UAE Business: MENOG 21 picks key areas to boost internet infrastructure – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: MENOG 21 picks key areas to boost internet infrastructure – Gulf Digital News

The 21st edition of the Middle East Network Operator Group Meeting and Peering Forum (MENOG) centered discussions on how Mena alters internet operations and drives shift to a peering-based network for better connectivity.

 

The recently concluded event had successful discussions on developments and technologies being deployed across the region to support network reliability as well as highlighted the changes that have happened in the Middle East’s internet landscape. A group of 117 stakeholders joined this edition from 27 countries.

 

The RIPE NCC hosted the virtual edition and has convened esteemed technological experts including Imad Kreidieh, Chairman, Director General, OGERO, Lebanon; Shahab Vahabzadeh, Chief Technology Officer, Qbic Communications, UAE; Anwar Chalamannil, Head of Network and Security Operations, FIFA 2022 Supreme Committee, Qatar; Bernd Spiess, Senior Peering Manager & Consultant, DE-CIX, Germany; Nathalie Trenaman, Routing Security Programme Manager, RIPE NCC, and Atif Naveed, Senior ISP Engineer, STC Bahrain, Bahrain. The online forum was moderated by Hisham Ibrahim, Chief Community Officer at RIPE NCC. 

 

The event’s key topics included recent deployments in measurement infrastructure at UAE-IX, traffic flows in the Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus-interconnected regions, revamping networks for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, Internet resilience during Lebanon's economic crises, a routing security update,