Jeddah based Tamer Group with interests in multiple businesses and base at multiple locations across Saudi Arabia has been struggling to keep up pace with its wireless network, which was proving to be unreliable and unable to provide necessary bandwidth support to the business.
Commenting on the state of affairs, Mohannad Al Jammal, Head of IT Operations & Network Infrastructure at Tamer Group said, “It was clear to us that upgrading our wireless infrastructure was going to be critical to the future growth of the business. One of the big challenges we faced was the topography and the distance between our head office and the remote branches; many of the locations are about 30-40 km apart. So deploying a wireless network that was reliable and stable in these harsh conditions was at the top of our priority list. In parallel, we needed to ensure that the new wireless network could provide high bandwidth that would not only support the existing business needs but also be future-proofed for demand over the next few years.”
Al Jammal explains that when it came to selecting a vendor for the new wireless network, the decision to go with InfiNet Wireless was an easy one and said “After conducting our due diligence and evaluating a number of vendors, we finally narrowed it down to InfiNet Wireless and just one other vendor. After some initial comparative testing, it was apparent to us that the performance of InfiNet Wireless’ solutions was unrivalled. The deciding factor for us was the ability of the InfiNet Wireless solution to provide reliable high bandwidth connectivity in harsh conditions and over large distances.”
Working with United Horizons, InfiNet’s partner in Saudi Arabia, Tamer Group conducted a POC at just one of the sites. Confident in the results, they then went ahead and deployed InfiNet’s InfiLINK 2×2 5GHz PRO & LITE family of products across all 20 locations in Jeddah. For the critical connection between their data center and head office, Tamer Group deployed the R5000-Omx model as it could support speeds of up to 300 Mbps over the 50 km distance. For connections between all other sites, Tamer Group deployed the R5000-Smn and the R5000-Lmn products.
“In addition to offering superior performance, the beauty of the InfiNet Wireless solution is the ease of implementation. The entire deployment process took just 3-4 working days and was managed completely and professionally by United Horizons,” said Al Jammal.
One of the biggest benefits of the InfiNet Wireless solution has been the ability for Tamer Group to transmit significant volumes of business critical data between their various sites. They currently depend on the InfiNet solution for exchange synchronization of their Storage Area Networks (SANs) in their data center and disaster recovery sites.
While explaining the company also reaped the benefit of savings costs in long term, Al Jammal said, “The upfront investment for the InfiNet Wireless solution, when compared to other technologies, is slightly higher as obviously there are a lot of hardware costs. But over the long term, the TCO is much lower. Implementing the InfiNet Wireless solution has also saved our IT resources a lot of time, as it has significantly reduced the amount of effort required to manage and maintain the network. While we do have the ability to monitor several parameters like performance, availability, bandwidth and transmission on a day-to-day basis, we have a service contract in place with United Horizons to take care of any problems with the network.”
Expressing his “I am extremely pleased with the InfiNet Wireless solutions – the reliability and stability of the network has allowed us to deploy and support several business critical processes. Based on our experience with InfiNet Wireless, I am confident that as we expand our operations, we will rely on InfiNet Wireless solutions for our wireless network infrastructure.”
