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[fse] 03/12/2014 22:03

At the end of the day we are heading to the cloud whether we like it or not. In my own business we already are networked with Apple but also are storing more and more stuff in the cloud. The enablement of SDN will mean that not only can you access the information you have stored but you can manipulate it with software that is now cloud based.
This all marks the end of an era where you ordered your software and downloaded it all to your PC. With cloud enabled software you use what you want/need when you need it.
OK whats going to go wrong ?

IMO its unstoppable but its not going to work without fast robust internet connections which sadly not everyone is close to having. We have end to end Fiber Op where I am living currently but people I deal with do not necessarily have that feature. Its not preventing them from rolling it out albeit many will not be able to use its enhancements, what it will cause though is slow uptake and thats what we are seeing.

At least thats the way I see the speed bump ahead.......
nice to have a chat about all of this. Its all new territory .

[james dean] 03/12/2014 20:55

Regards.

DYOR

[spekky] 03/12/2014 19:49

Well it's beginning to look like a real PR push and I think it smells like growing confidence........wish I understood the technology better but I'm getting there.Just as as I think I've got to grips with cloud computing.....along comes software defined networking....doh!.....must be my age.

[fse] 03/12/2014 17:37

cheers JD its got to happen some time before we all pass over (so to speak)
Seriously though its all now starting to make more sense, we just need the providers to come up to speed.
They ought to start generating orders from existing pipeline of clients through next year. Its slow though so with any luck the medical division will continue propping them up until they make the transition.
No real rush to buy here but valuations are low and we could well see further contract announcements
Ughhhhhh

[james dean] 03/12/2014 16:15

Regards.

DYOR

[fse] 01/12/2014 21:35

Yes cloud metro 100 is an important component of the new product portfolio for SDN NFV

[spekky] 01/12/2014 19:50

Just a reminder'cos I will forget to look,Cloudmetro 100 is up for a possible award on Thursday.It may not enhance the share price but I would be encouraged to know that the industry recognises the product........fingers crossed.

[james dean] 01/12/2014 10:14

phda -

Agreed.



Regards.


DYOR

[phda] 01/12/2014 10:10

At least Henderson still buying !

[reeltime] 27/11/2014 22:38

SDN & NFV Asia 2014, December 2-4, Suntec, Singapore

Telco Systems - Innovative Edge Solutions

Published on Nov 27, 2014

Telco Systems delivers an industry-leading portfolio of SDN/NFV, Carrier Ethernet and MPLS-based demarcation, aggregation and edge solutions, enabling service providers to create intelligent, service-assured, CE 2.0-compliant networks for mobile backhaul, business services and cloud networking.

[fse] 26/11/2014 23:31

>jd.... why not drop the company a line.
They would be obligated to reply to you.
I don't think anything much ever came out of this but again not entirely sure.

[james dean] 26/11/2014 23:17

I have attempted to find an item regarding whether the case below has been settled in the courts but have not been successful.



Regards

DYOR

[fse] 26/11/2014 21:52

with reference to rt articles posted above this is what management are currently saying on the subject.....

BATM recent update...
The Telecom division remains focused on the new strategy of concentrating mainly on Tier 1 clients, SDN (Software Driven Networks) and NFV (Network Functions Virtualization). This has brought its challenges as the sales cycle has been slightly longer than anticipated and, consequently, it has not served to offset the previously-stated decline in sales of end-of-life products as expected. The division is, however, beginning to experience positive momentum. As announced today, it has been awarded a contract, worth approximately $2m, by a major mobile network operator in the Asia Pacific region to provide services, in 2014 and 2015, as part of its large-scale network modernization that will deliver 4G/LTE services to an expanding subscriber base. BATM is expected to benefit from increasing demand in 2015 as the market transitions to these technologies. The Group also signed a joint collaboration and marketing agreement with Oracle, and is already in discussions with several potential customers, which it believes will be material to the growth of BATM in 2015 and beyond. As a result, whilst revenues in the Telecoms division will be lower in 2014 compared with the previous year, the Group expects to return to growth in 2015.

[reeltime] 25/11/2014 22:30

Enterprise cloud adoption goes up – and the bets are on SDN and NFV to make the most of it

By James Bourne
24 November 2014, 11:11 a.m.

The IDG Enterprise Cloud Computing Study has found the number of firms who have at least a portion of their computing infrastructure in the cloud continues to go up – but it’s the technology underneath this adoption which is the most interesting.

The latest research, which polled 1672 respondents and aimed to measure cloud computing trends among technology decision makers, found over a third (38%) were “comfortable” hosting in the cloud given the state of current cloud offerings, and 56% were still weighing up their options.

As cloud usage goes up, backlog theoretically goes down, and so this study proves. 69% of respondents have at least something in the cloud, up from 61% the year before and 57% in 2012. In comparison, only 18% say they plan to deploy within the next 12 months, down from 24% in 2013.

The signs only point up. 63% of respondents say cloud computing increases IT agility, while IT innovation (61%) and employee collaboration (56%) were also highly cited.

Yet the more interesting facet of this report is through emerging technologies. 61% of those polled admitted their organisations were looking at investing in software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualisation (NFV) to get the most agility out of their cloud investments.

Network bandwidth delivery speed was also a key boon for cloud adoption, according to 49% of respondents. IT complexity eased for 55% of those polled, but interestingly, cloud has little to no effect on the overall IT headcount. 17% of respondents said it was increasing, 20% decreasing, and 52% said it had no impact.

Three quarters (74%) said they were either very or somewhat confident in the security of their information assets in the cloud, yet a lot of external cloud projects end up winging their way back to IT. The issues raised were lack of skillset within departments and security concerns (59%).

Nevertheless, the study shows interesting if not surprising progress for enterprise cloud. A report released earlier this month from CipherCloud and Gigaom found that while most enterprises are in the cloud, they’re reluctant about using it to develop enterprise applications.

[fse] 24/11/2014 20:51

>rt... entirely thats why they are focussed on this. What I am not certain about is how this will fit into the Israeli Infrastructure project which may give them a core business demand to sell into.
Also if this recent win is as we are told a major client then $2m worth of this type of equipment could well mature into further more substantial orders.
On the flip side it makes the Telco arm attractive to dispose of.
Honestly not sure what they are going to do but it looks like a win win situation with the caveat of uptake time .... more waiting.
I am not selling at this price as I really do feel that the Telco arm alone could be sold off for a substantial amount.
The medical side is humming away but I do feel they are constricted by manufacturing /supply problems which may take some to work out so the gains will be tempered by this.

[reeltime] 24/11/2014 19:34

FSE

Yes it gives us a better understanding of Batm's strategy and the reason they implemented a switch to attract Tier 1 level customers using SDN and NFV.

Perhaps the Telco business has a future, especially after winning the recent
contract and Telco Systems new SDN/NFV platform made the shortlist for network management excellence award.....

[fse] 24/11/2014 14:30

Thanks for posting that RT its a decent insight to the technology but also the timeframes and take up that BATM Telco can expect or hope for.

[reeltime] 24/11/2014 09:35

Future Considerations: Software Defined
Posted on November 18, 2014 by Kellman Meghu

If Software Defined Networking (SDN) becomes the open ubiquitous technology that I think it will, everything changes.

That sounds dramatic, but I believe that SDN will change many aspects of how we deploy and manage networks. It also creates a completely new paradigm for security enforcement and an opportunity to think differently.

I think it will be amazing for people, for the industry, and for everything we try to do in security. It will power an Internet of Things (IoT) and forever elevate the value of data anytime, anywhere. I see SDN as the next critical step that no one will ever know happened.

When is this amazing change supposed to happen, you ask? It’s already started and it will be ongoing for many years to come. It’s not something where you can just flick a switch and suddenly it’s all there and running; there’s still lots of work to do.

But we can flick the switch ahead of time when thinking about how to build SDN strategy, and ultimately a secure one. To do this, you have to drop all current expectations of the technologies that you’re running today and think about what SDN is meant to change at all levels.

To get in the right state of mind for this exercise, consider a situation where you’ve been running a library for many years. It’s stacked full of books, magnificent collections for anyone to access and read via a book tracking system that you’ve spent millions on, essentially putting the Dewey Decimal System online.

Then tragedy strikes one night and the entire collection, along with the building, burns. The insurance money comes in and we are left with a real question. Does it make any sense to rebuild a building full of books, knowing what we already know about technology? Is there still a place for this? Before, due to a long history of value, this option was assumed, but when presented with, or in fact forced to recreate the library, does the design and deployment of a building of books make any sense?

I ask this question because you have to go into SDN with just that frame of mind. Ask yourself if what you’re doing today makes any sense in this new design, then go a step further. Ask yourself what you need to do to empower SDN instead of looking at it from the perspective of how it might work based on how you do things today.

What It Takes

Let’s flick that switch now and consider how SDN is evolving the network by walking through an SDN-enabled infrastructure from network to application.

SDN extracts network intelligence directly from switches into a centralized controller. This controller contains all the objects in the environment, from switches to applications, and everything between. The controller can send commands like “put, get, forward, delete, etc.”, as well as take in data about the state of any forwarding tables (and that’s without getting into the technical details, which is another blog unto itself).

Consider a network where you can make forwarding decisions based on far more than IP data. I’m talking about simply knowing where the connection needs to be and forwarding it across any infrastructure to any application, against any security controls that you may need. Maybe you rewrite the IP header as it moves across physical connections, but that’s not even necessary to consider when working with SDN as the process is abstracted away from us.

Think about what you could do with the power to forward packets based on a myriad of possible scenarios from network to application, and being able to track and protect that flow on demand. Running out of CPU and memory in one datacenter? Send the flow over to another. That one getting tapped out? Push it out into a cloud infrastructure.

New version going online of your application? No problem, as the next flow will be directed to the virtual machine running the new code. Problem with the new code? OK then, the next flow goes back to the previous version service, all on demand and orchestrated. I can’t wait to see the creative things that people do with this level of program-ability and control.

The Security Perspective

How is security affected by all of this?

For starters, it’s simply abstracted to a service with policy eventually moving into orchestration of that service. Don’t get me wrong, security policy management remains relevant, but it moves from a dictated security policy to a monitored security policy, just not right away. And over time, traditional enterprise security policies will become less relevant. To show you what I mean, we can jump ahead to the concept of a monitored policy as part of this exercise.

Let’s say that an application request comes in the form of a network call to a Web service to return data for a custom application, perhaps a new wearable armband health application. The network then checks its table to see where to send the connection, tags it accordingly, and forwards it on. In turn, the controller knows an application request is on its way for this particular service, and most likely already has a server up and running, ready to service it.

Since the controller knows how many clients it can service per virtual machine, with defined CPU and memory, it keeps spinning up new virtual machines and redirecting traffic accordingly. To include security in this process becomes a simple task. There’s no need to deploy hardware and create choke points as security simply becomes another application to the abstracted network.

For example, we can forward the data based on any decision, not just the network setup, and offload a copy for traffic validation; essentially run an on-demand security scan on the same flow and let the controller know if there’s a problem. Based on the orchestration decisions, the controller can have the traffic flow quarantined, blocked, redirected or just plain dropped; how and why will be tied to the value and risk of the service.

This is the point where we move from security policy management to security policy monitoring. As applications are defined and brought online, information will be collected on what data is handled by which users and corresponding threat scanning can scale up or down accordingly. It will be this on-demand delivery of security services that will enable rapid scaling of new applications.

While excited about all these the possibilities, I’m fearful of the potential nose dive that could occur if vendors try to create some form of lock in. SDN as a technology can’t be stopped by this and will emerge no matter what, it’s just a matter of how long it takes. Being realistic, it’s just going to take a few generations of equipment to get there.

However, if we truly enable SDN from networks, along with security, and into the application, many of our current challenges go away. Not to say we won’t have new issues to consider, but I’ll save that discussion for another time.
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About Kellman Meghu

Kellman Meghu is Head of Security Engineering (Canada and Central US) for Check Point Software Technologies Inc. His background includes almost 20 years of experience deploying application protection and network-based security. Prior to joining Check Point, Mr. Meghu has held various network, VoIP and security engineering roles with European telecommunications giant Alcatel, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), and as a private consultant.
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[james dean] 19/11/2014 20:30

BATM Advanced Communications (LON:BVC)‘s stock had its “corporate” rating reiterated by research analysts at FinnCap in a report released on Tuesday. They currently have a GBX 20 ($0.31) price objective on the stock. FinnCap’s price target would indicate a potential upside of 23.08% from the company’s current price.

BATM Advanced Communications (LON:BVC) opened at 16.25 on Tuesday. BATM Advanced Communications has a 52 week low of GBX 14.50 and a 52 week high of GBX 20.00. The stock’s 50-day moving average is GBX 15.75 and its 200-day moving average is GBX 17.02. The company’s market cap is £65.5 million.

BATM Advanced Communications Ltd. is Israel-based company engaged mainly in the research and development, production and marketing of data communication products in the field of Metropolitan area networks.




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Regards.

DYOR

[fse] 19/11/2014 15:10

hxxp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141118005876/en/Telco-Systems-Boosts-4GLTE-Backhaul-Capabilities-Tier-1#.VGyyk776Yfk

edit: You need to change the hxxp to http as usual and paste it in.

Here is slightly more detail on the ? profits warning

BATM issues profits warning

18 November 2014 | 08:24am
StockMarketWire.com - BATM Advanced Communications has warned that revenues and profit will be slightly lower than 2013 and below market expectations.

It says that as noted in the group's interim results, the momentum of the first half in the Medical division has been maintained into the second half of the year. However, the Telecom division has suffered from a longer-than-anticipated sales cycle as it continues to rebuild and implement its new strategy of focusing on Tier 1 customers.

The group also announced that vice-chairman Dr. Gideon Chitayat has taken over as chairman from Peter Sheldon who has retires from his position as chairman and as a non-executive director.

Chitayat joined the board of BATM as a non-executive director in June 2010 and has served as vice-chairman since 2012.

Separately, BATM announced that its wholly-owned Telco Systems subsidiary has been awarded a contract, valued at approximately $2m, by a major mobile operator in the Asia Pacific region to deploy an advanced mobile backhaul demarcation device. This is as part of the mobile operator's large-scale network modernisation that will deliver 4G/LTE services to an expanding subscriber base. Under the terms of the contract, the group will deploy its T-Marc 3208SH advanced mobile backhaul demarcation device in 2014 and 2015. The device, which backhauls traffic from multiple 2G, 3G and 4G cell sites over Carrier Ethernet, was selected for its large port density, flexible ports distribution and LAG capabilities that enable the mobile operator to accommodate the network expansion.

In addition, its support of NETCONF and YANG, in parallel with SNMP and CLI-based management, will facilitate the mobile operator in transitioning into SDN.

At 8:24am: [LON:BVC] BATM Advanced Communications Ltd share price was -0.62p at 16.38p


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[fse] 19/11/2014 00:56

Entirely😣

[paulisi] 18/11/2014 23:58

Another mixed announcement.

The positives are that we should see large growth in 2015 and the telecoms side seems positive that they will get more contracts.

Just need a few more contract wins/announcements to kick start the share price