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PENTANET LIMITED — Investor Presentation 2021
Dec 19, 2021
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20 December 2021
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Summary information in relation to Pentanet Limited.
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Page 2 INVESTOR UPDATE
TRANSACTION OVERVIEW
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Pentanet has acquired a 13.4% stake in CANOPUS for $4m in cash. Pentanet will be the largest shareholder in CANOPUS behind IP Group.
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CANOPUS is a market leader in providing deep application-aware network visibility using Artificial Intelligence and Programmable Networking. It combines Programmable Networks with Machine Learning to enable deep visibility into network traffic, in real-time, at terabit scale, and for low cost.
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Pentanet has executed an MOU to enter a strategic partnership with CANOPUS including a commitment to invest $1.5M of CANOPUS funds in the development of a consumer facing gaming loyalty and reward program that will fully exploit Canopus’ real-time gaming analytics capability.
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The partnership will enable exclusive co-development of Pentanet's unique gamified telecommunications and gaming loyalty platform, Cloud.GG, using CANOPUS’ analytics technology.
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Designed by Pentanet as a gamified rewards system, the Platform will use CANOPUS analytics for deep insight into network traffic to offer a unique network loyalty and incentive program.
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The partnership is consistent with Pentanet's strategy to create additional revenue generating opportunities by further developing the Cloud.GG portal into a gamified network loyalty, rewards and incentive program
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The transaction will be funded from Pentanet’s existing cash reserves and is expected to complete on or around 24 December 2021. The Pentanet capital raising on 18 June 2021 allocated $4m towards further Cloud.GG software development and Pentanet.GG gaming opportunities.
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Pentanet is entitled to appoint one director to the CANOPUS board while it holds at least a 10% stake in CANOPUS. Mr Stephen Cornish has provided CANOPUS with his consent to act as director of CANOPUS.
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ONGOING STRATEGY (continues)
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GROW OUR SUBSCRIBER BASE
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⬟ Introduce new technology to increase on-net coverage
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⬟ Deliver high-quality customer experience
EXPAND NETWORK INCREASING POTENTIAL MARKET
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⬟ Deployment of large-scale mmWave wireless telecommunications network
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⬟ Increase available speeds to 1Gbps for more fixed wireless customers
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⬟ Line of sight to tower no longer required for every subscriber
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INCREASE $ MARGINS
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⬟ Attract more off-net subscribers to higher margin on-net services
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⬟ Diversify product offering (VOIP, consumer electronics)
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⬟ NVIDIA GeForce NOW Alliance Member bringing cloud gaming service to Australia
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⬟ Continue development of premium brand for alignment to speed and quality
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⬟ Limit churn
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⬟ Customers become advocates
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⬟ Increase market penetration with greater fixed wireless coverage across Perth metro area
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⬟ Competitive service offering
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⬟ Targeted marketing and media strategy
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ABOUT CANOPUS NETWORKS
CANOPUS Networks combines Programmable Networks (software-defined networking, SDN) with Machine Learning to enable deep visibility into network traffic, in real-time, at terabit scale, and for low cost.
What's the mission of CANOPUS Networks?
CANOPUS aspires to be embedded in all networks – Telcos, Enterprises, National Infrastructure, and Governments – to make all data-in-motion indexable and searchable, in real-time, at Terabit speeds, across billions of endpoints; all with very low deployment cost and effort.
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FOUNDERS
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BOARD
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Kevin Bloch
Advisor
● Former Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
for Cisco Australia and NZ for over
twelve years.
● Previously leading Engineering across
Cisco’s entire technology portfolio.
ADVISORS
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Vijay Sivaraman Co Founder & CEO
Himal Kumar Co Founder & CTO
Genevieve Gregor Advisor
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Software Engineering adept
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Professor & Inventor
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Former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Cisco Australia and NZ for over twelve years.
- Over 25 years’ experience in various investment, commercial and finance roles across banking, private and public companies.
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SDN and AI/ML expert
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Silicon valley startup experience
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Skilled leader in open-source technology R&D
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Commercial projects with Google, Cisco, HPE, Optus, etc.
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Previously worked at Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Glencore.
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Paul Barrett
Director
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David Spence
Chairman
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Rob Appel
Director
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Hakan Eriksson
Director
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20+ internet-related businesses as Chairman, CEO, Director. ● Entrepreneur, investor and executive of 20+ years.
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Experienced technology executive, working at the cutting edge of science and engineering for two decades.Experience in supporting early-stage
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Former CEO of OzEmail
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Industries include telecommunications, ● Globally experienced technology leaderwith deep Telco expertise ● and engineering for two decades.Experience in supporting early-stage online media & marketing, ecommerce, ● Former CEO of Ericsson Australia technology to large multinationals. fundraising and more. ● Former CTO for Telstra.
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Former Chairman of PayPal Australia
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Page 5 INVESTOR UPDATE
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Actionable analytics across your network.
Terabit-scale AI platform for application and network performance analytics.
Actionable reports to grow your business.
With our detailed analysis, you can easily access reports and dashboards that capture the complete activity of your network and track changes.
“The FlowPulse technology does for encrypted traffic on a network what Shazam does for music, offering deep visibility to identify and the opportunity to reward user activity.”
– Stephen Cornish, Pentanet
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CloudGG
Developed by Pentanet, the current Cloud.GG Portal is a centralised user management and analytics program designed to assist with cloud gaming onboarding.
Pentanet plans to further develop the Cloud.GG Platform to a unique gamified telecommunications and gaming loyalty platform, using the CANOPUS’ FlowPulse technology.
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Internet User
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Does stuff online.
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EXAMPLE ONLINE ACTIVITIES
Watches Latest Series Streams 2+ Hours
Video Conference Plays New Game Release
FlowPulse
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Cloud.GG
Data plugs in to Cloud.GG – creates gamified network with gaming loyalty and rewards platform to create our new telco meta currency.
Machine Learning enables deep visibility into network traffic, in real-time.
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THANK YOU
2/8 Corbusier Place Balcatta WA
+61 8 9466 2672 [email protected]
pentanet.com.au/investor-centre ASX: 5GG
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