KERLINK (EPA:ALKLK) - Kerlink and Semtech Test Kerlink’s Complete Geolocation Solution in Dense Urban Setting

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Kerlink and Semtech Test Kerlink's Complete Geolocation Solution in Dense
Urban Setting

Experiment in Mexico Will Demonstrate Accuracy & Quality of Communication for
Kerlink's Commercial-Grade Offering

PRESS RELEASE

Barcelona, Spain - Feb. 27, 2018, 6:00 p.m. CET - Kerlink (ALKLK -
FR0013156007), a specialist and global leader in solutions dedicated to the
Internet of Things (IoT), and Semtech Corporation, (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading
supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and
advanced algorithms, today announced an urban live-test in Aguascalientes City,
Mexico, for Kerlink's geolocation solution, Wanesy((TM)) Geolocation.

Land-based geolocation leveraging the LoRaWAN(TM) open protocol uses a
different technology than GPS, eliminating the requirement for costly and
power-hungry data processing. Gartner forecasts that a third of the world's 15
billion connected devices will be critically dependent on geodata by the end of
2020.

The Mexican project is the first demonstration of Kerlink's end-to-end network
environment, which combines the Wirnet(TM) iBTS 915 MHz gateways, the
Wanesy(TM) Management Center, which is the company's core network management
suite, and the Wanesy(TM) Geolocation, its new geolocation solver. The
experiment with Semtech provides large-scale field-testing opportunities to
demonstrate the benefits of geolocation and to show the impact of the quality
of coverage on accuracy, when the number of gateways and location of
installation points is varied in a dense urban setting.

"Geolocation is simple to deploy and operate because each end-device can be
natively located without the need to add a costly GPS module inside it," said
Yannick Delibie, Kerlink CTIO. "This dramatically optimizes power consumption
and reduces device hardware costs. No additional hardware is required, assuming
that gateways are geolocation-ready, like Kerlink Wirnet(TM) iBTS gateways."

Semtech, whose LoRa(r) devices and wireless radio frequency technology (LoRa
Technology) transceivers are central to the implementation of LoRaWAN(TM)
networks around the world, actively collaborated with Kerlink on equipment
installation in Aguascalientes City, a metropolitan area of about 1 million
population.

"Optimal location of the gateways is crucial for delivering an optimized, fine
time stamp for real-time tracking," said Marc Pegulu, vice president and
general manager of Semtech's Wireless and Sensing Product Group. "Kerlink's
Wirnet(TM) iBTS Compact, based on Semtech's industrial-grade reference design,
offers improved gateway clock synchronization for its embedded GPS to further
improve geolocation accuracy, especially in a dense urban area."

Live tests in the demonstration show promising results with CEP 95 (circular
error probable with 95 percent probability) around 80 meters for moving
objects, such as vehicles, in class A type of communication while in urban
environments that can create communication multipath challenges, resulting from
radio reflection generated by buildings.

This demonstration environment will also help the teams to further evaluate
network and gateway- deployment geometry, which plays a significant role in
geolocation performance. All of these findings will help Kerlink continuously
optimize the network design and deployment it offers customers through its
professional services, including geolocation services.

"The global performance of the accuracy is continuously progressing by
leveraging environment learning and intelligent algorithms," Delibie said. "The
infrastructure set-up is an alive technical ecosystem of partners delivering
the entire value chain with a tremendous improvement in the quality of service
able to support an increasing number of concrete use cases."

Semtech and Kerlink are among the founding members of the LoRa Alliance(TM),
which recently published a white paper on geolocation using Semtech's LoRa(r)
technology.

Kerlink will present its solutions and show geolocation demonstration during
Mobile World Congress on in booth located 8.0 C11. Ask for a demo.

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 Semtech
Semtech Corporation is a leading supplier of high performance analog and
mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms for high-end consumer,
enterprise computing, communications, and industrial equipment. Products are
designed to benefit the engineering community as well as the global community.
The Company is dedicated to reducing the impact it, and its products, have on
the environment. Internal green programs seek to reduce waste through material
and manufacturing control, use of green technology and designing for resource
reduction. Publicly traded since 1967, Semtech is listed on the Nasdaq Global
Select Market under the symbol SMTC.
For more information, visit www.semtech.com

About LoRaWAN(TM)
The technology used in a LoRaWAN(TM) network is designed to connect low-cost,
battery-operated sensors over long distances in harsh environments that were
previously too challenging or cost-prohibitive to connect. With its unique
penetration capability, a LoRaWAN(TM) gateway deployed on a building or tower
can connect to sensors more than 10 kilometres away or to water meters deployed
underground or in basements. The LoRaWAN(TM) protocol offers unique and
unequalled benefits in terms of bi-directionality, security, mobility and
accurate localization that are not addressed by other LPWAN(TM) technologies.
These benefits will enable the diverse use cases and business models that will
grow deployments of LPWAN(TM) IoT networks globally.

About the LoRa Alliance(TM)
The LoRa Alliance(TM) is an open, nonprofit association that has grown to over
500 members since its inception in March 2015, becoming one of the largest and
fastest-growing alliances in the technology sector. Its members are closely
collaborating and sharing their experience to promote the LoRaWAN(TM) protocol
as the leading open global standard for secure, carrier-grade IoT LPWAN
connectivity. With the technical flexibility to address a broad range of IoT
applications, both static and mobile, and a certification program to guarantee
interoperability, LoRaWAN(TM) has already been deployed by major mobile network
operators globally, with wide expansion anticipated in 2017. For information
about joining the LoRa Alliance(TM), please visit the membership page.

Semtech, the Semtech logo and LoRa are registered trademarks or service marks,
and LoRaWAN is a trademark or service mark, of Semtech Corporation or its
affiliates. Third-party trademarks and service marks mentioned herein are the
property of their respective owners.

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Semtech's Press Contact:
Ronda Grech
+ 1 805-480-2193
rgrech@semtech.com

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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