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Alejandro Piñero:
Ceragon, known as a company of innovation, always thinking ahead, and technical R&D. So can you tell us a little bit about Ceragon and how you guys are built to build on existing technology and also looking ahead to new technologies?
Oz Zimerman:
Okay. So innovation for Ceragon is not just a buzzword, it's really part of our DNA. Our engineers are pushing the boundaries in order to bring new technologies, in order to shape the industry. If you look at Ceragon from the outside, you see that we are embracing innovation. We have open innovation, which means it has two layers. One, we collaborate with universities, with startups, with industry leaders in order to bring fresh thinking. And the second layer is we encourage courage, which means that we embrace failures in order for people to take more risk. And that's actually innovation.
Alejandro Piñero:
Oz, let me ask you then about what problems you're addressing. Because of course innovation is great and that's what you want, but it's only as good as the problem you're solving, right? So what are some of those real-life cases that you're looking at?
Oz Zimerman:
Okay, that's a great question. Innovation at the end of the day is measured by its impact. When you talk about service providers, then you have two types of customers. One, CSPs from developed countries where they have congested networks. And what we bring is we boost their networks and we reduce the energy consumption. And by that, bring a lot of value toward the networks. In developing countries, CSPs are trying to get to the internet into everyone. So we bridge the digital divide for them in order for them to serve everyone.
Alejandro Piñero:
Excellent. And Oz, let me shift gears a little bit and ask you about your System-on-a-Chip. So of course you've developed your own technology there. So what makes it different? What makes it a game-changer?
Oz Zimerman:
So unlike most competitors in our field, in our industry who are using off-the-shelf solutions, we at Ceragon are developing our own technology, our own modem, our own silicon. This Mobile World Congress, we are launching a new solution that is based on our new System-on-a-Chip, which provide breakthrough in a lot of elements. Unmatched broadband with 4,000 megahertz, channel bandwidth above 16 K-KAM, layer one aggregation of above 40 gigabit per second. So many breakthroughs in the industry. And actually this time it's not only a chip set, it's a System-on-a-Chip, which means that we integrated a lot of discrete components into one silicon, which enable us to provide the lowest cost in the industry solution as well as the most reliable solution. The more integrated the silicon is, the higher the reliability of the solution and the reliability of the network.
Alejandro Piñero:
All right. Oz, what about the recent acquisitions that Ceragon have made? What do they bring to your portfolio and to the organization?
Oz Zimerman:
Okay. So we acquired 15 months ago Siklu, which is a leader in E-Band and V-Band in North America. It enabled us to add additional solutions, point-to-point and point-to-multi-point, into our portfolio and to become a leader also in the millimeter wave. One month ago we acquired E2E Technologies, which is a specialized system integrator for North America, enabling us to enhance our capabilities as a system integrator in system integration for end-to-end solutions. And they also bring software network capabilities and software network solution that enable to connect the whole network in one glass of pane or pane of glass solution from the core through the transport, all the way to the IOTs.