By working with IBM to implement hybrid cloud technologies, Telecom Egypt is harnessing its growing data to improve Growth and drive the company's digital transformation to provide better systems for analyzing and forecasting data and securing and automating its networks.

Engineer Adel Hamed, Managing Director and CEO of Telecom Egypt, said: “We are pleased with this cooperation with“ IBM, ”a global company specialized in the field of information technology and our reliable partner over years, which confirms our clear strategy towards modernizing the infrastructure and providing our customers with the highest level of services.

He added to develop the performance of our networks and provide our customers with reliable services throughout this period during which the demand for communications networks doubles.

Explained to achieve the company's vision to be a center for cloud computing services in Egypt, Telecom Egypt has used IBM and a group of its business partners to establish the first modern data center that allows connection with all global submarine cables transiting Egypt, as IBM and its partners have designed, built and provided management and maintenance services for a construction project A highly flexible data center for Telecom Egypt, taking into account all the factors required for the project, such as designing and constructing electric power networks, panels, generators, cooling systems, environmental control monitoring, and other logistical and technical matters. The new data center will be the main platform for Telecom Egypt to provide cloud computing services across the region.

The new platform will also allow hosting local and international companies by providing modern services with the highest levels of technical flexibility.

For his part, Wael Abdoush, General Manager of IBM Egypt, said: “The telecommunications industry is witnessing a major transformation as organizations are looking for advanced ways to modernize their business systems, by using advanced technologies to provide flexible work environments and provide distinctive services to customers. Telecom Egypt partner to implement the hybrid cloud strategy and provide an open and secure infrastructure for managing and analyzing data and pushing it for further digital progress.