Batm Advanced Communicat... Share Discussion Threads

[fse] 02/6/2016 15:29

and yet more news.....posted earlier but now on their blog site with a little more info.
Reason for highlighting this again is because Telco systems are currently exhibiting in Singapore...

Edit added..

CommunicAsia 2016

May 31, 2016



CommunicAsia 2016
May 31-June 3, 2016
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Visit Event Site

Meet us at booth #6!


At this year’s upcoming CommunicAsia 2016, we will demonstrate super-impressive NFV performance including CE, MPLS and multiple VNF chaining under unified management, as well as our first-in-market CloudMetro 100 10GE device. You will also get a sneak peek at the CloudMetro 10, our 1GE NFV platform.

Come to hear about a broad range of VNFs for security, routing and WAN-acceleration services by leading vendors like Check Point, AudioCodes, Certes, Palo Alto Networks and Netrounds, and successful, roadworthy apps from Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, Silver Peak, Riverbed and Fortinet.

We will also tell you about our next-generation 100GE aggregation solution, which provides multiple aggregation services over 1GE, 10GE and 100GE port rates in a metro Ethernet environment.

We look forward to seeing you at the Israeli pavilion, booth #6!

Blog Comment

Leading Asian telco deploys Telco Systems’ 10GE demarcation solutionPosted by Talia Rimon on June 1, 2016
Telco Systems has supplied 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GE) demarcation devices to a prominent Tier 1 telecommunications service provider in Southeast Asia.

As part of the deal, Telco Systems has deployed hundreds T-Marc 3348 devices, enabling this leading service provider to expand its network capacity to 10GE. T-Marc 3348 is a cost effective aggregation and demarcation device that supports high capacity Ethernet, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) and Internet protocol (IP) access.

Telco Systems also implemented its EdgeGenie Orchestrator Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE 2.0) management system, which provides the service provider a comprehensive framework for defining, monitoring and controlling the service provisioning processes.

T-Marc 3348S - True 10 Gigabit Ethernet/MPLS Demarcation Device

By expanding its network capacity to 10GE, the customer can support more broadband traffic, offer higher quality services and better serve its customers with stronger service level agreements (SLAs).

The service provider decided to expand the capacity of its network as part of a corporate effort to comply with MEF CE 2.0 standards. T-Marc 3348’s built-in compliance with MEF CE 2.0 standards was one of the reasons that the service provider selected Telco Systems.

Other demarcation devices from the T-Marc product line were previously deployed already as part of an earlier network modernization project, carried out by Telco Systems enabling the service provider to expand its customer base and offer 4G/LTE services.

“10GE is quickly becoming a requirement for service providers to meet the broadband demands of new services and customer usage,” said Raanan Tzemach, Vice President of Product and Marketing at Telco Systems. “We are well positioned to help service providers around the world with this migration and we expect to be announcing similar projects soon.”

[fse] 02/6/2016 15:26

>reeltime...... entirely its the bottom line thats determining the share price The momentum as you say is hard to ignore and they ought to have a decent pipeline for orders now in the Telco business. BATM has been depressed though for quite some time and investors just will not buy the potential no matter what the company says.
Interestingly we have not heard anything from the medical division for ages now.

[reeltime] 01/6/2016 22:57

Fse thanks for the posts. There certainly is momentum in the Telco business with more promised soon. It would appear the 'proof of concept' testing and change of strategy is paying off. Ultimately it's the bottom line figures which will determine how successful all this is.

[fse] 31/5/2016 16:19

heres the link to the above article

below is the link to the device in question Tmarc3348S



and heres yet another very interesting development, posted on Telco systems blog site and worth taking note of .... article below.


Telco Systems adds 100 Gigabit Ethernet capabilities to its ATCA switch bladePosted by Talia Rimon on May 30, 2016
Telco Systems has launched a 100GE AdvancedTCA (ATCA) Switch blade that delivers unparalleled connectivity to ATCA platforms. The new T-ATCA 510 addresses the increasing traffic demands from the network core to the access points.

ATCA specifications enable rapid development of mission-critical telecom applications, IP-based multimedia services (IMS), and metro Ethernet aggregation service routing.

This new 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GE) platform utilizes the industry leading QSFP28 technology, which brings the lowest cost per bandwidth and allows service providers to gradually decommission the use of dark fiber WDM-based transport layer. At the same time, it addresses a key challenge of service providers to reduce both OPEX and CAPEX.

T-ATCA-510

The T-ATCA 510 deploys an extensive networking software suite, BiNOX, to provide a complete networking solution for ATCA platforms. BiNOX is Telco Systems’ field-proven, carrier-grade networking operating system, which helps eliminate oversubscription and traffic congestion and supports low latency requirements, which are mandatory in carrier-grade and cloud networks.

Additionally, it supports 10/40/100Gbps multi-rate switching on the fabric interface (FI) and 1/10Gbps multi-rate switching on the base interface (BI). The T-ATCA 510 provides flexible port fan-out of up to 40 x 10GE fabric interface ports or 2x 100GE plus 24x 10GE or 2x 100GE plus 4x 40GE plus 8x 10GE.

In addition to the T-ATCA 510, Telco Systems also released its new T-Metro 8100 service aggregation platform with 100GE support, which allows service providers to offer cloud-based business Ethernet and mobile backhaul services to the network using star or ring topologies.

T-Metro 8100 is designed for service providers that need high reliability and flexibility to aggregate multiple services over 1GE, 10GE and 100GE port rates in a metro Ethernet environment.

[fse] 31/5/2016 16:15

Telco Systems Supplies 10GE Demarcation Solution to Tier 1 Telco in Southeast Asia

31/05/2016 8:35am
PR Newswire (US)

BATM Advanced Communications (LSE:BVC)
Intraday Stock Chart
Today : Tuesday 31 May 2016

Click Here for more BATM Advanced Communications Charts.
MANSFIELD, Massachusetts, May 31, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

Telco Systems, the leading provider of innovative CE 2.0, MPLS, IP and SDN & NFV solutions, today announced that the company has recently supplied 10GE demarcation devices to a prominent Tier 1 telecommunications service provider in Southeast Asia.

hxxp://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150311/732930
Telco Systems has deployed hundreds of its T-Marc 3348 devices, enabling this Tier 1 service provider to expand its network capacity to 10GE. T-Marc 3348 is a cost effective aggregation and demarcation device that supports high capacity Ethernet, MPLS and IP access. Telco Systems also implemented its EdgeGenie Orchestrator CE 2.0 management system, which provides the service provider a comprehensive framework for defining, monitoring and controlling the service provisioning processes.

By expanding its network capacity to 10GE, this service provider been able to support more broadband traffic, offer higher quality services and better serve its customers with stronger service level agreements (SLAs).

This service provider decided to expand the capacity of its network as part of a corporate effort to comply with MEF CE 2.0 standards. T-Marc 3348's built-in compliance with MEF CE 2.0 standards was one of the reasons that the service provider selected Telco Systems.

Telco Systems previously deployed other demarcation devices from its T-Marc product line as part of an earlier network modernization project that enabled this service provider to expand its customer base and offer 4G/LTE services.

"We are proud to be announcing an additional project extension with another Tier 1 customer of ours," Raanan Tzemach, Vice President of Product and Marketing at Telco Systems. "10GE is quickly becoming a requirement for service providers to meet the broadband demands of new services and customer usage. We are well positioned to help service providers around the world with this migration and we expect to be announcing similar projects soon."

Telco Systems will be exhibiting at CommunicAsia 2016 in Singapore at Booth #6 in the Israel Pavilion during May 31 to June 3.

[fse] 26/5/2016 15:30

Analyst Coverage

2016 Next Gen Infrastructure Security Report

May 19, 2016

Link:

Telco Systems award-winning NFV CyberGuard, a virtualized cybersecurity solution for protecting SDN and NFV infrastructures, profiled in the report.

The report highlights NFV CyberGuard’s uniqueness as follows:

NFV CyberGuard is designed specifically to protect SDN and NFV networks.
NFV CyberGuard is deployed as a NFV at the network edge at the closest point to all endpoints, providing real-time monitoring and analysis of network threats, complete visibility of the entire network and the ability to apply cybersecurity policies and efforts to the entire infrastructure.
NFV CyberGuard includes an open API for integration of external systems and third-party applications and algorithms.

[fse] 26/5/2016 15:25

Telco Systems completes PoC trials of CloudMetro vCPE platform with Tier 1 service providersPosted by Talia Rimon on May 26, 2016
Telco Systems has recently completed a series of high profile proof-of-concept (PoC) trials of its Open Metro Edge (OME) solution at a number of Tier 1 communications service providers (CSPs) in the United States, Europe and Asia.

During these PoCs, Telco Systems proved that the CloudMetro vCPE platform and its library of virtualized network function (VNF) applications support the high performance, carrier-grade multiple service chaining requirements of Tier 1 service providers.

Telco Systems has also expanded its library of VNF applications. These VNF applications are used by service providers to deliver NFV-enabled IT management and security services to their enterprise customers.

[fse] 24/5/2016 18:19

>Jd....Thanks for posting that albeit I have no idea how they came up with that estimate. If you follow such techniques can you explain a bit ?
And is that not a huge share price difference to suggest or is it not that uncommon.... thanks

My own view on the future movement of this stock is unchanged. The company is moving into profit on the medical side alone with future write offs still expected in the legacy Telco business which is close to being off the books.
Assuming continued growth in the medical side and the legacy business now out of the Telco picture ...plus some useful cyber contracts the next set of figures should be positive with a small profit.

The caveat is IMO still the length of time that the Telco arm can make real inroads in sales of SDN related kit. We know from useful articles posted on this BB that its now all happening, but the uptake is fractured and lethargic, with meaningful sales not expected until 2017.
After that all bets are off as to what the Telco arm could achieve......
The current share price appears to me to be undervalued and I would suggest a recovery even on modest sales figures to hit 20p to 22p range before the end of this year.

I would agree that at these levels the company appears to be very low risk.....

[james dean] 24/5/2016 08:40

BATM Advanced Communications Ltd Gaps Up; Strong Momentum for Buyers
Blanche SilvaMay 23, 2016



The stock of BATM Advanced Communications Ltd (LON:BVC) gapped up by GBX 0.075 today and has GBX 35.12 target or 122.00% above today’s GBX 15.82 share price. The 5 months technical chart setup indicates low risk for the GBX 64.27M company. The gap was reported on May, 24 by Barchart.com. If the GBX 35.12 price target is reached, the company will be worth GBX 78.41M more. Gaps up are useful for using as a support level and to some extent as a tradeable event. If investors already hold the stock and experience a price gap up, then its usually a good idea to hold the stock for a stronger up move. Back-tests of these patterns indicate that two-thirds of the times the stock performance improves after the gap. The area gaps close 89% of the time, the breakaway gaps, 2%, the continuation gaps 4% and the exhaustion gaps 61%. The stock increased 0.48% or GBX 0.07 on May 23, hitting GBX 15.82. About 22,500 shares traded hands. BATM Advanced Communications Ltd (LON:BVC) has declined 17.42% since October 21, 2015 and is downtrending. It has underperformed by 18.83% the S&P500.



BATM Advanced Communications Ltd. is an Israel firm engaged in the development, production and marketing of medical products, as well as data communication products. The company has a market cap of 64.27 million GBP. The Firm has two operating divisions: Telecommunications and BATM Medical. It currently has negative earnings. The Telecommunications division develops and offers telecom network solutions, IP surveillance solutions, software services and Cyber Security solutions.

[fse] 23/5/2016 16:19

Telco Systems' CloudMetro vCPE Platform Demonstrates Carrier-Grade Performance and Multi-VNF Service Chaining

23/05/2016 2:00pm
PR Newswire (US)

BATM Advanced Communications (LSE:BVC)
Intraday Stock Chart
Today : Monday 23 May 2016

Click Here for more BATM Advanced Communications Charts.
MANSFIELD, Massachusetts, May 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

Telco Systems, the leading provider of innovative CE 2.0, MPLS, IP and SDN & NFV solutions, today announced that the company has released CloudMetro 10, a new 1GE virtualization platform, for carrier-grade performance achieved by a unique acceleration technology and has recently completed a series of commercial trials with Tier 1 service providers around the world.

(Logo: hxxp://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150311/732930 )
CloudMetro 10 is a new member of Telco Systems' innovative Open Metro Edge (OME) solution portfolio of metro edge solutions, designed to help telcos and other communications service providers transition their networks to SDN and NFV infrastructure. The OME portfolio includes CloudMetro vCPE 1GE to 10GE family of virtualization platforms, EdgeGenie Orchestrator for management and orchestration, and TelcoApps library of pre-configured packages of virtualized network functions. CloudMetro 10 supports hardware acceleration and pre-integrated VNF applications enabling carrier-grade performance with multi-service chaining.

Telco Systems has also expanded its library of VNF applications. These VNF applications are used by service providers to deliver NFV-enabled IT management and security services to their enterprise customers. Telco Systems already offers VNF applications for security, routing, SD-WAN and WAN-optimization services from leading vendors, including Check Point, Audio Codes, Palo Alto and Netrounds, and has recently successfully tested additional VNF applications with Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, Silver Peak, Riverbed and Fortinet.

"We are proud of the progress and achievements we have made with our CloudMetro platforms and OME solution," commented Raanan Tzemach, Vice President of Product and Marketing at Telco Systems. "We are positioning our customers to take full advantage of the benefits of SDN and NFV and efficiently offer a new set of virtualized services with flexible business models based on our VNF-packages."

Telco Systems recently completed a series of high profile proof-of-concept (PoC) trials of its OME solution at a number of Tier 1 service providers in the United States, Europe and Asia. During these PoCs, Telco Systems proved that the CloudMetro platform and its library of VNF applications support the high performance, carrier-grade multiple service chaining requirements of Tier 1 service providers.

Telco Systems will be exhibiting its OME portfolio at the Big Communications Event in Austin, Texas at Booth #200 during May 24-25 and at CommunicAsia 2016 in Singapore at Booth #6 in the Israeli Pavilion during May 31 to June 3.

[reeltime] 19/5/2016 22:15

Thanks for the link FSE, a very interesting article. It will be quite something to see how this develops.

[fse] 19/5/2016 15:27

Not specific to BATM Telco but interesting that this is from another Israeli company and further pushes the need for providers to react to increased internet and cloud services.
Article reeltime posted a few posts back is well worth reading as the real caveat here is time to implement ...........

[james dean] 19/5/2016 15:08

...and another



------------------

Regards. DYOR

[aishah] 19/5/2016 10:52

RNS Non-Regulatory

TIDMBVC

BATM Advanced Communications Ld

19 May 2016

("BATM" or "the Group")

BATM's Telco Systems Adds 100GE Capabilities

New Aggregation and ATCA solutions to meet ever-increasing demand for bandwidth

BATM Advanced Communications Limited (LSE: BVC), a leading provider of real-time technologies for networking solutions and medical laboratory systems, announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Telco Systems, has added 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GE) capabilities to its switching platform solutions to address the increasing demand for bandwidth due to growing traffic across telecom networks.

By providing 100GE capabilities, Telco Systems will help service providers to continue to reduce both operational expenditure and capital expenditure. Telco Systems' new 100GE platforms use the industry-leading QSFP28 technology, which brings lowest cost per bandwidth, and will allow service providers to gradually phase out legacy dark fiber WDM-based transport layer.

Telco Systems has released two solutions with 100GE capabilities: the T-Metro 8100 and T-ATCA 510:

-- The T-Metro 8100 is designed for service providers that need high reliability and flexibility to aggregate multiple services over 1GE, 10GE and 100GE port rates in a metro Ethernet environment.

-- Telco Systems has also launched a new 100GE AdvancedTCA switch blade, the T-ATCA 510, which enables the rapid development of mission critical telecom applications, including LTE evolved packet core, IP-based multimedia services and metro Ethernet aggregation service routing. The T-ATCA 510 is also SDN-enabled.

Zvi Marom, Chief Executive Officer of BATM, said: "These are exciting times for the networking industry and we are proud to be at the forefront of developing important new innovations to help telcos improve performance and provide better services. Our approach to 100GE access overcomes the drawbacks of alternative attempts to expand access and will help meet the ever-increasing demand for more bandwidth and the constant need to reduce total cost of ownership."

[reeltime] 17/5/2016 22:15

Cable operators to help drive SDN market to $8.7B by 2020
May 16, 2016 | By Mike Dano

BOSTON -- The cable industry is working to embrace software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV), but the transition will require a significant amount of work.

"I'm seeing a lot of variety [among cable operators embracing SDN]. There's not a single path," said Chris Bastian, SVP and CTO of cable industry trade group SCTE, during a FierceTelecom event here on the sidelines of the INTX trade show. "It's a very different answer depending on who you're talking about."

But, according to research firm IHS Technology, the market for SDN is poised to take off. The firm today reported that the service provider SDN market -- including hardware, software and services -- will grow from $289 million in 2015 to fully $8.7 billion in 2020, figures that represent a compound annual growth rate of 98 percent.

"Carriers have defined the vision, goals and architectures and are progressing through use cases, proof-of-concept projects, field trials and a small but growing number of commercial deployments," the research firm noted in a release announcing its new SDN report. "The partially proven promise keeps the industry moving as fast as it can, but we are still early in this long-term, 10- to 15-year transformation of service provider networks."

IHS also said that software and outsourced services will comprise 46 percent of SDN revenue in 2020, and that SDN orchestration and controller software revenue is forecast to grow to over $1.8 billion in 2020.

"There are many ways you can approach" deploying SDN, noted Dan Pitt, executive director of the Open Networking Foundation.

Adam Saenger, VP of global product development and management for Level 3, said that moving to SDN and NFV also requires operators to re-evaluate their workforce. He noted that Level 3 has been using SDN technologies internally for five years, and externally with its customers for four years.

"This has been a journey," Saenger explained, adding that cable operators will need to "plan for that [workforce] shift."

In order to smooth the transition from legacy systems to software-defined systems, ONF's Pitt said the group has developed a certification program for network technicians to become familiar with SDN technologies and deployments. "Programmers are going to be needed," Pitt noted.

And, according to several executives, the cable industry's move to DOCSIS 3.1 network technology creates an opening for them to begin virtualizing parts of their network. "That's a trend the vendors are going in," SCTE's Bastian explained.

Ryan McCowan, product manager with vendor Adtran, agreed. DOCSIS 3.1 "is a place where it makes sense to virtualize."

Interestingly, Pitt said that the move to SDN will allow operators to deploy a range of new services to customers. Once such service he pointed to was "data border control," whereby operators will be able to limit the types of data that can pass over country borders. He said regulators in Europe are keen to implement such technology for cyber security.

For more:
- see this IHS report

Related articles:
AT&T on track to virtualize 30 percent of its network functions by end of 2016
AT&T's $10B enterprise spending plan will deepen its SDN-based on-demand, cloud service footprints
AT&T extends fiber to over 950K business locations, enhances on-demand Ethernet reach

[fse] 04/5/2016 22:02

Telco Systems Wins Another Cybersecurity Award for Protecting SDN and NFV Infrastructure

May 04, 2016



Here is a link to the awards page, you need to scroll down until you reach SDN NFV Cybersecurity... not sure what any of this is worth but .......



SDN / NFV Security
WINNER:
NFV CyberGuard (Telco Systems)

[reeltime] 02/5/2016 22:38

Addressing the Key Security Challenges in NFV Infrastructure
Telco-Systems-Graphic

By Dan Baker 29 Mar 2016

The telecom world is quickly moving towards networks built on SDN and NFV infrastructure. These two technologies are creating new business opportunities for telcos to quickly develop and deploy new and useful cloud services.

Another key attraction of NFV and SDN is its ability to abstract the operation and monitoring of services across a broad range of devices, PCs, and servers. At the same time, the virtual machines running these technologies can live everywhere from servers in a data center to CPE devices at the customer’s site.

And while NFV and SDN deployments have just started and will take years to evolve, many of the telco giants are committed to migrating many of their dedicated network equipment to full software control.

This brave new virtual services world is very exciting, although there are many serious security concerns with moving to NFV infrastructure or NFVi.

Gal Ofel

And here to help us sort out this highly complex topic is Gal Ofel, Director of Software Solutions at Telco Systems, a pioneering company in the SDN and NFV sector.

A few months back, Gal and I had a great discussion on the many revenue-generating services that SDN and NFV will enable, making this conversation about the security concerns of these technologies quite timely.

Dan Baker, Research Director, TRI: Gal, what’s more fundamental than security? I can’t imagine NFV/SDN seriously taking off until security issues are nailed down.

I think there’s a parallel here to telecom’s move from circuit-based to IP-based voice services.

Circuit-based phone networks were very secure and had high quality. The reason for that was the network equipment vendors maintained strong end-to-end control of either the A or B side of the call.

Now the telecom world moved to voice over IP service because it had other advantages: it was a much cheaper service to deliver, while IP eased the path to enhanced services, like voice mail and “follow-me” routing of calls.

But, let’s not forget that tradeoffs were made. In the circuit based voice world, the quality of calls was great. However, voice quality issues and dropped calls in the IP world are a regular occurrence. Since so many service providers are in the IP chain, greater QoS monitoring and protection against malware is required.

Now, we know that engineering innovation may cause IP’s quality and security issue to go away, but it remains a work in progress, just like NFV/SDN.

Gal Ofel: It’s true, Dan. Anytime you introduce more flexible and dynamic network architecture, you tend to pay a price in terms of greater security and quality monitoring.

So, if I may, I’d like to walk you through what I consider the four key security vulnerability areas in NFVi:
1. Migration from Secure Hardware to Less Secure Software

The first issue is the security risk that comes from migrating hardware-based data packet processing equipment into something that is software-based.

For example, routers and firewalls are traditionally run on dedicated hardware with either ASICs developed for that purpose or FPGAs. These hardware-based solutions are very stable and run at full wire speed. When they are overloaded, they know how to handle the situation and do bypass. What’s more, the hardware is difficult to crack from a security point of view.

But now, as you move away from hardware, you become much more vulnerable to the Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks. For instance, it’s much easier to crash software as it is much more sensitive to peaks in traffic or other issues, such as opening many new connections at the same time.

And since the control plane sits on a PC or server, it’s easier to attack it and crash it by creating a high load.
2. Open & Exposed NFV Infrastructure

Another key security issue is that NFVi is quite open and exposed.

Unless security measures are added on, the control planes within NFVi can be openly accessed by a management tool. In fact, the NFVi can span any host or any server in the data center of the carrier – and even the CPE devices a carrier provides to business customers.

Not only can software be added, removed or re-configured at any time, in some cases the end user accesses the system via a self-service portal, which could expose the NFVi to external malicious control. So the inherent openness of NFVi becomes a magnet for trouble.

Now, if NFV is strictly controlled inside the data center, security may be less problematic because security is centralized there. However, carriers are talking about deploying NFV widely across the network, such as in applications like heavy mobile edge computing that employ NFV-enabled CPE devices.
3. Third Party Software

Yet another NFVi vulnerability is all the third party software installed on the machines and servers where the NFVi lives. Some of that third party software could be infected or carry malicious code. The added value of NFV is that we could choose and execute VNFs from different vendors and choose the best fit.

Here’s the issue: it’s difficult to detect and control malware that is already sitting somewhere on a host and inside the firewall. Even worse, that malware can also propagate itself across the network. Some call this East West traffic propagation – and it’s a huge issue.
4. The Complexity of Virtual Machine Environments

And one of the final key security concerns is the virtual machines themselves. A server will often run many different VNFs, so if a server is experiencing problems, many VMs may be affected.

So the weaving of all these VMs across the servers makes it hard to isolate root causes. And one bad virtual machine might knock out several others.

Yet another complication is all the updates to the VNF across numerous brands of third party software. So you add it up: the inherent complexity of VMs operating across many different machines and across many different vendors, and there are lots of security vulnerabilities that complexity brings in the door.

It’s a nice backgrounder, Gal. I understand Telco Systems had developed a solution to these NFVi security problems.

Yes, our new solution is called NFV CyberGuard. It was released towards the end of last year and it is attracting lots of attention.

It’s made up of two elements. The first element is a network probe — software that can be deployed in different locations in the network.

The probe operation is analogous to the surveillance cameras you have at a manufacturing plant. The plant will have gates and door to protects its perimeter, like a firewall. But the surveillance camera is essential for visualizing what occurs inside the premises.

The probe basically identifies traffic and reconstructs sessions. It then applies rules to pinpoint malicious traffic or suspicious events. The idea is to either capture the suspicious content or run it through a big data engine for further analysis.

For example, let’s say we suddenly see someone is trying to mange 200 instances of the same VNF in different machines. And perhaps the IP address is constantly changing, indicating someone is trying to hide their activities.

That sort of problem would be identified by our surveillance probe.

Here’s a another example. The bad guys are trying to harvest passwords using a robot that runs a brute force attack to test thousands of potential passwords. Now password harvesting is difficult to detect if you are only scanning a few host computers. But if you can look across the entire network, you can detect a pattern as the hacker tries to break the password from multiple addresses. So having a network view of multiple hosts and devices allows you to find suspicious patterns you would not normally catch.

The second element of the solution is an NFVi agent that monitors what is happening inside the NFV infrastructure. It looks at the hypervisor, the virtual switch and other elements — basically looking at what a virtual machine is doing with its hosts or how one VM is trying to access another VM.

An example of a security breach here might be some malware that’s penetrated many machines and is now trying to capture the log files of another one. That’s not a normal situation, so the NFVi agent would raise an alert.

I’m curious to know what’s actually happening in the marketplace. What’s been the experience with security in virtual environments so far?

There have been some major problems. For example, in May 2015, a new attack was identified called VENOM: Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation. It was a virtual environment manipulation where the hackers penetrate the hypervisors. And it exploited open source code through the floppy disk on a machine.

Now nobody is using floppy disks anymore, but through that interface it was possible for an attacker to get access to a VM and also escape from the host and from there it was possible to access the whole network.

In this case, a leading cloud provider had to restart all their cloud servers. It was a huge operation that they did successfully, however the risk was there.

So this is quite troubling since the whole world uses open source and that code is created by thousands of developers. That means the number of potential attack vectors is enormous.

Gal, thanks for this interesting briefing. Sounds like NFV will be adopted cautiously till these big security issues are under control.

Yes, it’s true. There’s a big list of security scenarios that we are pushing on the algorithm creation side. But I think the industry will get there. Over time, our ability to close NFV vulnerabilities will improve and that will give the industry the confidence it needs to make progress. I’m very optimistic.

[woody888] 29/4/2016 09:34

Stay strong - they are in the right sector at the right time and winning business as demonstrated by the recent contract wins. This will eventually translate into bottom line results.

Cyber security is (for me) the most interesting business area (via the BATM subsidiary Celare) as they have a proven solution that is being adopted and could take huge market share as further governmental agencies seek expertise to what is clearly a huge concern.

Have a look at www.celarenet.com

[reeltime] 27/4/2016 23:09

Disappointing market reaction to the news and again no mention of figures!!!

On a positive note it's more proof of the improvement in the Telco business.

[fse] 27/4/2016 21:44

>spekky

We have been in a market climate for ages now where "potential" is just a bye word. Investors want to see the results in the bottom line.
Having said that these recent wins in the Telco division are very welcome indeed as the division restructures.
The increased business is a validation by the client for what BATM Telco have initially provided ...... this is new tech being deployed and its a chance for clients to adopt Telco systems hardware and solutions ..... thats what the expression of trust is about.

As far as value......

"This contract involves the deployment of hundreds of Telco Systems' T-Marc 3348 devices for this Tier 1 wholesale carrier to provision 10Gbps Ethernet mobile backhaul services throughout the northeast of the United States. This project extension will significantly expand on the 2,500 T-Marc devices previously deployed by Telco Systems."

[spekky] 27/4/2016 18:40

Obvious question.....what is it worth?

It seems that the market will not upgrade Batty even after cyber contract wins in millions of dollars so what happens when we don't even mention money?

"We value this project extension as an expression of trust" ......what the hell does that mean?

[fse] 27/4/2016 14:22

Link to press release now on their website

[fse] 27/4/2016 14:19

Telco Systems to Upgrade Tier 1 Mobile Backhaul Network in the United States to 10 Gigabit Ethernet

27/04/2016 1:05pm
PR Newswire (US)

BATM Advanced Communications (LSE:BVC)
Intraday Stock Chart
Today : Wednesday 27 April 2016

Click Here for more BATM Advanced Communications Charts.
MANSFIELD, Massachusetts, April 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

Telco Systems, the leading provider of innovative CE 2.0, MPLS, IP and SDN & NFV business services and mobile backhaul solutions, today announced that the company has been awarded a major contract extension from a Tier 1 wholesale carrier of Ethernet mobile backhaul services in the United States.

(Logo: hxxp://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150311/732930 )

This contract involves the deployment of hundreds of Telco Systems' T-Marc 3348 devices for this Tier 1 wholesale carrier to provision 10Gbps Ethernet mobile backhaul services throughout the northeast of the United States. This project extension will significantly expand on the 2,500 T-Marc devices previously deployed by Telco Systems.

The deployment of Telco Systems' high capacity demarcation and aggregation devices will support the Tier 1 wholesale carrier's launch of 10GE mobile backhaul services, supporting its strategic plans to meet the increasing demand for more capacity associated with the emergence of the 4G/LTE technologies and future 5G deployments.

"We value this project extension as an expression of trust from our customer in our leading mobile backhaul solutions. We see this project as a solid indicator of the increasing demand for higher bandwidth mobile backhaul services. As wireless service providers' cell site densification continues, driven by accelerating demand for mobile data services, the need for higher bandwidth mobile backhaul will continue to increase," said Reinhard Florin, Telco Systems North America VP of Sales and Solution Engineering. "Telco Systems has an installed base in over 20 wholesale mobile backhaul carriers in North America. Based on this on-the-ground vantage point, we anticipate strong demand as customers upgrade existing 1Gbps Ethernet-based mobile backhaul networks to 10Gbps Ethernet."

Telco Systems' T-Marc 3348 was an ideal choice for upgrading the customer's existing set of 1GE carrier Ethernet optical rings used for mobile backhaul to higher capacity 10GE rings. A highly cost-effective 10GE carrier Ethernet, MPLS and IP access solution, the T-Marc 3348 is available in three versions: A standard temperature-grade version is suitable for installation in wireless carriers' environmentally controlled shelters; an extended temperature-hardened version is available for installation in carriers' non-environmental controlled cabinets; and a fully weatherized version is ideal for standalone installation within cell tower properties.

Telco Systems will be demonstrating its T-Marc 3348 and portfolio of demarcation and aggregation devices at UTC Telecom Technology Conference in Denver, Colorado at Booth #529 during May 3-6 and at the Big Communications Event in Austin, Texas at Booth #200 during May 24-25.

[reeltime] 21/4/2016 23:22

Meeting the revenue challenges of communication service providers
Posted by Lior Barak on April 19, 2016

Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are facing new challenges to their traditional business models.

These CSPs need to compete effectively with traditional competitors, as well as with new and emerging players, which are entering an already saturated business environment––all while facing declining average revenue per user (ARPU).

Competitive challenges and growing demand for ever-more bandwidth are forcing CSPs to expand their network infrastructure, while revenue per Mbit is in a long-running free fall, with no parachute in sight.

As service revenues shrink and demand for higher bandwidth balloons, CSPs are looking for ways to control their expenses, while meeting bandwidth demand and providing additional revenue-generating services to their customers.

OTT challenges

Over-The-Top (OTT) players (e.g., Vonage, Skype, Netflix and others) are also challenging CSPs, which are excluded from this new income “party,” even as the OTT services are delivered over the CSPs’ very own data channels. Imagine not being invited to a party that’s being held in your own home!

Even worse, the CSPs end up with the bill for costly expansion of their networks to satisfy clients’ demand for greater capacity to support better OTT service performance.

OTT players are hungrily consuming a growing share over customer communication expenses, while the revenue streams of CSPs are diluted. Services that have traditionally enjoyed high margins are now being downgraded into simple low-margin commodity services.

Cloud computing is yet another greedy bandwidth consumer: enterprises choose to “cloud” instead of buying and maintaining costly machines at their premises, a solution that is good for the enterprise, but presents another challenge for CSPs.

The need for a new revenue model

CSPs seem to be trying to climb the “down” escalator. Despite aggressively seeking new revenue growth, the investment in infrastructure to support that growth continues to grow much faster than the revenues it enables. Clearly, a new revenue model is needed.

To get back on the “up” escalator CSPs must reduce their costs for every customer service/line. Deploying multi-layer access devices that combine carrier Ethernet, MPLS, SDN and L3 services in a single device is the simplest and most cost-effective way to accomplish this.

Single multi-layer access devices offer the following benefits that can vastly improve CSP revenues:

Replacing multiple devices with a single device
Simplified deployment and maintenance
Reduced power and space requirements and improved reliability
Reduced expenses for testing, certification and training
Simplified and reduced costs of operational processes, management and truck rolls
Ability to roll out new services quickly

These benefits translate into significant cost/expenses savings.

IP-PLUS enhancement package

With deep understanding of the very real challenges CSPs face, Telco Systems has developed the IP-PLUS enhancement SW package.

IP-PLUS is an industry-leading solution enabling delivery of Carrier Ethernet, MPLS and IP services using a single access device via a downloadable software package with the option to purchase with “pay as you grow” on-demand licensing.

IP-PLUS enhancement package

IP-PLUS enables CPSs to provide services such as L3VPN, Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) and Managed Services to their business customers and L3 Backhauling service to mobile operators. Traditionally, this need was met with a massive and costly deployment of routers throughout the entire network – the IP-PLUS enhancement package enables CSPs to provide the same services at a fraction of the cost.