In the third quarter, we achieved another milestone in international expansion. In September, ChinaCache’s Hong Kong subsidiary started its operations to better serve the market in Southeast Asia. During the quarter, CDN traffic in this region saw a notable increase, even doubling in areas such as Taiwan and Malaysia. Outside of Asia, we established another node in Europe at Interxion’s data center to better serve foreign companies looking to enter the China market. While foreign activity was an important catalyst in the quarter, CDN traffic also enjoyed rapid growth from Chinese customers, such as leading video companies like Youku and Sohu video, who are leveraging our solutions to support overseas business activities.
With the rapid growth of brick-and-mortar companies doing business online, we have great opportunities to expand our value-added services. In order to capture this growth, our business units are preparing to launch a series of value-added products and solutions tailored to enterprise customers across a variety of industries. Our Content-aware Network Services are well recognized among government agencies, carriers and enterprise customers. CCIndex, one of our critical value-added products based on Content-aware Network Services, has attracted a great deal of attention in the data mining and analytics space, with CCIndex data cited by a number of domestic and international media outlets. Statistics from CCIndex serve as a valuable reference for government policymakers and key decision-makers at telecom carriers. In addition, we plan to further leverage its value through the creation of industry reports and commercial data analysis services. In the third quarter, we continued to develop and improve our cloud service offering, which together with our CDN service, creates a one-stop solution for customers we serve in industries such as aviation, shipping, education, luxury and consumer goods, gaming and media. ChinaCache has an in-depth understanding of different industries, and the businesses of our customers. This level of insight, combined with the capabilities of our Content-aware Network Services, gives us great confidence in the potential of our value-added services.