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Everyone will be able to choose the schedule that works best
for them: five days a week in the office, part-time home working
(between one and four days per week in the office) or full-time
remote work. The scheme will be ready for launch on August
1st, 2020, but the processes involved will be piloted by several
of the company’s departments beforehand. In conjunction with
the launch of Nexign FreeDom, the company is expanding its
compensation package and reimbursing the employees for the
cost of fitting out their home offices, including the purchase of
desks and chairs as well as other equipment required for them
to work from home.“The health and safety of our employees,
customers, and partners have always been and will continue to be
an absolute priority for Nexign. For more than 28 years, we have
been helping our customers, telecom operators around the world,
to provide stable, 24/7 communications for over 200 million ever. This shows that the Nexign team works equally effectively
subscribers. And I’m proud to say that even now, regardless of the in customers’ offices and remotely,” – commented Igor Gorkov,
external circumstances, the quality of our services is as high as CEO of Nexign.

stc and Nokia Launch AgileWAN Services in

Bahrain

STC Bahrain has announced that it will AgileWAN provides advanced features helps in enhancing overall performance, but
partner with Nokia to launch software to businesses of all sizes across various also significantly brings down the cost of
defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) industries such as financial, healthcare, network management. The solution allows
services across the country. STC AgileWAN retail and more. Thus, assisting business STC Bahrain to use innovative features
is a service that will provide the required customers to increase their productivity, like automation, network segmentation
agility, flexibility, visibility, control and boost their user experience and reduce IT and cloud connectivity to provide new-age
security to the way customers connect their operating costs. “The Nuage Networks SD- digital services to their customers. This
network to the central or cloud resources. WAN 2.0 solution will enable STC Bahrain will allow STC Bahrain to play a crucial role
With STC AgileWAN, business customers to better manage the network by providing in advancing the digital transformation
will benefit from a multitude of features a consolidated view of the entire network of enterprises and organizations in the
to have enhanced security, optimized including branches, data centres and public region,” said Sunil Khandekar, CEO, Nuage
network performance and efficient cloud on a single dashboard. This not only Networks.
management of their applications, thereby
ensuring end-to-end visibility and control.
“In efforts to live up to our commitment
by offering ICT managed services that will
help business customers in enhancing and
improving their experience, we are pleased
to collaborate with Nokia Nuage Networks
to offer the next-generation software
defined network solutions. A remarkable
milestone in investing towards Bahrain’s
digital future, our STC AgileWAN service
provides a greater flexibility and control
of customers’ network operations, which
allow businesses to focus on their core
competencies while empowering them to
move forward into the future,” said Eng.
Nezar Banabeela, CEO, STC Bahrain. STC

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