How is Yamaha responding to changes in the business environment? Annual Event "Yamaha Network Innovation Forum 2022" Report

Next, Mr. Kishi explained how Yamaha is responding to these changes in the business environment.

"Elimination of high-risk parts" was first mentioned as an initiative to address the shortage of semiconductors. Parts with a relatively high probability of supply delays, such as special parts with low versatility and old parts that have been supplied for a long time, are eliminated from the design stage to reduce product supply risks as much as possible. It is said that there is

In addition, as "strengthening cooperation with semiconductor vendors", it is said that it is further strengthening cooperation with major vendors and promoting the stabilization of parts supply.

Furthermore, in the production system, in order to increase business continuity, we also touched on the redundancy of production improvement.

Regarding network security for small and medium-sized enterprises, Yamaha will release UTX200/100, Yamaha's first UTM products, in March 2021. Mr. Kishi said that it is popular with customers who newly introduce UTM products because it comes with a support license by the window.

In regards to office free address and traffic increase, we introduced the WLX413 Wi-Fi 6 compatible access point released in March 2021.

Furthermore, they introduced the router RTX1220, the successor to the RTX1210, and the simple L2 switch 2110 series in April, and the standard L3 switch SWS3220 and intelligent L2 switch SWX2320 that support 10GbE/2.5GbE in June. bottom.

After that, Mr. Kishi introduced the product roadmap for the next year or so. Regarding this, we have already published an article in this magazine as "Yamaha has released the latest roadmap for network products", so please refer to that.