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UNLOCKING THE DATA CENTRE OPPORTUNITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

The rapid growth of AI workloads is transforming data centre infrastructure worldwide. In the Middle East, the rise of Smart City projects, rapid urbanisation, demand for cloud services and government-led digital initiatives is powering the data centre boom. recent Ciena global

A survey found that data centre experts anticipate at least a sixfold increase in Data Centre Interconnect( DCI) bandwidth demand over the next five years. DCI is the technology that connects two or more data centres together over short, medium or long distances using highspeed optical connectivity.

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