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Organization of American States and Cisco to
Collaborate on Cybersecurity Innovation

Cisco and the Organization of American societies, and foster an open, secure and their expertise and leverage the regional
States (OAS) today announced joint efforts reliable digital environment throughout footprint to lead important dialogue that
to democratize and boost Cybersecurity our region”. Education is the foundation of will generate outputs in order to address
adoption across Latin America through the driving awareness and the democratization Cybersecurity challenges in Latin America.
creation of the Cybersecurity Innovation of Cybersecurity. Therefore, in addition Cybersecurity is a foundational Cisco
Councils. This initiative will serve as multi- to the Cybersecurity Innovation Councils, tenet to help transform digital businesses.
stakeholder spaces in which leaders and both Cisco and the OAS are leveraging This initiative is especially relevant in
experts from the private sector, public Cisco Networking Academy in Latin a global industry where attacks have
sector, academia, NGOs and security America to promote educational resources resulted in financial damages greater than
technology vendors will collaborate to drive that can help close the professional skills US$500,000, including, but not limited to,
innovation, raise awareness, and expand gap in Cybersecurity – allowing citizens to lost revenue, customers, opportunities,
best practices, aiming to help solve digital access trainings and career opportunities and out-of-pocket costs to organizations,
risks and challenges affecting the digital in this field and help build the workforce of according to Cisco 2018 Cybersecurity
society. “As countries across Latin America the future. Cisco and the OAS will deploy Report.
digitally transform, Cybersecurity will be
the foundation for achieving their national
priorities. Our partnership with OAS will
help set the stage for communities across
Latin America, their governments, and their
businesses, to take full advantage of the
digital economy,” said Michael Timmeny,
SVP and Chief Government Strategy
Officer, Cisco. The OAS Secretary General,
Luis Almagro, said that “these Councils
create spaces for collaboration between
technology leaders, experts from the public
and private sectors, universities and non-
governmental organizations to promote
innovation, raise awareness and expand
best practices. All of this, in order to help
solve the risks and challenges facing our

Superloop Deploys Cisco NCS 1004 For Two Deployments of 4600Km at 400G

Cisco and Superloop announced two in Australia, Singapore and HK, placing it and Hong Kong,” said Bill Gartner, SVP/
deployments of up to 400G for 4600km at the forefront of optical fiber connection GM of Optical Systems and Optics at
on the INDIGO West cable from Singapore and transmission technologies. Working Cisco. The Cisco NCS 1004 is optimized to
to Australia, and the INDIGO Central cable with Cisco on the INDIGO cable system maximize capacity with a minimum space
from Perth to Sydney, featuring a two- was a logical extension of the partnership and power footprint. At 2RU, the system
fiber pair ‘open cable’ design with new that helped create our Australian supports up to 4.8Tbps of client and up
spectrum sharing technology. Superloop integrated backhaul network to the 121 to 4.8Tbps of trunk traffic. And in addition
is a new and exciting, independent fiber points of interconnect. We are now truly to the subsea applications, the NCS 1004
infrastructure provider designing and positioned as the pan-Asia fiber operator is also well suited for terrestrial long haul
operating networks throughout the Asia to meet growing customer demand across deployments as well as metro data centre
Pacific region. They are building critical the region,” said Ryan Crouch, Chief interconnect applications. “Every day we
core infrastructure for wholesale carriers Technology Officer of Superloop. “We are building a network that reaches further
and global content providers who require are thrilled to work with such a forward- and is becoming more advanced. With
infinitely scalable and reliable capacity, looking company that will leverage our NCS Cisco as part of our infrastructure, nothing
on-demand. “The INDIGO cable system 1004 for their subsea routes. Superloop is holding us back,” said Drew Kelton, CEO
completes the next stage of our Asia-Pac has now completed a new national of Superloop.
network infrastructure. We are now the backbone for Australia and operates
sole operator that owns fiber to buildings carrier-grade metro networks in Singapore
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