About.
Telco cloud advisor
Karim Rabie is a Mobile Broadband professional with more than 13 years of Multivendor experience carrying Consulting, Design, Planning, deployment, Optimization, and Training activities on diverse fields of Mobility and NFV domains.
Karim Rabie was one of the pioneers working in the LTE/EPC domain back to 2009 where he handled the planning for one of the first Commercial LTE deployments in Gulf Region and other several world-wide trials in addition to being one of the first solution architects certified as LTE Specialist.
With the vendor experience working with Huawei, Nokia, & Cisco. Karim led and participated in many of overseas projects with T-Mobile, Ooreedo, Bharti, Zain, Vodafone, Orange, Etisalat, STC & other Operators in Africa and Middle East.
He is the author of Four vendor-agnostic training packs specialized in PS Core Network, LTE/EPC Network, & NFV. Karim provided more than 25 Instructor-led classes in the last four years with audiences from different domains such as PS Core, IP MPLS, & CS/IMS from various Mobile Operators and Service Providers.
With an extensive current work and focus on NFV, Cloud, SDN, & 5G, Karim Rabie a member of NFV Committee responsible of Telco Cloud Design and Cloud Strategy and an OPNFV EUAG member with recent contribution with ETSI NFV ISG.
Worked For
Tech Mahindra (Consultant for STC)
Equinox
Nokia
Huawei
Orange
France Telecom
Projects
STC KSA – STC Telco Cloud Design
Orange Egypt – PS Core Assessment
Vodafone Egypt – Cisco SP/Wi-Fi Offload
Ooreedo Qatar – LTE/EPC Project
Vodacom Tanzania – Packet Core Assessment
Zain Kuwait – Packet Core/EPC trial
Ooreedo Qatar – Online Charging Project
Orange Egypt – MBB, Mobile Broadband Project
Vodacom South Africa – LTE/EPC Trial
Sabafone Yemen – PaCo Expansion Project
Omantel Oman – SRAN Trial
Vodacom Mozambique – PaCo 2G Expansion Project
Bharti – Africa PaCo Tender
Zantel Tanzania – PaCo Tender
Qtel Qatar – EPC/LTE Offer Tender
Vodacom Tanzania – Cisco ISC Project
Infraco South Africa – Data Communication Network Expansion
Etisalat Egypt – PS/CS Expansion Project (Sep 2009 – Dec 2009)
T-Mobile Hungary – Packet Core Swap Project
T-Mobile Croatia – Packet Core Swap Project
