Cisco has announced that it is deploying a Cisco Network infrastructure to power the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority 's (TRA) Electronic Federal Network (FedNet), which will host the UAE Government's Smart Cloud and will connect all Federal Government entities in the UAE. This project was awarded to Cisco through two services providers.
FedNet is a secured government platform that will offer secured connectivity and shared services to more than 42 federal government entities in the UAE. It will be an integral component of the wider UAE Mobile Government Initiative, which seeks to create the necessary national infrastructure to enable the provision of all government services via mobile platforms. The FedNet platform is rightly set to offer them the agility and the speed that private enterprises enjoy from the public clouds, without compromising the Federal Government's security policies.
Cisco will also build a Network Operations Center and a Cloud Command Center to operate the FedNet infrastructure. Once implemented, FedNet will provide secured communication services such as Government-to-Government (G2G), secured internet, e-mail, voice and video services. FedNet will be the very first cloud platform to offer IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) to Federal Government entities.