Mobily launch the Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) offering in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Etihad Etisalat Company (Mobily) and Digital Barriers (AIM: DGB), along with their Saudi Arabian Partner Advanced Communication Systems (Telequalitas), today signed a deal to launch a Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) offering across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on the side lines of Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona, Spain. This first of its kind secure, zero-latency solution is critical to helping ensure continued safety and security across the country.

Cellular based video solutions are in high demand, especially among law enforcement, defence and security agencies, but solutions available until now have been hampered by the limitations of real-time video streaming. Now the launch of Mobily’s VSaaS range of solutions, based on Digital Barriers’ world-class streaming technology, EdgeVis Live powered by TVI, will introduce reliable, live, high-definition video streaming to the market for the first time. The new VSaaS solution will include Digital Barriers’ award-winning, government-accredited video analytics.

EdgeVis Live offers secure distribution of high-definition, real-time video from anywhere to anywhere, featuring end-to-end security, real world resilience and network optimization, that can stream usable live video using 60% less bandwidth than standard technologies. This exceptionally efficient use of available bandwidth enables EdgeVis Live to deliver significant capability benefits and material cost savings over competing technologies. EdgeVis Live has already been sold into more than thirty countries, and counts some of the most prominent defense and security agencies in the world as its customers, as well as an increasing number of commercial organisations.

Mobily is considered a leader in terms of innovation and bringing new, demand-based services to the region based upon the needs of its customers. The announcement of this partnership represents Mobily’s first venture into mobile-based physical security solutions. Before this, however, Mobily has been deeply involved with solutions dealing with information security and resilience and has built data centers with the highest rating to ensure recovery, resilience and optimal up-time. Mobily selected EdgeVis Live to provide its customers with a higher-quality cellular video surveillance service than competing technologies. EdgeVis Live also provides Mobily with the ability to centrally manage and optimize the network capacity dedicated to the service in real time.

Speaking on the occasion, Ahmed Farroukh, CEO Mobily said, “We are happy to yet again be pioneers, in terms of bringing advance, innovative solutions to the Kingdom with support of industry leaders like Digital Barriers. Our business unit continues to utilize our strong infrastructure as a backbone for delivering state-of-the-art services to the customers, based on their requirements. We also continue to display the positive impact mobile infrastructure has on delivering services related to multiple sectors and believe that in years to come, mobile will be the primary platform to ensure access to essential services as well as bringing positive development in the socio-economic indicators of the Kingdom.”

In addition to the new range of VSaaS solutions, Mobily will also offer its customers a wide range of technologies from Digital Barriers, the world’s leading provider of edge-intelligent surveillance, security and safety technologies optimized for wireless networks.