Intelligent Data Centres Issue 13 | Page 27

PROJECT FOCUS EUROPE Italtel, a Cisco Gold Partner company and now part of the Exprivia | Italtel group, has obtained the Cisco Master Networking certification, one of the American company’s most recent specialisations which focuses on the issue of corporate infrastructure – of Enterprise Networking. Italtel is currently the only Cisco partner in Italy to have achieved this certification. MIDDLE EAST Qatar has gone live with its first Internet exchange to improve its global connectivity ahead of the 2022 Fifa World Cup. Launched by the country’s Communications Regulatory Authority (CRA), the Qatar Internet Exchange Point (QIXP) is established in MEEZA’s data centre in Doha, and will enable local networks to exchange information efficiently at a common point within the country, instead of exchanging the local information outside it. This helps ensure that Internet users in Qatar have faster and more secure access to digital content as MEEZA is a local IT solutions provider. www.intelligentdatacentres.com Issue 13 27