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CMI Successfully Launched Oman MC1 PoP, Marking Another Milestone of
Its Digital Infrastructure Development

China Mobile International Limited (CMI)
announced the successful launch of its
Oman Muscat MC1 point of presence (PoP)
on March 7 at Capacity Middle East 2023,
one of the largest telecommunications
industry exhibitions in the Middle East.
Ren Lei, Division Head of CMI Planning &
Development Department, Colin Wang,
Managing Director of CMI Middle East
and Africa region, and other members of
both companies attended the ceremony.
The CMI Oman MC1 PoP is CMI's second
PoP in Oman, located in the operator-
neutral Equinix MC1 data center in Barka,
which is also a landing station for multiple
submarine cable systems connecting
Asia, Africa, and Europe. The launch of
the MC1 PoP has greatly improved CMI's
connectivity in the region, making it one of
the regional hubs for providing seamless
connectivity to major global markets and regional partners." CMI continues to expand Mobile's leading 5G industry applications
customers. This is significant given the its global infrastructure deployment, and rich practices. As one of the world's
growing importance of Oman as a network focusing on the "information highway" leading data center, cloud, and IoT solution
hub bridging Asia to Europe and Africa. (cable resources), "information station" providers, CMI has abundant computing
Ren Lei, Division Head of CMI Planning & (PoPs), and "information hub" (IDCs). network resources globally and is also the
Development Department, said, "CMI is Currently, CMI has 80 cable resources only Asian operator investing in the 2Africa
committed to building reliable, scalable, and 230 PoPs globally, with international submarine cable project. As the longest
and resilient network resources globally. It transmission bandwidth of over 123T. CMI subsea cable ever deployed, 2Africa is
has deployed over 140 PoPs along the 'Belt strives to create an ecosystem with global designed to deliver seamless international
and Road' region, covering over 50 countries and regional partners and empower local connectivity to approximately 3 billion
and regions along the way, to provide high- operators to provide convenient information people, connecting Africa, the Middle East,
quality international information services to services and solutions leveraging China Europe and Asia.

Cisco Unveils New Solution to Rapidly Detect Ad-
vanced Cyber Threats and Automate Response

Cisco, the leader in enterprise networking and security, unveiled highest priority incidents with evidence-backed automation. “The
the latest progress towards its vision of the Cisco Security Cloud, threat landscape is complex and evolving. Detection without
a unified, AI-driven, cross-domain security platform. Cisco’s new response is insufficient, while response without detection is
XDR solution and the release of advanced features for Duo MFA impossible. With Cisco XDR, security operations teams can
will help organizations better protect the integrity of their entire IT respond and remediate threats before they have a chance to cause
ecosystem. significant damage,” said Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President
Threat Detection and Response and General Manager of Security and Collaboration at Cisco.
Cisco’s XDR strategy converges its deep expertise and visibility “Cisco continues to ensure that ‘if it's connected, then rest assured
across the network and endpoints into one turnkey, risk-based you’re also protected.’ We are uniquely positioned to deliver
solution. Now in Beta with General Availability coming in July 2023, integrated solutions that simplify securing today’s increasingly
Cisco XDR simplifies investigating incidents and enables security complex, hybrid multi-cloud environments without compromising
operations centers (SOCs) to immediately remediate threats. The user experience.” While traditional Security Information and Event
cloud-first solution applies analytics to prioritize detections and Management (SIEM) technology provides management for log-
moves the focus from endless investigations to remediating the centric data and measures outcomes in days, Cisco XDR focuses

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