Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai
Power
21 Sept 2026
The three to five year figure assumes a 25 C room. Schneider's 8 degree halving rule, the IEEE 1188 80 percent capacity threshold, and a replacement calendar worked for comms rooms sitting at 25, 33 and 41 degrees, with the UAE disposal rules that follow.
Security
20 Sept 2026
The CCTV rules for Dubai come from SIRA, not Dubai Police, and the Preventive Systems Manual approved in April 2025 sets 1080p as the camera minimum rather than 4K. What it actually requires on field of view, retention, network, power and certification.
Servers
20 Sept 2026
A consumer NVMe drive works out at about 0.33 drive writes per day; an enterprise one is rated at 3. Endurance, power loss protection, watts and port mode decide a server drive, read straight off the current KIOXIA, Samsung and Dell data sheets.
Security
19 Sept 2026
The three vendors measure firewall throughput three different ways, so the headline numbers are not a comparison. A side by side read of the FortiGate 70G, SonicWall TZ280 and Cisco 1210 data sheets on the figures that decide the purchase.
Networking
18 Sept 2026
802.3af gives 15.4 W a port, 802.3at 30 W, 802.3bt 60 W or 90 W. What the class table actually reserves, why a Wi-Fi 7 access point runs 2x2 on PoE+, how a 740 W switch budget runs out on a Dubai office floor, and what heat does to PoE bundles here.
Networking
18 Sept 2026
Three control planes, not two: an appliance you rack, a controller inside an access point, or a vendor cloud. Scale ceilings from Cisco and HPE Aruba, what still works when a Dubai fibre tail drops, and where management data sits.
Networking
17 Sept 2026
A green PASS column proves less than it looks. How to read the test limit, the tester accuracy level, the margins and the PASS asterisks on a cabling handover, plus the TIA length derating that a Dubai ceiling void at 40 degrees quietly spends for you.
Networking
17 Sept 2026
Microsoft Calling Plans are not sold in the UAE, so Teams still needs a SIP trunk from etisalat or du. What the TDRA VoIP policy allows, which SBCs are certified, why Cisco Unified CM 15 is now a virtual machine, and how to size channels.
Procurement
17 Sept 2026
Why "in stock" means four different things in the UAE, what a free zone Import to Local declaration adds, how Cisco end-of-sale dates close your ordering window, and the six lines to put in an enquiry so the availability answer is worth having.
