With communications becoming the fourth utility after gas, electricity and water, organisations are looking to rollout information highways to allow for services to be offered to consumers and businesses over next generation communications networks. A new entrant in the Middle East was looking to rollout the communications infrastructure for a smart city in order to offer high speed access and VAS.
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• the optimum architecture for the complete network infrastructure covering transmission, core and NG access network
• service platforms to deliver VAS including high speed broadband, VoIP, videoconferencing, IPTV, VoD and corporate site connectivity.
• definition and details of products and services to be launched
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