by Alaa AlShaikh | Apr 28, 2026 | غير مصنف
The 2026 baseline (Cat6 is no longer it) Three years ago, Cat6 was the default specification for Saudi office fit-outs. It isn’t anymore. The combination of Wi-Fi 6E, increasingly bandwidth-hungry applications, PoE++ powered devices, and the 25-year cable...
by Alaa AlShaikh | Apr 28, 2026 | غير مصنف
Why now — the inflection point in 2026 Saudi enterprises with Avaya, Nortel, Panasonic, or early-generation Cisco PBX systems are facing a hard choice: invest in dwindling parts inventories and end-of-support hardware, or migrate to IP-based telephony. The economics...
by Alaa AlShaikh | Apr 28, 2026 | غير مصنف
The decision in 2026 looks different than it did in 2020 Five years ago, the SD-WAN vs MPLS conversation was about whether SD-WAN was ready for enterprise production. That argument is over — SD-WAN is mature, supported by every major networking vendor, and operating...
by Alaa AlShaikh | Apr 28, 2026 | غير مصنف
The hidden math behind IT support pricing When mid-market organisations evaluate managed IT support providers in Saudi Arabia, the headline number on the proposal is the per-user-per-month rate. SAR 80, SAR 120, SAR 200 — the spread looks like a clean comparison. It...
by Alaa AlShaikh | Apr 28, 2026 | غير مصنف
What NCA ECC actually is (and isn’t) The Essential Cybersecurity Controls (ECC) issued by Saudi Arabia’s National Cybersecurity Authority are a 114-control framework that became mandatory for in-scope organisations in 2018 and have steadily tightened in...
