KERLINK (EPA:ALKLK) - Kerlink Announces Investment in Microshare, a Leader in IoT Data Storage, Sharing and Security

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Kerlink Announces Investment in Microshare, a Leader in IoT Data Storage,
Sharing and Security

Partnership Will Allow Customers of Both Companies to Increase Revenue
From Data Streams, and Support Kerlink's International Expansion

PRESS RELEASE

Barcelona, Spain - Feb. 26, 2018, 8:00 a.m. CET - Kerlink (ALKLK -
FR0013156007), a specialist and global leader in solutions dedicated to the
Internet of Things (IoT) today announced that it has invested in and formed a
business collaboration with Microshare Inc., a U.S-based IoT data-management
company.

The Microshare(TM) product provides a highly scalable data-management solution
that enables sharing, storage and controlling access in a highly scalable
architecture, while maintaining privacy, security, confidentiality and context
through a ready-built single set of application programming interfaces (APIs).
The solution can be used as a cloud service or embedded inside a more complete
offering.

For Kerlink, the Microshare relationship supports its strategy of moving up the
IoT value chain, beyond its core network infrastructure and operations
expertise, and of expanding the range of its value-added services. The
agreement enhances its network-as-a-service model by strengthening its
customers' - IoT network owners and operators - ability to store data in the
cloud and create new value streams by precisely managing sharing of data with
recipients, while keeping it secure.

Microshare also helps expand Kerlink's footprint in the U.S. and the U.K. where
it has a subsidiary.

"Microshare and Kerlink are highly complementary companies, both from a product
standpoint and a geographical footprint," said Kerlink co-founder and CEO
William Gouesbet. "Kerlink's leading position as a provider of turnkey
solutions for deploying and operating LoRaWAN(TM) networks is strengthened by
Microshare's ability to store, annotate and share the right data with the right
party, at scale, in the cloud, on- premises and at the edge. Microshare's
presence in the U.S. and the United Kingdom will support Kerlink's growth in
both those key markets."

"This investment demonstrates that leading players in the IoT ecosystem now
realize the value of data sharing," said Ron Rock, co-founder and CEO of
Microshare. "While significant progress has been made on the devices and
networks over the past few years, the industry now sees that the only way to
create new revenue streams is to make it easy for clients to share the data
from connected devices. Kerlink has an established trust relationship with many
of the world's largest networks, whose owners need proven solutions for the
data-management challenges they face."

The company's core product, Microshare(TM), provides data management solutions
that enable users to easily store the massive data volumes generated by
connected IoT devices and to apply business rules and context to share that
data with the right parties at the right time, thereby creating new revenue
streams. Doing this at scale against the backdrop of personal and corporate
privacy concerns and compliance with regulations, such as the General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR), requires new paradigms and techniques pioneered
by Microshare.

Yannick Delibie, Kerlink CTIO and co-founder, said the partnership with
Microshare supports Kerlink's strategy to simplify the customer experience when
deploying an end-to-end IoT solution by accelerating the integration with
market leading application enablement platforms (AEPs).

"The critical fundaments of an IoT application, potentially enriched by Big
Data and AI, are connectivity, high quality and availability, combined with
reliable data collection, transport and delivery, including secured sharing and
privacy management," Delibie said. "This strong partnership with Microshare
brings to the market a high level of smart and secure IoT data management."

Microshare is Kerlink's first investment in another company. Details of the
investment were not disclosed. This investment has been made for a limited
amount and opens the door to Kerlink for a potential further investment in
Microshare's next round of funding.
Teams from Microshare and Kerlink will be at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
from Feb. 26 to March 2 for meetings with customers, potential customers and
media. To schedule a meeting with Microshare at the LoRa Alliance(TM) booth in
Hall 8, contact Tracy Bromley at tbromley@microshare.io. Kerlink will
demonstrate its products in its booth, 8.0C11, in Hall 8. To meet with Kerlink
representatives, please ask for a meeting.

About Kerlink Group

Kerlink Group is a global leading provider of end-to-end network solutions for
the Internet of Things (IoT), serving telecom operators, businesses and public
authorities worldwide. Its growing suite of turnkey IoT services includes
network planning, design and operational management that maximizes performance
of its market-leading, carrier-grade infrastructure offering. The Group, widely
recognized for its IoT expertise, also continually introduces innovative
value-added services, such as network-based geolocation, remote end-device
management and low- power IoT reference design, which allows its customers to
quickly bring to market IoT-ready devices and to imagine innovative business
models to monetize their deployments.

In just over 10 years, more than 100,000 Kerlink installations have been
deployed in more than 69 countries. In 2017 Kerlink supplied more than 330
customers, including major telecom operators such as Tata Communications, and
service providers such as GrDF and Suez. The company's solutions are enabling
IoT networks worldwide with major deployments in Europe, South Asia, South
America and Oceania. Kerlink, a co-founder and board member of the LoRa
Alliance(TM), has invested more than EUR10 million in research in the past
three years. In 2017, Kerlink Group generated revenues of nearly EUR25 million,
more than 50 percent internationally. Since 2013, it has posted average annual
growth of more than 62 percent. It has been listed on Euronext Growth Paris
since May 2016 and was added to the EnterNext PEA-PME 150, an index of 150
fast-growing French SMEs, in 2017.

For more information, visit www.kerlink.com or follow us on Twitter
@kerlink_news.

About Microshare

Microshare.io provides a highly scalable data management solution for the
Internet of Things, enabling data storage and controlled access whilst
maintaining privacy, security, confidentiality and applying context through a
ready-built single API. The solution can be used as a cloud service or embedded
inside a more complete offering. Microshare has offices in Philadelphia, New
York, and in the United Kingdom.

Upcoming events
2017 Annual Results: 4 April 2018 after market
www.kerlink.com

Microshare Contacts:
Michael Moran
+1 (201) 264-5751
mmoran@microshare.io

Kerlink's Investor contact:
Actifin
Benjamin Lehari
+33 (0)1 56 88 11 25
blehari@actifin.fr

Kerlink's Press and Market Analysts contact:
Mahoney Lyle
Céline Gonzalez
+33 (0)6 75 85 60 42
cgonzalez@mahoneylyle.com

Kerlink's Financial Press contact:
Actifin Isabelle Dray
+33 (0)1 56 88 11 29
idray@actifin.fr

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