We have spent a considerable amount of time gathering extensive market intelligence across the Middle East to ensure we better understand our SMB customers and the market opportunity in depth.

Oil and gas companies are prime candidates for the IPCC solutions that help automate the entire communication chain, with value additions that enhance productivity and streamline operations, as communications is the pivot of any successful enterprise.

Overall we enable the alignment between business processes, systems, data and infrastructure which in the long term helps ensure a continuous level of security throughout the network.

Today's announcement with NBK illustrates how the Cisco Intelligent Information Network vision for communications system allows organizations to cost-effectively enhance interaction with their customers by creating a seamless communications environment. Banking environments are highly mission-critical and require a networking infrastructure that is robust, manageable, highly secure and flexible enough for changing requirements. Working at an advisory level with NBK, we will enable the bank to increase the efficiency of operations and lower the total cost of ownership while delivering new, integrated services such as the IP Communication architecture.

Cisco is committed to helping customers with securing their network environment through best practice sharing, innovative and resilient network products, technologies, and services. There is a growing need among businesses in the Middle East for integrated and intelligent network protection, and we feel that Cisco, together with our partners, offers the most comprehensive set of advanced solutions available.

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