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Zain Deploys Full Traffic Management Portfolio
across Its 4G and 5G Networks In Kuwait

Zain Kuwait announced that it is deploying the full traffic frustration that causes subscribers to abandon a video within just
management suite from Enea to amplify its 4G and 5G network six seconds, which often is enough to make a subscriber switch to
deployments, and support the country’s increasing appetite for another operator. By deploying Enea Openwave technology, Zain
mobile technology. For a country of just over 4 million people, Kuwait is future-proofing its 4G and 5G networks and ensuring
Kuwait has more than 7 million mobile subscribers, making they’re equipped to manage the rising levels of encrypted video
its mobile penetration rate of 168 percent one of the highest in traffic to deliver outstanding QoE for their subscribers.” The Enea
the world. Zain Kuwait also has an extremely high mobile data Openwave Division provides mobile operators with 5G-ready
consumption per SIM, driven in large part by users sharing and products for the mobile core. Our Traffic Management Solutions
streaming mobile videos. To ensure that its subscribers don’t alleviate RAN congestion, accelerate video delivery, and maximize
suffer from poor quality of experience (QoE) – such as long wait subscriber QOE. Our 5G Core Solutions provide a common data
times and degraded video quality – Zain Kuwait is using the Enea layer to unify subscriber data. Enea Openwave solutions have
Openwave Encrypted Video Manager, which enables transparent been deployed in 8 out of the 10 largest multi-territory mobile
classification of encrypted video flows to balance picture and operator groups in the world.
playback video quality in real time according to radio network
conditions. Additionally, the solution features the Enea Openwave
TCP Accelerator to maximize download speeds for both 4G and
5G, and the Traffic Classifier to augment application and encrypted
content classification. “Zain Kuwait is an innovative pioneer in
the region with an outstanding track record, having deployed the
first mobile network in the Middle East,” said Nawaf Algharabally,
Chief Technology Officer of Zain Kuwait. “Our partnership with
Enea ensures that we deliver outstanding subscriber experience
by putting the right solutions in place to provide smoother video
streaming and improved Internet browsing. This solution enables
us to optimize video streaming and deliver the highest in-country
download speeds, regardless of whether the content is encrypted.”
John Giere, President of Enea’s Openwave Division, said, “Zain is an
outstanding example of a truly innovative operator. Our research
in the Middle East shows that video buffering can be a major

Accenture Positioned as a Leader in New IDC
MarketScape Report for EMEA Service Providers
for Digital Transformation Services to the Oil and

Gas Industry

Accenture has been positioned as a and co-development directly with oil and offering that specifically supports oil and
leader in the inaugural IDC MarketScape: gas companies was cited, supported by gas companies’ digital transformation,
Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) a global delivery network and over 100 services that cater to business processes
Digital Transformation Services Providers innovation centers, including seven energy- in the upstream, downstream and
for the Oil and Gas Industry 2020 Vendor specific innovation hubs. Accenture midstream sectors, as well as a presence
Assessment. Accenture was recognized was also recognized for its solid subject in at least three countries in EMEA. The IDC
for key strengths, including its integrated matter expertise and comprehensive MarketScape assessed the capabilities
service portfolio, which positions technology portfolio, facilitating the and strategies of leading service vendors to
Accenture as a one-stop service and execution of complex, innovative, and enable and support oil and gas companies
solution provider for oil and gas clients, large-scale transformation programs. The in their digital transformation journey. The
and enables those clients to adopt a report evaluated Accenture and 16 other report specifically looked at the following
comprehensive approach to innovation companies with an established reputation services that vendors offer to oil and gas
and digital transformation. Additionally, for providing services to the oil and gas companies: business consulting, business
Accenture’s track record of co-innovation industry. Vendors had to have a broad process services, and IT services. “We are

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