Flint International Middle East

NEOM Case study

Smart City Program – Hyperscale Data Center Consulting

Hundreds of routers and switches, upgraded and governed by hand – until they weren’t.

Client Leading telecommunications provider
Sector Telecommunications
Service Network automation & compliance using largest telecommunications providers  BPA

The bottleneck

A leading Middle Eastern telecommunications provider managed a large, fast-growing network where OS upgrades, configuration changes, and compliance checks were performed manually. The process slowed deployments, increased operational effort, and introduced configuration drift and human error across hundreds of network devices.

What automation replaced

Flint partnered with largest telecommunications providers, the world’s largest networking technology company, to transform network operations through automation.

Before – Manual Operations

After – Flint + largest telecommunications providers  BPA Automation

OS upgrades applied device by device

Orchestrated, simultaneous OS upgrades across multi-vendor, multi-location environments

Configurations manually applied, causing drift and errors

largest telecommunications providers  BPA automatically enforces standardized configuration baselines

Compliance verified reactively

Automated assessment, remediation, and audit-ready reporting

Slow, error-prone provisioning

Zero-touch provisioning and automated troubleshooting (ZTPA)

Ad-hoc validation

Structured pre- and post-validation for every rollout with rollback readiness

The framework

Flint partnered with Largest , the world’s largest networking technology company, to implement an enterprise automation framework. The engagement began with an assessment of existing operations, followed by automation template development, BPA integration, Zero-Touch Provisioning, and governance controls. The solution was then deployed with continuous compliance monitoring, automated upgrades, and centralized operational visibility.

The payoff

Network upgrades and configuration rollouts became significantly faster through automation. Standardized configurations, continuous compliance monitoring, and automated validation reduced errors, strengthened security, and simplified audits. The result was a scalable, governed network automation platform ready to support future growth.

AI-Driven Managed Services   Automation is the foundation; AI is the layer Flint builds on top – applying predictive maintenance and intelligent incident management to the BPA framework so Network Automation moves from automated execution to anticipating faults before they reach customers.

Designing the digital foundation for a next-generation AI-powered smart city – from an empty site upward.

Client: Smart City Development Program
Sector: Smart City / Hyperscale Infrastructure
Service: End-to-end Data Center Consulting

The Ambition

One of the Kingdom’s flagship smart city initiatives is being developed as a next-generation urban ecosystem powered by AI, IoT, autonomous systems, and cloud-native services. Delivering that vision required hyperscale digital infrastructure capable of supporting high-density computing, multi-cloud operations, and massive data throughput while meeting Tier III–IV international standards, sustainability goals, and long-term operational resilience.

The Need

Flint was engaged as the program’s end-to-end data center consulting partner, providing technical planning, architectural validation, and strategic advisory from greenfield feasibility through commissioning. The engagement covered site feasibility, modular scalability, energy efficiency, and resilient operations for national-scale digital services.

Working alongside the world’s largest networking technology company, Flint helped develop a scalable, future-ready infrastructure strategy aligned with global networking and data center best practices.

From Feasibility to Commissioning

The engagement began with feasibility studies covering environmental, geotechnical, and utility assessments to define site conditions, power density, redundancy, and future expansion.

The next phase focused on architecture and design aligned with Uptime Institute Tier III–IV and TIA-942 standards, using a vendor-neutral approach to ensure interoperability, scalability, and flexibility.

Implementation included design reviews, QA/QC oversight, and commissioning support, with Flint guiding the project from blueprint to deployment while meeting resilience, redundancy, and Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) targets.

Business Outcome

The program established a modular, multi-zone redundant, vendor-independent hyperscale data center blueprint, delivering long-term flexibility and cost efficiency. Built to international best practices for uptime, security, and energy optimization, the infrastructure is ready to support AI workloads, cloud-native platforms, and national-scale digital services.

AI-Driven Managed Services   As infrastructures goes live, Flint’s AI-powered Managed Services are designed to operate it at hyperscale – using machine intelligence to monitor distributed systems, reduce downtime and keep day-to-day operations efficient across a smart city built on AI itself.

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