Abu Dhabi-UAE:Ankabut – the Emirates Advanced National Research and Education Network – today announced that it is fully geared up and prepared to ensure continuity of distant learning capabilities and smooth running of all network services related to higher education and K12 sector in the UAE and the region. Managed by Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Ankabut is jointly funded by the Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRA) through the ICT Fund.

Ankabut's Data Center resilience guarantees quality performance and protection without interruption, and provides privileges including customized solutions, security, and core business focus, reduced downtime and 24/7 operations.

Fahem Al-Nuaimi, Chief Executive Officer, Ankabut, said: “Ankabut’s cloud-based and managed services will ensure continuity with our secure, resilient 24/7 support under all circumstances. As a key provider of education-related network services, our priority will be to ensure reliable operations in areas such as distant learning, library services, research computing and individual accessibility of applications. With the strength of our already proven abilities, we firmly believe that all educational institutions in the UAE can seek our full support in their day-to-day or special operations, related to academic or research works.”

Ankabut offers several services and applications that can remain the core strength of any academic institution in the UAE. This includes learning management system, library management system, video communication platform cyber-security services and software-defined datacenter. It provides dedicated, unconstrained network connectivity for research and educational institutions, catering to niche institutional demands throughout the country. Currently, it connects 34 higher education institutions with overseas educational networks around the world.

Ankabut’s reliable, dynamic and secure cloud solution, Mozoon, supports education and research and development in the UAE, while enhancing academic experience by hosting vendor solutions. The software defined data center (SDDC), Mozoon is offered as ‘Infrastructure As A Service’ (IaaS), providing users more flexibility and control, in addition to being cost-effective, and can be tapped for big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI).

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About Ankabut 

Ankabut is the United Arab Emirates’ Advanced National Research and Education Network (NREN) offering academic institutions connectivity to other education networks around the world. In addition to connecting universities, Ankabut can connect schools and public institutions together across the UAE with an effective cost model. Ankabut also co-operates on a national, GCC, regional and international arena representing the UAE in conferences, exhibitions and forums. Ankabut aims to offer professional and innovative IT services with a focus on the research and educational sector. Services includes Cloud, Connectivity, IT infrastructure, manage service and professional services such as IT Consultancy, Project Management, Licenses, Training and Development.

Ankabut interconnects more than 80 tenants with a 10G backbone and 1G access links.  It enables a closed community network that allows the transfer of real-time services such as voice and video communication, time-critical services such as grid computing interconnect (cloud computing), public internet services, web hosting (C panel), co-locating, Edu-roam, High Performance Computing (HPC), Learning Management System (LMS), Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI), Mozoon system and Sierra Library Management System.

Ankabut supports initiatives in the e-learning environment, library content and distribution systems and research collaboration.  Ankabut believes that identifying these initiatives and offering network, processing and storage support is the best way to develop a collective collaborative approach to research and education. The Ankabut Project is jointly funded by the TRA through the ICT Fund, Khalifa University and member support. Ankabut is managed by Khalifa University, and the CEO of Ankabut is Fahem Al Nuaimi. 

About Khalifa University of Science and Technology

Khalifa University of Science and Technology is world-class, research-intensive institution that focuses on producing world leaders and critical thinkers in applied science and engineering. Khalifa University of Science and Technology endeavors to be a catalyst to the growth of Abu Dhabi and the UAE’s rapidly developing knowledge economy as an education destination of choice and a global leader among research-intensive universities.

For more information, please visit: http://www.ku.ac.ae/ 

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