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Table of Contents
1. Financial, M & A Updates...................................................................................................................................1
2. Solution Updates.................................................................................................................................................11
3. Rewards and Recognition Updates...................................................................................................................57
4. Customer Success Updates................................................................................................................................84
5. Partnership Ecosystem Updates.....................................................................................................................123
6. Environment & Social Updates......................................................................................................................148
7. Miscellaneous Updates....................................................................................................................................149

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AT&T to Sell Crunchyroll to Sony’s Funimation Global Group
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. and AT&T Inc. announced that AT&T agreed
to sell its Crunchyroll anime business to Funimation Global Group, LLC.
Funimation is a joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. and
Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.’s subsidiary, Aniplex Inc. Crunchyroll
is a premier anime direct-to-consumer service within AT&T’s WarnerMedia
segment with more than 3 million SVOD subscribers and growing. It serves
90 million registered users across more than 200 countries and territories
offering AVOD, mobile games, manga, events merchandise and distribution.
The combination of Crunchyroll and Funimation provides the opportunity to
broaden distribution for their content partners and expand fan-centric offerings
for consumers. The purchase price for the transaction is $1.175 billion subject
to customary working capital and other adjustments, and the proceeds will be
paid in cash at closing. The transaction is subject to customary closing
conditions, including regulatory approvals.
Executive Commentary
“The Crunchyroll team has done an extraordinary job of not only growing
the Crunchyroll brand but also building a passionate community of anime
fans. Crunchyroll’s success is a direct result of the company’s culture and
commitment to their fans,” said Chief Revenue Officer, WarnerMedia. “By
combining with Funimation, they will continue to nurture a global
community and bring more anime to more people. I’m incredibly proud of
the Crunchyroll team and what they have been able to accomplish in the
digital media space in such a short period of time. They’ve created an
end-to-end global ecosystem for this incredible art form.”
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Cisco to Acquire IMImobile to Embed Omnichannel Engagement Into Customer
Experience as a Service
Cisco and IMImobile PLC announced that they have reached agreement on the
terms of a recommended cash offer pursuant to which Cisco will pay 595
pence per share in exchange for each share of IMImobile, or an aggregate
purchase price of approximately USD $730 million assuming fully diluted
shares, net of cash and including debt. The exchange rate used for the
conversion of £ into USD is 1.3438, derived from Bloomberg, as at 16:00 on 4
December 2020. IMImobile provides software and services which allow
enterprises and organizations to stay constantly connected to their customers
through enhanced interactive channels including social, messaging and voice.
Following completion of the acquisition, Cisco will be able to offer
customer-facing businesses with an end-to-end customer interaction
management solution and rich customer experiences, along with the ability to
drive faster and smarter interactions and orchestration throughout the lifecycle
journey of the customer.
“A great customer relationship is built on consistently enjoyable
interactions where every touchpoint on every channel is an opportunity for
businesses to deliver rich, engaging and intuitive experiences,” said senior
vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Security and Applications
business. “We look forward to working with IMImobile to help create a
comprehensive CXaaS solution for the market—one that gives businesses
a platform to provide delightful experiences across the entire customer
lifecycle journey.”
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Dragos Announces Record-Setting $110M Investment in Industrial Cybersecurity
with Series C Funding
Dragos, Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational
technology (OT) environments, announced that it has secured $110 million in Series C funding
from investors representing some of the world’s largest corporations. The round represents the
most substantial investment to date for a company in the ICS/OT cybersecurity sector.[2] The
new funding will be used to support an expanding set of global customers across a diversity of
industries – including electric, oil & gas, manufacturing, mining, chemicals, and transportation –
and to accelerate the next stage of the company’s worldwide operations to address the burgeoning
market for ICS/OT cybersecurity solutions. Dragos’s Series C funding round is co-led by
National Grid Partners, the independent venture investment and innovation arm of National Grid
plc., one of the world’s largest investor-owned energy companies; and Koch Disruptive
Technologies, the investment arm of Koch Industries, one of the world’s largest technology
companies and manufacturers, which invests in emerging and transformative high-growth
technologies. The Series C investment brings the company’s total funding to $158 Million, the
highest funding level for any start-up in the ICS/OT cybersecurity space. Other Series C investors
include Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV), a fund of Aramco Ventures, the $1.5 billion
venture capital program of Aramco; Hewlett Packard Enterprise the global edge-to-cloud
platform as-a-service company; and existing investors including Allegis Cyber, Canaan,
DataTribe, Energy Impact Partners, and Schweitzer Engineering Labs.
“This is a decisive moment in the ICS/OT cybersecurity market, with many powerful drivers
coalescing to generate an unprecedented level of market interest and customer demand,” said
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Dragos, Inc. “Our Series C funding is an
investment by industry, for industry, and will enable us to fully meet this moment for our
customers by advancing the innovative technology at the center of our Dragos Platform,
expanding our global footprint, and continuing to recruit the world’s most elite team of
ICS/OT cybersecurity experts.”
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Warburg Pincus and Vista Equity Partners Close Infoblox Transaction
Infoblox Inc., the leader in Secure Cloud-Managed Network
Services, announced the close of its investment from Warburg
Pincus, with Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”) continuing as an
investor and equal partner. Infoblox delivers the next level
network experience with its Secure Cloud-Managed Network
Services. As the pioneer in providing the world’s most reliable,
secure and automated networks, we are relentless in our pursuit
of next level network simplicity. A recognized industry leader,
Infoblox has more than 8,000 customers, including 350 of the
Fortune 500.
“As the modern enterprise becomes increasingly dispersed
with more connected devices and remote workers,
organizations are looking for solutions to simplify and scale
an increasingly complex network,” said, CEO of Infoblox.
“Customers need cloud-native networks that stretch securely
across multiple clouds and hybrid environments, which our
BloxOne DDI and BloxOne Threat Defense platforms were
built to deliver.”
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Juniper Networks Announces Intent to Acquire Apstra to Transform Data Center Operations
with Leading Intent-Based Networking and Automated Closed Loop Assurance
Juniper Networks a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, announced that the company has
entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Apstra, a leader in intent-based networking and
automated closed loop assurance. Juniper’s strategy is to change the way networks are built,
operated and secured in the cloud era by using AI-driven automation. Apstra accelerates this
by combining next generation network automation based on an open, multivendor
architecture with Juniper’s Data Center networking portfolio based on Junos, the proven
open, programmable and high-scale operating system for next generation data centers and
cloud networks. The combined solution helps public and private cloud builders optimize
operations for application experience as they accelerate on the path toward the self-driving
network™. The Apstra solution does far more than automate repeated operations steps. With
Apstra, architects describe how the data center should behave in terms of outcomes and the
system implements and continuously assures that the network operations and experience
match the intent. These capabilities make Apstra stand apart in providing proactive insights,
along with automated root cause identification and remediation. While safeguarding the
network, Apstra also enables self-service delivery, with its advanced automation accelerating
time to market along with lowering data center outages and OpEx.
CEO, Juniper Networks said “The heart of our business is delivering outstanding
customer experiences within the data center. Our success depends on rapidly introducing
new services, quickly scaling to new demand and delivering the assured experiences our
customers count on every day. Juniper Networks and Apstra joining forces as one
company helps T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, deliver powerful software
solutions for continuous automation, open programmability and AI-driven operations in
the multivendor environments we must have – without compromise.”
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RingCentral Acquires DeepAffects Conversational Intelligence Pioneer to
Enable Smarter Video Meetings
RingCentral, Inc. a leading provider of global enterprise cloud communications, video meetings,
collaboration, and contact center solutions, announced that it has acquired DeepAffects, a leading
conversational intelligence pioneer that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze business
conversations and extract meaningful insights. The acquisition is part of RingCentral’s rapid
innovation to create smarter video meetings. DeepAffects brings powerful AI capabilities that
will enable RingCentral to deliver enhanced pre-meeting, in-meeting and post-meeting
experiences for customers. The DeepAffects platform includes some of the following key
capabilities:
• Multi-modal emotion recognition: Recognizes core emotions and sentiments directly from
voice. It categorizes the conversations on the emotion cues, such as intensity, pitch and more, to
bring emotional awareness insights to participants.
• Multi-speaker recognition and voiceprints: Identifies an individual person based on the
unique characteristics of their voice. It also identifies the speaker at precisely the time they spoke
during the conversation.
• Speech recognition with accent detection:Converts audio to text by applying powerful neural
network models. It recognizes multiple languages and variants to support a global user base with
an accent-aware speech recognition that can transcribe a non-native English speaker’s audio with
very high accuracy.
“As businesses shift to a hybrid model with employees working both in-office and remotely,
it has never been more important to equip them with tools and insights that make meetings
more engaging and productive,” said, president and chief operating officer at RingCentral.
“With DeepAffects, we will bring conversational speech analysis and emotional sentiment
recognition to our platform to deliver a differentiated, best-in-class meetings experience for
our customers. We’re thrilled to welcome the DeepAffects team to RingCentral!”
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Salesforce signs definitive agreement to acquire Slack
Salesforce the global leader in CRM, and Slack Technologies, Inc. the most innovative
enterprise communications platform, have entered into a definitive agreement under
which Salesforce will acquire Slack. Under the terms of the agreement, Slack
shareholders will receive $26.79 in cash and 0.0776 shares of Salesforce common stock
for each Slack share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $27.7 billion
based on the closing price of Salesforce’s common stock on 30th November 2020.
Combining Slack with Salesforce Customer 360 will be transformative for customers
and the industry. The combination will create the operating system for the new way to
work, uniquely enabling companies to grow and succeed in the all-digital world. The
events of this year have greatly accelerated the move by companies and governments to
an all-digital world, where work happens wherever people are – whether they’re in the
office, at home or somewhere in between. They need to deliver connected experiences
for their customers across every touchpoint and enable their employees to work
seamlessly wherever they are. Together, Salesforce and Slack will give companies a
single source of truth for their business and a unified platform for connecting employees,
customers and partners with each other and the apps that they use every day, all within
their existing workflows.
‘Stewart and his team have built one of the most beloved platforms in enterprise
software history, with an incredible ecosystem around it,’ said Chair and CEO,
Salesforce. ‘This is a match made in heaven. Together, Salesforce and Slack will
shape the future of enterprise software and transform the way everyone works in the
all-digital, work-from-anywhere world. I’m thrilled to welcome Slack to the
Salesforce Ohana once the transaction closes.’
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Sumo Logic Announces Third Quarter Fiscal 2021 Financial Results
Third Quarter Fiscal 2021 Financial Highlights
• Revenue was $51.9 million, an increase of 28% year-over-year
• Revenue, excluding our largest revenue customer, was $48.1 million, an increase of 28%
year-over-year
• GAAP gross margin was 74%; non-GAAP gross margin was 77%
• GAAP operating loss was $22.9 million; GAAP operating margin was (44)%
• Non-GAAP operating loss was $2.2 million; non-GAAP operating margin was (4)%
• GAAP net loss was $23.9 million or $0.43 per share
• Non-GAAP net loss was $3.3 million or $0.06 per share
• Net cash used by operating activities was $18.3 million; free cash flow was $(18.7) million
• Cash and cash equivalents was $407.5 million as of October 31, 2020
Business Highlights:
• Completed our initial public offering of 17.0 million shares at $22 per share, for total net proceeds of
$342.7 million.
• Released our 5th Annual Continuous Intelligence Report highlighting increased multi-cloud adoption
and the heightened requirements of cloud architectures and security.
• Hosted Sumo Logic’s 4th annual Illuminate user conference in October. The annual user conference
was held virtually on October 6th and 7th and brought together customers, partners and employees for two
days of education, certification and expert advice to get the most value out of the Sumo Logic Continuous
Intelligence Platform™.
“We delivered strong results in our first quarter as a public company as customers continue to choose
Sumo Logic's Continuous Intelligence Platform™ to transform the tsunami of data generated from
digital transformation into actionable insights,” said president and CEO of Sumo Logic. "Sumo Logic
is the pioneer of continuous intelligence, enabling organizations to accelerate their shift to cloud
computing and modern application architectures. With new use cases continuing to emerge across
operational intelligence, security intelligence and business intelligence, we see a long horizon of
growth ahead of us."
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SUSE Completes Acquisition of Rancher Labs
SUSE, a global leader in true open source innovation, announced it has closed the
acquisition of Rancher Labs, the market leader in Kubernetes management. The
combined company brings together a best-in-class Linux operating system, a
market-leading Kubernetes management platform, and a host of pioneering edge
capabilities that will give enterprises the power to innovate everywhere. SUSE, backed
by a strong 28-year history and dedication to open source innovation, powers
mission-critical applications and systems and is embedded in many devices like
automobiles and medical devices around the world. Rancher was recently named a leader
in The Forrester Wave™: Multicloud Container Development Platforms, Q3 2020 report
and delivers open source software that enables organizations to deploy and manage
Kubernetes at scale, on any infrastructure across the data center, cloud, branch offices
and the network edge. Rancher’s equal commitment to the open source community is
backed by its support for multiple Kubernetes distributions and operating systems. With
no vendor lock-in or limits on where computing takes place, enterprises can seamlessly
innovate across their business from the edge to the core to the cloud. Together, the two
companies will develop solutions that address the complexity for enterprises with a focus
on new innovations in edge computing.
“Our customers have made it clear they want powerful technology that is both
leading-edge and reliable to accelerate business transformation,” said SUSE CEO.
“We have historically delivered innovative solutions that anticipate what enterprises
need, and with Rancher, we are set to make history again. With our powerful and
modular approach to open source software, our customers can count on reliability
and unmatched agility to innovate everywhere – from the data center, to the cloud, to
the edge and beyond.”  
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Zoom Reports Results for Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2021
Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Highlights:
• Revenue: Total revenue for the third quarter was $777.2 million, up 367% year-over-year.
• Income (Loss) from Operations and Operating Margin: GAAP income from operations for the third quarter was $192.2 million,
compared to GAAP loss from operations of $1.7 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2020. After adjusting for stock-based
compensation expense and related payroll taxes, and acquisition-related expenses, non-GAAP income from operations for the third
quarter was $290.8 million, up from $21.3 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2020. For the third quarter, GAAP operating margin
was 24.7% and non-GAAP operating margin was 37.4%.
• Net Income and Net Income Per Share: GAAP net income attributable to common stockholders for the third quarter was $198.4
million, or $0.66 per share, compared to GAAP net income attributable to common stockholders of $2.2 million, or $0.01 per share in
the third quarter of fiscal year 2020.
• Non-GAAP net income for the quarter was $297.2 million, after adjusting for stock-based compensation expense and related
payroll taxes, acquisition-related expenses, and undistributed earnings attributable to participating securities. Non-GAAP net income
per share was $0.99. In the third quarter of fiscal year 2020, non-GAAP net income was $25.2 million, or $0.09 per share.
• Cash: Total cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities, excluding restricted cash, as of October 31, 2020 was $1.9 billion.
• Cash Flow: Net cash provided by operating activities was $411.5 million for the third quarter, compared to $61.9 million in the
third quarter of fiscal year 2020. Free cash flow, which is net cash provided by operating activities less purchases of property and
equipment, was $388.2 million, compared to $54.7 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2020.
Customer Metrics: Drivers of total revenue included acquiring new customers and expanding across existing customers. At the end of
the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, Zoom had:
• Approximately 433,700 customers with more than 10 employees, up approximately 485% from the same quarter last fiscal year.
• 1,289 customers contributing more than $100,000 in trailing 12 months revenue, up approximately 136% from the same quarter
last fiscal year.
• A trailing 12-month net dollar expansion rate in customers with more than 10 employees above 130% for the 10th consecutive
quarter.
“We remain focused on the communication needs of our customers and communities as they navigate the current environment
and adapt to a new world of work from anywhere using Zoom. We aspire to provide the most innovative, secure, reliable, and
high-quality communications platform to help people connect, collaborate, build and learn on Zoom,” said Zoom founder and
CEO. “Strong demand and execution led to revenue growth of 367% year-over-year with solid growth in non-GAAP operating
income and cash flow in our third fiscal quarter. We expect to strengthen our market position as we finish the fiscal year with an
increased total revenue outlook of approximately $2.575 billion to $2.580 billion for fiscal year 2021, or approximately 314%
increase year-over-year.”
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Arm Moves Production-Level EDA to the Cloud with the Help of AWS
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Released in February, the Arm Cortex-M55 CPU quickly became a milestone for the Arm ecosystem because it gave hardware and software developers
the potheyr to incorporate unprecedented ML capabilities into the billions of IoT products coming to market. It also was the first time Arm leveraged
Arm-based AWS Graviton2 instances to perform production-level design validation for its IP. EDA in many ways is a natural fit for the cloud as chip
designers often need simultaneous access to tens of thousands of CPUs to run this compute-intensive task. Meeting tight deadlines can mean consuming
millions of core-htheirs per month. Building a data center to accommodate the gigantic bursts of computing potheyr needed for tomorrow’s complex
devices is theyll beyond the reach of most organizations. Most EDAworkloads, hotheyver, still largely get performed in on-premises data centers owned
and/or managed by semiconductor companies because of the complexities and risks involved in migration. Importantly, design workflows have to be
unified and semiconductor designers have to figure out a balance bettheyen workloads that are best suited for cloud, and which make more sense staying
in-house. To bridge this chasm, Arm has been working with major EDA partners such as Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics’ (a Siemens
Business), and Synopsys to port their EDA tools to Arm. Already they’re seeing significant results in terms of performance and cost savings for
customers. Likewise, AWS continues to expand its portfolio to accommodate these types of workloads. The recently unveiled AWS Graviton 2-based
C6gn instance delivers up to 100 Gbps networking while providing a 40% price-performance advantage over conventional processors.

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Cato Networks Automates SASE Provisioning and Monitoring with New
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Cato Networks, the provider of the world’s first SASE platform, introduced the first API to a global SASE platform. With the Cato Cloud API,
enterprises and MSPs, can automatically provision new sites and policies, and monitor Cato network analytics and security events from SIEMs
and other third-party platforms. The API uses GraphQL and interfaces to the entire Cato Cloud, not one location, replacing what would have been
hundreds of third-party API calls with a single Cato Cloud request. One MSP already using the Cato Cloud API is CDW. The company integrated
Cato Cloud into ServiceNow and other management solutions to enable deeper visibility into the circuits of a managed service client. Five years
ago, Cato reimagined enterprise infrastructure by connecting and securing all edges — remote users, offices, and cloud resources — in a single,
global, cloud-native platform. This unique approach afforded Cato customers not just incredible visibility into the infrastructure but also agility in
the face of change. For example, with the advent of Covid-19, Cato customers switched thousands of users from offices to work-from-anywhere
models in minutes without compromising performance or security. The Cato Cloud API now brings programmatic monitoring and configurability
to the extensive visibility and control provided by Cato’s management application. With Cato Cloud API, Cato exposes to third-party platforms all
of the same granular networking and security events’ data, already correlated with a common context for easy analysis.

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Lumen Introduces Data Access Accelerator
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Businesses worldwide are looking to improve how they manage their data to enhance performance of data-intensive applications. To help these businesses access data
residing anywhere in the world as if it were local, Lumen Technologies has introduced Data Access Accelerator. This managed service, which runs on the Lumen
Platform, allows for unstructured, file-based data to be acquired and processed from different locations. Now businesses can experience improved productivity with near
real-time file access regardless of location, spend less time moving files, and devote more time to gaining valuable insight from their data. It is another way Lumen is
furthering human progress through technology.
Lumen® Data Access Accelerator offers organizations the following benefits:
• Accelerated time-to-value from data with the ability to make high-performance connections to geographically dispersed, file-based data wherever it resides, without
copying or moving first.
• Enhanced user productivity from near real-time access to files and expanding how those files can be used and where they can be processed and manipulated.
• Adaptable infrastructure that can adjust to changing business needs, minimizing reliance on IT to build new infrastructure for data storage and transfer.
• Strengthened data integrity and security from executing on files at the point of origin, instead of creating duplicate copies.
• Maximize competitiveness by obtaining value from data faster than those who struggle with data replication.
• Simplified data management lifecycle with a solution fully managed and monitored by Lumen.

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Enterprise customers can tap into the power of the Lumen platform with
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Modern enterprise applications are increasingly required to operate close to the point of digital interaction. Lumen Technologies now delivers customers the
platform they need to extend their high-bandwidth, data-intensive applications out to the cloud edge with the launch of Lumen Edge Compute. Lumen Edge
Compute brings together the power of the company's expansive global fiber network, on-demand networking, and integrated security to allow for quick and
efficient deployment of applications and workloads at the edge, closer to the action. Lumen customers can leverage low-latency, secure and scalable
high-performance capabilities delivered via bare metal-as-a-service on the Lumen platform. Lumen Edge Compute offers dedicated, pay-as-you-go server
hardware hosted in distributed locations and connected to the Lumen global fiber network. Enterprises and public sector organizations can benefit from:
• Superior application performance from running on edge nodes designed for single-digit millisecond latency over the Lumen global fiber network.
• Improved control and performance with the ability to run applications and workloads on a unified platform. Customers can focus efforts on developing
applications and bringing them to market rather than on time-consuming infrastructure deployment.
• Enhanced security and connectivity with dedicated, single tenancy servers designed to isolate and protect data and deliver high-performance networking
across the company's extensive and deeply peered global backbone.
• Cost savings with the ability to turn bare metal servers on and off as needed with pay-as-you-go flexibility.

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Cisco Announces Three New Webex Devices To Empower the Remote
Worker and Enable a Safe Return to Office
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At WebexOne, Cisco expanded its line-up of collaboration devices designed to empower the remote worker and enable a safe return to the office. The three new
devices joining our intelligent Webex device portfolio are Webex Desk Camera, Webex Desk Hub and Webex Desk. It’s clear that the future of work will involve
a combination of remote and on-site interactions, known as hybrid-work. As the hybrid workplace takes shape, it’s important that you have seamless, smart
experiences whether you’re at home or in the office—or somewhere in between. Together with the rest of Cisco’s intelligent portfolio, the new devices announced
provide such experiences.
Details:
• Webex Desk Camera. Packed with the intelligent features you already know from our video portfolio - like facial recognition and occupancy metrics – the
Webex Desk Camera is perfect for both the home or the office. And in an industry first that no other USB camera can do, you can now mute and unmute your
microphone with a simple gesture—without ever touching your computer.
• Preview: Webex Desk Hub. With many organizations rethinking and reconfiguring their office space, getting back to the office may mean less desk space and
more hotdesking for employees. With the new Webex Desk Hub, it’s super simple to make any available desk your personal space.
• Preview: Webex Desk. Just like it’s “big sister” the Webex Desk Pro, the Webex Desk allows you to engage your audience by using slides or videos as your
backdrop while you present—a feature we call “immersive presenter”.

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TIM Launching Open Caching Solution to Further Improve Video
Streaming Experience Across Its Network in Brazil
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Cisco, Qwilt and Digital Alpha (DA) announced that they are working with TIM Brazil to bring their new Content Delivery Network (CDN) solution to the
Brazilian market with a new technology based on Open Caching. TIM is the first service provider to launch this new business model and Open Caching service in
Brazil. The new CDN solution will be implemented by NEC Brazil. Based on Open Caching, it will help prepare TIM’s network to support increasing data volumes
and to improve the streaming experience across its entire network. Open Caching will also drive new revenue, helping TIM to become an active part of the content
delivery value chain to end users. The solution will help service providers to reduce content delivery costs by introducing CDN capabilities inside their networks
and eliminate deployment costs through the innovative model. Open Caching, an open architecture developed and endorsed by the Streaming Video Alliance,
offers a platform that federates content delivery infrastructure deployed deep inside service provider networks, providing open APIs for content publishers as well
as protection and security mechanisms. It is designed to help service providers quickly deploy an edge CDN footprint, and addresses the needs of global and
regional content providers for more capacity, consistency in content delivery and performance assurance. Digital Alpha, a premier alternative asset manager with
an exclusive collaboration agreement with Cisco, is the investing partner and is providing a first-of-its-kind risk and CAPEX-free funding solution to TIM and
other major telecom service providers around the world. This partnership combines Qwilt’s innovative content delivery platform based on Open Caching with
Cisco’s edge compute and networking infrastructure to deliver the solution as-a-service to service providers of all sizes around the world. BT recently announced
it has implemented the solution in the UK.

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Exponential-e Delivers Future of Work with Citrix®
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The way we work has forever changed. To help companies adapt and thrive, Exponential-e, the leading specialist in Connectivity, Cloud and Unified
Communications solutions, is teaming with Citrix Systems, Inc. to enable work from anywhere, and deliver a superior experience that keeps employees
engaged and productive wherever they happen to be. The managed service provider announced that it has expanded its portfolio of solutions to include Citrix
SD-WAN™, a flexible, cloud-ready solution for optimizing the performance of applications and desktops, that provides for a smooth digital transformation
and fully consistent performance, thanks to an always-on network. The move represents the latest addition to Exponential-e’s growing SD-WAN portfolio.
Powered by the company’s own enterprise-class network, Citrix SD-WAN will be offered to Exponential-e clients across the United Kingdom as a managed
service, with Exponential-e's in-house team of experts providing customers with consultancy and support from the point of implementation onwards.
Positioned first for Application Performance Optimization and Deployment Flexibility in the 2020 Gartner Critical Capabilities for WAN Edge Infrastructure
Citrix SD-WAN provides the flexibility and security organizations need to deliver a consistent, high-performance experience that empowers their teams to
perform at their best. With Citrix SD-WAN, organizations can extend connectivity to remote sites faster and easier than ever without the need for additional
resources. And used in conjunction with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops™, which Exponential-e also offers to clients as part of its portfolio, they can
deliver all of the applications employees need and prefer to use in a simple, unified way to keep them engaged, productive and performing at their best.

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Dell Technologies Intrinsic Security Helps Businesses Build Cyber
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Dell Technologies brings intrinsic security to the forefront with new solutions and services that protect customers’ data. By building security into
its supply chain, services, infrastructure and devices, Dell Technologies helps customers lower risk and become more cyber resilient. Organizations
face increasing pressure to protect themselves and their customers as security risks intensify. The Dell Technologies 2020 Digital Transformation
Index found that data privacy and cybersecurity concerns are the No. 1 barrier to digital transformation.2 Recent Futurum Research also found that
56% of companies experienced an external cyberattack attributed to a vulnerability in hardware or silicon-level security. For years, Dell has
embedded hundreds of professional security engineers across the company to design and build security into its supply chain, services,
infrastructure and devices. From hardware Root of Trust in PowerEdge servers and security below the operating system in Dell PCs, to end-to-end
encryption in PowerMax and cyber recovery solutions in PowerProtect, security is top of mind. More than three-quarters of organizations prioritize
supply chain security during vendor selection3 to address security threats such as counterfeit components, malware and firmware tampering. Dell
Technologies relieves these concerns with new supply chain security offerings and data security-focused services for Dell Technologies
infrastructure and commercial PCs. The new offerings strengthen its comprehensive secure supply chain practices.

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United States Senate Federal Credit Union Taps Dell Technologies to
Deliver Services Faster with New Private Cloud
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Dell Technologies is helping the United States Senate Federal Credit Union (USSFCU) modernize its technology infrastructure and transition to a co-located, fully
dedicated private cloud to provide faster network capabilities to power its business. Dell Technologies has worked with USSFCU to provide modern capabilities
that automate repetitive tasks, rapidly roll out new services, improve latency and make its system easier for its employees to use. Working closely with Dell
Technologies, USSFCU’s new dedicated private cloud will help the credit union deliver financial services and power mission critical workloads such as check
imaging, document management, file services and back-up archiving. USSFCU can better meet the rising demand for new services and a faster overall customer
experience. USSFCU is also using other Dell Technologies solutions across its environment, including Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and Dell EMC PowerSwitch
open networking switches. SmartFabric Director 2.0 helps enterprises simplify management between virtual and physical platforms and improve network
infrastructure. By enabling data center operators to build, operate and monitor an open network, SmartFabric Director helps customers create a software-defined
data center network fabric in minutes. Advancements include:
• Improved data center performance with the introduction of a border gateway protocol to provide customers with data and internet protocol connectivity between
endpoints and across data centers.
• Support for a combination of virtualized and non-virtualized workloads on bare metal servers.
• Enabling automated learning, detection and provisioning by integrating VMware vSphere 7.0 and VMware NSX-T.

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Equinix Expands to Support Singapore's Growth as a Regional Digital
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Equinix, Inc. the world's digital infrastructure company, announced the expansion of Platform Equinix® with its fifth International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Singapore, to be named SG5.
With an initial investment of US$144 million in the first phase, the purpose-built facility will meet growing demand for cloud connectivity for enterprises as they transform digitally. SG5 is scheduled to open
in H1 2021, providing an initial capacity of more than 1,300 cabinets in the first phase. As cloud adoption is accelerating and growing in complexity, businesses increasingly rely on hybrid and multicloud
ecosystems for agility and scalability. This is aligned with Singapore's Smart Nation initiative, which is driving businesses in the country to rapidly undertake digital transformation to build resiliency and stay
competitive in the digital economy. Singapore's advancement toward these goals is positioning the island city-state as a digital hub and gateway for the Asia-Pacific region. With this in mind, the addition of the
SG5 IBX to Platform Equinix will provide essential digital infrastructure support and global connectivity that will enable enterprises to build and expand their cloud ecosystems to fast-track their digital
advantage.
Highlights / Key Facts:
• The first phase of SG5 will have a capacity of 1,300 cabinets and approximately 18,400 square feet (1,710 square meters) of colocation space. At full buildout, the facility is targeted to provide approximately
5,000 cabinets, with a total colocation space of close to 129,000 square feet (12,000 square meters).
• The new purpose-built, nine-story facility will be located at the Tanjong Kling data center park. This will strengthen Equinix's cross-island presence and location diversity, with four of Equinix's current
IBX data centers strategically spread across the island.
• SG5 will be directly connected to the four existing Equinix IBX data centers in Singapore via low-latency dark fiber links and will enable customers to securely interconnect with more than 705 companies
in the market. Customers will be able to choose from a broad range of network services from over 200 providers, and interconnect directly to customers and partners in their digital supply chain.
• As a regional hub and a gateway for Asia-Pacific, Singapore serves as a key location to many multinational corporations in the region. To this end, Equinix has made significant investments into developing
Singapore's digital infrastructure over the years, including an initial investment of US$85.3 million into the establishment of the SG4 IBX, which opened this year.

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TIM, Ericsson and Qualcomm set record for long-distance speed with 5G
mmWave
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TIM, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. have reached record speeds for ultrabroadband long-distance with 5G
technology applied to Fixed Wireless Access (FWA). A speed of 1 Gbps on 26 GHz millimetre-wave (mmWave)
frequencies, at a distance of 6.5 kilometres from the site (1Gbps with UDP protocol, 700Mbps Speedtest Ookla TCP) has
been reached on TIM’s live network. This record confirms the usability of 5G millimetre-wave spectrum, not only for
urban, high speed or high-density-only deployment, but also for wider 5G FWA coverage. It builds on the successes
previously achieved with millimetre-wave in September when the TIM network connection stably exceeded a speed of 4
Gigabits per second in downlink on a live 5G network. The milestone paves the way to provide TIM customers with
enhanced ultrabroadband connections, especially in those areas not yet covered by fibreoptics. It also ensures through
these new 5G Fixed Wireless Access solutions, called ‘Fiber-To-The-Air’, an increasingly widespread and efficient
broadband coverage to the entire country.

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Ericsson to lay technical 6G groundwork in new Hexa-X project
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Hexa-X, the new European 6G flagship research project, brings together a strong consortium of major ICT, industry and academic stakeholders to lay 6G
groundwork and set the direction for future research and standardization focus areas. A new European 6G flagship research project, Hexa-X, will begin on
January 1, 2021, with a focus on developing the vision for future 6G systems and developing key technology enablers to connect human, physical and digital
worlds. The project, which comprises a consortium of European stakeholders representing the full value-chain of future connectivity solutions including
network vendors, communication service providers, verticals, technology providers, and prominent European communications research institutes, represents
a significant step toward laying the technical foundation for 6G wireless systems. In its Outlook for 6G research paper, Ericsson identifies four key drivers
which will emerge in what it calls “the 2030 era” and which the project will seek to address: trustworthiness of the systems, sustainability through mobile
technology efficiency, accelerated automatization and digitalization, and limitless connectivity. The Hexa-X project, which is commissioned to run until June
2023, will be awardedfrom the European Commission under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program. Ericsson, together with
Nokia, will lead the project, working Ericsson will also be represented across three European countries: Sweden, Turkey and Hungary. As technical lead,
Ericsson’s contribution is expected to be pivotal in laying the groundwork for future use cases, distributed MIMO, artificial intelligence and machine learning
(AI/ML), and overall 6G vision and architecture. Ericsson will lead several tasks as well as the work packet on architectural enablers for 6G.

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Ericsson mobile network-on-a-drone PoC could transform emergency
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Communication plays a vital role in emergency response and disaster relief. Extended, flexible and agile network coverage literally saves lives. An Ericsson proof of
concept (PoC) innovation - a temporary cellular network mounted on drones and easy to deploy - could make a major difference to first responders by enabling the
network to track them wherever they go, outdoors or indoor, regardless of terrain. In times of natural disasters or in remote areas, an existing network might fail to provide
necessary coverage and capacity, hindering critical or field operations. Ericsson has conducted a successful proof of concept trial where a 150g cellular network, about
the size of a smartphone, was mounted on a drone and deployed to provide mission-critical voice and video connectivity services in areas with poor or zero network
coverage. Ericsson innovators set themselves a challenge: imagine if field forces are equipped with portable cellular networks that can be carried around anywhere they
go, are easy to deploy in a plug-and-play style and have the flexibility to provide dynamic coverage to track the movement of first responder personnel. Such capabilities
could make a big difference in saving lives and property during emergency or disaster situations. The solution? The equipment for a cellular network doesn’t have to be
as big as a regular base station, which can be about the size of a refrigerator. A cellular network could be similar in size to a mobile phone and mounted on a drone to
provide mobile coverage. The result was a moving, end-to-end network of 150 grams, without battery. The lightweight network comprises both radio and a packet core,
enabling the system to act in isolated mode, without connectivity to a backhaul and the internet. The demo was developed using commercially available hardware and
software products and solutions. Ericsson Research professionals modified the products by integrating several software components. They created a compact hardware
design and battery power supply for attaching all equipment to a drone. The system trial flight times averaged between 10-15 minutes.

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Indosat Ooredoo selects Ericsson Digital Monetization Platform
response
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Indonesian communications service provider, Indosat Ooredoo, has selected Ericsson Digital Monetization Platform (DMP) business
support systems’ solution in a five-year deal spanning charging, billing, product catalog, order care, multi-mediation and dynamic
activation. DMP Converged Charging and Billing will enable rating and monetization of dynamic plans for Ooredoo customers and
enterprise services. The BSS deal builds on a long partnership between Indosat Ooredoo and Ericsson. The companies have partnered
on 2G, 3G, 4G and recent 5G trials. In July of this year Indosat Ooredoo launched AI-powered data driven and customer-centric
managed network operations through the Ericsson Operations Engine. Chief Technology and Information Officer, Indosat Ooredoo,
says: “The digital transformation of our BSS using DMP will enable micro-services architecture and simplify our business processes
which will help us to focus more on digital service excellence. DMP will provide personalized product offering and flexible
integration of third-party services which will enable our customers to enjoy our new services more quickly and efficiently. This
partnership will drive agility and innovation to continue enhancing our customer experience for both consumers and enterprises.“

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Extreme First Networking Provider to Offer a Native Cloud Management
Platform Located and Running in Canada
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Extreme Networks, Inc. a cloud-driven networking company, announced it is the first networking provider to offer a native cloud management platform located and
running in Canada. ExtremeCloud IQ subscribers can now leverage Microsoft Azure data centres in Toronto to manage their enterprise networks, ensuring data privacy
and sovereignty for citizens and providing a local option for global organizations doing business in the region. Additionally, Extreme announced it is committed to
expanding its highly skilled software engineering organization in Thornhill, Ontario by 10 percent with local talent. Extreme is excited to offer a professional
development program targeting interns and new hires from Canada's top universities in technology, including the Universities of Toronto and Waterloo.
Key Facts
• Extreme has R&D facilities all over the world, including San Jose, California; Thornhill, Canada; and Chennai and Bangalore, India. Extreme's Thornhill team
architects and develops innovative solutions for wireless, IoT, edge computing, and AI/ML applications, as well as public and private cloud technologies for the
enterprise.
• The ExtremeCloud IQ network management platform is trusted to manage more than 1.1 million network devices each day and counting, making Extreme the fastest
growing provider of cloud managed networking.
• ExtremeCloud IQ delivers unprecedented cloud choice, offering the industry's most flexible deployment model and only option for an unlimited data source.
• ExtremeCloud IQ is ISO/IEC 27001 certified by the International Standards Organization (ISO).

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Fujitsu Develops Technology to Discover Characteristic Causal Relationships
of Individual Data in Medicine, Marketing, and More
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Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd. has successfully developed a technology that uses AI to discover the characteristic cause-and-effect relationships in various pieces of
data relating to people and things in a variety of fields, with possible applications in medicine, marketing, manufacturing, and more. The technology specifically
addresses the need to isolate and identify characteristics from data in different real-world scenarios. In the medical field, for example, it is necessary to identify the
characteristic genes that affect the development of cancer in individual patients. In the field of marketing, sales representatives need to find the characteristic factors
that lead individual customers to make a purchase. Fujitsu has developed a technology to discover the characteristic causality of individual pieces of data by
quickly extracting all the groups of data that have a common correlation from an entire dataset, and evaluating the causality of each group of data to find the
characteristic causality. In a recent trial demonstration, Fujitsu applied the technology to the gene expression data of colorectal cancer patients, estimating the
characteristic causal relationship that appears in the data of each patient. Fujitsu's researchers succeeded in rediscovering the gene of interest in the colorectal
cancer classification, offering a key to the development of a treatment plan individualized for each patient. In addition to medical care and marketing, this
technology enables use cases including customer credit scoring in finance and identification of the cause of product defects in manufacturing. While the use of AI
to tackle real-world problems continues to accelerate, certain challenges remain in applying AI and machine learning technologies to resolve challenges in a variety
of fields, including medicine and marketing. To identify the key drivers of the problem to be solved and develop a strategy, for instance, it's necessary to not only
look at the correlation between attributes A and B, but also at the causal relationship between A and B, such as "A is the cause of B."

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Fuze Optimizes User Analytics with New Patent for Processing
Heterogeneous Data Streams
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Fuze, the leading cloud-based communications provider for the modern global enterprise, announced that it has been awarded
a new patent for processing and analyzing heterogeneous streams of communications data across multiple users and mediums,
in real time. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued Fuze U.S. Patent No. 10798191B1 on October 6, 2020.
The invention enables the Fuze platform to quickly and effectively analyze all voice, meeting, messaging, and email
communication data and produce a single, complete view of user activity across organizations, departments, or individual
users. This empowers enterprises with actionable information and enhanced insights into Fuze user behavior and patterns.
“Teams are becoming increasingly distributed, relying on communication and collaboration tools that enable them to remain
productive and engaged across a variety of devices and modes,” said president and chief operating officer at Fuze. “It has
never been more important to have real-time access to user data and patterns across voice, meeting, messaging, and email, to
quickly address any challenges and identify opportunities to improve operational processes and user experience.”

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Fuze Enhances Mobile Experience with New Patent for Managing
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Fuze, the leading cloud-based communications provider for the modern global enterprise, announced that it has been awarded a new
patent for controlling communication devices when using a web-based unified communications platform. The patent enables Fuze users
to seamlessly alternate between different devices in real time when communicating across telephony, video, or chat on the Fuze platform.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (UpSPTO) issued Fuze U.S. Patent No. 10834147 on November 10, 2020. The invention provides
methods and systems for controlling a communication device using a web-based unified communication platform, enabling users to
synchronize multiple devices and seamlessly transition between them during a live conversation. For example, with this new patent, Fuze
users can easily alternate between their desktop phone and smartphone, in real time, without needing to end a conversation. “There is no
question that the global pandemic has propelled the way we work. Having the ability to seamlessly communicate and interact across
multiple devices without interruption is essential to the flexible work experience,” said president and chief operating officer at Fuze. “At
Fuze, we are committed to empowering the distributed workforce and this patent enables users to continue their conversations with
colleagues regardless of which device they are communicating on.”

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Garland Technology Introduces New XtraTAP™ Packet Broker All In
One Visibility Solution
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Garland Technology, a leading provider of network TAP, packet broker and cloud visibility solutions, announced the release of the new
XtraTAPTM: Packer broker. These Network TAP Packet Broker hybrids combine Garland Technology's high quality network TAPs with
high density packet brokers, incorporating TAP visibility with filtering, aggregation and load balancing. Streamlining modern visibility
fabrics to save rack space and budget, providing network tools the ultimate in traffic visibility optimization. XtraTAPTM Packet Broker
— is a high density 1U appliance with four 1G/10G passive network TAPs, and 32 1G/10G and four 40G packet broker monitoring ports.
This XtraTAP also comes in a smaller ½ rack appliance with one 1G/10G passive TAP and ten 1G/10G packet broker monitoring ports,
designed to bring added functionality to smaller deployments. The XtraTAP provides full duplex TAP visibility, critical for out-of-band
monitoring. The packet broker functionality provides traffic aggregation, layer 2-4 filtering, session/flow aware load balancing and
configurable hash-based load balancing, utilization alerts, as well as the ability for remote management. This all-in-one appliance is
made, tested and supported in the USA. The continuous release of new products reflects the ongoing innovation Garland Technology is
delivering to their customers worldwide.

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Southern Nevada Transportation to Implement Thermal Imaging Solution to Help
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AT&T*, with Hitachi Vantara, the digital infrastructure and solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. is providing advanced temperature screening technology to the
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) that can detect elevated body temperatures for employees, contractors and visitors at company
facilities. The deployment of thermal analysis units throughout five RTC employee facilities enhances the organization's health and safety measures to help
safeguard staff and riders in the Southern Nevada community. The thermal imaging solution, enabled by Hitachi Vantara's Lumada Video Insights technology and
AT&T's 4G LTE connectivity, uses a thermal camera and machine learning software to flag individuals with an elevated body temperature. The person watching
the monitor will then have the opportunity to visually identify or manually intervene. Providing an average of 1-to-2-second scans per person, the solution is
effective for detecting elevated body temperature which could be an indication of any ailment that causes fever, such as the common cold or the flu, as well as for
COVID-19. RTC is a regional entity that oversees public transportation, traffic management, roadway design and construction funding, transportation planning
and regional planning efforts known as Southern Nevada Strong. The organization oversees areas including Las Vegas and its surrounding communities. The
thermal imaging solution will cover 1,500 employees and contractors, including bus drivers, who come and go throughout RTC facilities each day. The thermal
analysis solution is tailored to RTC's environment. The screener's monitor produces a thermal image by detecting infrared heat from a person and converting it into
an electrical signal. Ahuman silhouette is flagged on the RTC screener's monitor with a red or green light notification determined by a pre-set temperature threshold
and is not saved.

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Hitachi Vantara and Rainforest Connection Analyze Tree Top Eco-Acoustic
Data to Predict and Prevent Illegal Logging
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Hitachi Vantara, the digital infrastructure and solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. and Rainforest Connection, the non-profit that uses real-time data to enable partners to stop
deforestation and poaching, have developed a unique solution that uses eco-acoustic data to predict illegal logging in the world's rainforests. Every two seconds1, an area of rainforest
the size of a football field is destroyed, causing the extinction of hundreds of animal and plant species every year, contributing to droughts, and threatening indigenous reserves across
multiple continents. Deforestation accounts for 10%2 of all worldwide carbon emissions, making it a massive contributor to global warming, with up to 90%3 of deforestation
attributed to illegal logging. Rainforest Connection builds devices called 'Guardians' that are installed high in the rainforest canopy to collect acoustic data from the rainforest. The
company detects chainsaw events in real-time and sends rangers an audio file to review, verify and reference to arrange to go on site. This entire process can take up to 14 days and in
some cases trees are lost by the time rangers arrive. Hitachi Vantara has created a new solution to help predict illegal rainforest activity and shorten rangers' time to site. Using the
company's Lumada data analytics technology, Hitachi Vantara built algorithms that create a baseline of rainforest sounds. This bio-acoustic signature then simplifies and accelerates
the process of identifying acoustic anomalies. For example, before starting a chainsaw, loggers will typically scout appropriate locations in advance. Their presence causes a change
in species' acoustic signatures and signals a disruption to the environment. Hitachi Vantara's solution detects these advance warnings and alerts rangers in real-time. Rangers use this
technology get up to five days lead time to arrive on site. This head start gives rangers valuable time to pre-position themselves and prevent even more deforestation than they can.
With both companies sharing common ideals of social responsibility to the environment, Hitachi Vantara and Rainforest Connection established a partnership in 2019. At Hitachi's
conference, NEXT 2019, Hitachi Vantara announced the partnership and donated $250,000 in cash and in-kind services to Rainforest Connection to support its mission. Hitachi Vantara
and Rainforest Connection have since worked together to co-create and design the bio-acoustic solution. The solution is now live in Sumatra, where over 70% of all deforestation is
illegal4. The solution is scheduled to rollout to the entire network of Rainforest Connection guardians, located in over 11 countries, in 2021.

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Intel Machine Programming Tool Detects Bugs in Code
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Intel unveiled ControlFlag – a machine programming research system that can autonomously detect errors in code. Even in its infancy, this novel, self-supervised system
shows promise as a powerful productivity tool to assist software developers with the labor-intensive task of debugging. In preliminary tests, ControlFlag trained and
learned novel defects on over 1 billion unlabeled lines of production-quality code. In a world increasingly run by software, developers continue to spend a
disproportionate amount of time fixing bugs rather than coding. It’s estimated that of the $1.25 trillion that software development costs the IT industry every year, 50
percent is spent debugging code1. Debugging is expected to take an even bigger toll on developers and the industry at large. As we progress into an era of heterogenous
architectures — one defined by a mix of purpose-built processors to manage the massive sea of data available — the software required to manage these systems becomes
increasingly complex, creating a higher likelihood for bugs. In addition, it is becoming difficult to find software programmers who have the expertise to correctly,
efficiently and securely program across diverse hardware, which introduces another opportunity for new and harder-to-spot errors in code. When fully realized,
ControlFlag could help alleviate this challenge by automating the tedious parts of software development, such as testing, monitoring and debugging. This would not only
enable developers to do their jobs more efficiently and free up more time for creativity, but it would also address one of the biggest price tags in software development.
ControlFlag’s bug detection capabilities are enabled by machine programming, a fusion of machine learning, formal methods, programming languages, compilers and
computer systems. ControlFlag specifically operates through a capability known as anomaly detection. As humans existing in the natural world, there are certain patterns
we learn to consider “normal” through observation. Similarly, ControlFlag learns from verified examples to detect normal coding patterns, identifying anomalies in code
that are likely to cause a bug. Moreover, ControlFlag can detect these anomalies regardless of programming language.

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Intel Debuts 2nd-Gen Horse Ridge Cryogenic Quantum Control Chip
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Intel unveiled Horse Ridge II, its second-generation cryogenic control chip, marking another milestone in the company’s progress toward overcoming
scalability, one of quantum computing’s biggest hurdles. Building on innovations in the first-generation Horse Ridge controller introduced in 2019,
Horse Ridge II supports enhanced capabilities and higher levels of integration for elegant control of the quantum system. New features include the
ability to manipulate and read qubit states and control the potential of several gates required to entangle multiple qubits. The early quantum systems use
room-temperature electronics with many coaxial cables that are routed to the qubit chip inside a dilution refrigerator. This approach does not scale to a
large number of qubits due to form factor, cost, power consumption and thermal load to the fridge. With the original Horse Ridge, Intel took the first
step toward addressing this challenge by radically simplifying the need for multiple racks of equipment and thousands of wires running into and out of
the refrigerator in order to operate the quantum machine. Intel replaced these bulky instruments with a highly integrated system-on-chip (SoC) that
simplifies system design and uses sophisticated signal processing techniques to accelerate setup time, improve qubit performance and enable the
engineering team to efficiently scale the quantum system to larger qubit counts. Horse Ridge II builds on the first-generation SoC’s ability to generate
radio frequency pulses to manipulate the state of the qubit, known as qubit drive. It introduces two additional control features, paving the way for further
integration of external electronic controls into the SoC operating inside the cryogenic refrigerator.

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Update on Intel’s Neuromorphic Ecosystem Growth and Progress
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Intel shared an update on progress within the Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC). The group has grown rapidly since its inception in 2018 and now includes more
than 100 members, with Intel announcing the addition of Lenovo, Logitech, Mercedes-Benz and Prophesee to explore the value of neuromorphic computing for business use
cases. Additionally, Intel summarized a growing body of research results from INRC members that used the company’s neuromorphic research test chip, Loihi. Intel created the
INRC because it believes no one organization alone will effectively unlock the full potential of neuromorphic computing. By collaborating with some of the leading researchers
in this field spanning academia, industry and government, Intel is working to overcome the challenges in the development of neuromorphic computing and to progress it from
research prototypes to industry-leading products over the coming years. Intel and its partners have demonstrated orders of magnitude gains for real-world edge use cases and
are seeing early progress in scaling these workloads to solve larger computational problems. As neuromorphic computing continues to advance, Intel and the INRC have also
uncovered various potential real-world use cases for neuromorphic technology, such as enabling more efficient and adaptive robotics; rapidly searching large databases for
similar content; and allowing edge devices to make difficult planning and optimization decisions in real time. The addition of Lenovo, Logitech, Mercedes-Benz and Prophesee
to the INRC along with existing Fortune 500 and government members showcases the steady maturing of neuromorphic technology and its coming graduation from academic
laboratories into industry applications. Through ongoing development, prototyping and testing of applications built on Intel’s neuromorphic systems, Intel and INRC members
are compiling a growing body of results that show consistent gains across a wide range of workloads. Existing results, such as mimicking the human olfactory system and
bringing event-based touch sensing to robotics, combined with new benchmarks outlined at Intel Labs Day, paint a picture of neuromorphic computing being well-suited for an
emerging class of bio-inspired intelligent workloads that also have commercial relevance.

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Intel Advances Progress in Integrated Photonics for Data Centers
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Intel highlighted industry-leading technological advances toward the realization of the company’s long-standing vision of integrating photonics with low-cost,
high-volume silicon. The advancements represent critical progress in the field of optical interconnects, which address growing challenges around the performance scaling
of electrical input/output (I/O) as compute-hungry data workloads increasingly overwhelm network traffic in data centers. Intel demonstrated advances in key technology
building blocks, including miniaturization, paving the way for tighter integration of optical and silicon technologies. New data-centric workloads are growing every day
within the data center, with ever-increasing data movement from server to server that is taxing the capabilities of the network infrastructure. The industry is quickly
approaching practical limits of electrical I/O performance. As bandwidth demand for compute keeps increasing, electrical I/O isn’t scaling to keep pace, resulting in an
“I/O power wall” that limits available power for compute operations. By bringing optical I/O directly into our servers and onto our packages, we can break down this
barrier, enabling data to move more efficiently. At the Intel Labs virtual event, Intel demonstrated key progress in critical technology building blocks that are fundamental
to the company’s integrated photonics research. These technology building blocks — including light generation, amplification, detection, modulation, complementary
metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) interface circuits and package integration — are essential to achieve integrated photonics. A prototype shown at the event featured
tight coupling of photonics and CMOS technologies, serving as a proof-of-concept of future full integration of optical photonics with core compute silicon. Intel also
showcased micro-ring modulators that are 1000x smaller than traditional components. The large size and cost of conventional silicon modulators have been a barrier to
bringing optical technology onto server packages, which require the integration of hundreds of these devices. These combined results pave the way for the extended use
of silicon photonics beyond the upper layers of the network to inside the server and onto future server packages.

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New Intel oneAPI Toolkits for XPU Software Development
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Intel released production of Intel® oneAPI toolkits for developing high-performance, cross-architecture applications for Intel® CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs,
collectively described as XPUs. The version 2021.1 toolkits deliver oneAPI, an open, standards-based, unified cross-architecture programming model that
provides developers the freedom to choose the best hardware for accelerated computing. In addition to the toolkit release, Lobachevsky University of Nizhni
Novgorod announced a new oneAPI Center of Excellence. The workloads benefit from specialized hardware architectures. However, these architectures have
typically required unique languages and tools, which limits code reuse — narrowing hardware choices and hindering adoption of innovative architectures.
oneAPI’s heterogeneous programming model delivers performance without proprietary lock-in while interoperating with code written in familiar languages
such as C, C++, Fortran and Python, and standards such as MPI and OpenMP. Building on its rich heritage of proven developer tools, Intel’s oneAPI Base
Toolkit includes compilers, performance libraries, analysis and debug tools, and a compatibility tool that aids in migrating code written in CUDA to Data
Parallel C++ (DPC++). Additional toolkits for high performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things and rendering provide tools
and components to help accelerate specialized workloads. Intel oneAPI toolkits enable developers to build cross-architecture applications using a single-code
base across XPUs that take advantage of unique hardware features and lower software development and maintenance costs. Developers can choose the best
architecture for the problem they are trying to solve without needing to rewrite software for the next architecture and platform.

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Intel Announces Its Next Generation Memory and Storage Products
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Intel’s Memory and Storage 2020 event, the company highlighted six new memory and storage products to help customers meet the challenges of digital
transformation. Key to advancing innovation across memory and storage, Intel announced two new additions to its Intel® Optane™ Solid State Drive (SSD)
Series: the Intel® Optane™ SSD P5800X, the world’s fastest data center SSD, and the Intel® Optane™ Memory H20 for client, which features performance
and mainstream productivity for gaming and content creation. Optane helps meet the needs of modern computing by bringing the memory closer to the CPU.
The company also revealed its intent to deliver its 3rd generation of Intel® Optane™ persistent memory (code-named “Crow Pass”) for cloud and enterprise
customers. Intel also announced three new NAND SSDs featuring 144-layer cell memory: the Intel SSD 670p, the company’s next-gen144-layer
quad-level-cell (QLC) 3D NAND SSD for mainstream computing; the Intel SSD D7-P5510, the world’s first-to-market 144-layer triple-level-cell NAND
design; and the Intel SSD D5-P5316, a greater-density, higher-endurance SSD built around the industry’s first 144-layer QLC NAND. Intel Optane persistent
memory is Intel’s vision of a memory and storage solution that offers persistence, capacity, affordability, low latency and memory-like speed. With Intel
Optane persistent memory, Intel has re-architected the memory and storage hierarchy allowing it to be used as a distinct capacity and performance tier for
memory and storage. With this approach, it is possible to create a two-tiered memory architecture where DRAM is the performance tier and persistent
memory is the capacity tier. In the case of storage, Optane persistent memory is used as the performance tier to the NAND capacity tier.

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Keysight Launches Compact DC Electronic Loads for the Bench
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Keysight Technologies, Inc. a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure
the world, announced the Keysight EL30000 Series bench DC electronic loads. These instruments offer a compact bench form factor with a built-in data logger
that delivers insights for immediate, real-time decisions, and minimizes the need for additional instruments with an accurate system that measures voltage, current
and calculates power. An electronic load is an instrument designed to test sources by presenting various resistances and measuring the response. Device
manufacturers and design engineers use electronic loads to test power devices such as power supplies, batteries, battery modules, solar panels, fuel cells, LED
drivers and power converters. The new Keysight EL30000 Series electronic load systems enable device manufacturers and design engineers to:
• Measure voltage and current accurately with a fully integrated voltmeter and ammeter that simultaneously measures the device under test (DUT) voltage and
current.
• Capture measurements over time with the built-in data logger that continuously logs voltage, current and power to a data file.
• Create, capture and display fast transients with a dynamic load profile and built-in scope mode that digitizes the voltage and current, and shows the results,
reducing measurement set up complexity.
• Simplify tests with standard operating modes: constant voltage (CV), constant current (CC), constant resistance (CR) and constant power (CP).
• Connect with USB, LAN (LXI Core) and optional general-purpose interface bus (GPIB) to easily measure, capture and display results.

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Keysight Launches New 800G Test Solutions to Speed Development of
Next Generation Data Center Technologies
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Keysight Technologies, Inc. a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate
innovation to connect and secure the world, has launched new 800G test solutions for validating electrical and optical interfaces to
speed development of next generation data center technologies, including the first 100Gb/s transmitter and receiver pre-conformance
test solution. Service providers and data center operators are seeking 800G technology to meet a growing demand in network capacity
at the desired cost and power consumption targets. This is primarily driven by data-hungry applications such as video conferencing,
streaming and digital entertainment, which are delivered via wireless technologies such as 4G, 5G and Wi-Fi. Keysight's new
portfolio of electrical and optical analysis solutions enable an 800G ecosystem, consisting of optical components, chipset, switch and
semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) vendors, as well as system integrators, to speed design, development, test and validation across
the entire design cycle. Keysight's new 800G test solutions allow users to fully explore design margins, while addressing design and
conformance validation challenges in an 800G transceiver market, which is expected to reach $2.5 billion by 2029 according CIR.

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Lenovo Data Center Group Delivers New Data Management Solutions
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Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) Data Center Group (DCG) announces new end-to-end data management solutions allowing customers of all
sizes to harness data more securely and efficiently, from edge to core to cloud, with a single set of tools and capabilities for a smarter way forward. The
new Lenovo ThinkSystem DM5100F brings high-performance, low-latency all-NVMe storage at an affordable price point, enabling customers of all
sizes to enhance analytics and AI deployments, while accelerating applications’ access to data. The Lenovo DM Series storage systems now include
new S3 Object support, to create a next generation unified data management platform. This platform allows customers to manage and analyze all data
types (block, file and object) within a single storage platform, accelerating the processing of data analytics while reducing infrastructure costs. These
enhancements create expanded data protection capabilities, with transparent failover and management of object storage natively. Additionally, with
Lenovo DM Series storage, customers can add cold-data tiering from hard drives to the cloud, or replicate data to the cloud. This enables an economical
multi-cloud strategy for storage, reducing the overall cost of data management. To help mitigate data management costs, Lenovo delivers an enhanced
Lenovo ThinkSystem Intelligent Monitoring 2.0 software solution, a cloud-based management platform that uses AI to simplify and automate the care
and optimization of Lenovo’s ThinkSystem storage environment. Customers can monitor and manage storage capacity and performance for multiple
locations from a single cloud-based interface, predict issues before they happen, and receive prescriptive guidance.

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Lenovo Introduces Zero-Touch Enrollment on Lenovo Chrome OS Devices
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Lenovo announced its latest offering to support remote workers: zero-touch enrollment is now available on Lenovo Chrome
OS devices. As organizations help employees adapt to new “work-from-anywhere” models, many IT teams are learning just
how prepared (or unprepared) they are for the transition. With entire workforces now offsite, IT must confront getting the right
devices to employees while securing endpoints, surfacing new cloud-based tools, managing overburdened help desks and
more. In the past, IT administrators had to manually enroll each Chrome OS device into their domain, requiring manual IT
efforts. With zero-touch enrollment, the device drop-ships pre-registered and ready for use by the end user with all the
organization’s security policies, applications and profiles. This eliminates the need for manual device enrollment. Zero-touch
enrollment is built with security in mind as hardware-backed attestation helps secure device identity to prevent spoofing
attacks. This offering goes live on the ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook starting December 15 and will expand to other
Lenovo Chrome OS devices throughout 2021.

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Marvell Introduces Carrier-Optimized Ethernet Access and Edge Switches
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Marvell introduced its new Prestera® DX 7300 series of Ethernet switches, designed to intelligently enable secure and efficient data movement throughout carrier access
and metro networks. With 5G deployments already rolling out, network operators are tasked with accelerating their path to transformation as the combined demands of
5G and IoT traffic drive a shift in network infrastructure. To meet ever-increasing bandwidth demands, metro networks are also seeing a move to pluggable 400GE
coherent optics, which enables the carrier and data center edge with high-capacity, long-reach connectivity directly from an Ethernet switch. In order to address the
stringent and emerging requirements of 5G carrier and 400GE metro optical networks, the low-power, small footprint Prestera DX 7300 switches incorporate accurate
time-sensitive features, integrated MACsec and advanced processing functionality, and support port speeds up to 400Gbps. Innovative radio access network (RAN)
disaggregation and virtualization solutions depend on the network’s ability to deliver high-performance deterministic connectivity for fronthaul streams within
ubiquitous and flexible Ethernet-bridged networks. To support the new RAN deployment models for radio access fronthaul applications, the Prestera DX 7300 family
integrates highly accurate time synchronization, 802.1CM Time-Sensitive-Network (TSN) for fronthaul, network slicing and native eCPRI-aware processing. The
switches are part of Marvell’s open radio access network (open RAN) and virtualized radio access network (vRAN) platform solutions, also announced. Ever-increasing
processing demands in the metro data center are driving the need for high-bandwidth data movement at an economical cost. The Prestera DX 7300 series of switches
integrate 56Gbps SerDes, high-capacity MACsec and advanced processing that can be matched with pluggable 400G-ZR optical modules. This functionality enables
system manufacturers to develop solutions for multi-access edge computing (MEC) and data center interconnect (DCI) applications that benefit from traffic efficiency,
openness and the optimized cost structure of packet Ethernet networks.

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Marvell and Analog Devices Announce 5G Massive MIMO Radio Unit
Solutions
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Marvell and Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) announced an advanced 4G/5G radio unit (RU) design that supports high antenna counts and
multi-gigabit per second throughput for both integrated RAN and Open RAN deployments. Leveraging the companies’ complementary
radio silicon and RU software suite, the next-generation massive MIMO RU design that results from this collaboration will deliver power,
weight and performance improvements inherent with ASIC solutions for both integrated RAN and Open RAN deployments. As 5G
deployments continue to ramp, network operators are increasingly seeking higher capacity RU systems to deliver the performance
expected by their customers. The ADI-Marvell solution will enable a growing number of OEMs to bring competitive solutions to the
market, enabling additional capacity for existing radio sites. With an ongoing shift toward Open RAN, the newly launched solutions will
provide native support for O-RAN split 7.2x functionality. The 5G massive MIMO RU solutions will incorporate ADI’s next-generation
transceiver technology, including an advanced, programmable digital front-end. Marvell is providing its baseband silicon, which offers
beamforming and a lower L1 software supporting O-RAN split 7.2. The solutions provide complete system-level hardware reference
designs developed in collaboration with Benetel, a leading innovator in RU solutions. Initial prototypes are expected in latter half of 2021.

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Marvell Expands 5G Technology Leadership with End-to-End Open RAN
and Virtualized RAN Platform Solutions
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Marvell introduced its 5G O-RAN portfolio with the launch of its open radio access network (open RAN) and virtualized radio access network (vRAN)
platform solutions. With Open Ran Alliance compliance, Marvell’s O-RAN platform solution brings established, leading-edge DPU and connectivity
technology to the emerging open RAN and vRAN markets. Marvell’s OCTEON Fusion® baseband processors, OCTEON® multi-core DPUs and Prestera®
switches have enabled leading telecom original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to successfully deploy hundreds of radio networks worldwide. Open RAN
architectures provide operators with a choice of infrastructure supplier options for RAN components and increased flexibility. Open RAN implementations
have moved beyond lab trials and greenfield deployments to mainstream mobile and private networks. Most implementations have relied on FPGA or
GPU-based PHY layer acceleration with associated cost and power compromises. Marvell’s O-RAN platform now provides a purpose-built, cloud native,
highly programmable solution to address capacity, power, cost and time-to-market challenges presented by current architectures. Marvell’s O-RAN platform
includes the industry-leading OCTEON Fusion baseband processor family that is currently shipping in volume to tier 1 OEMs. Marvell’s newly announced
OCTEON Fusion-O™ processors maintain the full capabilities of the OCTEON Fusion family including 15 Gbps capacity and support for 200MHz
channelization, while adding specific O-RAN functions such as eCPRI compression/decompression and split 7.2 interfaces with integrated fronthaul.
Additionally, the platform includes key reference software, allowing OEMs, ODMs and network operators to rapidly bring O-RAN compatible products to
market.

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Nexthink Unveils the Power of Personalized, Right-Sized IT at
Experience Everywhere
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Nexthink, the leader in digital employee experience (DEX) management, unveiled powerful new capabilities enabling
end-user computing (EUC) professionals to manage and deliver more tailored and cost-effective IT services based on
greater insight into the needs of the dynamic workforce. By understanding employees’ technology and workplace
needs, enterprises will be better able to proactively prioritize issues and deliver a superior experience for the entire
workforce, instead of reactively chasing after problems on a one-off basis. These innovations multiply the value of
digital employee experience management, helping organizations reduce operational and technology costs, improve
end-user adoption of new technologies, and increase employee satisfaction. From proactive incident reduction to
automated remediation to real-time visibility into employee sentiment and more, Nexthink enables organizations to
embrace and manage change effectively.

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Nokia and Vi CSR deploy SmartAgri solution to enhance productivity of
50,000 farmers in India
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Nokia and Vodafone India Foundation, the CSR arm of Vi, have announced that they have deployed a Smart Agriculture solution that aims to improve
the productivity of farmers in India. The pilot project is being implemented in 100 locations in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra and will
benefit over 50,000 farmers in the region by enhancing their productivity and income. The smart agriculture-as-a-service solution, which utilizes
Nokia’s Worldwide IoT Network Grid (WING) solution, will ensure that precise and practical data is sent to farmers enabling them to enhance
productivity. The unique CSR initiative will be showcased at Vi booth (Hall #3) at India Mobile Congress 2020 from 8-10 December. Over 400 sensors
have been deployed over 100,000 hectares of farmland to collect various data points which are then analysed by a cloud-based and localized Smart
Agriculture app. The app provides local language support as well as weather forecast and irrigation management information. The sensors generate
insights that helps to improve soy and cotton crop yields. Crop management through WING can include smart irrigation, smart pesticide control,
proactive information sharing frameworks on crops and weather, as well as a platform for commodity exchange. The use case can also employ Remotely
Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) technology or drones instead of traditional sensors for crop management. Smart Agriculture is a leading use case that
India is exploring in the 5G era. The complete end-to-end solution from Nokia WING is supported by deep domain expertise and an agriculture partner
eco-system. Combined, it will help Vi CSR improve agricultural practices by introducing IoT-based solutions.

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Nokia starts production of next generation 5G equipment in India
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Nokia announced that it has begun the production of next generation 5G equipment at its state-of-the-art manufacturing site in Chennai,
Southern India. Nokia was the first to manufacture the 5G New Radio in India, and it is now producing the cutting-edge Nokia AirScale
massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (mMIMO) solution. The equipment is already being exported to many countries in advanced
stages of 5G deployment. Nokia's Chennai plant is a significant contributor to the government's `Make in India' initiative to boost
domestic manufacturing designed to position India as a manufacturing hub for the latest telecom gear. Since it was established in 2008,
Nokia has invested over INR 600 crore since in developing a best-in-class manufacturing facility which is spread over 140,000 square
meters. This factory has manufactured more than 5 million telecom network equipment units over the years. The factory was the first to
deploy India’s first ‘real-world’application of Industry 4.0 including AR/VR, automation and analytics, to enhance operational efficiency
and productivity. Nokia is now manufacturing mMIMO based 5G products with the latest 64-Transmit/64-Receive (64T64R)
configuration. Massive MIMO is a key element of 5G technology that delivers high capacity, especially in densely populated locations.
It brings together antennas at the transmitter and receiver to ensure improved speed and spectrum efficiency.

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