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Dubai Financial Market to implement Avaya solutions

Dubai - DFM can now optimise its trading-based multicast services, migrate from legacy technologies, and introduce new services.

The Dubai Financial Market, or DFM, has selected Avaya's SDN FX fabric networking technology to expand its network by providing a single end-to-end service and a simplified, agile and resilient infrastructure.
DFM can now optimise its trading-based multicast services, migrate from legacy technologies, and introduce new services. Hassan Abdulrahman Al Serkal, executive VP, chief operations officer, and head of operations division at Dubai Financial Market, said: "As DFM has constantly been a market leader in optimising the most advanced technologies since its inception in the year 2000, we always select the cutting-edge solutions as we want everything to be reliable, cost-effective, and efficient.
Avaya has been selected as our strategic networking partner as it enabled this, with a stable network solution that is powerful enough to exceed our current requirements as well as guaranteeing simple and efficient business continuity setup. Scalability is an especially important consideration for us given the cyclical nature of financial markets, and Avaya's SDN Fx enables us to expand the network we already have, encompassing any potential business requirements without the need for costly replacements."
The Avaya solution for DFM's infrastructure covers four locations, including its main site, a disaster recovery site, plus connectivity to the Abu Dhabi Security Exchange and to the BTLondon data centers. Intermediate distribution frame (IDF) locations are spread throughout DFM to provide data and voice connectivity at every desk.
The IDFs contain stacks of AVAYA edge switches to connect to the production and the test environment.
Mohammed Areff, vice-president, Middle East, Africa, and Turkey, Avaya, said: "A business environment such as DFM's calls for a superior degree of business continuity, which is crucial to avoid service interruption that could mean money lost. Avaya's SDN Fx architecture specialises in multi-site virtualisation for sub-second failover and mobility of resources between sites. This will increase our confidence to provide more and better services to our users." 
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