RELEASE: Supermicro and Rakuten Symphony Expand Collaboration to Offer Complete 5G, Telco and Edge Solutions

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- Supermicro and Rakuten Symphony Expand Collaboration to Deliver Complete 5G, Telco and Edge Solutions for Cloud-Based Open RAN Mobile Networks

With Rakuten Symphony, flexible, scalable, and open standards-based 5G networks become easier to deploy and upgrade with Supermicro's application-optimized servers

SAN JOSE, California and BARCELONA, Spain, March 2, 2023/PRNewswire/ -- Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a total provider of IT solutions for cloud, AI/ML, storage and 5G/Edge , announces a close collaboration with Rakuten Symphony to deliver the next generation of servers and storage systems, for a wide range of workloads. As one of the main partners of Rakuten Symphony, the two companies are providing operators with models for cloud-based mobile services using the most advanced servers and network architecture, offering an easy-to-deploy solution for operators around the world. . Furthermore, Rakuten Symphony can quickly deliver Open RAN solutions with timely technical support and consulting.

Mobile operators around the world face several challenges when adopting Open RAN, including building new high-performance networks from scratch, new types of components that require investment and time to get familiar with, a different way to scale and harden these networks, and weighing the trade-offs between different technologies With Rakuten Symphony, using Supermicro's proven and pre-defined servers, a high-performance, cost-effective, optimized and secure solution is ready to deploy to meet the growing movement towards mobile communications and on-the-go data generation. network edge. Supermicro's Building Block approach to server design enables a wide range of servers to be quickly certified and used for specific workloads.

"Supermicro is pleased to support an industry leader, Rakuten, to deliver state-of-the-art servers and expertise to create a scalable and secure solution for today's edge requirements and the anticipated boom in edge communications in the coming years." said Charles Liang, Chairman and CEO of Supermicro. "In addition, our range of application-optimized servers enables Rakuten Symphony to deliver targeted and optimized solutions to customers around the world. Our ability to be first to market with new technologies enables Supermicro to be Rakuten's preferred provider for its broad range of technology offerings.

"Rakuten Symphony is pleased to work with Supermicro to bring the next generation of high-performance Open RAN technologies to mobile operators around the world," said Tareq Amin, CEO of Rakuten Mobile and Rakuten Symphony. "The combination of Rakuten Symphony software and experience integrating with Supermicro's next-generation servers ensures that customers can deliver services in a timely manner."

The class of Supermicro data center and edge servers that Rakuten Symphony has selected for its Distributed Units (O-DU) and Centralized Units (O-CU) include:

Rakuten Symphony will begin offering Supermicro servers with 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors on the same server as below:

Supermicro X13 products specific to CU and DU:

For more information on Supermicro's X13 products, visit: www.supermicro.com/x13

For more information on Supermicro and Rakuten Symphony, please visit: https://www.supermicro.com/en/solutions/rakuten-symphony

For more information on Supermicro and Rakuten Symphony Solution at MWC 2023, please visit Supermicro/Rakuten Hall 5, Stand 5D66

About Super Micro Computers, Inc.

Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a world leader in application-optimized total IT solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first-to-market innovation for enterprise IT infrastructure, cloud, AI and 5G Telco/Edge. We are transforming into a total IT solutions provider with servers, AI, storage, IoT and switching systems, software and services, while also offering advanced high-volume chassis, power and motherboard products. Products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Taiwan and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning Server Building Block Solutions® portfolio enables customers to optimize their exact application and workload by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks supporting a full set of form factors, processors, memory, GPU, storage, networking, power and cooling solutions (air conditioning, free air cooling or liquid cooling).

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