The referral of the international access portals project to “Nokia” after 13 years of waiting

إحالة مشروع بوابات النفاذ الدولية لشركة 4th September, 2020

The Ministry of Communications referred the implementation of the international access gates project to Nokia, one of the largest international companies specialized in the field of communications, after a long wait for this project of nearly thirteen years.

The ministry said in a statement that the Euphrates News Agency received a copy of it today that “The Central Committee of the Ministry of Communications headed by Minister of Communications Arkan Shihab Ahmed Al-Shaibani and the Bid Analysis Committee

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met over the past three days in order to complete the referral of this national project for the purpose of direct implementation by Nokia As it was selected from among five international companies, according to the technical data that would ensure the success of this project and the technical offers and competitive prices presented by the company.

He stated,

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THIS IS WHY THIS PROJECT NEVER GOT OFF THE GROUND AND HAS TAKEN 13 YEARS TO COME TO FRUITION

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“This project is a fundamental pillar in preserving the country’s security and sovereignty and completely eliminating the smuggling operations that were infringing on the security and sovereignty of our beloved Iraq in a way that supports the Iraqi economy, eliminating fraud and electronic blackmail and blocking fake social media sites that broadcast their toxins on the Iraqi people.”

He continued,

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THE GATEWAY TO THE INTERNET PROJECT

INTERNATIONALISM???

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“The international access gates project is considered the gateway to the Internet into the country, and through it the incoming capacity is controlled in terms of data analysis and capacity identification. These capacities carry a special number that represents the country code and is called the ASN Independent System Number.

Through it, the data analysis feature can be done by the General Salam Company, which It, in turn, manages and operates the project by discovering the smuggled capacities outside the international access gates compared to the capacities entering through them. “The new project is distinguished by the latest international standards in terms of high capacities and speed of internal data directed, as well as the processing unit, which operates on a 1 + 1 system,” he said.

He added, “The ports support the following capacities 10G, 40G, 100G, 400G and that the number of equipped ports is much more than the required number, and that the network architecture consists of routers distributed over 11 border ports linked with other routers within 3 main centers in Iraq operating in the layer of Distribution and then the Access stage with which ISPs companies are connected, and that all the paths between the main outlets with the Distribution stage and then the Access stage were designed with a Mesh Topology.

He pointed out that

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“the efforts of the National Security Adviser, the Media and Communications Commission, the National Intelligence and National Security agencies have combined with the efforts of the Ministry of Communications to see this project light after a long wait and it is considered one of the largest infrastructure projects for the Public Company for Communications and Informatics.

This project will be occupied by the General Salam Company, one of the Ministry’s companies.” communication has been initialized and all things in terms of technical and logistical support sites in order to complete this vital project is important.