Item 2. Properties
Item 2. Properties
During 2019, we initiated a plan to consolidate and reduce the number of our facilities worldwide. This included plans to provide a new customer experience center for product demonstration and training, relocate and consolidate our laboratories, server farms and Cloud service infrastructure and condense research and development, sales, marketing, business operations
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and administrative functions into our new Plano campus. We substantially completed these relocation and other site closure activities in 2020.
We also lease smaller (under 50,000 square feet) office space in various countries around the world for sales, marketing, research and development/engineering, and customer services and support staff, as well as for warehouse purposes. We are exiting certain of these facilities. We believe our remaining facilities will be adequate for our current needs and that suitable additional space will be available as needed.
As of December 31, 2020, we maintained the following principal facilities:
Location Principal use Lease expiration
Westford, Massachusetts Corporate headquarters (through February 26, 2021), research and development/engineering, sales, customer support, general and administrative August 2028
Plano, Texas (a) Corporate headquarters (effective February 26, 2021), sales, marketing, research and development/engineering, customer support, general and administrative September 2032
Plano, Texas (b) Research and development/engineering, customer support February 2022
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Research and development/engineering, sales, customer support, general and administrative April 2027
Ottawa, Canada (c) Research and development/engineering, customer support, general and administrative December 2029
Petah Tikva, Israel (c) Sales, service, research and development/engineering September 2023
Petah Tikva, Israel (c) Service, research and development/engineering, general and administrative October 2023
Bangalore, India Research and development/engineering, customer support, general and administrative October 2024
Bangalore, India Research and development/engineering, customer support, general and administrative December 2023
(a) Employees were relocated from the Plano, Texas facility to this facility (the "new Plano facility") in the fourth quarter of 2020. Laboratory equipment and operations are still in the process of being relocated to this facility from the Plano, Texas facility. These relocation actions are part of our restructuring initiative to consolidate our North Texas operations.
(b) We are finalizing the relocation of this facility's operations to the new Plano facility (see note (a) above).
(c) A portion of this facility was not in use at December 31, 2020 and is currently being subleased as part of a restructuring initiative.