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[reeltime] 17/4/2019 22:25

As alluded to in the video these POC's are taking along time to demonstrate there effectiveness before a key decision is made to purchase. I think that's why BATM have gone down the road of partnerships and joint ventures to speed up commercialization of their disruptive technology.

[spekky] 17/4/2019 19:06

I think part of the problem is Zvi,he keeps talking about multiple p.o.c. in the cyber division but the conversion rate is low at present.....investors are looking for a flood but getting a trickle.....imho.

[reeltime] 17/4/2019 08:23

Batm was the most expensive contract and won!!!

[fse] 16/4/2019 14:10

Errr. Investors don’t want to be in LSE due to the unmentionable events that could prompt a stg collapse. But there you go believe what you like. BATM is in good shape and accounts in $USD. I am only holding this share on LSE for this reason. Remember Telco systems whilst owned by BATM is based in the US

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Back to BATM Contract win is encouraging and as someone mentioned above endorses their solutions.i agree with cumnor observation above

[cumnor] 16/4/2019 08:54

Some of these London based II are clueless-selling at a time when this is just starting to come together. BATM getting into an area where only the biggest of the big could ever consider tendering and being picked ahead of what are probably the big names in the business by the most critical client-armed forces. Were this a Nasdaq company I am sure it would be valued at over a pound, given the Yanks liking for top and innovative tech.

[james dean] 16/4/2019 08:16

Agreed - looking well IMHO.

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[gbenson1] 16/4/2019 07:56

Another great RNS, the recent substantial selling doesn't match up to the excellent contract wins and solid results recently. Just wish if someone wants out just sell your holding instead of drip feeding sells!!

[hitsha1] 16/4/2019 07:47

This should be well over £1, but it’s been held back

[opodio] 16/4/2019 07:35

The Group expects to receive further orders from this customer.

[amt] 16/4/2019 07:32

Very good contract to have won. Shows these new products are top notch.

[reeltime] 16/4/2019 07:29

This goes to show the continuing momentum our Cyber Security Solution offering is capturing and it appears that we are successfully beating very tough competition in this arena. $2 million and the hope of further orders as our relationship with this customer develops.

[owenski] 16/4/2019 07:15

"Receiving this contract from the armed forces is also validation that our solution can meet the most stringent security requirements. We look forward to delivering this project and to expanding our relationship with this customer as we expect further orders in due course."

[owenski] 16/4/2019 07:14

Good validation -

"The award of the contract follows the completion of a lengthy and successful proof-of-concept trial in which several major suppliers competed. The Group expects to receive further orders from this customer."

[onjohn] 16/4/2019 07:09

BATM signs new armed forces customer for cyber security

New $2m contract for joint cyber security and networking solution



BATM Advanced Communications Limited (LSE: BVC), a leading provider of real-time technologies for networking solutions and medical laboratory systems, announces that it has been awarded an initial $2m contract by a branch of a national armed forces for the provision of a combined cyber security and networking solution. This is the Group's first contract for this combined solution, which will be delivered over an approximate 18-month period commencing immediately.



This solution, which will be delivered to a new armed forces customer, combines cyber security software provided by the Group's Celare subsidiary with networking applications from the Group's NGSoft subsidiary. The award of the contract follows the completion of a lengthy and successful proof-of-concept trial in which several major suppliers competed. The Group expects to receive further orders from this customer.

[emeraldzebra] 12/4/2019 14:08

It's had a pretty good run though. Profit taking to be expected. No surprise to see it double this level after another year though. Hope so.

[car1pet] 12/4/2019 11:58

The price has lost momentum. We need some new positive newsflow

[reeltime] 10/4/2019 07:43

Telco Systems Offers uCPE With VMware-VeloCloud SD-WAN
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Ali Longwell
April 8, 2019

Telco Systems today announced that it will offer an open universal CPE (uCPE) pre-integrated with the VMware VeloCloud-based SD-WAN service. This new offering will allow service providers to deploy the VMware SD-WAN services on their hardware of choice.

The offering is part of Telco Systems NFVTime suite, which delivers a service-ready, plug-and-play uCPE. NFVTime includes an operating system, a marketplace of virtual network functions (VNFs) from third-party vendors (such as VMware), and a centralized management and control system, including a uCPE Controller.

The operating system is the main offering at play here as it allows service providers to remotely offer additional VNF service chains, including virtual firewalls and other virtual security services, with zero-touch provisioning. What’s unique about the operating system is that it can turn any x86-device, with either low or high resources, into a fully operational uCPE. It uses Intel processors.

NFVTime has out-of-box hardware support from white-box providers Dell EMC, Lanner, Advantech, Supermicro, Aaeon, Nexcom, Intel, and Arm; and has a VNF library that includes Cisco, Netrounds, 6Wind, Trend Micro, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Check Point, Certes, Silver Peak, Audio Codes, and now VMware-Velocloud.

A few weeks ago, Sanjay Uppal, the vice president and general manager of VeloCloud, spoke to SDxCentral about how it was broadening its definition of SD-WAN to the network edge, which included delivering SD-WAN as-a-platform.

“SD-WAN becoming the platform provides integrations with all these other companies out there so that there can be simplicity and cost savings for the enterprise,” said Uppal at that time. And in February, the company said that it was working with both Adva and Telco Systems to deliver uCPE offerings that consolidate services alongside its SD-WAN VNF on a single x86 platform.

Telco Systems announced a similar partnership with FatPipe Networks last July.
Growth of uCPE

Telcos are increasingly adopting the uCPE model as a way to save money, simplify operations, and deliver more choice and flexibility to customers. Last August, IHS Markit projected in its “uCPE Hardware Biannual Report” that this market would increase from $7.7 million in 2017 to $1.02 billion in 2022.

There has been some speculation as to whether uCPEs would be a viable option, but that conversation has shifted slightly with the production of platforms like Telco Systems’ NFVTime.

What was once “for the rich,” Uppal told SDxCentral, is now shifting. “Companies like Adva, Telco Systems, [and] Ekinops have been able to streamline that, so I’m actually seeing now at the end of the last four months or so that telcos in particular are gravitating at least a portion of their business toward the uCPE model — it saves a lot for them,” he said.

Many service providers are working on building their own uCPE offerings.

Jeff Lewis, vice president of product management at Comcast Business told SDxCentral in December that “The ability to provide multiple VNFs to a common uCPE is tantamount to success in the SDN world.”

Sprint, which offers a managed SD-WAN service, is also evaluating uCPE options because it adds more flexibility for its customers. Orange Business Services has also been looking at uCPE, but still sees the market as not ready yet. This is largely due to the high cost of hardware and software licensing for VNFs.

[hitsha1] 09/4/2019 18:25

Beyond SD-WAN: VMware’s vision for the network edge
Under the ownership of VMware, the VeloCloud Business Unit is greatly expanding its vision of what an SD-WAN should be. VMware calls the strategy “the network edge.”

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VeloCloud is now a Business Unit within VMware since being acquired in December 2017. The two companies have had sufficient time to integrate their operations and fit their technologies together to build a cohesive offering. In January, Neal Weinberg provided an overview of where VMware is headed with its reinvention. Now let’s look at it from the VeloCloud SD-WAN perspective.

I recently talked to Sanjay Uppal, vice president and general manager of the VeloCloud Business Unit. He shared with me where VeloCloud is heading, adding that it’s all possible because of the complementary products that VMware brings to VeloCloud’s table.


[ Read also: Edge computing is the place to address a host of IoT security concerns ]
It all starts with this architecture chart that shows the VMware vision for the network edge.

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The left side of the chart shows that in the branch office, you can put an edge device that can be either a VeloCloud hardware appliance or VeloCloud software running on some third-party hardware. Then the right side of the chart shows where the workloads are — the traditional data center, the public cloud, and SaaS applications. You can put one or more edge devices there and then you have the classic hub-and-spoke model with the VeloCloud SD-WAN on running on top.

In the middle of the diagram are the gateways, which are a differentiator and a unique benefit of VeloCloud.

“If you have applications in the public cloud or SaaS, then you can use our gateways instead of spinning up individual edges at each of the applications,” Uppal said. “Those gateways really perform a multi-tenanted edge function. So, instead of locating an individual edge at every termination point at the cloud, you basically go from an edge in the branch to a gateway in the cloud, and then from that gateway you go to your final destination. We've engineered it so that the gateways are close to where the end applications are — typically within five milliseconds.”

Going back to the architecture diagram, there are two clouds in the middle of the chart. The left-hand cloud is the over-the-top (OTT) service run by VeloCloud. It uses 800 gateways deployed over 30 points of presence (PoPs) around the world. The right-hand cloud is the telco cloud, which deploys gateways as network-based services. VeloCloud has several telco partners that take the same VeloCloud gateways and deploy them in their cloud.

“Between a telco service, a cloud service, and hub and spoke on premise, we essentially have covered all the bases in terms of how enterprises would want to consume software-defined WAN. This flexibility is part of the reason why we've been successful in this market,” Uppal said.

Where is VeloCloud going with this strategy? Again, looking at the architecture chart, the “vision” pieces are labeled 1 through 5. Let’s look at each of those areas.


Edge compute
Starting with number 1 on the left-hand side of the diagram, there is the expansion from the edge itself going deeper into the branch by crossing over a LAN or a Wi-Fi boundary to get to where the individual users and IoT “things” are. This approach uses the same VeloCloud platform to spin up compute at the edge, which can be either a container or a virtual machine (VM).

“Of course, VMwareis very strong in compute in the data center. Our CEO recently articulated the VMware edge story, which is compute edge and device edge. When you combine it with the network edge, which is VeloCloud, then you have a full edge solution,” Uppal explained. “So, this first piece that you see is our foray into getting deeper into the branch all the way up to the individual users and things and combining compute functions on to the VeloCloud solution. There's been a lot of talk about edge compute and we do know that the pendulum is swinging back, but one of the major challenges is how to manage it all. VMware has strong technology in the data center space that we are bringing to bear out there at the edge.”

5G underlay intelligence
The next piece, number 2 on the diagram, is 5G. At the Mobile World Congress, VMware and AT&T announced they are bringing SD-WAN out running on 5G. The idea here is that 5G should give you a low-latency connection and you get on-demand control, so you can tell 5G on the fly that you want this type of connection. Once that is done, the right network slices would be put in place and then you can get a connection according to the specifications that you asked for.

“We as VeloCloud would measure the underlay continuously. It's like a speed test on steroids. We would measure bandwidth, packet loss, jitter and latency continuously with low overhead because we piggyback on real user traffic. And then on the basis of that measurement, we would steer the traffic one way or another,” Uppal said. “For example, your real-time voice is important, so let's pick the best performing network at that instant of time, which might change in the next instant, so that's why we have to make that decision on a per-packet basis.”

Uppal continued, “What 5G allows us to do is to look at that underlay as not just being one underlay, but it could be several different underlays, and it's programmable so you could ask it for a type of underlay. That is actually pretty revolutionary — that we would run an overlay with the intelligence of SD-WAN counting on the underlay intelligence of 5G.

“We are working pretty closely with our partner AT&T in this space. We are talking about the business aspect of 5G being used as a transport mechanism for enterprise data, rather than consumer phones having 5G on them. This is available from AT&T today in a handful of cities. So as 5G becomes more ubiquitous, you'll begin to see it deployed more and more. Then we will do an Ethernet or Wi-Fi handoff to the hotspot, and from then on, we'll jump onto the 5G network for the SD-WAN. Then the next phase of that will be 5G natively on our devices, which is what we are working on today.”

Gateway federation
The third part of the vision is gateway federation, some of which is available today. The left-hand cloud in the diagram, which is the OTT service, should be able to interoperate gateway to gateway with the cloud on the right-hand side, which is the network-based service. For example, if you have a telco cloud of gateways but those gateways don't reach out into areas where the telco doesn’t have a presence, then you can reuse VeloCloud gateways that are sitting in other locations. A gateway would federate with another gateway, so it would extend the telco’s network beyond the facilities that they own. That's the first step of gateway federation, which is available from VeloCloud today.

Uppal said the next step is a telco-to telco-federation. “There's a lot of interest from folks in the industry on how to get that federation done. We're working with the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) on that,” he said.


SD-WAN as a platform
The next piece of the vision is SD-WAN as a platform. VeloCloud already incorporates security services into its SD-WAN platform in the form of virtual network functions (VNFs) from Palo Alto, Check Point Software, and other partners. Deploying a service as a VNF eliminates having separate hardware on the network. Now the company is starting to bring more services onto its platform.

“Analytics is the area we are bringing in next,” Uppal said. “We partnered with SevOne and Plixer so that they can take analytics that we are providing, correlate them with other analytics that they have and then come up with inferences on whether things worked correctly or not, or to check for anomalous behavior.”

Two additional areas that VeloCloud is working on are unified communications as a service (UCaaS) and universal customer premises equipment (uCPE).

“We announced that we are working with RingCentral in the UCaaS space, and with ADVA and Telco Systems for uCPE. We have our own uCPE offering today but with a limited number of VNFs, so ADVA and Telco Systems will help us expand those capabilities,” Uppal explained. “With SD-WAN becoming a platform for on-premise deployments, you can virtualize functions and manage them from the same place, whether they're VNF-type of functions or compute-type of functions. This is an important direction that we are moving towards.”


Hybrid and multi-cloud integration
The final piece of the strategy is hybrid and multi-cloud integration. Since its inception, VeloCloud has had gateways to facilitate access to specific applications running in the cloud. These gateways provide a secure end-to-end connection and an ROI advantage.

Recognizing that workloads have expanded to multi-cloud and hybrid cloud, VeloCloud is broadening this approach utilizing VMware’s relationships with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google and offerings on Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud, respectively. From a networking standpoint, you can get the same consistency of access using VeloCloud because you can decide from the gateway whichever direction you want to go. That direction will be chosen — and services added — based on your business policy.

“We think this is the next hurdle in terms of deployment of SD-WAN, and once that is solved, people are going to deploy a lot more for hybrid and multi-cloud,” said Uppal. “We want to be the first ones out of the gate to get that done.”

Uppal further said, “These five areas are where we see our SD-WAN headed, and we call this a network edge because it's beyond just the traditional SD-WAN functions. It includes edge computing, SD-WAN becoming a broader platform, integrating with hybrid multi cloud — these are all aspects of features that go way beyond just the narrower definition of SD-WAN.”


More about edge networking:

How edge networking and IoT will reshape data centers
Edge computing best practices
How edge computing can help secure the IoT

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[fse] 08/4/2019 14:46

If you go to the site you will get an idea what they do also under partners you will see Telco systems listed along with some robust company.
Expect to see more of these co operative ventures as the technology is rolled out.

"By year-end 2023, more than 90% of WAN edge infrastructure refresh initiatives will be based on virtualized customer premises equipment (vCPE) platforms or software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) software/appliances versus traditional routers (up from less than 40% today). -- Gartner"

[fse] 08/4/2019 13:52

Apr 8, 2019

Telco Systems Joins VMware SD-WAN Ecosystem to Ease VNF Service Deployments
Companies to collaborate on open uCPE for SD-WAN offering

MANSFIELD, MA, April 8, 2019 — Telco Systems, the leading provider of innovative SDN/NFV, CE 2.0, MPLS and IP solutions, today announced technology collaboration with VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud.

As part of the collaboration between the two companies, Telco Systems will be offering an open uCPE pre-integrated and optimized with the VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud solution. The solution allows a service provider to rapidly deploy SD-WAN services running on any hardware of its choice. Telco Systems’ NFVi-OS, which is part of its NVFTime suite, will give service providers the agility to remotely offer any additional VNF service chain, including vFirewall, vProbe, vSecurity and others, at any time with zero-touch provisioning.

NFVTime is a service-ready, plug-and-play uCPE solution that provides a complete service environment for rapidly launching virtual network services. NFVTime includes an NFVi-OS, uCPE MANO and a broad portfolio of certified VNFs that are centrally managed and orchestrated. NFVTime’s NFVi-OS can turn any commercial off-the-shelf x86 or Arm white box hardware device into a fully operational uCPE.

“VMware SD-WAN is known for its flexibility, enhanced reliability and security and the collaboration with Telco Systems based on its NFVTime uCPE will deliver significant practical benefits to our mutual customers,” said Sanjay Uppal, Vice President and General Manager of the VeloCloud Business Unit at VMware. “Telco Systems is a leader and a valued technology partner, while its NFVTime uCPE uniquely supports both x86 and Arm devices, providing ease of deployment and superior performance.”

“We are excited to work with VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud and are looking forward to providing our mutual customers with a highly optimized and efficient offering in the coming months,” said Ariel Efrati, CEO at Telco Systems. “Our existing service provider customers, who are already using the VMware SD-WAN VNF with our NFVTime solution, can serve as examples to other service providers worldwide that are considering moving away from the deployment of dedicated SD-WAN appliances and look for open uCPE platforms.”

Telco Systems will be presenting a live demonstration of the Telco Systems-VMware uCPE for SD-WAN offering running as a VNF service on the network of a managed service provider customer in the Telco Systems uCPE ecosystem showcase pavilion at the MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress in Paris on April 9 – 12 at Booth 201.

[james dean] 05/4/2019 20:28

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[fse] 05/4/2019 15:02

BATM Advanced Communications says JV has received first tranche of US$14.5mln investment
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07:35 05 Apr 2019
Financial backing is coming from unnamed medical industry investors from the US and Puma Brandenburg Investments
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Ador Diagnostics, which is co-owned by medical equipment firm Gamida for Life, will use the US$14.5mln injection to fund development of a rapid-results molecular biology diagnostics system
BATM Advanced Communications Limited (LON:BVC) said its joint venture company has received the first tranche of a US$30mln investment.

Ador Diagnostics will use the US$14.5mln to develop the NATlab reader, a rapid-results molecular biology diagnostics system. The remainder of the cash will be handed over next year.

WATCH: Strong growth sees BATM anticipate 2019 earnings to be ahead of expectations

Financial backing is coming from unnamed medical industry investors from the US, and Puma Brandenburg Investments, a company owned by Howard Shore, the founder of City firm Shore Capital.

Ador, meanwhile, is jointly run by medical equipment firm Gamida for Life.

"We are delighted to have received the Initial Investment to accelerate the commercialisation of our breakthrough NATlab system, which we believe will revolutionise the point-of-care medical diagnostics industry,” said Dr Zvi Marom, BATM chief executive.

“Since signing the investment agreement, we have continued to make progress in our final preparations ahead of in-hospital installation. We are very excited about the tremendous potential of this unique molecular biology-based diagnostics solution."

[fse] 03/4/2019 17:44

Yes good article. Very much what Telco systems is about,