Tunisia upgrades university networks and cloud services with Huawei

Tunisia’s higher education computing center has worked with Huawei to upgrade cloud, network, storage, backup and security systems serving universities across the country. The project is intended to support online learning, research collaboration and other digital services as demand grows.

The Khawarizmi Computing Center (CCK), an organization under Tunisia’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, provides computing and digital services to universities. CCK says the upgrades are meant to improve connectivity and data protection while making the system easier to manage across distributed campuses.

What the upgrade includes

A central part of the project is Huawei CloudStack, which CCK and Huawei say can host services such as online learning systems, video conferencing, cloud desktops and enterprise resource planning software. The platform is designed to let institutions manage these services centrally and improve data protection.

The partners also expanded connections between universities using fiber-optic infrastructure and Huawei’s software-defined wide-area network technology. Network security systems were upgraded, and CCK introduced Huawei’s iMaster NCE-Campus platform to help IT teams monitor and manage campus networks. The project addresses needs CCK identified around data synchronization between sites, disaster recovery and continuity of service.

Training and results

The collaboration also includes information and communications technology training. Huawei has worked with local schools to establish cybersecurity labs and offer programs linked to its HCIA Security certification. It has also supported student entrepreneurship and competition initiatives, including the Huawei ICT Competition, Seeds for the Future and Spark Competition.

CCK says the upgraded systems are helping universities support smart classrooms, online learning, collaboration tools and campus security. The project description gives no cost, rollout schedule or quantified results, so the scale of the improvements cannot be assessed from the details announced. It also does not specify how many universities or students are covered.

This report draws on information from Huawei.