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RNS Number : 9263R  BATM Advanced Communications Ld  11 July 2022

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11 July 2022

 

BATM Advanced Communications Limited

("BATM" or "the Group")

 

BATM partners with CityFibre for Edgility

The UK's largest independent carrier-neutral Full Fibre platform selects the
Group's virtual network and edge compute solution

 

BATM (LSE: BVC; TASE: BVC), a leading provider of real-time technologies for
networking solutions and medical laboratory systems, is pleased to announce
that CityFibre, the UK's largest independent carrier-neutral Full Fibre
platform, has selected BATM's Edgility virtual networking and edge compute
solution. Following extensive lab testing, CityFibre will now be piloting the
Edgility platform with selected partners ahead of an expected national
deployment to provide virtualised network services for businesses.

 

CityFibre builds and operates high quality Full Fibre digital infrastructure
that enables wholesale customers to provide broadband, ethernet and 5G
services. It serves over 1,500 business and consumer service provider
partners. CityFibre recently completed one of Europe's largest ever Full Fibre
financings with a £4.9 billion debt raise for a programme to bring Full Fibre
infrastructure to up to 8 million premises, covering a third of the UK market,
spanning 285 cities, towns and locations by 2025. Network construction is
currently underway in over 60 cities with services live in more than 45
locations.

 

By adopting a virtual network solution, CityFibre will be able to efficiently
deploy, manage and operate hundreds of thousands of physical edge devices and
virtualised value-added services from one central location without the need
for on-site technical personnel. CityFibre expects to achieve a significant
carbon emissions reduction as well as a 60% lower total cost of ownership
compared with existing solutions over a four-year period. Edgility has a
vendor-neutral and open architecture, which gives CityFibre the flexibility to
deploy software solutions and utilise white-box appliances from any vendor. In
addition, a virtualised network combined with a vendor-neutral architecture is
particularly beneficial given today's global supply chain challenges.

 

The Edgility suite is comprised of two components: Edgility OS, a
high-performance and small footprint virtual operating system, and Edgility
Central, a cloud-based Management and Orchestration system. The pilot phase of
the project is to test onboarding and in-life journeys for CityFibre's
partners and their customers ahead of an expected national deployment.

 

Dr. Zvi Marom, CEO of BATM, said: "We are delighted to be partnering with
CityFibre to support the delivery of their virtualised network vision. The
selection of Edgility by such a significant telecoms company is a fantastic
validation of our best-in-class technology, which we expect will lead to
further interest from other businesses. Following successful completion of the
pilot, we look forward to working with them to deploy a virtualised network
across their national infrastructure to enable them and their partners to
enjoy the full benefits of edge compute technology."

 

David Tomalin, Group CTO of CityFibre, added: "This is another important step
towards our ambitious vision for a fully virtualised network. BATM's
carrier-grade networking expertise and management of virtualised edge devices
at scale makes them an ideal innovation partner. The Edgility Suite will
enable us to efficiently manage vast numbers of physical edge devices from a
centralised location while providing greater control over costs, choice of
virtualised service vendor and reducing waste and CO2 emissions."

 

 

 

Enquiries:

 

 BATM Advanced Communications
 Dr Zvi Marom, Chief Executive Officer                          +972 9866 2525
 Moti Nagar, Chief Financial Officer

 Shore Capital
 Mark Percy, Anita Ghanekar, James Thomas (Corporate Advisory)  +44 20 7408 4050

 Luther Pendragon
 Harry Chathli, Claire Norbury                                  +44 20 7618 9100

 

 

 

 

Forward-looking statements

 

This document contains forward-looking statements. Those statements reflect
the current opinions, evaluations and estimations of the Group's management,
and are based on the current data regarding the Group's business as is
detailed in this document and in the Group's periodical, interim and immediate
reports. The Group does not undertake any obligation or make any
representation that actual results and events will be in line with those
statements, and stresses that they may differ materially from those
statements, due to changes in the Group's business, market, competition,
demand for the Group's products or services, general economic factors or other
factors that can influence the Group's business and results, and due to
information and factors that are currently unknown to the Group's management
and that, if known, would affect the management's opinions, evaluations or
estimations. The Group will report the actual results and events according to
its legal, accounting and regulatory obligations, and does not undertake any
other obligation to report them or their deviations from the forward-looking
statements, or to update any of the forward-looking statements in this
document or to report that it is not valid anymore.

 

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