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Brunel Goes SD-WAN with Orange Business Services

Dutch international specialist recruitment international community, understanding managed by Brunel and Orange, with day-
consultancy Brunel has chosen Orange local customs, expectations, practices to-day operational changes performed
Business Services to deploy a co-managed and regulations. Brunel, which has a long- by the recruitment agency locally via a
SD-WAN to provide a secure, cloud- term strategic partnership with Orange, dashboard, simplifying management and
centric global network solution to support needed to consolidate and standardize scalability for its small core IT team. “We
business growth. Boasting 45 years of its WAN network to fulfil its ambitions, have an established trusted relationship
market experience, Amsterdam-based enabling employees to use Microsoft’s with Orange,” said Brunel chief information
Brunel provides the global recruitment and Modern Workplace, providing them with officer Stefan de Boer. “It has provided
workforce services in industries such as the tools to collaborate and be productive us with a 21st century solution that is
renewable energy, automotive, oil and gas, wherever they are. It also wanted to providing us with the continuity, flexibility
life sciences, mining, and infrastructure. simplify the management of its network and scalability our business demands.
The firm says it helps clients finish major and improve cost efficiencies while having “At the same time, we have managed
projects safely, compliantly, on time and the ability to set up new offices faster. In to make cost savings of around 30% by
within budget to keep growing – anywhere the deployment, Orange Business Services replacing MPLS with SD-WAN, while giving
in the world. Indeed, it has an established deployed a global Cisco Meraki SD-WAN our employees robust, anytime, anywhere
presence in more than 40 countries, service for Brunel, using managed internet access and future-proofing our network,”
and specifically markets its ability to connections and integrating with Microsoft he said.
take advantage of its expertise of the Azure Public Cloud. The service will be co-

Melita Launches Malta’s First 5G
Network

Maltese cableco and wireless operator Melita has launched
what it says is a ‘nationwide’ 5G service, beating rivals Epic
and GO to the country’s first commercial 5G offering. Melita
claims that download speeds of up to 1Gbps will be available
on its Ericsson-built network, although real-world speeds
will be somewhat lower. Any customer with a 5G device can
access the service, Melita CEO Harald Roesch told Times of
Malta. He added: ‘Malta is one of the very few countries in the
world with 5G nationwide coverage, and is now unparalleled
in the EU. This investment benefits our economy in general.’
Melita is using existing spectrum for its 5G service ahead of
an auction of 5G-capable licenses in the 700MHz, 3.5GHz
and 26GHz bands later this year.

Samsung Boosts Logic Chip Investment By $34B

Samsung earmarked an additional KRW38 Solutions division, used a statement to designers, component and equipment
trillion ($33.5 billion) investment to explain the semiconductor industry “is manufacturers, along with academia to
accelerate research of non-memory chips facing a watershed moment”, meaning progress its goal. Kim said it will continue
and build a new production facility, taking the time is right to “chart out a plan for to make pre-emptive investments to
its total planned outlay in the segment to long-term strategy and investment”. continue to lead the industry in memory.
KRW171 trillion by 2030. The company The investment builds on a commitment Major chipmakers globally are looking to
also announced it is starting constructing Samsung made in 2019 to pump KRW133 ramp production capacities to ease chip
a production line for 14nm DRAM and 5nm trillion into its System LSI and Foundry shortages affecting several industries.
logic semiconductors in Pyeongtaek which units to become the leading manufacturer Samsung recently warned of a continued
is scheduled to come online in H2 2022. of logic chips by 2030. Samsung said impact of the shortages to its earnings in
Kim Ki-nam, Head of Samsung’s Device it worked closely with semiconductor the current calendar quarter.

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