Microwave networking solution specialist Aviat (News - Alert) Networks has recently inaugurated a new office in the Middle East in order to attend to the thriving mobile and wireless market requirements.

Aviat Networks currently has more than 750,000 systems installed around the world and has been offering best-of-breed solutions including LTE (News - Alert)-proven microwave backhaul and a complete portfolio of service and support options to public and private telecommunications operators worldwide.

The company officials said that they have moved their facilities to the new business center of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and has also opened new learning center that holds the capacity to host customer-requested and internal training sessions, as well as scheduled seminars on specific topics of interest in wireless backhaul.

Karl Osswald, general manager, Aviat Networks, Dubai, said that by operating their Middle East and North Africa activities from a regional center in Dubai enables them to stay close to their customers and offer quick, proactive attention to their concerns for wireless backhaul solutions and services.

"With several of the world's largest and fastest growing mobile operators based in or near the Gulf, we see the potential for the wireless and mobile markets here to be very robust over the long term. This overall trend of growth in the region's wireless markets will help Aviat Networks continue to build our very successful business model here," Osswald added.

The Middle East region is now demonstrating huge business opportunities for smartphone businesses and is predicted that it will grow substantially from now through 2016. According to research firm Informa (News - Alert) Telecoms and media estimates, UAE and Saudi Arabia will achieve smartphone penetration rates of more than 70 percent and 48 percent, respectively, by the end of 2016 and total mobile subscriptions in the Middle East will exceed 250 million in 2012.

"Aviat Networks has found a very receptive regional home in Dubai due both to the general corporate climate and the business-friendly environment," Osswald says. "These factors along with favorable market conditions are encouraging us to deepen our penetration into the Gulf region as well as other nearby Middle East, African and South Asia countries."