Coriant and New H3C Group (HP Enterprise & Unigroup) Join Forces to Drive Disruptive Innovation in China for Hyperscale Data Center, 5G, Super High-Speed Cloud, Industrial Internet & IoT Services

NAPERVILLE, Illinois, 8 February 2018 – Coriant, a global leader in packet-optical solutions and New H3C Group (HP Enterprise & Unigroup), a leader in ICT solutions in China, today announced they have entered into an agreement to drive digital transformation in China. The agreement outlines the basis for technology collaboration designed to advance communications infrastructure to support a new generation of services and applications for hyperscale data centers, 5G, super high-speed cloud, Industrial Internet & IoT.

“We are pleased to be teaming with the ICT leader in China, New H3C,” said Shaygan Kheradpir, CEO and Chairman, Coriant. “Like Coriant, New H3C passionately believes in delivering disruptive innovation to deliver step-function results to its customers.”

The strategic agreement draws upon Coriant’s Hyperscale Carrier Architecture (HCA) solutions in packet-optical networking, and New H3C’s proven suite of ICT solutions for enterprise and service provider customers throughout China.

“An open, scalable, and software-defined approach to network transformation plays a critical role in delivering agile and efficient digital solutions for today’s enterprises,” said Yu Yingtao, President and CEO, New H3C Group. “We look forward to leveraging Coriant’s thought leadership in these areas and working closely with them to explore a wide variety of advanced communications technologies that will benefit our customers.”

About New H3C

New H3C Group (New H3C) is a world-leading provider of New IT solutions. It is fully committed to the research & development, production, sales, consulting and services of New IT products and solutions. Providing customers with a full range of servers, storage, networking, security products, hyper-converged infrastructure and IT management systems under the H3C® brand, New H3C also offers customers a one-stop, complete portfolio of IT solutions and consulting services that includes Big Internet, Big Security, Cloud Computing and Big Data. In addition, New H3C is also the exclusive provider of HPE® branded Servers and Storage products as well as Technical Services in China.