MIDDLE EAST responsive they are , about how they understand their business , and how valuable they ’ ve been .
“ To me , that ’ s a huge success . That doesn ’ t happen typically in IT organisations , and given the history of what we went through here , that ’ s a nice bonus .”
One other , more tangible , data-driven achievement has been the growth of the network bandwidth at AUB . Asfour has overseen an expansion that has more than tripled this connectivity , providing students with some of the best networks in Lebanon .
All of this was achieved against a rather challenging backdrop .
“ Normally , a university would upgrade its network , its systems and its infrastructure . All of this would happen one step at a time with considerable amounts of money behind it ,” he says .
“ For us , we did all of that with limited budgets and within three years . That is a huge success .”
To wind the clocks back to the