Unified National Networks Sdn Bhd (UNN) was recognised as one of the three global finalists who have architected impactful and secure networks to deliver exceptional services and user experiences in the 5G Leadership category at the 2023 Elevate Awards in Sunnyvale California, United States (US) on November 30.
The winner of the 5G Leadership category was BT Group, a United Kingdom-based company that built one of the largest virtualised 4G/5G telco clouds expected to carry 100 per cent of its mobile traffic by end of this year.
“The Elevate Awards is Juniper Network’s programme to celebrate winners, finalists, and honourees from the most innovative companies that are using Juniper’s solutions to deliver exceptional experiences for their businesses, customers and communities,” it said in a statement.
The award recognises its customers in seven key categories – artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, business transformation, data centre of the future, empowering change, experience first, security excellence and 5G leadership, the selection process involved a combination of Juniper executive and external judges selecting the finalists and winners.
Juniper Networks Inc is an American multinational corporation headquartered in the US and is a known leader in providing secure, AI-driven networks and for developing cutting-edge software-defined networking products. UNN has partnered with Juniper since 2020 not only for resiliency, scalability, and advanced capabilities, but also for its efficiency to meet UNN network infrastructure modernisation timeline and Brunei’s growing digital needs without disruption.
UNN together with Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam (AITI) and telco partners Datastream Digital Sdn Bhd (DST), imagine Sdn Bhd, and Progresif, placed Brunei into a new digital era when the 5th Generation (5G) mobile services were made available nationwide on June 22, 2023.
To date, 92 per cent of the country is equipped to receive mobile services from base stations that provide 5G services with average mobile Internet speed increment of 300 per cent from 20 megabyte per second (Mbps) to 80Mbps while 93.1 per cent of Brunei’s populated areas are fiberised with home broadband speed increment of 400 per cent from the average 20Mbps to minimum 100Mbps. – James Kon
