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[the crypt] 14/7/2017 13:05

heh heh heh - oye ye porridge munsters and clowns of the cheesey sandwich. ho ho

[the crypt] 14/7/2017 08:59

may yer eggs be roasted on de bbq an yer cheese triangles be splendid..... yeh yer yer heh heh

[fse] 13/7/2017 21:09

Notification of Results

BATM Advanced Communications Limited (LSE: BVC), a leading provider of real-time technologies for networking solutions and medical laboratory systems, gives notice that it will be announcing its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2017 on Wednesday 30 August 2017.

FSE> OK what can we expect to see in these results. Probably going to be a partial "groan" still as I do not think sales in the Telco will reflect through on this past period. The pipeline looks good and the tie up with a handful of fairly major players is encouraging and another award today does portend favorably for the future.
I am not sure that we should be expecting large contracts more a steady trickle into this market. We know that SDN is getting taken very seriously but as ever the speed of uptake in this sector is notoriously lethargic.

The medical division is a bit of an unknown here in terms of sales. There have been numerous positive indicators but again I do not think they are quite up to potential here so am expecting a slight improvement with hopefully some news on the Chinese partnership.

The company could surprise at any time with major news but am not too bullish on results. FWIW.

[james dean] 13/7/2017 17:35

Hi Crypty -

You back in or still holding?

Pleased to see you - keep munching.


Regards.


DYOR

[the crypt] 13/7/2017 15:38

wheres yer chips n vinegar - aye - ya cheesey ssandwich>

[fse] 06/7/2017 16:13

check it out !

[fse] 03/7/2017 14:36

Nice to get some info from the medical division

[reeltime] 03/7/2017 11:08

BATM appoints CEO at subsidiary Adaltis
08:42 03 Jul 2017
This is a new role created within Adaltis as it gears up to take advantage of the advances made within its molecular biology business unit
Diagnostic equipment
Adaltis is a majority-owned subsidiary of BATM that manufactures medical diagnostic equipment.

BATM Advanced Communications Ltd (LON:BVC) has appointed medtech industry veteran Dr David Perry as chief executive officer of its subsidiary, Adaltis.

As part of the restructuring of the senior team, the board of Adaltis is promoting the current general manager, Marco Spadaciolli, to chief operating officer.

Dr Perry has more than 20 years' international experience in developing and bringing to global markets new medical devices, and pharmaceutical and biotechnological products across multiple therapy areas, and in small and large companies. Most recently he served as principal of Lilium Bioscience, a company dedicated to bringing to market novel therapeutic and medical-device products in the areas of biosurgery, orthopaedics, regenerative medicine and dermatology.

"We are delighted to have David join Adaltis. We believe that Adaltis is maturing to be an important player in the in-vitro diagnostic field and is making the necessary steps to achieve that. We look forward to leveraging David's experience as we take Adaltis to the next stage of its development,” said Dr Zvi Marom, chief executive officer of BATM.

From the Proactive Investors site.

[reeltime] 01/7/2017 17:06

Telecom Industry News
By: Jim Schakenbach

'Several technology trends continued to gather steam this month, including all things virtualized, 5G, and security-related developments. Also, it was a big month for corporate movers and shakers, with several high-profile mergers and acquisitions.

Technology Talk

Network function virtualization remains red hot. Telco Systems and Silver Peak introduced a joint plug-and-play vCPE SD-WAN solution to provide telcos and managed service providers with the flexibility to quickly roll-out and monetize new tiered VNF managed services. This open solution also enables telcos and MSPs to deliver on the ultimate promise of NFV to be an agile, open, and flexible service delivery platform that supports any VNF service in parallel to or as part of a service chain with SD-WAN services'.

For the full article click on the link..

[reeltime] 20/6/2017 22:42

The smart city networks vision becomes reality
June 19, 2017 Avi Dorfman

The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to merge the physical and virtual worlds to create smart environments that improve our lives. One environment that has a huge impact on our daily lives is the cities in which we live.

A smart city uses digital technologies and information & communication technologies (ICT) to connect people, processes, data, and things, for the benefit of its citizens and businesses. Using advanced and popularly accepted technologies, smart cities offer sophisticated, citizen-oriented services that catapult outdated public utilities and urban services into the 21st century.

Smart city technology is being implemented in major sectors including government services, transport and traffic management, energy, health care, water and waste. Smart city projects and applications are designed to analyze and respond to real-time, context-specific information to address specific urban issues and challenges.

US Smart Cities Initiatives

Smart city innovators have been encouraged by Barak Obama’s personal involvement in this exciting new trend. Chicago has been active in the smart city space since the election of Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2011. The City has taken significant steps to achieve the City’s aspiration to create a ‘City-as-a-Platform’ where products and services can be built on city-owned resources, including investment in open, superfast broadband infrastructure; community engagement and inclusion projects; and projects specifically aimed at fostering technological innovation.

Boston also has an impressive smart city initiative. The Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM ) in Boston, set up in 2010 by Mayor Thomas Menino, is an essential mechanism for Boston’s innovation in smart city investments. MONUM encourages and enables collaboration with innovative companies and SMEs, and supports other city departments through offering expertise and funding. It adopts a top-down and bottom-up model for innovation, and pays particular attention to good communication both internally and with other cities.

Smart City Technology Trends

Several technology trends are emerging that have an immediate impact on cities as they transition to the smart cities.

Data sharing and unification of smart city platforms bring benefits

The ability to collect and quickly analyze vast volumes of data is becoming the biggest trend. The unification, sharing and controlling of vast volumes of data leads the trends toward smart cities. Although disparate legacy systems sitting in isolated silos can be connected and shared, big-data collection and analytics can deliver a sudden, pronounced impact.

Commoditization of computer hardware able to manipulate massive data stores, along with the ubiquitous adoption of Cloud computing and storage, empower city systems to exploit the data that enables central management of cross-departmental functions.

Predictive analysis improvements help us learn as we go

Now that we have the Data Lake well stocked, how do we fish for useful information and services? Prediction is the hook to use. This year we will see an explosion of practical applications that make use of the next level in prediction: systems that automatically learn how to predict based on past successes and failures. This will help cities to plan better based on traffic, population, power consumption and other trends as they occur. Even more interestingly, predictive analytics of city and social media data is proving to be useful in daily operations, allowing instant changes and adjustments to services.

IoT everywhere

IoT is not just a hot topic. It’s everywhere, and it’s changing our lives. The concentration of people, facilities and services within a city make it a natural benefactor of IoT technologies. Consider the usefulness of sensors that can control everything from parking availability to building temperature to waste-water to bus lines to sports events … there is virtually no limit.

The possibility for services emanating from interconnection between people, things, and systems via IoT is mind-boggling. New, low power, high-speed wireless networks that traverse every facility will have to be deployed and aligned.

Satellite eyes and city-wide video surveillance

The implementation of satellite sensors, such as advanced imaging cameras for granular management activities at the city level, has proven successful and we can expect a lot more of it. Satellite services are already enabling cities to control planning through precise measurement of buildings via satellite feeds rather than by wasteful dispatch of scarce employees to inspect structures.

Governments use city-wide video surveillance to gather information that can be used in crime prevention, citizen protection, employee safety, crowd control, home monitoring, facility management, and a myriad other uses. Satellite-based video surveillance will soon be ubiquitous and around-the-clock.

Helping people with open data and personal dashboards

The explosion of available data sources and cheap technology to deliver relevant data to citizens on mobile devices is changing our daily lives. Smart cities will be able to deliver services that use more current data, and provide Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that can harness the data in helpful ways.

Interactions with citizens will be seamless, irrespective of the channel of communication. Technology will bring the average man in the street closer to city service managers and to each other in the pursuit of smooth consumption of services.

Smart Gigabit Networks – The Smart City Engine

Smart cities require very smart networks able to transmit huge volumes of information, at very high speeds, among people and machines. These networks will enable deployment of new, smart services in a matter of hours, instead of every new service requiring many months to develop and deploy. The new networks will have to offer Internet access at gigabit speed.

Let’s look at three ways that new Gigabit networks will contribute to the smart city vision:

Multi-Gigabit Ethernet networks enable big data and video services

The imminent impact of smart city services and applications running on city networks is a huge surge in demand for bandwidth. Current network infrastructures will have to adapt to meet this exploding bandwidth requirement. In some cases, entire networks will have to be redesigned.

Low-cost Carrier Ethernet demarcation and aggregation equipment that supports 1Gb ports will have to be upgraded to high-end switches and routers that support 10Gb and even 100Gb. New Carrier Ethernet technologies will have to be implemented to enable differentiation of services that improve performance and efficiency of smart city networks.

CE 2.0 networks enable interoperability between different devices and services

In the IoT ecosystem, home automation devices, security systems, power grids and all “things” are connected and communicate via the Internet. Similarly smart cities require heterogeneous technology across the board. However, we work on different types of devices with multiple platforms, which can cause interoperability challenges. These issues can be overcome by utilizing unified communication standards, common specifications and open architecture systems. New smart city networks based on Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE 2.0) standards will enable standardized and interoperable Ethernet communication among all types of devices, across multiple service providers, with improved manageability.

CE 2.0 networks enable advanced cyber security and protection strategies

The higher complexity and heterogeneity of smart city technological and communication environments could result in an even higher exposure to cyber-attacks. Vulnerability increases when systems become connected and integrated. In particular, this occurs when an unprecedented amount of additional data (Big Data) is generated by various smart devices (like sensors, meters and cameras) and processed by connected systems.

The network infrastructure, whether broadband, Wi-Fi or satellite, that connects systems and their operators, adds entry points and opportunities for security breaches or human error. New network infrastructures will need sophisticated protection strategies to provide better high availability and failure resiliency support.

Summary

We are witnessing the emergence of technologies that are revolutionizing the efficiency of urban infrastructures and transforming our cities into smart cities. As citizens we are beginning to expect smarter services and applications that make our lives simpler, easier and safer. Upgrading urban communication networks to the new smart Gigabit technology will provide the infrastructure to enable these exciting new services and applications to happen.

[fse] 16/6/2017 22:52

Last series of earnings reports has held them back. The company is either fairly valued or undervalued depending how you want to look at it. BATM are valued more as an established company and not as a start up with potential. Given that the company was completely re invented its hard to say how you would label them....The other thorn in their side is to slow adoption of SDN NFV by providers. Its all POC's and no real gravy ... yet ! That could all change but that in itself is going to take a while before you see it in the bottom line.Frustrating....

[cumnor] 16/6/2017 21:47

When it comes to prizes and awards it's top of the class. Lets see some contracts though.

[cols1] 16/6/2017 21:26

so what's the expectation on the share price after harsh?

[fse] 16/6/2017 17:01

We have a persistent seller in the picture from what I can see. Was expecting to get a notification.
Plenty to be encouraged about with Telco but delays in adopting these new standards is hitting the bottom line.
Still the current share price is a little harsh to put it mildly.

[fse] 01/6/2017 15:06

That should work video is in the right side bar.

[reeltime] 01/6/2017 13:06

BATM's Zvi Marom 'very pleased' with follow-on waste disposal order
11:02 01 Jun 2017

Zvi Marom, chief executive of BATM Advanced Communications Limited (LON:BVC) talks through with Proactive the follow-on order they've received - worth $1.1mln - for their mobile agri-waste treatment technology......Marom also goes on to talk about the Internet Solutions Kenya contract and says he expects more contracts to follow from Kenya and other African Countries(If he is to be believed)!!!

The video interview is on the Proactive Investors website, it wont let me Copy & Paste the link!

[reeltime] 01/6/2017 08:36

FSE following on from Post 14449......

SD-WAN market on the rise
SD-WAN market poised for growth
By Kelly Hill on May 31, 2017 Software

Survey shows interest in SD-WAN market

The software-defined Wide Area Network market is poised for 200% growth in the next 12 months, according to a new report from Cato Networks.

In a survey of more than 350 IT professionals, Cato found that nearly a third of participants had either already deployed an SD-WAN (10%) or were planning to do so within the next 12 months (19%). Another 30% were considering the technology without plans to deploy, and those who were holding off typically cited their lack of knowledge of SD-WAN or how new the technology is.

“The excitement around SD-WANs still needs to translate into sustained growth,” Cato added, noting that despite the expectations for significant growth, “nearly half of respondents (47%) indicate no current plans to deploy SD-WANs.”

Vendors and service providers are expanding their SD-WAN options rapidly. Just in the past few weeks, Hughes launched a managed SD-WAN offering, while Comcast is reportedly beta-testing an SD-WAN offering in partnership with Versa Networks. Matt Ellis, CFO of Verizon, told investors at the recent MoffettNathanson conference that the company is “seeing great take rates from [enterprise]customers” for its SD-WAN products. During Windstream’s most recent results call with investors, CEO Anthony Thomas called the SD-WAN market a “tremendous opportunity” and added, “we expect SD-WAN will be a lead product offering for [small-to-medium business] segments.” Thomas cited numbers from Forrester Research that 64% of U.S.-based companies were planning to implement or expand implementations of SD-WAN over the next year.

In many cases, these offerings involve collaborations such as the Comcast/Versa Networks offering — or outright acquisitions. In early May, Cisco announced plans to acquire SD-WAN vendor Viptela for $610 million. In a blog on the acquisition, the company indicated that the purchase will “enable us to expand our portfolio, with increased functionality delivered through the cloud.”

Sprint recently launched its own SD-WAN solution, in partnership with SD-WAN vendor VeloCloud. Sprint has been trialing the offering with customers since the fourth quarter of last year. Sprint is offering both a fully managed SD-WAN option as well as an arrangement under which Sprint provides installation and set-up of the solution and then turns it over to the customer to manage with the help of an SD-WAN dashboard for network visibility.

Don Briscoe, enterprise product marketing manager for Sprint, said that the company is seeing a desire for simplification of the WAN as well as the efficiencies that a hybrid WAN provides — since it doesn’t require a rip-and-replace approach, but still enables customers to maximize the performance of their networks through dynamic steering of traffic. Sprint’s offering can leverage Sprint MPLS or broadband connectivity as well as broadband services from other providers. Briscoe added that Sprint is seeing slightly more demand for the fully-managed option.

MarketsandMarkets predicts that the SD-WAN market will grow from about $738.9 million in 2016 to more than $9 billion by 2021, a compound annual growth rate or more than 65%.

Among Cato’s other findings:

-63% of survey respondents were worried about the cost of new equipment and/or services that would be needed to deploy SD-WAN, and 34% said that they were investing more in routers and MPLS services.

-Security is a major area of concern with SD-WAN. Fifty-three percent of respondents who deployed SD-WANs boosted their investment in network security appliances, while 72% wanted their SD-WANs to include next-generation firewalls and 60% wanted anti-malware technology to be added to SD-WANs.

-The fact that SD-WAN adopters must manage both physical and virtual networks may actually increase network complexity in the long-term, particularly when it comes to trouble-shooting. However, Cato went on to note that SD-WAN offers value in supporting IT departments’ ability to rapidly adapt to change, and that “more than 80% of implementers responding to the survey noted a significant increase in agility and flexibility.”