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  • December 19, 2002
    ECC Hosts The Regional Internet Exchange Point
    In the presense of Government, Telecommunication, Internet, and Information Technology leaders from all over the Middle-East, H.E. Dr. Ahmed Nazif – Egyptian Minister of Communication and Information Technology ...   Details

 

  • The Post Office signs a contract for hosting its data at Egypt Cyber Center

    December 26, 2004

    Some of its customers complained from waiting in long queues in front of the offices, as a result of the sudden failures in the main servers, that holds customers data and financial transactions. Such disturbance always causes a headache to the officials of the post office and the public audience. But finally, within the coming days they will be able to offer there services throughout the working hours without being affected with the failures and the sudden disasters that impacts the performance of the service and financial institutions..

    From this respect, the post office has formed an agreement with Egypt Cyber Center (ECC), to store clients database and financial transactions on the ECC Solutions servers.

    Ahmed El Bishery Chief Executive Officer of ECC said that this agreement will allow the presence of the data at any time in case of any failure in the main system, in addition to the storage of daily incremental data, adding the possibility of working online on the main servers in Egypyt Cyber Center in case of pressure on one of the post offices’ computer.

    El Bishery adds that the execution of the agreement is divided into two phases; the first phase concludes the storage of the database and using ECC servers as production servers with a total contract value of 3.5 million Egyptian pounds.

    While the second phase, requires increasing the number of servers in service to host the new applications that the post office will be carrying out in the future, starting from the e- governmental project to the financial services that the post office is planning to offer to the public audience. The value of this stage will be defined after supplying the required systems.

    Egypt Cyber Center is one of the affiliates of National Telecommunications Corporation and its investment capital has reached 125 million Egyptian pounds and its storage capacity is 78 Terabyte (78 thousands gigabytes). Alexandria Port Authority and a number of local banks such as Cairo Bank and Commercial Egyptian Bank have signed a contract with National Telecommunication Corporation to host their data at Egypt Cyber Center, as they fear the occurrence of any failures in their servers and internal network.

    Tamer Mahmoud Sale Manager of ECC adds saying that the center has the advantage of being fed from 4 different sources of power station, by using only one of them and the others work automatically in case of of any failures in the working station. Also there is an electric genertaor that works automatically if the 4 power stations breakdown with security cautions on the stored data to keep customers data safe from data loss and corruption.

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  • ECC Solutions plans a creative appearance at Cairo ICT 2003
    January 2,2003

    Cairo ICT 2003, The leading exhibition is famous with bringing together a high level profile of visitors, all being major influencers in Egypt’s economy is scheduled to take place on January 12-15, 2003, at the Cairo International Conference Center.. Government, Finance & Banking, Oil & Gas, Military, Health Care, CIT Consultants, and Manufacturing are regular visitors of Cairo ICT seeking the latest technological tools and services.

    In line with the global slowdown of the ICT sector and the many challenges facing the industry, Egyptian organizations across all fields are required to maintain the technological pace as the growth medium. ECC Solutions’ mission is to develop comprehensive and cost-effective Information Technology Outsourcing solutions, and build trusted partnerships giving customers sustainable competitive advantages.

    In its attempt to unveil the importance of Information Technology Outsourcing for the Egyptian market, ECC Solutions will practically demonstrates how organizations can maintain an Information Technology advantage, while minimizing operational and capital investments’ costs.

    ECC Solutions is planning a series of live demonstrations for its IT Outsourcing solutions, especially in the area of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. The areas that are most critical to any organization’s Information Systems assets.
    Additionally, visitors will witness the importance of applications availability, in a time where Egypt is strongly capitalizing on the digital economy initiatives.
     

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  • ECC hosts Alam El Fan Arabic Entertainement Gateway
    December 23, 2002

    Alam El Fan chose ECC to host their electronic entertainement gateway in the pursuit of becoming the largest Arabic music provider in the Middle East. Being one of the largest Arabic Entertainement production and distribution companies in the Middle East, Alam El Fan works with all the famous singers and owns the majority of copyrights for Arabic songs, giving them the largest market share in the music industry.

    The portal will offer Internet users live streaming, the ability to create their own play list, logos and mobile ring tones, music video clips, scenes from upcoming movies, Moheet; a digital library, and more.

    In its attempt to dominate Arabic Electronic Entertainement distribution worldwide, Alam El Fan needed a reliable Application Infrastructure Provider (AIP).
    The infrastructure required for this entertainement gateway relies heavily upon Bandwidth and Storage capacities, in addition to server processing power. With such, as core requirements for achieving the projects’ business objectives, ECC were perfectly positioned to provide Alam El Fan with the necessary capacities at all levels, in addition to the managed services related to its mission-critical application.
     

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  • ECC Hosts The Regional Internet Exchange Point
    December 19, 2002

    In the presense of Government, Telecommunication, Internet, and Information Technology leaders from all over the Middle-East, H.E. Dr. Ahmed Nazif – Egyptian Minister of Communication and Information Technology has launched the “Cairo Regional Internet Exchange - CRIX” at ECC Data Center in Cairo.

    CRIX is a local and regional peering point to localize the Internet traffic for local ISPs, as well as regional traffic for the Middle-East data carriers. While CRIX is a leading joint venture project between National Telecom Corporation (NTC) of Egypt, and Flag Telecom – ECC is currently hosting, operating, maintaining, and monitoring the exchange point in its data center.

    CRIX operates a neutral Internet exchange enabling Middle-Eastern data carriers to exchange Internet traffic between themselves without having to pass through the United States or Europe. This allows the regional data carriers to reduce upstream capacity costs in a significant way by optimizing bilateral peering among them.
    CRIX is also offering a guaranteed network availability supported by Egypt’s most advanced Internet connectivity set-ups in the region being connected using the Flag Europe-Asia and Flag Atlantic cables, and the SMW-3 cable to Europe.

 

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  • The Association of Friends of the National Cancer Institute (AFNCI) chooses ECC to host its online donations’ website.
    December 16, 2002

    AFNCI’s is building a world-class pediatric facility dedicated to the care of children with cancer, where patients from all social, economic and ethnic background will benefit from a superior standard of healthcare. The new hospital will enhance the Cairo University hospital system and support clinical, educational, and research efforts of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Therefore, AFNCI plans to assist the National Cancer Institute, NCI to meet their obligation of providing comprehensive, and enlightened health care to Egyptians with cancer.

    In its quest to expand, AFNCI selected ECC to host its website, which features online payment and information about the project.
    Site availability, and payment gateway facility were essential in choosing a hosting provider. ECC provided the robust platform necessary to handle credit card donations online, through its innovative e-commerce infrastructure.
    ECC’s e-business infrastructure isolates the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) processing necessary to handle e-payment, from the main server processing. The (SSL) acceleration platform performs the credit card processing, while maintaining the original server’s high performance.
    This architecture allows ECC’s customers to offer their end-users a secure and standardized high level of service
     

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  • Egypt Cyber Center is now re-building its market identity as ECC (www.eccsolutions.net)
    September 12, 2002

    A busy year for ECC is approaching its end, with new products, customers, and markets. Over the last year ECC has strongly established a proof of concept for the IT Outsourcing Model. It has been the primary source for Multinational, large and medium local enterprises employing mission-critical applications for their data processing and management, in addition to major portal Web Hosting clients.

    ECC range of products and services has been reshaped to fulfill the market's critical needs in such areas as Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Turnkey Solutions, therefore allowing clients to offload capital and operating expenses, and totally integrate a solution.

    Organizations all over the Middle East has started to realize the tangible benefits of IT outsourcing to a professional service provider. The need for IT outsourcing is emerging as a necessity for all businesses employing mission-critical applications to execute their core business functions. As businesses in the Middle East region mature strategically, ECC has attracted regional clients, and is perfectly positioned to serve as a regional hub for Data Center operations.
     

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  • ECC is returning to Gitex this year with a stronger presence
    August 20, 2002

    ECC, the region's premier data center, will be exhibiting alongside its sister companies and alliances in Booth no. F5-3.

    ECC's participation in Gitex aims to fortify its efforts towards raising the awareness of the Information Technology Outsourcing concepts and models following several success stories in Egypt. Over the last year ECC has strongly established a proof of concept for the IT Outsourcing Model. The data center has been the primary source for Multinational, large and medium local enterprises employing mission-critical applications for their data processing and management, in addition to major portal Web Hosting clients.

    ECC's client portfolio currently includes corporate clients in the Financial sector, Manufacturing, Telecom and Datacom industries.

    Additionally, the data center range of products and services has been reshaped to fulfill the market's critical needs in such areas as Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Turnkey Solutions, therefore allowing clients to offload capital and operating expenses and totally integrate a solution.
     

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  • Egyptian Smart Village Chooses ECC To Offer Secure Hosting and Storage For All Its Clients
    August 1, 2002

    Egyptian Smart Village and ECC have signed a service agreement, by which ECC will be eligible to market and operate secure data hosting and storage services to all companies operating inside the Smart Village.
    Accordingly, ECC will provide a high-speed private data connection with the Smart Village to secure robust traffic to and from its headquarters in 6th of October City.
    The Smart Village chose ECC based on the unparalleled infrastructure of digital data management available in the data center. This infrastructure has been internationally certified as a Carrier Class Data Center.
     

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  • ECCO chooses Egypt Cyber Center, ECC, to host its operations in the region
    July 16, 2002

    In today's dynamic world, Call Centers play a vital role and are becoming the first and most important point of contact between the services of all types of Organizations and their customers.

    Accordingly, Egyptian Call Center Operator (ECCO) is providing the latest and most sophisticated, user-friendly call center technology. ECCO will, from day one, start offering services which include: Inbound and Outbound traffic, Telesales, Customer Service & external help desk, Lead generation / qualifications, Customer and market surveys, and more.

    ECC was the choice of ECCO to host its operations due to the vast technological benefits and facilities available in ECC being Egypt's most advanced communications data center. Designed in co-operation with Hewlett Packard (HP), ECC boasts state-of-the-art technology, and provides the physical environment necessary to ensure the businesses' e-presence 24/7. The location provides maximum security and redundancy, professional business environment, and high-speed redundant connectivity. ECC's collocation solution for ECCO encompasses a full range of hosting services, including the physical work area, cabling structure, physical security, Secure VPN, Storage Capacity, Regular Data Backups, Contingency Cluster, and Internet Connectivity.

    According to Mr. Hatem ElNazer, Managing Director of ECCO: "ECCO aims at becoming the leading third party call center service provider in the Middle East by offering an unparalleled level of service, complimenting state of the art technology with an exceptionally motivated and professional team." ECCO is designed to meet today's needs with tomorrow's tools. ECCO has taken into consideration the fast development of e-commerce and has installed hardware and software that supports web and e-commerce solutions for future demands.

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