PLDT US Managing Director and Senior Advisor Richard Ortega (3rd from left) and Hermes Network President and CEO Charles Kung (3rd from the right) sign a collaborative partnership agreement for PLDT US to market and sell the Hermes Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) services. Others in picture: Evarcito Ocampo, PLDT US - General Manager, Buddy del Rosario, PLDT US - Head, Product & Marketing, Larry Bani, Principal - Hermes Network and Roselle dela Cruz, PLDT US - Regional Head, Americas and Europe

San Francisco, CA [December 12 2019]—Hermes Network, a global SD-WAN service provider, delivering the best of breed, full featured, managed services, announced a new partnership with PLDT US, expanding its global SD-WAN services. PLDT US now offers enterprise-grade custom managed SD-WAN deployment, and turnkey managed SD-WAN services to new and existing enterprise clients. PLDT US will rapidly deploy these custom services to its multinational clients.

“PLDT US can now rapidly deploy custom SD-WAN services to our clients while providing them with next generation security capabilities and full visibility into their network”, said Richard Ortega, Managing Director and Senior Advisor of PLDT US.

The Hermes Network managed SD-WAN services are available immediately to PLDT US clients globally. Enterprise clients will benefit from full featured SD-WAN managed services. The hybrid design combines the best protection and control of mission critical applications while providing full visibility and control.

PLDT US Managed SD-WAN Services:

• Network design and consulting

• WAN transport

• Provisioning, branch device and circuit testing and management

• Deployment, install, turn-up and testing

• 24x7x365 monitoring

• Bandwidth utilization analysis and reporting

• Network and application performance monitoring, management and reporting

• Moves, adds, changes and deletes

Hermes Network SD-WAN services:

• Managed SD-WAN

• Managed next generation firewall

• WAN optimization and routing

• Multipath remediation

• Central orchestrator and management

• Application visibility and control

• Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)

• VPNs

“Our partnership with PLDT US allows global enterprises to benefit from our services and accelerate the deployment of our managed SD-WAN solution”, said Larry Bani, Principal Hermes Network.

About PLDT US PLDT US is part of PLDT Global Corporation, a subsidiary of PLDT, Inc. the leading telecommunications, ICT and digital service provider in the Philippines. NYSE:PHI PLDT US is dedicated to bringing offshore businesses to greater heights. With its full suite of end-to-end industry solutions that connect your enterprise to the Philippines and beyond, PLDT US aims to inspire fearlessness across the dynamic business landscape, paving the way for enterprise growth and success.

About Hermes Network Hermes Network, a best of breed SD-WAN provider, delivers full featured, fully managed, touch free provisioned services. We provide customers the flexibility and agility to manage their applications and make the most efficient use of their bandwidth.