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TECHx
07-03-2025
- Business
- TECHx
du, AWS, and Nokia Partner to Advance 5G Cloud RAN in the UAE - TECHx Media du, AWS, and Nokia Partner to Advance 5G Cloud RAN in the UAE
du, AWS, and Nokia Partner to Advance 5G Cloud RAN in the UAE du, the leading telecom and digital services provider in the UAE, has announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Nokia to drive innovation through the cloudification of its Radio Access Network (RAN). This initiative is set to accelerate digital transformation across the region by enhancing network flexibility and efficiency. During Mobile World Congress 2025, AWS and Nokia are jointly showcasing a 5G Cloud RAN solution at the AWS booth, featuring Nokia's vDU hosted on an AWS Graviton3 Outposts server. This demonstration supports du's vision of delivering advanced services and exceptional network performance to customers and industries across the UAE. Saleem AlBlooshi, Chief Technology Officer at du, said: 'Our collaboration with Nokia and AWS supports our ambitions to deliver exceptional network performance and innovative services. 5G Cloud RAN will enhance our network's efficiency and flexibility, enabling us to explore new opportunities and services that provide real value to our customers and society at large.' As part of this collaboration, du will deploy Nokia's Cloud RAN solution utilizing AWS cloud services to develop key use cases in wireless networks and RAN Edge. This setup will provide du with the flexibility to introduce Cloud RAN alongside its purpose-built network, ensuring feature and performance consistency. The solution leverages a microservices-based Cloud RAN software running on AWS Outposts, combining the strengths of AWS and Nokia technologies to maximize spectral efficiency, performance, and feature parity. By integrating the AWS cloud continuum into du's 5G network, the solution extends to the far edge, delivering a unified automation, observability, and security framework. This ensures faster time-to-market for monetizing new use cases. du will also test centralized and distributed workloads using AWS Outposts at RAN sites and plans to utilize Amazon EKS and AWS Telco Network Builder (TNB) for scalable deployment management and automation. Amir Rao, Director for Telco 5G at AWS, commented: 'AWS is proud to collaborate with du and Nokia to support the cloudification of du's network. With our Graviton3-based ARM RAN server, we bring the best of AWS services to the far edge, ensuring low latency, security, and operational excellence for critical RAN software.' Mark Atkinson, Senior Vice President and Head of Radio Access Networks at Nokia, added: 'This successful collaboration with du and AWS demonstrates that our anyRAN approach delivers scalable benefits through hybrid and cloud-based RAN architectures. In the dynamic UAE market, we help drive Cloud RAN evolution to unlock new revenue models and monetization opportunities.' This collaboration underscores du's commitment to a hybrid RAN strategy, seamlessly integrating its existing purpose-built infrastructure with cloud-native solutions. The hybrid approach not only boosts flexibility and scalability but also supports the UAE's growing demand for advanced edge use cases and industry-specific applications in sectors such as manufacturing, energy, and logistics, powered by AI and machine learning technologies.
Arabian Business
07-03-2025
- Business
- Arabian Business
UAE's du partners with AWS, Nokia to launch cloud-based 5G network innovation
UAE telecom major du announced entering into a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Nokia to drive innovation through the cloudification of its Radio Access Network (RAN) in the UAE. Under this collaboration, du will deploy Nokia's Cloud RAN solution using AWS's cloud services to explore and develop key use cases in wireless networks as well as the RAN Edge, providing du with maximum flexibility for the commercial deployment of Cloud RAN. These architecture options will introduce Cloud RAN alongside du's purpose-built network, maintaining feature and performance consistency. du sto leverage Amazon EKS and AWS Telco Network Builder (TNB) The Nokia Cloud RAN architecture will be deployed using a microservices-based Cloud RAN software running on AWS cloud infrastructure with on-premises AWS Outposts, thereby combining the best-in-class solutions from AWS and Nokia while maximizing not just feature and performance parity, but spectral efficiency, du said. The solution will leverage the AWS cloud continuum across the du 5G network, expanding to the furthest edge, while delivering a common automation, observability and security framework. du said it also plans to leverage Amazon EKS and AWS Telco Network Builder (TNB) for scalable management and automation across deployment models. AWS and Nokia are showcasing the 5G Cloud RAN solution at the AWS booth at the Mobile World Congress 2025. Saleem AlBlooshi, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of du, said the collaboration with Nokia and AWS supports the company's ambitions to deliver exceptional network performance and innovative services. '5G Cloud RAN will enhance our network's efficiency and flexibility and enable us to explore new opportunities and services that can deliver genuine value to our customers and society at large,' he said. Amir Rao, Director for Telco 5G at AWS, said the company is proud to collaborate on this journey with du and Nokia to help the cloudification of du's network. Mark Atkinson, Senior Vice President and Head of Radio Access Networks at Nokia, said the collaboration with du and AWS confirms that the company's 'RAN' approach provides a flexible path to scalable benefits with hybrid and cloud-based RAN architectures, which is important in the dynamic and competitive UAE market. Du said the collaboration highlight's its innovative hybrid RAN strategy which seamlessly integrates existing purpose-built infrastructure with cloud-native solutions to deliver unparalleled flexibility and scalability.
