At LEAP 2025, Nile revealed the deployment of the world’s largest Campus Network-as-a-Service (NaaS). The globally acclaimed technology event in Saudi Arabia attracted over 200,000 attendees from February 9-12 at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center in Malham.
“Once again, it’s Nile pushing the envelope of what’s possible in enterprise networking,” said Pankaj Patel, CEO and co-founder, Nile. “At an event where AI and digital transformation were the primary themes, it’s fitting that Nile was chosen to deliver the connectivity that showcased these innovations. The unique architecture of the Nile Access Service, which combines AI-powered automation and built-in zero trust security in an ‘as-a-service’ framework, is the only solution in the market that could have possibly met LEAP 2025’s rapid deployment requirements. We built a secure, world-class network serving over two hundred thousand of the world’s most sophisticated users in a matter of days.”
Nile’s autonomous network architecture enabled its team and its partners, solutions by stc and TAWAL, to deploy the network rapidly while also fulfilling numerous last-minute requirements that traditional systems could not accommodate, given the time frame and very limited resources available. For this project, Nile was tasked with building a campus network that covered almost 2M square feet (more than 185K square meters), including seven different conference halls. Based on data from Nile’s extensive sensor infrastructure, the network consistently served around 55,000 concurrent visitors without a single network issue or security incident.
“At solutions by stc, we are proud to collaborate with Nile in delivering groundbreaking innovations, such as the world’s largest Campus Network-as-a-Service implementation at LEAP 2025,” said Omer Alnomany, CEO of solutions by stc. “This partnership exemplifies the strength of our strategic alliances in enabling secure, scalable connectivity for transformative events like LEAP. Together, we are shaping the future of enterprise networking in the MEA region, driving digital transformation, and setting new benchmarks for customer success.”
Once installed, Nile’s AI Automation Center worked continuously to ensure that availability, coverage, and capacity remained at optimal levels. Now in place, the Nile network infrastructure remains to serve the next event at the Riyadh International Exhibition and Convention Center in Malham.
“We had a very limited window to build a secure, high-performance network that had to meet the needs of a very large group of attendees along with a diverse mix of more than 1,800 global technology leaders and advanced startups, many of which were running demonstrations of their cutting-edge solutions in their booths,” said Abdulrahman Almoaiqel, CCO of TAWAL, one of Saudi Arabia’s leading network infrastructure organizations. “Only Nile’s AI-powered innovations could provide the combination of performance, security, ease-of-deployment, and operational simplicity that enabled us to pull off an impressive deployment with only four installers on site.”
