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are delivering a solution that brings in leaders in the oil and gas industry to co- said Benjamin Beberness, SAP global vice
innovative technologies like AI to deliver develop a solution that helps enable faster president of the Oil and Gas Business
real-time insights, greater visibility and adoption of new technologies to better Unit. “SAP S/4HANA Cloud for upstream
better decision-making,” said Jan van den manage changing market conditions.” oil and gas is a flexible and agile solution
Bremen, senior managing director and lead “Working together with Accenture and a that can provide customers a 360-degree
for Accenture Intelligent Platform Services consortium of industry leaders, we have view of the intelligent enterprise — from
in Europe. “We are proud to be the only SAP delivered an industry-defined intelligent operations to the boardroom, enabling
co-development partner working side-by- solution that has the capabilities upstream operational excellence.”
side to deliver leading oil and gas industry oil and gas companies need to reduce
solutions. We’ve worked with SAP and complexity by using market standards,”

AT&T Declares Quarterly Dividend on Preferred
Shares

The board of directors of AT&T Inc. per depositary share. The Series C
declared quarterly dividends on the dividend is $240.7986111 per preferred
company’s 5.000% Perpetual Preferred share, or $0.2407986111 per depositary
Stock, Series A and the company’s share. The dividends are payable on
4.750% Perpetual Preferred Stock, May 1, 2020, to stockholders of record
Series C. The Series A dividend is at the close of business on April 9,
$312.50 per preferred share, or $0.3125 2020.

AT&T 5G Footprint Reaches 80 Locations

AT&T Communications has extended network utilizes former 3G spectrum
its low band 5G network – which went in the 850MHz band. AT&T’s original
live in ten markets on 13 December millimeter wave (mmWave) 5G footprint
2019 – to 22 new locations, taking its remains unchanged, covering parts of
overall 5G footprint to 80 markets. New 35 cities. This network – branded ‘5G+’
locations covered include Beaverhead – was launched in December 2018
County (Montana); Mono County using 39GHz frequencies.
(California) and Springfield (Ohio). The

AT&T, Palo Alto Networks and Broadcom Collaborate to Develop a
Disaggregated Scalable Firewall (DSFW)

AT&T, Palo Alto Networks and Broadcom Application Services. AT&T and Palo Alto solution. Broadcom provided expertise
have collaborated to develop the Networks look forward to input from other for the J2 functionality, coupled with a
Disaggregated Scalable Firewall (DSFW) OCP members. The three organizations new development on the chip to retain
framework. This is an expansion to involved in the creation of DSFW each Layer 4 session information, which allows
the Distributed Disaggregated Chassis brought unique capabilities. Palo Alto for the hardware offload, improving the
(DDC) recently contributed to the Open Networks’ technology supports security scalability of the solution. The session-
Compute Project (OCP). DSFW will enable capabilities directly on the network edge. aware application will determine what can
network operators to deploy firewalls This allows for protection of the network be processed directly on the fabric silicon
as software-based platforms rather with continuous security, automation and instead of having to go to the DSFW for
than hardware appliances. The DSFW analytics. Palo Alto Networks enable DSFW further inspection. AT&T, which has been
expansion will deliver the first dynamically to scale dynamically as network traffic disaggregating its network components
programmable fabric with embedded increases even during peak demand. The for several years, worked with Palo Alto
security functions and services at the release of Broadcom’s Jericho 2 chip was Networks and Broadcom to define the
edge of the network. DSFW will also open fundamental in the OCP contribution of the requirements, including scalability and
the door to future Scalable Disaggregated DDC and is an essential part of the DSFW functionality, for network security services

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