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[fse] 24/11/2016 17:00

I could not get the link to copy either try going in through Google
Proactive Investor BATM
there should be a link displayed.

Its worth listening to this interview regarding the ISS win.
Couple of observation in addition to what RT posted above.

The large scale sterilizers have understandably been not just a challenge to bring concept to reality but then because they are different they have to go through all the regulatory hurdles to their being implemented.
Its significant that they have placed one of these units into operation and now have an order for a second. This means not having to go through all that red tape again and as Zvi rightly comments it will open up the doors to not only sell to similar clients but to a much wider market in different segments.
The smaller units not mentioned in this interview are already functioning in some 400 locations.
All in all this is welcome news and also from a BATM sector that was not producing meaningful revenue ........
As BATM are now a sum of the parts company this is in my opinion more significant news than the markets are giving credit.

Also towards the end of the Interview Zvi was asked how the networking side and more specifically SDN applications were progressing. He replied that it was all going well and they were starting to see orders coming in and were still expecting positive outcomes from other new clients they are working with.

As far as the share price goes I think its fair to say that we do have a large seller in the frame. Is anyone else noticing this ?
Its holding the share price back along with concerns about the Telco side breaking into the SDN market.
Other than that its all appearing quite positive with new revenue coming in from ISS which we were not planning on.

[reeltime] 23/11/2016 20:36

There is also a short video interview with Zvi, worth listening too.....

BATM's latest order opens the door for others
16:06 23 Nov 2016

The bio-medical division of BATM Advanced Communications Ltd (LON:BVC) has received an order from a customer for a hazardous waste unit.

The order is from a leading manufacturer of animal vaccines, and chief executive officer Zvi Marom tells Proactive Investors that is the second order from this particular customer for its ISS – that’s Integrated Steriliser and Shredder – technology.

Marom said the customer was very pleased with the first ISS unit, and the latest sale opens the door for the company to sell ISS units to other pharmaceutical companies.

“The contract was for approximately 1.4, 1.5 million dollars,” the BATM chief executive revealed.

“The first stage, which starts immediately, is about half of it, then a year after, as the fab [fabrication facility] is built up, we get the other half.”

In Marom’s view, the ISS technology has many unique features that make it applicable in several sectors, not least because of its cost-saving properties, and now the pharmaceutical industry is waking up to its usefulness.

“There is no competition at the moment, and we believe that in the agri [agricultural] field, it will be used as well. We have been running trials in the last year, and we believe that we will start to get orders very soon,” Marom said.

Go to the Proactive-investors website, the link wont upload here.....

[fse] 23/11/2016 16:10

Reference back to initial contract win August 2016 interim statement.
Its encouraging to see this contract expanded.

 Pathogenic Waste Treatment and Sterilisation Unit
o Pathogenic Waste Treatment and Sterilisation unit successfully executed on first significant
contract for its biological waste solution developed for the biopharmaceutical industry, which
was installed and is operating at a facility of Ceva Animal Health (“CEVA”)
o Commenced first large installation of new solution for treating agricultural waste and on track
for delivering to the customer, a major poultry farming company, for testing in Q3 2016

Added.... Link to Ceva website.


and this comment from Marom

Dr Zvi Marom, CEO of BATM, added: "We are very pleased to have received this second order for our biological waste solution for the biopharma industry. Our ISS technology is already used in more than 400 medical facilities. Now, the same technology is being deployed on a much larger scale in the biopharma industry - and by year-end we expect that a major ISS-based unit will also be fully operational under an existing contract in the agricultural sector

[fse] 22/11/2016 16:38

Mr 25,000 back in there selling again.

[reeltime] 17/11/2016 22:39

MEF16 - Distributed NFV with Whitebox CPE is Hot
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 #NFV, MEF16, Telco Systems No comments

Distributed NFV with universal CPE (the whitebox solution) is one of the hot trends at this year's MEF16, says Telco Systems' Raanan Tzemach.

One of the top drivers for this is that OPEX can be reduced in rolling out new services by avoiding the need to stack new boxes at the customer site.

See video:

[fse] 17/11/2016 15:48

Telco Systems CEO: In today’s environment, software must be modular
November 15, 2016 Sabrina Labanowski


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During the recent MEF 16 conference, Ariel Efrati, CEO of Telco Systems was interviewed by Gary Audin from TelecomReseller. They have discussed in the core network technologies, with Efrati covering the influence of virtualization and software driven products that can be hardware independent.

Here are some of the main questions and answers:

Q: Many of Telco Systems customers are telecom providers, but do you also support some of the larger enterprise corporations.

A: We support enterprises when they need connectivity between their own offices, for example. We have several clients that deal mainly with connecting their own customers, connecting their own branches, serving them internally within their own needs.

So for example, we have one enterprise doing call centers, and those call centers are being connected on their own network on our platforms. This is a holistic system.

Another enterprise might be a school that connects all the school system in a high speed, like an E-rate project.

Ariel Efrati, CEO of Telco Systems

Q: The example you gave are organizations with multiple sites, is that really where your sweet spot is?

A: Yes, I think that the fact that you need to be connected with multiple sites and if you need to connect into your core data centers, for example, from many different places. So definitely, it is about connectivity, and it is very high rate connectivity.

We are dealing mainly with data services, so it is also with a high bandwidth. Moreover, in most cases, it is fiber connectivity.

Q: How have you been responding to the changes that are mostly software driven today?

A: To be honest, for many years, we have been a software company, putting our software into hardware. The main asset and the main intellectual property of the company is the software. It places in our hands the fact that people are now looking at software as the stronghold because we believe the software is the asset. By that, we could have very easily import or export almost our software onto multipurpose devices like x86 Intel based hardware. By that, it enabled us not to focus on the hardware anymore.

We have management systems that are all about software. We have operating system within the devices, and we have the applications.

We believe that the telecommunication and IT environments reinvent themselves every 10 years, and we are now witnessing a revolution. It rejuvenates the market and it enables it to go and regrow itself.

Q: Your customers are looking for high availability in their operations. So, when you place your software on hardware, are you selective about the hardware it runs on because of reliability issues?

A: Absolutely, usually, we do certification for the hardware. You can take it at your own risk, or you adopt pre-certified devices that are off the shelf, or, if you like a specific one.

Q: What does a certification for MEF mean for Telco Systems and what process do you have to go through?

A: That is a very rigid process. We are certified. All our devices are MEF-certified with CE 2.0 certification. We are not certified only to one vertical. There are several verticals and several certifications within it, and all the devices are there. It means that first, you need to build it the right way in order to support all the features and functions.

Certification is very important in MEF because it actually enables you as an operator to cross connect with other operators in a smooth way and a transparent way. Otherwise, one operator might be with one starter, another one will have different starter, and then you cannot give a service that is cross operators. In many cases, for example, a service that starts in New York and needs to end in California will have to cross different operators because you do not have right infrastructure there.

Without the certification, you are surely going to hit a wall. So certification is very important in that aspect, and it is very demanding in our perspective because you have to be tailored onto specifications, and to be all the time up-to-date with the standards. Because almost on a monthly basis, there are new features, there are new enhancements, there are new services you need to support, and it means that you have to be up to the pace.

Your software needs to be modular, it needs to be able to adapt to those elements, and to be able to integrate and to cross connect or actually interoperate with our equipment or with other software.

Q: In a sense, with a certification you can deliver interoperability assurance.

A: It is assured, it is guaranteed, and it is very smooth. In addition, it is almost guaranteed, not almost, it is guaranteed that if you will place the function within your network and the entire network is certified, you have very smooth operations with no issues there.

Q: That would mean that there are fewer truck rolls, less staff, meaning that the risk is much lower, too.

A: Of course, integration costs almost do not exist. Training costs are also reduced, as you do not need to train because it is not different. Certification is key element here, especially in a region like America. While it is not one country and one provider or two or three, there are many providers, then you need to cross many providers, and this, I would say, transparency is something what makes the machine run.

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To listen to the interview click here

[reeltime] 13/11/2016 14:54

Carrier Ethernet Certification at MEF

November 10, 2016 // Ethernet, Gary Audin, Podcasts, Press Releases, SR 11-13 podcast by Gary Audin

Products and solutions should be designed to future-proof service provider’s networks for higher scalability, traffic engineering, and increased security. An MEF CE2.0 compliant, end-to-end solution should fit any site requirement and any deployment scenario – single or multi-business, fixed or modular, outdoor or indoor deployment. This includes E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree, E-Access, TDM convergence, single or multi-vendor networks while supporting a wide range of capacity options. The solutions should deliver carrier-grade equipment, providing protection mechanisms to ensure a high level of service availability, and advanced OAM and HQoS. Carriers need to focus on providing their revenue generating services, rather than just managing their devices, and provide complete simplified mechanisms to manage, maintain, and optimize the entire service lifecycle.

Ariel Efrati, CEO of Telco Systems www.telco.com and Gary Audin discuss core network technologies in this podcast recorded at the MEF 16 conference. Ariel covers the influence of virtualization and software driven products that can be hardware independent. The discussion continues with coverage of MEF Certification and the interoperability issues across multiple networks that are involved in servicing end users.

Telco Systems www.telco.com offers a portfolio of best-in-class products and solutions. Among the first vendors to receive the Metro Ethernet Forum’s Carrier Ethernet (CE) 2.0 certification, Telco Systems’ CE 2.0-compliant, end-to-end Ethernet product portfolio delivers a significant boost to large, medium, and small service providers, as well as utilities and city carriers competing in a rapidly evolving telecommunications environment. They are experts in guiding service providers toward the advantages of CE 2.0 while they preserve and enlarge their customer base with continuously improving quality of service without service interruption.

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[reeltime] 13/11/2016 14:51

Carrier Ethernet Certification at MEF

November 10, 2016 // Ethernet, Gary Audin, Podcasts, Press Releases, SR 11-13 podcast by Gary Audin

Products and solutions should be designed to future-proof service provider’s networks for higher scalability, traffic engineering, and increased security. An MEF CE2.0 compliant, end-to-end solution should fit any site requirement and any deployment scenario – single or multi-business, fixed or modular, outdoor or indoor deployment. This includes E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree, E-Access, TDM convergence, single or multi-vendor networks while supporting a wide range of capacity options. The solutions should deliver carrier-grade equipment, providing protection mechanisms to ensure a high level of service availability, and advanced OAM and HQoS. Carriers need to focus on providing their revenue generating services, rather than just managing their devices, and provide complete simplified mechanisms to manage, maintain, and optimize the entire service lifecycle.

Ariel Efrati, CEO of Telco Systems www.telco.com and Gary Audin discuss core network technologies in this podcast recorded at the MEF 16 conference. Ariel covers the influence of virtualization and software driven products that can be hardware independent. The discussion continues with coverage of MEF Certification and the interoperability issues across multiple networks that are involved in servicing end users.

Telco Systems www.telco.com offers a portfolio of best-in-class products and solutions. Among the first vendors to receive the Metro Ethernet Forum’s Carrier Ethernet (CE) 2.0 certification, Telco Systems’ CE 2.0-compliant, end-to-end Ethernet product portfolio delivers a significant boost to large, medium, and small service providers, as well as utilities and city carriers competing in a rapidly evolving telecommunications environment. They are experts in guiding service providers toward the advantages of CE 2.0 while they preserve and enlarge their customer base with continuously improving quality of service without service interruption.

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[fse] 10/11/2016 18:03

10/11/2016 2:54pm
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10 November 2016

10 November 2016

BATM Advanced Communications Limited

("BATM" or the "Group")

Director Share Purchase

BATM Advanced Communications Limited (LSE: BVC), a leading provider of real-time technologies for networking solutions and medical laboratory systems, announces that, today, Dr. Gideon Chitayat, Chairman of the Group, acquired 1,000,000 ordinary shares of 0.01 NIS each in the Group ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 15.5 pence per Ordinary Share.

Following the transaction, Dr. Chitayat has an interest in 3,000,000 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 0.74% of the Group's issued ordinary share capital.

[barrieb] 10/11/2016 09:50

I wonder if this is more director buying or an institution buying in as I doubt the market makers would want to hold this amount of stock.

[barrieb] 10/11/2016 09:45

Maybe this will clear the seller we have been seeing for a while now.

[barrieb] 10/11/2016 09:44

This is looking like an organised share exchange!

[fse] 09/11/2016 19:28

Definitely a large seller in the picture Mr 25K.
This is is going to hold any share price progress back until they are out of the frame.

[fse] 07/11/2016 18:14

Telco Systems will present its new all-in-one carrier-grade DOCSIS-enabled demarcation device for cable Multiple System Operators (MSOs) at MEF16 global networking event in Baltimore during 7-10 November 2016.

Telco Systems will present the T-Marc 3308D, which enables MSOs to offer advanced data services to business customers, and other innovative solutions at booth #103 at the conference.

A number of large MSO cable operators in North America and Western Europe are currently conducting PoC trials of Telco Systems’ new T-Marc 3308D device.

[fse] 03/11/2016 14:41

Press Releases

Telco Systems Releases DOCSIS-Enabled Demarcation Device for Cable MSOs to Offer Advanced Data Services to Business Customers

Nov 02, 2016


New T-Marc 3308D demarcation device supports MEF CE 2.0 and enables delivery of SLA-grade services for business customers over existing DOCSIS networks

MANSFIELD, MA, November 3, 2016 — Telco Systems, a leading provider of innovative CE 2.0, MPLS, IP and SDN & NFV solutions, today announced that the company has released its new T-Marc 3308D demarcation device for cable MSOs to offer advanced data services to business customers.

T-Marc 3308D is a DOCSIS-enabled demarcation device that supports MEF CE 2.0, MPLS, IP and SDN networking capabilities. T-Marc 3308D opens new market opportunities for cable operators to now offer business customers many advanced data services, such as Dedicated Internet Access (DIA), L2VPN, L3VPN, and inter-sites and data-center connectivity, over their existing DOCSIS networks.

“Over the past ten plus years, many cable operators have successfully added telephony and data services to their core television content services, although these service expansion efforts have focused mainly on residential customers,” explained Raanan Tzemach, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Telco Systems. “Our new T-Marc device enables cable operators to address a new market segment and generate revenue from business customers, while positioning themselves to compete with other communication service providers also targeting the business segment with enhanced data service offerings.”

T-Marc 3308D is also suitable for wholesale application and service providers that need to connect their business customers efficiently among sites and into the cloud.

In addition to supporting CE 2.0, MPLS and IP (Layer 3), T-Marc 3308D provides full support for OpenFlow, NETCONF and YANG, positioning service providers to future proof their infrastructure and be ready for SDN deployments.

T-Marc 3308D supports a broad set of hardware-based OAM tools to help service providers to reduce operating expenses (OPEX) expedite deployments and assure that all SLA agreements are met.

A number of large MSO cable operators in North America and Western Europe are currently conducting PoC trials of Telco Systems’ new T-Marc 3308D device.

Telco Systems will be exhibiting T-Marc 3308D along with the company’s entire portfolio of networking solutions at MEF16 in Baltimore, United States on November 7 – 10 at Booth #103.

[quemaster] 03/11/2016 10:39

Just bought back in with £2ks worth (not showing on trade data yet), held these about 10 years ago and see a lot of the holders from then are still on the board now accept for "The Crypt"

[james dean] 02/11/2016 21:17

Specky, if and when that comes as I expect these will be north of a quid-the market will already know. Today's news is good-proof of concept, due diligence, displacing bigger fish all reassuring and I though the CEO's tone was quite positive. imo post 14297




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[fse] 02/11/2016 20:20

Worth considering is that the Medical arm made up over 64% of the groups revenue last year. If the medical grows by the same amount it did last year and the Telco side remains basically flat then we are looking at a 75% / 25% split.
In other words the sluggish growth in the Telco side whilst it demonstrates to new markets can be offset by growth in the medical side.
They will probably go into profit without Telco contributing much.
IMO the company is starting to look very undervalued just for the Medical division.

[cumnor] 02/11/2016 14:14

Specky, if and when that comes as I expect these will be north of a quid-the market will already know. Today's news is good-proof of concept, due diligence, displacing bigger fish all reassuring and I though the CEO's tone was quite positive. imo

[fse] 02/11/2016 13:40

Obviously this is not a huge contract with a major player but they have successfully demonstrated and won this from the POC and thats encouraging. Expect a trickle of smaller contracts to show up as this all gains momentum. Telco systems say they do have several POC's they hope will turn into orders. Company is hugely oversold at this point in time IMO.

[spekky] 02/11/2016 09:33

Whilst it's good news,personally,I was hoping for something in the cyber domain.....multi million and multi year contracts with governments or institutions who are well known.

[reeltime] 02/11/2016 08:24

At long last a Telco contract win from their ongoing POC trials.......I certainly hope there are plenty more to follow.

BATM Advanced Communications Ld New contract for ICT network in Australia
02/11/2016 7:00am
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2 November 2016

BATM Advanced Communications Limited

("BATM" or "the Group")

BATM awarded multi-year contract for ICT network solution in Australia

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 Telco Systems ("Telco") subsidiary has been awarded a contract, by a major provider of high-speed network and ICT services to education and research facilities in Australia (the "Customer"), to provide a managed MPLS solution.

The contract, which was awarded after a successful Proof-Of-Concept (POC), is expected to be worth between US$1.5m-US$2.25m to be delivered over a three-year period, commencing in November 2016. There is also an option for it to be extended to five years with the potential for additional orders of at least the same magnitude.

The Customer's network connects education and research institutions throughout Australia as well as with their global peers - facilitating collaboration nationwide and internationally. Under the terms of the contract, the Group will provide its aggregation and demarcation products and services to upgrade the existing network, and replace the two incumbent global technology providers.

Dr. Zvi Marom, CEO of BATM, said: "We are delighted to have been awarded this contract, which reflects our ability to offer a high-quality solution that is flexible and can adjust to the network needs of the Customer. They are renowned architects, builders and operators of world-class network infrastructure for research and education so we are honoured that they have chosen our solutions, and we look forward to a long-term partnership. We believe that the decision of this reputable customer to choose our solution following their POC will encourage other customers that are currently going through a similar process."

[fse] 31/10/2016 18:57

Looks as if we have a persistent large seller they are trying to massage out of the system which is likely whats causing this slide .....
At these levels they are IMO well oversold. Believe JD posted the technical analysis above. I am out of the money again as I really expected these to do a gradual creep north as they do appear to be well along the recovery trail.....

[fse] 30/10/2016 18:02

Certes is a private company formed in 2000 it is a small player but then this is a new game.

From the article RT posted above it is significant that Telco systems gets its name up in lights with other prominent players.