Sharjah Economic Development Department selects Foundry

SEDD, working in close co-operation with all concerned authorities in Sharjah strives to constantly improve the services and facilities offered in the industrial and service sectors. SEDD provides potential investors with an essential and thorough source of insight and knowledge about the business environment in Sharjah.

"We have selected Foundry Networks for several reasons. We wanted to deploy VoIP and Video Conferencing in our setup and required a ready infrastructure. Management, scalability, and ROI factors have also been considered important while this decision was being made", said Mr. Ali Salem Al Mahmood , Director General SEDD.

"The high capacity and throughput of BigIron coupled with the same consistent quality and support we experienced in Foundry's stackable products, make BigIron close to perfect for our network." Mr. Ali Al Mahmood added

This network setup was implemented and completed by Emirates Technology Company (EMITAC). EMITAC have been providing total systems solutions to customers for over 27 years in the region. Since the company's formation in 1974, EMITAC has been recognized as a major provider of quality, reliability, and excellence in services for Information Technology. EMITAC's CEO, Suhail Omar Issa, said of the deal: "Foundry is a valuable partner providing a feature rich set of solutions delivering unmatched performance and robust features that has met our customers' need and requirement".

"These major wins symbolise our determination to build up a strong customer network across the region that will help us successfully achieve our mission and goals. The Middle East region is one of the fastest growing regions for Foundry. New markets in the region are opening up. This is all the more exciting for Foundry. Government/Oil/Finance sectors, Service Providers and Large Enterprises are buying state of art technology as most developments in the region is new so they are moving to the latest tech right upfront". said Farook Majeed, Regional Manager, Foundry Networks MENA

"More and more customers have started to recognise our best-of-breed products coupled with our price performance factor and this is helping us to continue our leadership in high speed data networking and providing the best networking solutions across this region and through out the world" Majeed added.