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[car1pet] 20/7/2018 17:12

there is no dividend

[latifs100] 20/7/2018 13:01

when is dividend paid? tia

[fse] 19/7/2018 14:41

Bit more info re tie up with FatPipe.....

[gersemi] 18/7/2018 10:57

Movement here

[rawdeal1] 18/7/2018 08:12

Somebody is definitely selling into the buying - good volumes of trading and still the price does not move. Wonder who it might be and what the motive is ... ?

[fse] 11/7/2018 16:19

Source of this news report.

[fse] 11/7/2018 14:53

Added Comment:
Another project with NFVTime implemented.

FatPipe also have a subsidiary in India

MANSFIELD, Massachusetts and SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --



Telco Systems, the leading provider of innovative SDN/NFV, CE 2.0, MPLS and IP solutions, and FatPipe Networks, the inventor of software-defined networks for wide area connectivity and hybrid WANs, today jointly announced that the two companies are partnering to provide an open uCPE solution for offering real-time SD-WAN VNF services.



This new joint offering combines Telco Systems' NFVTime uCPE and FatPipe's SD-WAN solution. The joint offering delivers telcos and managed service providers a high performance, plug-and-play framework to accelerate SD-WAN deployments, while maintaining the service agility to expand service offerings to include additional VNF services using any Intel or Arm hardware.



Telco Systems' NFVTime provides a complete service environment to rapidly launch and manage NFV 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 (COTS) x86 and Arm white box hardware device into a fully operational uCPE.



As part of this joint offering, the FatPipe SD-WAN VNF will run over NFVTime's NFVi-OS. This gives telcos and managed service providers the service agility to deploy SD-WAN services over an open uCPE and remotely deploy any additional VNF service chain, including vRouter, vFirewall, vProbe, vSecurity and others, at any time with zero touch, plug-and-play provisioning.



FatPipe's real-time SD-WAN ensures automatic and seamless failover of VoIP, video, VPN and data in a sub-second without dropping packets or duplicating packet streams or re-transmits. This and other technologies in the product enables customers and providers reduce data traffic by 50% relative to other non-real time SD-WANs in the market. With WAN acceleration, bandwidth needs can be reduced by up to 75% for common desktop applications. FatPipe's unique design allows providers to offer and install FatPipe SD-WAN immediately without any devices in their network, resulting in significant savings.



In addition to the SD-WAN VNF, FatPipe offers a multi-function VNF, containing SD-WAN, WAN acceleration, firewall and VPN, IDS/IPS and web filter along with a line booster package that reduces bandwidth needs significantly for satellite traffic. The advantage of the multifunction VNF is the low CPU and memory needs as well as optimized performance resulting in high speed throughput in a small form factor hardware.



"FatPipe is a well experienced SD-WAN vendor with one of the leading SD-WAN options in the market today and the combined offering through our NFVTime-OS platform is the first and presently the only SD-WAN solution that can seamlessly run on both the x86 architectures," said Ariel Efrati, CEO at Telco Systems. "We are pleased to be partnering with FatPipe and adding the company's SD-WAN solution to our expanding VNF portfolio, which will lower the barriers to entry for NFV deployments and allow service providers to rely on a tested, preconfigured and automatically provisioned VNFs to provide their customers with rich, carrier-grade services."



"This partnership and joint offering emphasizes the need for service providers to have a fully integrated SD-WAN VNF combined with a high performance open uCPE in order to virtually deploy more network functions to meet the growing requirements of offering new services to business customers," said Dr. Ragula Bhaskar, CEO of Fat Pipe Networks. "We are collaborating with Telco Systems in order to deliver our SD-WAN solution over the market leading NFVTime open uCPE, which has the advantage of running over both x86 and Arm architectures, and quickly bring great value to international service providers that need a smooth and quick path to NFV deployments and new customer services."

[wizzkid211] 10/7/2018 13:58

the mind boggles zero=one...!

[spekky] 10/7/2018 09:19

reeltime.....thanks for the quantum computing article,just as I was thinking technology was at or near its boundary......what a small imagination I've got.

[fse] 05/7/2018 15:51

Noticed that Israels Maxtech network is providing communications for the Thai Cave rescue.

[james dean] 04/7/2018 15:23

Great article reeltime - thanks.

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[reeltime] 04/7/2018 13:10

Very interesting article.......

"Speaking to "Globes" from China, Marom said, "We had a talk and the prime minister was convinced that quantum computing was an important subject that the Israeli government should be involved in and conduct research in order to consider whether we could be a global leader in the sector. He spent a lot of effort and time in studying the subject and was convinced that it was worthwhile being in the middle of it."

Israeli gov't allocates NIS 300m for quantum computing
Quantum computing Photo: PR
2 Jul, 2018 19:31
Tal Shahaf

Experts persuaded the prime minister of the importance of quantum computing for Israel's security.

Israel is gearing up for the quantum computing race, one of the hottest fields in computing today. Sources inform "Globes" that the Prime Minister's Office plans to allocate an initial sum of NIS 300 million ($80 million) for development of quantum computing technology in Israel. Most of the money will go to the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology for development of a quantum computer, among the first in the world. Part of it will go to the Weizmann Institute of Science, where scientists are working on development of capabilities in this field.

Sources familiar with the matter say that this is only an initial allocation of funds, and that to the extent that the feasibility of the project is proven, the resources made available for it will increase. It is assumed that private companies will also invest in quantum computing in Israel as it makes progress.

Technological and security importance

Unlike the computers with which we are familiar today, in which the basic unit of information is 1 or 0, quantum computing is based on the idea that the unit can at any given moment contain both values simultaneously. If this idea reaches commercial realization, it will make possible the development of extremely fast computers, with computing power unknown today. This will also solve the "Moore's Law problem": current computing methods are close to their limits and are no longer fulfilling the famous prediction of Gordon Moore that computers would double in power every two years.

Quantum computers will be able to solve problems that current computers cannot. Besides artificial intelligence, health and sensory computing applications, there are important defense applications that can only be developed through quantum computing. Only a few countries in the world are capable of developing these applications.

At a conference of science and technology ministers held last months in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the government intended to establish a quantum computing system with an investment on the same scale as the investment in cyberspace. He noted that a team of experts would soon be assembled to push Israel forward in areas regarded as critical for its security, including quantum computing.

One of the important catalysts for investment in the field was Association of Israeli High Tech in the Manufacturers Association of Israel. Among other things, Netanyahu consulted Association of Israeli High Tech chairperson and BATM Advanced Communications Ltd. (LSE: BVC) CEO Dr. Zvi Marom and experts in the field, including Nobel Prize winner Prof. Yisrael Aumann.

Speaking to "Globes" from China, Marom said, "We had a talk and the prime minister was convinced that quantum computing was an important subject that the Israeli government should be involved in and conduct research in order to consider whether we could be a global leader in the sector. He spent a lot of effort and time in studying the subject and was convinced that it was worthwhile being in the middle of it."

In a meeting held a few months ago with the heads of the high tech industry in Israel, Netanyahu officially announced the decision to promote quantum computing research with government support. The initial amount allocated to this is now known. "We are taking action to organize a consortium of industrial companies to support this measure," Marom says.

Intel, Microsoft, and IBM are in the picture

Leading international companies are also partners in the development of quantum computing capability, including Intel, IBM, and Microsoft, which are in a highly publicized race to achieve capability in this area. These companies are cooperating with research departments at the Technion and other research institutions. Industry sources believe that the companies will invest large-scale money and personnel resources and put facilities and development tools at the disposal of the scientists in order to promote quantum computing research.

Association of Israeli High Tech CEO Merav Kenan says, "We're looking at the long term and looking for areas in which Israel can become one of the leaders. When we talk about quantum computing five to ten years from now, it will be like we're looking at cyberspace today.

"There are advanced Israeli industrial companies that want to develop technologies in this sector and there are departments in large Israeli companies dealing with research and development for the next generation of computers."

The Technion announced two months ago a $50 million donation from the Helen Diller Family Foundation given for the purpose of establishing a center for quantum research in the academic institution. The donation has made it possible to recruit new staff, provide initial funding for research, and train the next generation of quantum computing experts. The new quantum center is the third recently established in quantum computing areas at the Technion with private donations.

Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on July 2, 2018

[volsung] 03/7/2018 10:36

Nice wee rise as the actress said to the bishop

[fse] 28/6/2018 17:43

To better understand NFVTime
Here's a link

[mirabeau] 25/6/2018 08:20

She's looking primed here

I'm pretty certain at some point ST will update again

[red5] 22/6/2018 19:52

fse - yes made packet back then in fact bought my first house with proceeds also sold and went back in number of times to compund the profit. also now stuck in 15k in this time at 26p so we will see.

[volsung] 22/6/2018 07:08

Should be onwards from here now the seller is gone

[james dean] 20/6/2018 08:26

Thanks reeltime a very good read.

DYOR

[reeltime] 19/6/2018 22:47

This article has a bit more information on the joint development agreement between Telco Systems and Arm.....

"In an email to FierceTelecom, Tzemach said the deal size was in the range of a low seven-figure amount".

"Telco Systems will lead a multiyear development program".

"We are experiencing great interest for the Arm technology in North America and strong demand in Western Europe," Tzemach said. "At the same time, our ecosystem is expanding rapidly and gaining strong momentum. We are currently involved in a number of PoCs trials in these markets."

The article....

Brothers in arms: Telco Systems strikes a deal for uCPE with Arm
by Mike Robuck | Jun 15, 2018 10:30am

Telco Systems and Arm sign an agreement for the joint development of uCPE, MEC and IoT products.

Telco Systems has struck a multiyear agreement with Arm for the development of service-ready universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) boxes and edge devices based on Arm's architecture.

Raanan Tzemach, vice president for product management at Telco Systems, said the agreement includes the development of products for network functions virtualization (NFV), mobile edge computing (MEC) and internet of things (IoT) while also expanding the ecosystem for Telco System's NFVTime uCPE solution running on Arm's architecture.

In an email to FierceTelecom, Tzemach said the deal size was in the range of a low seven-figure amount. The two companies previously announced that Telco System's NFVTime, which is an NFV infrastructure (NFVi) operating system for white-box appliances, ran on Arm's architecture.

Working with Arm’s technical team, Telco Systems will lead a multiyear development program that will include making prototypes for uCPE boxes into products, specifically those based on NXP and Marvell system-on-chips (SoCs), as well as NFV edge solutions.

As part of the partnership, Telco Systems is focusing on the development of solutions that utilize Arm and its vendors' SoC solutions for the containerization of virtual network functions (VNF) and cybersecurity solutions based on Arm's technology. The companies said the new products would also serve as the foundation for future Arm-based edge compute, IoT and MEC solutions.

"We are experiencing great interest for the Arm technology in North America and strong demand in Western Europe," Tzemach said. "At the same time, our ecosystem is expanding rapidly and gaining strong momentum. We are currently involved in a number of PoCs trials in these markets."

The two companies will also work on developing an ecosystem with VNF vendors and SoC companies. The ecosystem will also allow VNF and white-box vendors to develop and certify their products on NFVTime.

The NFVTime-Arm ecosystem includes a broad portfolio of VNFs from leading vendors, Tzemach said. "Some of these ecosystem partners include Marvell, NXP, 6Wind, Trend Micro and a number of SD-WAN and firewall vendors. Our ecosystem also supports many OEMs, including NexCom and CyberTan. Three additional white box vendors are in the process of joining our ecosystem, which we'll be announcing in the coming weeks."

Late last year, Telco Systems partnered with 6Wind to develop a virtual router that uses both Arm and Intel's architectures.

"This existing product already supports a virtual router and security use cases over a Marvell and NXP chipset," Tzemach said. "The next products from this co-development should be available in the coming two to three months. These will be mostly new use cases and applications for our NFVTime uCPE running on Arm architecture."

[fse] 19/6/2018 16:21

>RED5..... You would have had a ten bagger back then not a 100x as there was a 10/1 share consolidation. I held some back then and sold some.If you did make a packet out of the confusion good on you.
For comparison sake in todays terms that would send the share price just over 300p

Nevertheless these took off on the back of the photonics switch development which as far as I can see was simply too far ahead for its time.

Telco systems say they are experiencing strong demand for NFV solutions. Quite what impact this will have on overall revenue in the near term we really don't know, further down the road is another matter.

[fse] 19/6/2018 16:11

Telco Systems to lead development of Arm-compatible uCPE and NFV Edge solutions to build technology partner ecosystem
June 18, 2018 Sabrina Labanowski

Telco Systems will lead the development of a new advanced, service-ready universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) and network function virtualization (NFV) Edge solutions based on Arm architecture.

Arm and Telco Systems will work together to expand the technology partner ecosystem, customer pipeline and other go-to-market activities. This Arm-NFVTime ecosystem will include virtual network functions (VNF) and hardware vendors and will address the needs of Tier 1 service providers and network operators. The new partner ecosystem will allow VNF and white box vendors unlock new business opportunities, create competitive differentiators and demonstrate superior performance.

NFVTime for ARM Ecosystem

The two companies will offer existing and new uCPE and NFV Edge solutions to deliver service providers, network operators and enterprises with higher performance, reduced costs and greater agility to meet business models.

“The Arm architecture offers low operating costs with greater design flexibility and better security for uCPE and edge devices,” explained Drew Henry, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure Line of Business at Arm. “We recognize Telco Systems as an innovative leader in the uCPE and NFV spaces and are excited to leverage a shared vision in delivering new world-class solutions to the market.”

In coordination with Arm’s technical team, Telco Systems will lead a multiyear development program that will include the productization of existing prototypes for uCPE devices, specifically those based on NXP and Marvell system-on-chips (SoCs), and advanced, service-ready uCPE and NFV Edge solutions.

The company will focus on the development of performance acceleration solutions that utilize Arm and its SoC vendors’ competitive edge, containerization of VNFs and cybersecurity solutions based on Arm TrustZone. These new solutions will also serve as the foundation for future Arm-based Edge compute, IoT and MEC solutions.

“This significant deal will bring to the market new uCPE and NFV Edge solutions and will drive the execution of Arm’s strategy for the telecommunications networking infrastructure market,” said Ariel Efrati, CEO at Telco Systems. “We are already experiencing strong demand for our NFVTime solution running on Arm architecture and we have strong expectations that our new solutions will attract great interest, especially from Tier 1 service providers in North America and other developed markets.”

[red5] 18/6/2018 22:30

Agreed but the thought would be nice I had these when in the dot com bubble made £85,000 on £750 investment hopefully we will have it again.