Agreement for Unified Aggregated Mega High Speed Integration Network under the Project Digitalization of Economy in Big Data Environment

Agreement for supply, installation, configuration, integration, testing and maintenance of Unified Aggregated Mega High Speed Network for Integration between partners and servicing IoT devices was signed by the Rector of the UNWE Prof. Dimitar Dimitrov and Deyan Yovkov, Manager of Consortium High-Speed Net Company Under the Obligations and Contracts Act. The Agreement is under the project entitled Digitalization of Economy in Big Data Environment /DIGD/ №BG05M2OP001-1.002-0002.

The meeting was attended by Prof. D.Sc./Econ./ Valentin Kisimov, Chief Coordinator of the project Digitalization of Economy in Big Data Environment", the Rector Prof. Dimitrov Dimitrov, Mr. Deyan Yovkov, Prof. Dr. Miroslava Rakovska, Vice Rector for Educational Activities and Prof. D.Sc./Econ./ Kiril Stoychev, Assistant Rector (from the left to the right)

At the signing of the Agreement the Rector Prof. Dimitar Dimitrov outlined the importance of the project and the current Agreement. "Our expectations for this project are very high. At the moment it is very important that everything happens quickly and qualitatively that`s why the high-speed integration network is necessary for our university."

The Rector Prof. Dimitar Dimitrov

The Manager of High-Speed Net Consortium Deyan Yovkov expressed his thankfulness on behalf of the whole team for the opportunity to work on this very interesting project. He assured that the company has committed to do the job as it has been doing for already 35 years. "Count on us, we will do even the impossible to provide all that is necessary for you."

Mr. Deyan Yovkov

The Vice Rector for Educational Activities Prof. Dr. Miroslava Rakovska pointed out that "the network which will integrate all components will enable it to be used by many of our partners both in Bulgaria and abroad as well as by the business partners and other universities. We have already started attracting such partners from different industries".

Prof. Dr. Miroslava Rakovska

Prof. М. Rakovska reminded about the recently opened Global Centre for Sustainable Tourism and Crisis Management and paid attention to the fact that "namely by the Big Data Center and the possibility to use it in the field of tourism we have attracted the interest of the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Center located in Jamaica. Thus we generated additional contacts".  

Prof. D.Sc./Econ./ Valentin Kisimov

Prof. D.Sc./Econ./ Valentin Kisimov, Chief Coordinator of the project Digitalization of Economy in Big Data Environment, said that the construction of the Unified Aggregated Mega High Speed Integration Network is an essential part of the prject due to two facts.“According to the first one, the project partners have their own equipment that should be tied into a distributed system through the networks that will be created. The second fact concerns the point that the project covers 5 types of networks by which we are trying to cover all possible data no matter where are  they in order to include them in this system. It is because if we are digitising different areas of the economy we need data from different sources and with this project we are ensuring integration of all the different components".

The implementation of the Agreement will deliver a Unified Aggregated Mega High Speed Network for Integration between 6 partner organisations and servicing IoT devices for Big Data. The partners are: "Paisii Hilendarsky" University of Plovdiv, Technical University, Gabrovo; University of Economics, Varna; "Angel Kanchev" University of Rousse, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The unified network will cover 5 types of networks integrated with each other and the integration will also provide a single point for data reception and transmission located in the infrastructure of UNWE.