NEWS
Telefónica
Deutschland
to invest in its
mobile network
by 2022
NetApp continues
collaboration with Italian
motorcycle racing team
Andrea Dovizioso and Danilo
Petrucci of the Ducati Corse
motorcycle racing team
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elefónica Deutschland plans to
accelerate its growth significantly in the
coming years. Between 2020 and 2022, the
company intends to increase its revenue by
at least 5% overall while further increasing
its profitability. As a basis for growth, an
additional several hundred million euros are
to be invested in network expansion.
To date, Telefónica Deutschland has
invested around one billion euros annually,
most of it into its network. The company
will invest around 17% to 18% of its
revenue in the next two years to enable the
nationwide expansion of LTE and the rapid
establishment of a high-performance 5G
mobile communications infrastructure.
After a strong increase in network
performance in 2019 and obtaining a ‘good’
rating across three current network tests, the
additional investment will help the company
to offer its customers an outstanding network
experience for all relevant fields of application.
“With the new decade and the launch of
5G, our company is entering a growth
phase,” said Markus Haas, CEO of Telefónica
Deutschland. “We are going to invest more
to capture market share, particularly in rural
areas and with business customers, where a
high-performance mobile communications
and fixed-network infrastructure will be a
great asset.”
Thanks to the additional investment funds, the
company will be able to accelerate the grid
expansion even further from 2020 onwards.
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etApp, a leader in cloud data services,
is continuing its collaboration
with the Italian-based Ducati Corse
motorcycle racing team.
In the last 12 months, Ducati has
increased the use of hyperconverged
(HCI) solutions, which are now the basis
for the IT infrastructure of branches
in EMEA and are used on the track to
improve performance.
In addition, all NetApp flash solutions
are now powering over 200 applications,
consolidating and protecting the entire
Ducati data environment.
Ducati, supported by NetApp, has
been carrying out numerous digital
projects ranging from HPC simulations
for motorcycle aerodynamics to the
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INTELLIGENTCIO
development of connected motorcycles,
as well as from the design and
implementation of the Ducati Link app -
which allows all motorcyclists to configure
parameters, record performances and
itineraries and discover a new way of
travelling, up to the improvement of safety
and the development of new motorcycles.
NetApp has renewed the official
sponsorship of the Ducati Corse
motorcycle racing team for the 2020
MotoGP World Championship.
“It gives us great pleasure to continue
the partnership with NetApp,
as we consider data and Digital
Transformation a key component of
our strategy for the future and for our
success,” said Claudio Domenicali, CEO
of Ducati Motor Holding. n
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