Ooredoo, the region’s leading enabler of digital business innovation, has announced the launch of Business Edge to enable new levels of connectivity for small- and medium-sized enterprises using Fibre Broadband.

In response to feedback from small office and home office (SOHO) customers and small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) customers, the Ooredoo Fibre Broadband with Business Edge aims to meet ICT and Wide Area Network connectivity requirements.

The Ooredoo Fibre Broadband with Business Edge solution uses a cutting-edge combination of software-defined Customer Premise Equipment (CPEs) with industry-leading cloud management, enabling organisations to mobilise workforces during pandemic situations such as the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak and find new levels of control, security and value-added services.

Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad bin Nasser al-Thani, Chief Business Officer at Ooredoo Qatar, said: “Qatar’s small and midsize businesses face multiple connectivity challenges, from managing multiple devices and sites to scaling WAN and security. Our Fibre Broadband with Business Edge is the ideal solution to meet their connectivity needs and optimise costs, gain more robust operations, and find support from a one-stop-shop partner.”

New and upgrading Fibre Broadband customers can find a wide range of features, which can serve as the first step towards digital transformation.

Features include simplified WAN management, Next Generation Firewall to optimise security, advanced threat protection and content filtering, and auto-Virtual Private Network (VPN) using software-defined WAN. The new Business Edge solution also comes with a built-in mobile SIM card for redundancy.

Sheikh Nasser added: “Our Fibre Broadband with Business Edge provides enhanced service availability, and an easy-to-use interface to manage WAN and Wi-Fi access points from anywhere at any time. Our business customers can use a next-gen, multi-functional plug-and-play CPE with a Wi-Fi access point, next-gen firewall, and router.”

Business customers can leverage the Ooredoo Advantage, making Ooredoo ‘Best for Business’, thanks to its breadth and depth of talent, best fixed and mobile networks, broadest portfolio of ICT services and solutions, and trusted partner for 60 years