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The portfolio is designed to help organisations innovate at pace while maintaining greater control and autonomy over their data and digital infrastructure.

The portfolio spans Cisco’ s core product lines, including networking, security, compute, collaboration, network management, AI and Splunk. Customers can configure and operate it in their own airgapped, on-premises physical environments.

SCI is designed to support organisations at different stages of their digital sovereignty journey. Built around the principle that there is no one-sizefits-all approach, the portfolio provides flexibility to choose the model that best meets their needs, whether fully onpremises, air-gapped environments for maximum control or hybrid approaches that combine sovereign infrastructure with cloud services.

Abdelilah Nejjari, Managing Director for Gulf and Levant at Cisco

By addressing priorities such as data control, operational autonomy and reduced dependency, Cisco aims to help organisations strengthen resilience while maintaining choice over their digital infrastructure.

Abdelilah Nejjari, Managing Director for Gulf and Levant at Cisco, said:“ In the UAE, we are seeing strong demand from organisations that want to accelerate innovation while maintaining tighter control over critical data, systems and operations. This is especially important as AI, security and infrastructure strategies become more closely connected.

“ Cisco’ s Sovereign Critical Infrastructure portfolio gives customers the ability to build secure, customer-controlled environments that support resilience, compliance and long-term digital growth.

“ Backed by Cisco Customer Experience, we are helping organisations in the UAE create trusted infrastructure that is ready for both today’ s operational needs and tomorrow’ s AI opportunities.”

Gordon Thomson, President, Cisco EMEA, said:“ At Cisco, we understand that true sovereignty means having the freedom to innovate with choice and control remaining crucial to businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Our Sovereign Critical Infrastructure portfolio meets organisations where they are on their sovereignty journey. The availability of this portfolio reinforces our commitment to being a trusted technology provider for the region’ s critical infrastructure.”

Customers operating sovereign environments also require specialised support. To address this, Cisco Customer Experience( CX) now offers services and support tailored to air-gapped, on-premises and hybrid deployments, helping organisations implement and manage sovereign infrastructure more effectively. n

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