ZTE and China Telecom launch the world's first commercial 5G magnetic levitation high-speed network test

The test achieved extremely high data rates in ultra-high mobility

29 November 2019, Shenzhen, China: ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, today announced that ZTE and China Telecom have jointly launched the world's first commercial 5G maglev (magnetic levitation) high-speed network test in Shanghai, China. The test measured communications within a train travelling at a maximum speed of 500KM/h. During the test, the 5G commercial terminal was stable and easy to support various high performance mobile broadband services, demonstrating that the 5G network can provide high-speed maglev trains with ideal broadband communications.

Shanghai Maglev is the world's first maglev line for commercial operation and at present it is also the fastest commercial high-speed train. It has been a business card for Shanghai and even for China since its operation. Built by China Telecom and ZTE together, the 5G network uses a full set of ZTE 5G system equipment, perfectly enabling passengers to get high-speed data access on a quick journey and enjoy services like mobile working, video conferencing, HD/UHD video or interactive games, ensuring a brand-new communication experience.

Due to special scenario restrictions, providing high-quality network coverage for high-speed trains has always been a challenge for both operators and equipment vendors. When a 5G network is deployed in a higher frequency than 2G, 3G and 4G networks, the situation will be even less ideal. To solve these problems, ZTE and China Telecom have made breakthroughs in multiple aspects by constantly challenging the technical limits through technological discussions and tests. With proprietary doppler frequency shift channel compensation technology, wireless channel deterioration caused by high-speed movement is eliminated. The solution can support a moving speed of over 500 KM/h, meeting the speed requirements of various high-speed trains. Besides, Multi-RRU (Remote Radio Unit) combination can realize single cell 6-12km belt shape coverage, reduce 90 percent of inter-cell handover and ensure continuous and stable access. Compared with the traditional 2T2R solution, ZTE is the first to introduce 8T8R RRU for high-speed railway coverage in the 5G industry. Multi-channel equipment, combined with 5G featured channels and beam scanning technology, can enhance the coverage significantly. It is also worth mentioning that the solution is implemented through technical innovation at the base station network side and has no special requirements for terminals.

The 5G network solution used for the Shanghai Maglev line can provide a complete set of network equipment for HSR (High Speed Rail) broadband communication. The radio units can support global mainstream 5G bands like N41 and N78. The top speed of Shanghai Maglev train is the highest among commercial trains in the world, which implies that this 5G network solution can be applied to various high-speed railways and maglev lines worldwide and has great market potential.

Over the years, ZTE and China Telecom have jointly provided broadband information channels for high-speed rail transit. LTE coverage has been deployed for multiple high-speed railway lines, which was highly appraised by users. Going forward, the two parties will continue to optimize the commercial performance of the 5G networks and steadily promote tests and verification according to specific service characteristics to facilitate ubiquitous high-speed broadband access.

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ZTE is a provider of advanced telecommunications systems, mobile devices and enterprise technology solutions to consumers, operators, companies and public sector customers. As a part of ZTE’s strategy, the company is committed to providing customers with integrated end-to-end innovations to deliver excellence and value as the telecommunications and information technology sectors converge. Listed in the stock exchanges of Hong Kong and Shenzhen (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), ZTE sells its products and services in more than 160 countries.

To date, ZTE has obtained 35 commercial 5G contracts in major markets, such as Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (MEA). ZTE commits 10 percent of its annual revenues to research and development and takes leadership roles in international standard-setting organizations.

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ZTE Corporation
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Compatible network accessories for business customers: AddOn Networks and KOMSA enter into sales partnership

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Cirencester, UK, 28 November 2019 – AddOn Networks, the largest global supplier of compatible transceivers and optical connectivity solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Saxon ITK distributor and service provider, KOMSA.

The partnership will see KOMSA expand its network range with complementary connectivity products from AddOn Networks. KOMSA’s trading partners and their business customers will also benefit from extended warranty periods and German-language support from KOMSA's Technical Assistance Centre.

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"With KOMSA, we have opted for a partner who is closely linked to the resellers and can assess which products and services trade partners need. Together we want to broaden our offer for system houses and business resellers in the DACH region," said Sam Walker, VP Sales for EMEA at AddOn Networks. "AddOn offers KOMSA trade partners a wide range of solutions with very good quality at competitive prices and with short delivery times."

With this new partnership, KOMSA is able to offer its trade partners the entire AddOn range with individually extended warranty periods. Technical service and customer support in the event of a fault is also provided by the Technical Assistance Centre, enabling customers and partners to have very complex problems and malfunctions explained and rectified in their native language. In addition, KOMSA makes it possible to exchange defective devices quickly and offers training courses on the products at the KOMSA Academy on request.

"We are very pleased about the new partnership with AddOn," explains Steffen Ebner, B2B Sales Director of the KOMSA Group. "The products offer our specialist trade and system house partners a great advantage in marketing to business customers as the AddOn products are 100 percent compatible with more than 150 manufacturers including Cisco, HP, Juniper, Alcatel and Brocade. AddOn works very closely with companies and understands the current realities of their IT infrastructures where products from different manufacturers are often installed through step-by-step renewals."

Interested partners can obtain further information on the partnership with AddOn Networks from their customer advisor. For more information about AddOn Networks please visit the website online.

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About AddOn Networks:
AddOn Networks is the industry leader in fully compatible fiber optic transceivers and high-speed cabling for more than two decades. Operating in over 25 countries, AddOn has achieved long-standing channel partnerships through continuity of supply, and its extensive experience with solutions for data center, enterprise, and service provider networks. With a complete product offering ranging from 100Mb to 400Gb and compatibility across more than 150 OEM manufacturers, AddOn guarantees high quality products backed by a lifetime warranty and around the clock expert support.

For more information, please visit www.addonnetworks.com.

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HUBER+SUHNER to launch unique 5G-ready indoor antenna at Microwave Workshops & Exhibition (MWE 2019, Japan)

Discover the SENCITY® Occhio MIMO 4x4 antenna – featuring a sleek futuristic design and smart mounting features, the antenna provides perfect RF performance

With 5G on the horizon, operators will require access to more bandwidth than ever before. Reliable, fast coverage, extended capacity and simplistic installation processes are vital factors and top priorities for operators as they look for the best technology on the market to support their journeys to 5G.

HUBER+SUHNER SENCITY Occhio Antenna

Along that journey, always-on mobile communications, especially within indoor environments has become critical. In Pacifico Yokohama, HUBER+SUHNER will unveil the key to indoor small cell connectivity, SENCITY Occhio, the latest addition to its antenna portfolio.

Among its attributes, the SENCITY Occhio MIMO DAS (Distributed Antenna System) or small cell antenna, offers the operator 5G coverage, a simple, time-saving installation process and an attractive industry preferred design with a small form factor.

“The SENCITY Occhio MIMO antenna is a unique combination of stylish design and innovative engineering which appeals to both interior designers and architects,” said Claudia Bartholdi, Product Manager in the Radio Frequency Division at HUBER+SUHNER. “The new antenna has received the 'Red Dot Award for Product Design 2019' in the category communication technology. The design, developed by Christian Keller (erfindergeist GmbH), convinced the international jury with its unique brand identity.”

“What once was a trade-off between electrical performance and design, SENCITY Occhio mitigates these concerns and is robust, reliable and enables a simplified densification of the network in an unobtrusive, attractive design. The antenna’s innovative smart-connect system guarantees a quick and efficient installation process.”

Thanks to its multiband capability between 1.7-6 GHz and 2x2/4x4 MIMO configurations, the SENCITY Occhio antenna fulfils the multiple requirements of the 5G standard and equally meets current 4G applications.

As standard, the antenna utilises the latest NEX10® connector interface, with outstanding PIM (Passive Intermodulation) performance. Cable assemblies to connect the SENCITY Occhio to any other interface are also available upon customer request.

Attendees of Microwave Workshops & Exhibition 2019 can find HUBER+SUHNER in Exhibition Hall at stand C-04 (M-RF Co., Ltd.) from 27-29 November in Pacifico Yokohama, Japan. For more information on the SENCITY Occhio antenna please visit https://www.hubersuhner.com/en.

To arrange a briefing or product demonstration, please contact the HUBER+SUHNER team on the details below.

HUER+SUHNER Group
Axel Rienitz
Trade Media
Phone +41 44 952 2560
pressoffice@hubersuhner.com

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HUBER+SUHNER Group
HUBER+SUHNER is a global company with headquarters in Switzerland which develops and manufactures components and system solutions for electrical and optical connectivity. With cables, connectors and systems – developed from the three core technologies of radio frequency, fiber optics and low frequency – the company serves customers in the communication, transportation and industrial sectors. The products deliver high performance, quality, reliability and long life – even under harsh environment conditions. Our global production network, combined with group companies and agencies in over 80 countries, puts HUBER+SUHNER close to its customers. Further information on the company can be found at hubersuhner.com.

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ZTE and China Telecom complete the industry's first uplink enhancement FAST verification

27 November 2019, Shenzhen, China - ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, today announced its partnership with China Telecom to complete the verification of the industry's first FAST (FDD Assists Super TDD) solution at 2.1GHz and 3.5GHz in Shenzhen, China.

Based on China Telecom’s uplink enhancement technology, this solution enables spectrum to reach its full potential by integrating time and frequency domains and constructing high-quality 5G networks with excellent performance and coverage.

China Telecom’s innovation of the "uplink enhancement" concept enhances the 5G uplink by using low frequency bands, such as 1.8GHz and 2.1GHz, to improve 5G network coverage and performance. For China Telecom's existing 2.1GHz FDD and 3.5GHz TDD bands, ZTE and China Telecom has launched the uplink enhancement FAST (FDD Assists Super TDD) solution.

Based on the complementary qualities of TDD and FDD, in 3.5GHz weak uplink area, the terminal can transmit data at a high speed based on the 2.1 GHz frequency band. In addition, it can continue to make use of the advantages of 3.5GHz in bandwidth and large-scale array antennas to benefit from the downlink ultra-high rate.

In other areas with quality 3.5GHz coverage, the potential of 2.1GHz and 3.5GHz frequency bands can be fully utilized. This enables the terminal to transmit uplink data, in conventional UL CA mode, via three channels on two frequency bands at the same time. In the time domain, all the uplink frequency bands of FDD are fully utilized.

In addition, by deeply analyzing the features of frequency division duplex at 2.1GHz and time division duplex at 3.5GHz, the innovative CA with transmission mode switching in time domain, is based on multiple uplink carriers for time division transmission. This makes the full use of downlink timeslot resources.

To make the most effective use of the uplink resources of TDD and FDD, the terminals that only support two Tx-channel transmissions can flexibly switch between two channels of NR 3.5GHz and one channel of FDD 2.1GHz. At the same time, the downlink throughput can be improved in the FDD and TDD band aggregation mode, so that the best performance can be obtained in the uplink and downlink directions in the complicated wireless environment.

The test shows that, the uplink rate of a single user can be up to 40% higher than that of a single carrier (3.5GHz) when time division multiplexing (CA) is used. When conventional UL CA is used, the maximum increase of the single-user uplink rate is 60%. In addition, through high and low-frequency aggregation, the downlink user experience rate in both conditions can be increased by 20%, compared with a 3.5GHz single carrier.

In the future, ZTE will continue to partner with China Telecom to explore the application of new 5G technologies and functions in commercial networks, improve network quality, build 4G and 5G top-quality networks and provide better network services.

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ZTE is a provider of advanced telecommunications systems, mobile devices, and enterprise technology solutions to consumers, operators, companies and public sector customers. As a part of ZTE’s strategy, the company is committed to providing customers with integrated end-to-end innovations to deliver excellence and values as the telecommunications and information technology sectors converge. Listed in the stock exchanges of Hong Kong and Shenzhen (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), ZTE sells its products and services in more than 160 countries.

To date, ZTE has obtained 35 commercial 5G contracts in major markets, such as Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (MEA). ZTE commits 10 percent of its annual revenues to research and development and takes leadership roles in international standard-setting organizations.

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ZTE Corporation
Tel: +86 755 26775189
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Controllis launches carbon neutral power solution for off-grid and poor-grid telecom sites

Controllis Zero offsets CO₂ emissions from power production with sustainable solar and biofuel system

Cambridge 27th November 2019. According to the GSMA there are more than one million off-grid / poor-grid telecoms sites in use globally, which combined are generating a carbon footprint greater than countries such as Nepal, Cambodia and Cameroon. By leveraging the environmental benefits of biofuels and supporting ethically approved CO₂ offsetting processes such as tree planting or renewable energy sources for remote communities, Controllis Zero is poised to help large Telco’s meet their legal, shareholder and green obligations.

The Controllis Zero biofuel lifecycle

Controllis, a leading supplier of hybrid power systems for mobile network operators (MNOs) and tower companies, has leveraged its experience to develop a carbon neutral site power system to help support a net zero emissions economy, established by the Paris Agreement.

Controllis Zero will allow off-grid and poor-grid sites to produce cleaner energy overall by replacing their dependency on fossil fuels with an eco-friendly solar and biofuel alternative.

Based on Controllis’ proven and globally deployed Modular48 DC power system, (which already reduces carbon emissions by up to 90 percent by harnessing solar power and rechargeable lithium ion batteries), Controllis Zero will allow MNOs and tower companies to overcome the final 10 percent of the CO₂ emissions challenge.

Controllis has been able to achieve this carbon-neutral status by considering the carbon cycle process in its entirety and adapting its unique DC generator technology to run on E100 bioethanol instead of diesel. All this is accomplished without compromising network uptime.

“With global warming increasing and net zero targets looming, companies are under increasing pressure to operate in a more sustainable way”, explains Simon Albury, Managing Director of Controllis. “Controllis Zero has been developed with efficiency initiatives such as OFGEM’s ECO in mind and any CO₂ released during energy production is offset by a carbon-neutral biofuel manufacturing process.”

The Controllis Zero biofuel lifecycle

• The manufacture of E100 bioethanol during the plant growth stage is carbon negative because CO₂ is converted into oxygen by photosynthesis


• CO₂ emissions during bioethanol fermentation and distillation are counterbalanced by ethical offset programs supported by the United Nations


• E100 bioethanol is shipped to different locations using the greenest modes of land and sea transport. The emissions for the transport phase are also offset.


• Controllis’ hybrid solar lithium ion solution is the principal power source up to 90% of the time. The remaining 10% is produced by Controllis’ bioethanol-powered generator

Controllis Zero also comprises powerful and secure remote monitoring and analytical tools, giving onsite and offsite maintenance teams meaningful and actionable insights into all aspects of the system’s power output and performance levels in real time.

Controllis Zero will be commercially available from Q1 2020.

About Controllis
Controllis is a power systems hardware and software company headquartered in the UK and working with partners and customers world-wide. The Controllis products range from standalone DC generator units up to fully integrated hybrid renewable systems. Our advanced cloud-based remote management system provides detailed visibility and analytics of your power network performance in real-time.

The Controllis mission is to provide cost-effective carbon neutral power anywhere by using our unique technology to deliver reduced operating costs, lower risks and provide better network insights to customers – Better Power Anywhere.

Contact information
Controllis: www.controllis.com
simon.albury@controllis.com

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In-depth knowledge and advanced data are crucial to saving costs, improving quality and reducing timescales of street works, says Gaist

Skipton, UK, 26 November 2019: With an ever-increasing number of street works taking place across the UK’s highway networks each year, telecommunications providers need to take advantage of in-depth analysis and data in order to cut costs, improve quality and speed up widescale fibre deployment, Gaist Head of Business Development, Ian Job said today.

Addressing the specialist consultants at a private street works conference, Job highlighted how in-depth imagery before and after the necessary street works can provide crucial, time-stamped records of the quality of work carried out, adding value and validation for any subsequent warranty claims that may arise to make it easier for all stakeholders.

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“Street works from telecoms and utilities companies are commonplace on the UK’s road and footway networks. In order for contractors to successfully roll out ultra-fast and reliable broadband, up to date, detailed intelligence of the UK’s carriageways and footways including the type, condition, access and location of existing assets, is critical,” advised Job.

While the primary purpose of highways is to facilitate safe and convenient travel, roads also serve an important role in accommodating the essential services on which people rely, such as water, gas, electricity and telecoms. To ensure that these services operate reliably, utility companies must occasionally maintain, repair, upgrade and install apparatus under the roads and pavements while ensuring that they are completed as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Having a detailed overview of the working environment and existing infrastructure is vital to the accurate planning, design and budgeting of installation, maintenance and upgrade projects on the highway network, advised Job.

According to the Asphalt Industry Alliance’s 2019 Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance Survey the number of street works pertaining to utilities openings increased by nearly 10% over the last year, totalling more than 2 million across England and Wales. In many cases, utilities works are completed up to standard and within the projected timeframes, but in some circumstances the works can cause delay and disruption on the road networks. This delay can be intensified when street works are mis-managed or unexpected problems arise.

Local authorities are spending an average of 8% of their carriageway maintenance budget addressing pre-emptive works associated with digging up the ground in order to maintain, repair or upgrade utility services. This amounts to an average of £1.1 million per local authority, or £181.4 million across England and Wales.

“Managing street works can place a strain on already stretched local authority road maintenance budgets,’ said Job. “Early insight into the condition, access and location of existing assets of the working environment can reduce the risk of unexpected delays and additional costs, time and disruption.”

As network providers set their sights on 5G and widespread fibre rollout looks set for the future, network infrastructure is going to become increasingly important. Keeping the costs and timescales of fibre deployment projects to a minimum is going to be crucial to the future network infrastructure, emphasised Job.

Job proceeded to highlight how the in-depth knowledge and advanced data provided by Gaist’s solutions can help operators to plan networks cost-effectively, providing significant savings through improving installation times and minimising disruption to the road network at the same time. With detailed and time-stamped imagery before and after the works, Gaist’s solutions also offers validation for stakeholders should any claims arise.

“The rollout of fibre is no easy task but with our technology we can minimise the unnecessary difficulties and support faster fibre rollout across the UK,” added Job. “In order to ensure accurate planning, budgeting, design and delivery, operators need to understand the critical infrastructure assets of the working environment.”

Gaist’s unique infrastructure digital twin of the UK’s roads and pathways creates a precise view of the highway network that allows network and utility providers to minimise the risk of unexpected setbacks and achieve quantifiable cost savings. Time stamped and location specific imagery of the entire route can provide an audit trails in the event of quality issues further down the line.

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About Gaist
Gaist is a multi-award-winning highways surveying and mobile mapping company that uses digital processes and advanced data-science techniques to provide deep insights about the condition of roads and roadscape to international organisations across the public sector, government and utilities.

Gaist provides innovative and accurate highways condition surveys and inspections that allows its customers to make cost-effective and informed decisions. Its unique infrastructure databank already covers over 341,500 kilometres of the UK’s roads and pathways, using over a billion high definition images to map every classified road in the country.

Established in 2007, Gaist set out with the mission of revolutionising highways condition surveying. Subsequently, Gaist has amassed the largest data bank of highly detailed roadscape and highway network imagery to provide unrivalled intelligence and bespoke analysis of the whole roadscape to their clients.

For more information about Gaist, please visit: https://www.gaist.co.uk/.

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"Enhanced testing is critical in an era of exponential disruption in the channel," urges AddOn Networks, following recent NEBS certification

Tustin, California, US November 26 2019 - Third-party compatible optical transceivers offer network operators an alternative to proprietary Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) connectivity - but with an overwhelming number of third-party suppliers worldwide, operators need to recognize the importance of compatible transceiver test methods, advised Patrick Beard, Chief Technology Officer at AddOn Networks.

Testing is the first step to ensuring quality across programming and hardware. The compatibles industry uses several common test methods for quality control but now operators need to look for the differentiating factors in testing to ensure the quality is not being sacrificed to save costs, highlighted Beard.

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“Quality claims are easy to express, but in today’s global marketplace they are even harder to prove,” said Beard. “At AddOn, we pride ourselves on the high-quality assurance of our products which is why we have invested heavily in our state-of-the-art testing facility and continue to invest in independent testing to offer the channel market third-party optical components that far exceed the recommended standards of quality.”

AddOn Networks has recently completed the Network Equipment Building System (NEBS) compliance test through global industry leader in quality assurance testing Intertek. The company’s SFP, XFP and QSFP transceivers have undergone NEBS testing criteria for standards GR-63-CORE and GR-1089-CORE, which saw them being tested in extremities to ensure that they can resist maximal temperature, vibration and humidity. The test also measured and validated improved space planning, simplified installation and increased energy efficiency.

NEBS compliance refers to the conformance of a network product to the requirements of the NEBS standard. Compliance to this standard indicates that a network product or telecommunications equipment performs at its optimum capacity.

“Through our longstanding commitment to our customers, it was important to invest in the most thorough and stringent testing methods that certify our products as safe and reliable,” added Beard. “This sets us apart from other suppliers in the channel market and allows us to drive partner and public confidence in our end to end network infrastructure solutions.”

Reviewing hardware data sheets is the simple part of evaluating third-party compatible optics. All optical transceivers are manufactured to the same Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) specifications, emphasized Beard. Understanding how third-party compatible suppliers control quality is important in making an informed decision and operators need to invest in suppliers who ensure performance at optimum capacity through rigorous testing.

The combination of rapid network expansion and ever-increasing network demands will continue to drive forward third-party compatible optical transceivers and disrupt the channel market. Complete testing of optical transceivers is not common due to the high investment in capital equipment and skilled labor needed, but as demands continue to evolve, enhanced testing will become more crucial, concluded Beard.

In addition to being NEBS compliant, AddOn Networks product lines, including optical transceivers and high speed cabling, are also MSA, TAA, and RoHS compliant. All of AddOn Networks’ products are rigorously tested and coded in its global, state-of-the-art facilities to ensure the highest levels of performance with 100% application testing in end-use conditions.

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About AddOn Networks
Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Tustin, California, AddOn Networks is the world’s largest independent manufacturer of compatible transceivers and high-speed cabling. Filling a critical gap in the transceiver ecosystem by offering an alternative to big-name OEMS, Add-on’s transceivers go through a rigorous, finely tuned testing process, resulting in products with the industry’s lowest failure rate. To learn more, visit www.addonnetworks.com and follow them on LinkedIn.

For more information, please visit www.addonnetworks.com.

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HUBER+SUHNER to debut innovative solutions for mission-critical communications at PMRExpo 2019

The company will display the latest products from its state-of-the-art special communication portfolio

HUBER+SUHNER, a leading manufacturer of radio frequency, fiber optic and low frequency cabling, components and bespoke integrated solutions, will highlight its extensive expertise in public emergency services as it showcases its expanded special communications portfolio for the first time at PMRExpo 2019 in Cologne, Germany.

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The market-leading portfolio has established HUBER+SUHNER as the main antenna supplier in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It also supplies security networks across Europe following its acquisition of Kathrein Special Communications.

“We have expanded our offering for security-relevant applications and strengthened our market position in the area of special communications and Public Mobile Radio (PMR),” said Andre Berninger, Vice President Sales Special Communication at HUBER+SUHNER. “Our special communications portfolio draws on the synergies between standard products within HUBER+SUHNER and our antenna portfolio to offer a comprehensive product range that is robust and reliable to address mission-critical applications.”

At PMRExpo 2019, HUBER+SUHNER will present the first-of-its-kind Dual-Band Panel solution, which has the capability to revolutionise the remote antenna application landscape. Combining TETRA and LTE in one antenna, the Dual-Band Panel enables a cost-efficient revolution in PMR Network Planning and can create LTE networks from the same locations as existing TETRA networks. With its long frequency range, the Dual-Band Panel will perfectly fit with the requirements of the emergency services sector and can be used to bridge longer distances without compromising on the sensitivity of the antenna to ensure reliable communications every time.

Solving real-world challenges in mission-critical applications, HUBER+SUHNER will also showcase its Direct GPS-over-Fiber solution, the world’s first “truly copperless” link that utilises the fiber optic cable to distribute both power and signal. This recently developed product supports rapid deployments by reducing the amount of hardware and enhancing operational effectiveness through the “copperless” link.

Alongside the Dual-Band Panel and Direct GPS-over-Fiber, HUBER+SUHNER will reveal other innovative solutions from its special communications portfolio including the Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) Omni antenna, the low-loss Spuma RS FR cable and lightning and EMP protectors.

“The PMRExpo is the perfect backdrop for us to launch our special communications portfolio,” added Berninger. “With our expanded connectivity offering we can provide the emergency services sector with proven and reliable products that address the ever-increasing demands of mission-critical communications. The new portfolio covers all possible radio frequency (RF) service applications’ needs from TETRA and GSM to LTE, 5G and WiFi in both SISO and MIMO configurations.”

Attendees are also invited to watch Andre Berninger present some of the crucial market applications and product benefits of the special communications portfolio on November 26, 15:00, at Speakers' Corner, Stand C23.

Attendees at PMRExpo can find HUBER+SUHNER at hall 10.2 stand B16, 26-28 November at Koelnmesse, Germany.

HUBER+SUHNER Group
HUBER+SUHNER is a global company with headquarters in Switzerland which develops and manufactures components and system solutions for electrical and optical connectivity. With cables, connectors and systems – developed from the three core technologies of radio frequency, fiber optics and low frequency – the company serves customers in the communication, transportation and industrial sectors. The products deliver high performance, quality, reliability and long life – even under harsh environment conditions. Our global production network, combined with group companies and agencies in over 80 countries, puts HUBER+SUHNER close to its customers. Further information on the company can be found at hubersuhner.com.

Axel Rienitz
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IoT industry benefits from practical boost forward with global oneM2M developer training sessions

Upcoming developer tutorial event is one of four recent training sessions aimed at highlighting practical importance of globalised IoT standard

Hawaii, United States, 25 November 2019: oneM2M, the global Internet of Things (IoT) standard, will host a developer-focused industry training event highlighting the importance of standardisation and how it can equip developers with the skills and knowledge to meet the demands of the IoT age.

At the 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), held in Waikoloa, Hawaii, United States, on Friday 13 December, oneM2M will provide an overview of its standards and the tools that are enabling interoperability and market growth within the IoT ecosystem. Attendees will be walked through the oneM2M architecture and will examine how to use Open Source tools.

The event will provide an overview of the oneM2M standard and a tutorial, providing demonstrations on how to quickly develop IoT applications. Developers will also benefit from workshops on developing oneM2M applications including sensors/actuator applications and end-user applications.

“The IoT promises to interconnect billions of devices covering various domains. However, the existence of a high vertical fragmentation in current markets, coupled with a lack of standards, threatens risks such as vendor lock-in,” said Laurent Velez, Technical Expert at The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). “If the market is to overcome these hurdles and continue to mature, there must be a greater understanding of the practicalities and benefits of IoT standards across the developer community – and this is exactly what this event aims to do.”

The Hawaii event will follow three events earlier this month, including a tutorial on the oneM2M Common Service Layer on 14 November at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil. At the event, the challenges faced and the efforts achieved by standardisation bodies to design a globally agreed IoT service platform were discussed.

Participants also followed practical sessions on how to quickly integrate heterogeneous IoT devices and develop IoT applications based on the Open Source project Eclipse OM2M.

On 18 November, in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ETSI and CPQD, as part of the InDiCo project, held a workshop to highlight the value of standardisation in IoT. The event was held in the context of increasing need for interoperability as traditional industry sectors become more connected.

From 19-20 November, also in Campinas, in partnership with the ICT Research Center Renato Archer, InDiCo held a tutorial on the oneM2M Common Service Layer. This was followed by a Hackathon allowing students, young professionals and researchers to get a hands-on experience with the oneM2M standard.

“These events are an important step towards the growth of standards across the application developer community. Providing an abstraction layer for developers to build on, oneM2M standards can provide significant benefits to developers’ IoT applications and devices, such as enhanced interoperability, security mechanisms, multiple communication protocols and interworking with existing legacy devices,” added Velez.

Laurent Velez, a Technical Expert at ETSI, and Dr. Mahdi ben Alaya, Founder and CEO of Sensinov, will present the industry training session on Friday 13 December, in Waikoloa, Hawaii, United States.

For more information on oneM2M, please visit: http://www.onem2m.org/.

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About oneM2M
oneM2M is the global standards initiative that covers requirements, architecture, API specifications, security solutions and interoperability for Machine-to-Machine and IoT technologies. oneM2M was formed in 2012 and consists of eight of the world's preeminent standards development organizations: ARIB (Japan), ATIS (U.S.), CCSA (China), ETSI (Europe), TIA (U.S.), TSDSI (India), TTA (Korea), and TTC (Japan), together with industry fora or consortia (GlobalPlatform) and over 200 member organizations. oneM2M specifications provide a framework to support applications and services such as the smart grid, connected car, home automation, public safety, and health. oneM2M actively encourages industry associations and forums with specific application requirements to participate in oneM2M, in order to ensure that the solutions developed support their specific needs. For more information, including how to join and participate in oneM2M, see: www.onem2m.org.

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Cerillion hits new highs with record financial year

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London, 25th November 2019 – Cerillion (AIM: CER), an innovator in digital monetisation and customer management solutions, today announced its audited results for a record year across all key financial performance measures, with revenue up 8% to £18.8m, adjusted EBITDA up by 16% to £4.6m and new orders up 78% to £23.3m for the financial year ending 30th September 2019.

Now in its fourth year as a publicly quoted company, Cerillion has continued to win major new clients around the world, signing four substantial BSS/OSS transformation contracts with communications services providers (CSPs) in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific during the financial year, as well as experiencing strong demand and expansion within its existing customer base. Further success has followed at the start of the new financial year with a standalone convergent charging contract already signed with a large MVNE in South Africa, underlining the company’s global delivery capability and the versatility of its pre-integrated Enterprise BSS/OSS product suite.

Louis Hall

During the year, Cerillion also went live with its first 5G customer, putting the company at the forefront of the latest wave of telecoms technology change which is driving further BSS/OSS investments and digital transformation projects.

“Our pre-integrated product suite continues to prove very attractive to CSPs due to its end-to-end business process support and modular deployment options,” commented Louis Hall, CEO, Cerillion. “This has translated into major new contracts and helped us to deliver a strong performance with revenue, earnings and new orders all achieving record highs. I am delighted with the progress we have made this year.”

To view the full results, please visit: https://polaris.brighterir.com/public/cerillion/news/rns/story/rg62zjx

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About Cerillion plc
Founded in 1999, Cerillion (AIM: CER) is a leading provider of billing, charging and customer management systems delivering its solutions across a broad range of industries including the telecommunications, finance and utilities sectors. The Company has a global customer base, with c. 90 customer installations across c. 40 countries and customers include Liberty Global, KDDI and Three. For more information visit: www.cerillion.com

For further information, please contact:
Dominic Smith
Cerillion plc
Tel: +44 (0) 207 927 6000
Email: dominic.smith@cerillion.com

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BT partners with Manchester-based Purple to offer intelligent Wi-Fi for business

BT has announced a multi-year partnership with Purple, the Manchester-based specialists in Wi-Fi analytics and engagement.

The partnership will see the incorporation of advanced customer engagement capabilities within BT Wi-Fi services early next year, enabling BT to provide high street businesses with a level of customer insight, tracking and analytics relating to footfall and user behaviour. The data is akin to that previously only accessible to those whose businesses operated in the online world.

Purple provides companies with Guest WiFi Solutions, WiFi Analytics Solutions, WiFi Marketing Solutions and Wayfinding Technology.

For BT, by providing a simple social Wi-Fi login journey for their customers, businesses will be able to better understand customer needs, as well as in-venue behaviour including frequency and duration of the visit. This additional insight will help BT’s Wi-Fi customers deliver tailored and targeted communications and better engage with their users, increasing customer satisfaction, loyalty, and footfall.

Bruce Cuthbert, Director Connectivity and Commercial Sport at BT, said:
“Our partnership with Purple will give businesses, and particularly those in the retail, on-trade, F&B and leisure sectors the opportunity to take their Wi-Fi service to the next level. These new features will help all manner of bricks and mortar businesses to connect with their customers in the online world and turn insight data into smarter marketing and profitable customer communications”.

Gavin Wheldon, CEO Purple commented:
“We’re delighted to have agreed this partnership with BT. Bricks and mortar businesses are being placed under increasing pressure by digital businesses, and we look forward to working with BT and their customers to help take advantage of the insights available to them and ultimately engage with their own customers in a more meaningful and profitable way”.

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For further information contact Katharine McNamara, Konductor
Tel: +44 (0)7966 505661
Email: ks@konductor.co.uk

About Purple WiFi
Purple gives businesses a means to capture and understand their offline world by offering a cloud-based platform that sits on top of their existing WiFi infrastructure.

As a result we have a market leading guest WiFi, analytics and engagement platform. Our customers range from individual restaurants with a single location to the largest brands in the world with thousands of stores.

Visit www.purple.ai for more information

BT will be offering Wi-Fi with Purple from early 2020. More information is available at www.btwifi.co.uk/business

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Openwave Mobility Completes Integration with Enea

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Enea’s new division will be called Enea Openwave

Stockholm: 22 November 2019: Following Openwave Mobility’s successful integration, today Enea unveiled its latest division: Enea Openwave. Thanks to the synergy between Openwave and Enea, operators now have access to an award-winning portfolio of 4G and 5G technologies that spans the mobile network from the edge to the core – a significant proposition.

Enea’s mobile core software solutions in 5G data management include a 5G common data layer and a unified data manager. On the user plane they include network intelligence, video traffic management, and transmission control protocol (TCP) acceleration.

John Giere, President of Enea Openwave said: “This week marks an exciting new chapter in our company’s journey. Our 5G data management and video traffic management technologies combined with Enea’s software and virtualization expertise now give 4G and 5G operators a real edge. Enea has been fully committed to our product roadmap and strongly believes in our innovative and agile culture. This close-knit integration will have an amazingly positive impact on mobile operators.”

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About Enea
Enea is a world-leading supplier of innovative software components for telecommunications and cybersecurity. Focus areas are cloud-native, 5G-ready products for mobile core, network virtualization, and traffic intelligence. More than 3 billion people around the globe already rely on Enea technologies in their daily lives. Enea is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. For more information: www.enea.com

About Enea Openwave
Enea Openwave provides mobile operators with 5G-ready products for the mobile core. Our Traffic Management Solutions alleviate RAN congestion, accelerate video delivery, and maximize subscriber QOE. Our 5G Data Management Solutions provide a common data layer to unify subscriber and session data across network functions.

Enea Openwave has deployed its solutions in 8 out of the 10 largest mobile operator groups in the world. Today the company has a footprint of over 3 billion subscribers.

Press contacts:
For Enea Inquiries:
Erik Larsson
SVP Marketing & Communication, Enea
Phone: +33 1 70 81 19 00
Email: erik.larsson@enea.com

For APAC and EMEA Inquiries:
Chevaan Seresinhe
Sonus PR
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Email: chevaan.seresinhe@sonuspr.com

For Americas Inquiries:
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Irish Minister opens Anam HQ in Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya and Dublin, Ireland, 20 November, 2019 – On the back of significant contract wins in Africa over the past 12 months, Anam Technologies Limited (www.anam.com) has opened its Anam Africa Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. Working through successful global partnerships with MTN, Orange & Sinch Anam has already secured 22 networks across 19 countries in Africa including Egypt, Cameroon, Nigeria, Morocco and DRC. Building out on the company’s current operational presence in Egypt & Nigeria, the new Kenyan office focusses on Sales & Managed Services to support partners and the growing customer base across the continent as well as delivering growth in direct business.

Targeted at Mobile Operators, Anam supplies Messaging solutions focused on A2P revenue growth, security & groupwide efficiencies. Anam wraps a range of specialist services around firewalls, hubs, reporting & visualization technologies to drive revenue, deliver efficiencies and eliminate fraud for Mobile Operators. Anam is a global leader in the field largely due to the company’s unique combination of Independence, Expertise, Technology & its proven track record in delivering results for clients.

Official opening of Anam Africa HQ in Nairobi

Commenting on the opening of the new Africa base, Anam’s Group Chairman Darragh Kelly said “the potential for Anam across the continent is tremendous and the new African HQ demonstrates our commitment to servicing secured contracts and facilitating future growth. SPAM and unbilled A2P revenue are a major problem, but equally, a huge opportunity for Mobile Network Operators to reap. From experience, Anam estimates that Mobile Network Operators are missing out on income of up to US$1 per subscriber per year in unbilled revenue. Consider an Operator who counts its customers in the tens of millions and the revenue quickly adds up”.

The Anam Africa office will be headed up by Steve Bannon, who joined the Anam Group 2 years ago. Steve has substantial C level experience within the Mobile Operator sector and joined Anam from Smile in Uganda where he was based for 4 years. Steve spend many years with the Digicel group across Asia Pacific and the Caribbean where he specialised in establishing and growing Digicel’s business in new markets. Steve is joined in Anam Africa by local man Stephen Ohito, who has a very strong background in the international and roaming business from several different stakeholder perspectives including more than 20 years working on the Mobile Operator side.

About Anam
Anam is the world leading independent provider of Messaging solutions to enable Mobile Operators optimise their messaging business. Specialists in A2P Monetisation, Security & Hubbing, our systems process billions of messages every day for more than 650M subscribers across 85 countries.

Anam’s global team of SMS & A2P consultants use firewall, analytics & reporting technologies to generate new revenues from A2P, protect subscribers against SPAM and fraud & deliver operational messaging efficiencies for Mobile Operators.

Anam’s customer list includes many of the worlds Tier 1 Mobile Operators including Orange, MTN, Telenor, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat & Maxis.

Anam is rated No 1 SMS Firewall vendor by a global industry survey of 172 Mobile Operators. The company is backed by Enterprise Ireland and was awarded Top Exporter in Deloitte’s 2018 FAST50 programme. Anam owns the worldwide patent for Home Routing (EP 1683375 B1), a technique invented by John Murtagh, Anam CTO in 2006 and fundamental to SMS Firewalls.

Anam is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland and has regional Sales offices in Malaysia & Kenya. The company has further substantial worldwide support presence in Czech Republic, Egypt, Jamaica, Malta, Nigeria, Russia, Pakistan & Vietnam.

Visit www.anam.com for more details.

Contact: Mary Therese Fitzpatrick, Director of Marketing
Mary-therese.fitzpatrick@anam.com

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CEO retires on a high as 25 Years of the London Internet Exchange is celebrated

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The London Internet Exchange, known as LINX, celebrated its 25th anniversary in style in front of a record 300 members, partners and special guests at its quarterly member conference in London this November.

LINX was established in November 1994 using a donated piece of equipment no bigger than a digital TV set top box and without any legal contracts, with the goal of keeping traffic local and avoiding costly transatlantic fees.

John Souter

The five founding members of LINX were PIPEX, BT Internet Services, Demon Internet Services, EUnet GB and UKERNA/JANET and on the 8th November that year the first traffic was passed from network to network at the Telehouse campus in the Docklands area of London.

The LINX107 member conference in London was held on 11th & 12th November 2019 marked this milestone in UK Internet history. Over 20 global Internet exchanges (IXPs) were in attendance to celebrate LINX’s anniversary, but also to pass on their good wishes to John Souter, LINX CEO for the past 19 years, who will be retiring at the end of the year.

Mr Souter took the stage during the LINX107 event to present on the history of the Internet from his perspective during his time at the helm of LINX. The very first member conference he attended was LINX33 in Paris in 2001 and was present at 74 of the 75 events that followed missing just one due to illness. Even then he was able to follow the proceedings via webcast!

John commented: “We have seen some remarkable changes in the way the telecoms industry has operated over the years but to see that our neutral not-for-profit model remaining the preferred approach for peering is extremely satisfying. Our ethos of working for the good of the Internet has never been stronger and to have so many other IXPs join us for our celebrations at LINX107 was remarkable. It clearly demonstrates what a strong and collaborative industry we work in and long may that continue.”

LINX remains the largest membership owned Internet exchange in the World with networks connecting over 800 members from 80 countries. In fact, on the 25th anniversary itself the 900th network ASN was connected to the exchange, IP Integration (IPI), another milestone reached.

Commenting on his appointment as LINX CEO Kurt-Erik Lindqvist said: “These are exciting times for LINX and I am extremely proud to be taking on this position at this time. John will be a hard act to follow but he leaves us with the exchange in extremely good shape. I’m really looking forward to leading LINX in the next stage of its development.”

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About the London Internet Exchange (LINX)
Established in 1994, the London Internet Exchange (LINX) is one of the largest Internet exchanges in the world, connecting over 900 member ASNs from over 80 countries. LINX continues to expand their London presence with 16 locations across London along with regional exchanges in Wales, Manchester and Scotland. LINX also operates an Internet exchange in the Ashburn metro area in the US just outside Washington DC. New for 2019 a new IX for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, JEDIX powered by LINX.

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Openet to Continue Global Expansion with New Offices in Canada and South Africa

International demand for innovative and agile BSS for digital and 5G services is driving business growth in key regions

Dublin, 21 November, 2019 – Openet, a leader in Digital BSS, today announced that it has opened two new offices in Canada and South Africa, to better meet global demand for its innovative digital BSS portfolio. The leading independent software provider to telecoms operators has opened a new office in Montreal, further strengthening its presence in Canada, and opened new premises in Johannesburg, South Africa.

As an established provider of digital BSS technology to tier one Canadian operators, like Bell, Openet is making a key investment to augment its service to new and existing customers in North America. Its new Montreal office will supplement its existing registered presence in Toronto. North America is rapidly maturing as a 5G market, with tier one operators leveraging microservices and adopting DevOps to more nimbly respond to new opportunities as their networks and services evolve. Openet has an impressive track record of helping operators develop new features and functions quickly and seamlessly to maximize all 5G opportunities. Increasing its footprint in Canada will help Openet better scale this expertise and ensure even better response times in helping operators monetize new and existing services.

Openet’s move into South Africa reflects its strategic ambition to further grow its African footprint. As a highly valued provider of BSS to Orange Egypt and INWI in Morocco, Openet is keen to provide improved coverage across the southern part of the continent, where it is already working with Liquid Telecom and a leading group operator. As a growing digital and 5G economy, South Africa is a key indicator of the rapid growth of digital services across the continent and the burning need for more agile and flexible digital BSS to help operators scale effectively to capture lucrative new revenues. Located in Johannesburg, the new Openet office, headed by sales director Hugh Muller, will make Openet an even more compelling partner for African operators.

Niall Norton, CEO, Openet, “We are in an exciting growth phase, as leading operators from around the world seek greater innovation and commercial flexibility from their technology partners. As a key believer in DevOps, microservices and leveraging public cloud, Openet is the perfect digital BSS partner for all operators looking to scale their networks cost effectively to better monetise their customers, including 5G early adopters. Our investment in new offices is a sign of our commitment to provide local service and expertise as guide our operator customers along a measured path towards 5G.”

About Openet
Openet provides Digital BSS to enable service providers to create new revenues from digital services, improve customer engagement and be ready for the opportunities from 5G. Our solutions enable service providers to be more agile, innovative and enjoy a faster time to value.

From monetising content and data services over 4G to enabling innovative enterprise IoT offers over 5G, Openet’s Digital BSS offers a fast and agile alternative to the large legacy companies whose track record of over-charging and under delivering has resulted in high failure rates of large scale transformation projects.

Since its foundation in 1999, Openet has been at the forefront of telecoms software development and innovation. Our success is personified by the many long-term relationships it has fostered with the largest, most progressive, and demanding operators across the globe. For more information visit www.openet.com.

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ZTE partners with China Mobile to provision the 5G end-to-end network slicing + MEC services

21 November 2019, Shenzhen, China - ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, and the Guangdong Branch of China Mobile today have provisioned the MEC-related B2B2C end-to-end network slicing services. The provisioning of the new services will promote new 5G business models and industry innovations, thereby building a win-win 5G ecosystem.

Together with other industry partners, ZTE and the Guangdong Branch of China Mobile have deployed end-to-end slicing operation systems by adopting the MEC solution to provide industry customers with end-to-end digital transformation support.

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This solution can support and satisfy the requirements of digital transformation of industrial applications by means of the subscription of the slice capability in the slicing operation system. It is also combined with advanced MEC technologies, such as local software/hardware acceleration, AI video rendering, L3-L7 high-performance route distribution and capability exposure.

The provisioning of the services is to explore and verify the key technologies, such as MEC service planning method, 4-level deployment architecture, and hardware architecture. Moreover, it implements end-to-end communication of network slicing, and accumulates the planning and construction capabilities of network slicing and MEC.

In addition, various applications like cloud game, live and on-demand videos, automatic driving, CDN and intelligent logistics are deployed as well. The network slicing + MEC’s capability of guaranteeing service experience is also tested and verified. Moreover, user-side capability exposing can help achieve the integration of vertical industry applications and the 5G network.

By means of MEC B2B2C end-to-end network slices, user-side exposing capabilities of slicing operation system and dynamic signing, as well as multiple MEC construction and cooperation modes, the system supports flexible procurement, network management and edge computing services of vertical industry users, thereby providing the flexible charging mode and supporting the rapid innovation of the business mode.

ZTE is a provider of advanced telecommunications systems, mobile devices, and enterprise technology solutions to consumers, carriers, companies and public sector customers. As a part of ZTE‘s strategy, the company is committed to providing customers with integrated end-to-end innovations to deliver excellence and values as the telecommunications and information technology sectors converge. Listed in the stock exchanges of Hong Kong and Shenzhen (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), ZTE sells its products and services in more than 160 countries.

To date, ZTE has obtained 35 commercial 5G contracts in major markets, such as Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (MEA). ZTE commits 10 percent of its annual revenues to research and development and takes leadership roles in international standard-setting organizations.

Media Contacts:
Margaret Ma
ZTE Corporation
Tel: +86 755 26775189
Email: ma.gaili@zte.com.cn

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Free mobile internet service keeps more than 200m people in developing world connected

Consumers in South America and Africa first to benefit

London, November 21, 2019 – A European company is beating Facebook to the punch by making free mobile internet access available to 215 million consumers in emerging markets. London-based mobile technology specialist Upstream has surpassed the 200 million milestone after making its services available through seven mobile operators in five South American and African countries.

Today, despite Facebook’s global dominance, it only claims to have introduced the internet to “more than 100 million users”. Facebook’s free internet access initiatives in emerging markets ran aground due to regulatory issues, and in India the service was withdrawn following protests and government intervention. However, UK-based Upstream has tackled the problem of the global digital divide directly at source – the user’s handset.

The company’s Zero-D platform works in partnership with mobile network operators to allow users free internet access within an advertising-funded service. Within the service, users receive free, unlimited access to a search engine, a localized and global news service, and a messaging platform.

Importantly, Zero-D allows consumers to continue to access the internet service even if they have zero-credit balance on the pre-paid mobile phone accounts that dominate in the emerging markets.

Running out of data on their service package and not being ready, or able, to top-up means that the two billion internet users in emerging markets are usually disconnected for some 50 per cent of the time. Zero-D tackles that problem directly.

“In much of the developing world,” said Upstream CEO Guy Krief, “the mobile phone represents the only means of connecting to the internet. However, in countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, an everyday activity that we take for granted – such as reading the news online – would typically cost around 30 per cent of a weekly household income. That’s simply not sustainable.”

The service is managed by Upstream in partnership with operators in Africa and South America. The benefit to mobile operators is that they are able to generate advertising revenue when they would otherwise receive no income from customers who would not or could not purchase their next top-up.

“Zero-D is a mission for us, as much as it is a business,” said Krief. “If there’s a secret to our success, it is that we intentionally designed the service so that everyone benefits, while providing something positive to the world. Keeping more than 200 million mobile users connected is very significant for us,” he added. “It is proof that our approach is working, and it means we are already making a tangible everyday difference to a huge number of people’s lives.”

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For more information please contact:
Chevaan Seresinhe
Sonus PR for Upstream, UK
E: upstream@sonuspr.com
P: +44 20 3751 0330

Sofia Marinou
Upstream Corporate Communications
Ε: sofia.marinou@upstreamsystems.com
corp.comms@upstreamsystems.com
P: +30210 6618532 +30210 6618507

About Upstream
Upstream is a London based leading mobile technology company. Its pioneering product suite provides 1.2 billion people in developing countries with affordable and secure access to digital services on their mobile devices. Upstream works with over 60 mobile operators, across more than 45 high growth markets, leveraging their unique assets to boost and create new revenue streams in the data era.

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Tata Communications Transformation Services Limited (TCTS) and Fortinet set to enable service providers to accelerate revenue with the launch of Secure SD-WAN managed services for Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN

SUNNYVALE, California and DALLAS, Texas, November 21, 2019 - Tata Communications Transformation Services Limited (TCTS), partner of choice for the world’s leading Communication Service Providers (CSPs) and a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Communications Limited, and Fortinet, working with Microsoft Azure, has launched a fully managed SD-WAN offering for Azure Virtual WAN.

The TCTS SD-WAN offering will help service providers create solutions to further enable enterprises with seamless migration to Azure, thereby helping to accelerate their revenue in IT migration to public clouds. This joint offering will also enable inter-branch connectivity for customers using the Microsoft backbone and help them to meet SLAs while securing access to applications running on Azure. This offering is one of the first industry solutions of native hybrid SD-WAN coupled with traffic steering and security protection for Azure’s cloud.

In collaboration with Azure, Fortinet and Equinix[i], TCTS has augmented Azure’s current Virtual WAN offering in which application policies can be centrally configured using Fortinet’s SD-WAN technologies integrated with Equinix Network Edge to create Virtual Network Services that deliver enhanced performance and security protection. As part of the larger TCTS award winning, most innovative cloud service, Cloud Networking-as-a-Service (CNaaS) portfolio, the offering utilizes some of the industry’s best product partners with TCTS’ industry recognized virtualization consulting, deployment and operation services.

Madhusudhan Mysore, Executive Chairman and CEO of TCTS said, “TCTS's Cloud Networking-as-a-Service was developed to address the most complex real-world enterprise IT migration to the cloud. It offers a best-in-class white-labeled managed service provider (MSP) offering for operators worldwide to help them accelerate their MSP revenues through Microsoft’s worldwide enterprise customer base. TCTS has a significant set of highly skilled CNaaS technical consultants to provide white-labeled services to operators worldwide, thereby supporting the easy adoption and ongoing use of Microsoft Azure.”

As cloud complexity continues to grow, enterprises are grappling with the many functions, gateways, configuration, segmentation and monitoring of Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) across Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) data centers, regions and worldwide deployments. Configuration of SD-WAN, VPNs, routing tables, security, gateways and hybrid connectivity within a public cloud continues to be a problem area for most enterprises. Additionally, as the cloud expands to the edge, including managed network connections between the clouds and service providers (ex: Azure ExpressRoute, etc.), cloud complexity will be even more challenging to configure and operate.

"Wide Area Network (WAN) requirements for the enterprise are becoming more cloud centric. Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN (VWAN) is addressing these needs by allowing devices and sites to connect to Azure’s public cloud more easily and globally,” added Ross Ortega, Partner Program.

Manager, Microsoft Azure Networking at Microsoft Corp. “TCTS’ SD-WAN managed services over Azure’s VWAN, will enable service providers worldwide to deliver CNaaS managed services.”

Through this offering, enterprises at any given site can use a hybrid deployment of MPLS and Internet to steer the traffic between mission critical traffic (MPLS and Carrier Ethernet) and non-mission critical traffic (Internet), which further connects directly to Azure via Azure ExpressRoute. This connection can be established leveraging TCTS’ highly commended platform, ‘Virtual Cloud exchange,’ for building within native service provider environments or white-labeled options using the Equinix’ Cloud Exchange Fabric™ (ECX Fabric™) and Network Edge solution offerings within their data centers globally.

John Maddison, EVP Products and CMO, Fortinet said: “Enterprise cloud adoption is driving a global WAN transformation by leveraging SD-WAN technology, but this increases security risks. Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN offers best-of-breed SD-WAN, next-generation firewall security, advanced routing and WAN optimization capabilities integrated into a single offering. TCTS’ Managed SD-WAN offering with Fortinet provides communication service providers with a turn-key solution to deliver robust, secure and low latency connectivity services.”

TCTS’ Virtual Cloud exchange (US patent pending) automates connection and management to Azure and other public cloud delivered via a fully managed turn-key white-label solution for CSPs worldwide. With this service from TCTS, service providers can enable Azure enterprise customers to choose either a standard offering that needs no further SD-WAN Virtual Network Function (VNF) in Azure, or a more advanced option that places a SD-WAN VNF in Azure to deliver SD-WAN application traffic steering and security protection.

TCTS will provide customers with professional services for Azure CNaaS capabilities in:
Planning - Business requirement, cloud strategy consulting, cloud assurance assessment, cloud migration planning and cloud security planning, data governance and risk compliance
Deployment– Proof of concepts, cloud SaaS, IaaS and PaaS trials, cloud VPC configuration, cloud training, cloud migration, optimization and cloud policies
Operations - 365X7X24 operations, technical support, remediation, change management, privilege access management, cloud monitoring and device management and new product & services integration

To find out more about TCTS’ Cloud Networking-as-a-service (CNaaS) and TCTS’ Cloud Networking-as-a-service for SD-WAN, click here: https://blog.tatacommunications-ts.com/tcts-cloud-networking-as-a-service-for-sd-wan

[i] Equinix, the global interconnection and data center company

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About Tata Communications Transformation Services Limited (TCTS)
Tata Communications Transformation Services Limited (TCTS), a 100% subsidiary of Tata Communications Ltd, provides business transformation, managed network operations, network outsourcing and consultancy services to telecommunication companies around the world. TCTS is a global leader in delivering operational efficiency, cost transformation and revenue acceleration solutions for all stages of the carrier process lifecycle including but not limited to network engineering and design, implementation and operations functions.

TCTS is a part of the US$100+ billion Tata group, which comprises over 100 operating companies across seven business sectors. TCTS leverages the market expertise of the group's global telecom capabilities and globally established IT, process and consulting skills.

TCTS is headquartered in Mumbai, India, with offices in Europe, North America and the Middle East. Through its two world-class India delivery centres in Pune and Chennai, TCTS preserves the independent functioning and full confidentiality of its customers' business processes.

For more information, contact:
Tata Communications Transformation Services Limited
Website: www.tatacommunications-ts.com
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About Fortinet
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 425,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. Learn more at http://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.

Forward-looking and cautionary statements
Certain words and statements in this release concerning Tata Communications and its prospects, and other statements, including those relating to Tata Communications’ expected financial position, business strategy, the future development of Tata Communications’ operations, and the general economy in India, are forward-looking statements. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including financial, regulatory and environmental, as well as those relating to industry growth and trend projections, which may cause actual results, performance or achievements of Tata Communications, or industry results, to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The important factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from such forward-looking statements include, among others, failure to increase the volume of traffic on Tata Communications’ network; failure to develop new products and services that meet customer demands and generate acceptable margins; failure to successfully complete commercial testing of new technology and information systems to support new products and services, including voice transmission services; failure to stabilize or reduce the rate of price compression on certain of the company’s communications services; failure to integrate strategic acquisitions and changes in government policies or regulations of India and, in particular, changes relating to the administration of Tata Communications’ industry; and, in general, the economic, business and credit conditions in India. Additional factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from such forward-looking statements, many of which are not in Tata Communications’ control, include, but are not limited to, those risk factors discussed in Tata Communications Limited’s Annual Reports. The Annual Reports of Tata Communications Limited are available at www.tatacommunications.com. Tata Communications is under no obligation to, and expressly disclaims any obligation to, update or alter its forward-looking statements.

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Zylpha Unveils High-Performance Pay As You Bundle Option For iManage

The UK’s leading legal systems innovator, Zylpha (www.zylpha.com), has announced an integration of its widely acclaimed legal document bundling software for the popular iManage 9 platform. Of particular note is the all new Pay As You Bundle functionality, enabling users to pay only for what they use. A traditional enterprise integration is also available for organisations with high user counts.

By incorporating Zylpha’s digital document bundling, users can produce legal and other document bundles at a fraction of the cost, time and effort associated with manual processes. Typically, users will save 80% of the time required to produce a bundle, when compared to manual alternatives. In addition, the secure system eliminates costs such as stationery, photocopying, paper file-storage, maintenance and courier costs. Amongst the extensive list of features, especially designed for legal practice users, is the high-speed ability to create and retrieve large bundles rapidly; even those that contain thousands of pages.

Zylpha Integration With iManage 9

Commenting on the new functionality, Nigel Spicer, Head of Development, noted, “The key word here is speed. Zylpha delivers a high performance bundling solution that can cope well with even the very largest bundles. And adding the new Pay As You Go technology has made things even faster slicker and more cost-efficient. We look forward to seeing our customers enjoying the fruits of these developments in the near future.”

Also included in the latest version is Zylpha’s widely acclaimed ‘Deal Bible’ functionality. This enables practices to produce compliant deal folders at high speed. This is especially useful to those practices working on M & A activity or disclosure.

Commenting on the new version David Chapman, Head of Marketing at Zylpha said, “This version reflects our ability to incorporate customer demands and feedback into our development programme. iManage users can now enjoy unprecedented speed on a Pay As You Bundle basis, when completing even the largest, most complex legal document bundles. We are confident, therefore, that this new version will enjoy strong demand.”

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About Zylpha www.zylpha.com
Headquartered in Southampton, Zylpha is an innovative specialist offering tools for the legal profession including:

• Secure electronic document production and delivery.


• Court Bundling.


• Integration with the MOJ Portal and Land Registry Business Gateway.


• Links to agencies for AML and Identity Verification.

The company, which was founded by Tim Long its CEO, has won widespread acclaim in both the legal and local government sectors for its systems, which transform secure communications for court and case management bundles.

For more information, please contact:
Tim Long
Zylpha Ltd.
T: 01962 658881
t.long@zylpha.com
www.zylpha.com

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Leigh Richards
The Right Image
T: 0844 / 561 7586
M:07758372527
leigh.richards@therightimage.co.uk
www.therightimage.co.uk

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"To succeed down the road of 5G, operators must build more lanes and increase capacity," urges ProLabs

Cirencester, UK, 20 November – To address growing 5G demands, network operators are increasingly investing in network infrastructure to enhance capacity and deliver high-quality next-generation connectivity. With many infrastructure deployment strategies being used, operators who utilise future-proof technologies will receive higher returns on investment and greater customer satisfaction, advised Raymond Hagen, Global Product Manager at ProLabs.

Investments in 5G network infrastructure will account for six percent of the total wireless infrastructure revenue of Communications Service Providers (CSPs) in 2019, according to Gartner. In 2020, this figure is expected to reach 12 percent.

With operators making significant investments, they face the critical challenge of delivering 5G in a timely manner while also deploying infrastructure that will future-proof the network to meet increasing growing demands, warned Hagen.

“It is very important for network operators to consider long-term as well as short-term goals in their 5G network infrastructure expansion strategies,” said Hagen. “Everyone is racing to deliver 5G to attract customer satisfaction and positive return on investment however, investing in infrastructure that delivers in years to come will be the key differentiator of high-performing 5G networks down the line.”

Maximising existing optical fibre infrastructure is a cost-effective solution to increase 5G network capacity which can deliver now and into the future. ProLabs solutions help to extend fibre connections on a single fibre to expand the capacity of existing infrastructure. For example, the ProLabs passive wavelength division multiplexers expand the number of fibre optic channels up to 80 times that of a standard grey optic. It does this by managing wavelengths and multiplying fibre optic connections on to a single fibre or fibre pair.

Hagen added, “For operators to deploy high-performing networks that deliver on return on investment in years to come, they must consider how to maximise the potential of existing infrastructure as it is the most cost-effective solution to deliver increased capacity. Our range of solutions include Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM) and Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) to increase wavelength capacity on single fibres as well as rack mount solutions to increase the density in wire centres.”

Seven percent of CSPs worldwide have already deployed 5G infrastructure in their networks, according to Gartner. As more operators begin to deploy, there will be an increasingly competitive field for network operators to deliver high-quality next-generation connectivity to meet growing market demands. Those who invest in existing infrastructure will be the best equipped to address the increasing demands of the future, concluded Hagen.

The full ProLabs Passive Mux and Demux solutions include CWDM (coarse) and DWDM (dense) wavelength division multiplexers to maximise fibre infrastructure and future poof networks for 10G to 25G upgrades. The portfolio also includes rack mount solutions, splice trays and network cabinets to offer flexible solutions for managing and extending network infrastructure.

For more information on ProLabs Passive Mux and Demux solutions or other ProLabs technologies, please visit https://www.prolabs.com/.

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About ProLabs
ProLabs is a leading provider of optical network infrastructure. By delivering higher standards for products, service, technology and cost, the company is changing the mindset of data centre and networking customers.

One of ProLabs’ biggest strengths is that it supplies highly compatible products, with solutions that are 100 per cent compatible with more than 90 vendors and 20,000 systems. In addition, the innovative and cutting-edge technology comes with a lifetime warranty, demonstrating both the quality of the products as well as the company’s service.

By constantly investing in research and development, ProLabs ensures its optical network products remain at the forefront of the market, while the company’s extensive supplier network means it has an unparalleled global reach.

Media Contact
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