PROJECT FOCUS
EUROPE
Orange has begun construction on its new
Normandie 2 data centre at the Val-de-Reuil
campus (18 hectares), which is also home to another
data centre opened in 2012. The new site will be
completed in 2020. The Normandie 2 building will cover
16,000 m², including 5,000m² of computer rooms.
It will host Orange business and residential customer data
and services, as well as an in-house information system.
Orange has invested more than €100 million to build
these two data centres. Normandie 2 will be an eco-
efficient, resilient and highly secure data centre to
respond to growing requirements in terms of
data hosting.
MIDDLE
EAST
Ooredoo Qatar has selected Nokia to build a
5G cloud native core network to support delivery
of enhanced mobile broadband services. Nokia’s
solution will be deployed in Ooredoo’s state-of-the-art
data centres in Qatar’s capital city Doha. The cloud-based
architecture for core network is scalable, agile and flexible,
making it reliable and suitable for extreme mobile broadband
and massive/critical machine communication services. Nokia
AirFrame, CloudBand, voice and Cloud Packet Core VNFs
and Nuage Networks Software Defined Network (SDN) are
being deployed in the core network. Ooredoo Qatar has
emerged as a leader in the global 5G ecosystem
and has already tested a number of exciting
5G use cases, including 5G aerial taxis
and drones.
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