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[k38] 17/12/2018 01:55

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/229963

[reeltime] 16/12/2018 10:13

Great spot Miti thanks

[fse] 15/12/2018 15:51

Cheers Miti nice spot, the speed of uptake has taken me back a bit ;-)

This is all moving at exceptional speed, we "just" received this news from Telco on Dec 5th....a reminder as to why the above tweets from ARM are so significant.

"Telco Systems NFVTime uCPE solution to serve as virtualization infrastructure for Arm Neoverse"
" As part of the new move, Telco Systems has been selected as a strategic component for Arm’s new Neoverse cloud-to-edge infrastructure. "

I suggest investors take the time to look through the tweets from ARM that miti has posted the link to above.
The value of Telco systems IP is ?

[miti 1000] 15/12/2018 09:19

Now, this is important so listen up . Guess who is getting into the chip business ? Yes, Amazon , the big daddy who eats everyone's lunch. Who is going to be in trouble ? No silly , not Arm . Intel are going to suffer, Why ? Because Amazon are going to be part of the Arm Neoverse and use their software. Great news for the 200 million cap minnow that is Batman cos as we all know, Batman is core to the Arm Neoverse world. Roll on 2019 and 2020.

All this announced in the past 3 weeks.No wonder Batman is so strong and holding up and rising in this market.

Links : Read all this fellow's tweets from the past month.

[spekky] 14/12/2018 17:55

Thanks reeltime

GhaoN.....you are correct (old habits ).

[reeltime] 13/12/2018 22:28

Very interesting article........

2019 telecoms forecast: the year of 5G and open source

By Nathan Rader 9 days ago Networking
Canonical takes a look at some of the most important trends for next year.

2019 is shaping up to be a massive year for telco companies. In the final few months of 2018, countless 5G projects have launched and several new uses cases in cloud computing and IoT have come to light, driving demand for high capacity and low latency connectivity.

As a result of the monetisation challenges, there has been a distinct move away from just providing faster network speeds to consumers, and towards enabling a whole host of new technologies on mobile networks. To achieve this, an increasing number of telecoms operators are functioning like software companies.

With this in mind, here are some trends and challenges we see facing the telecoms industry in 2019:

What is 5G? Everything you need to know

Implementing 5G at scale in Europe

European operators usually take the lead on new network developments (look at 2G, 3G, and 4G) but the opposite is true for 5G. The difference in this case is that 4G harmonised all the networks in Europe, bringing the technology together to create a very dense and fast network.

When compared to America, where there’s only a cell tower every 5-10 miles, the demand for a higher capacity network such as 5G is much greater than we see in Europe. Likewise, with more remotely located homes, there is a more urgent need for 5G to support fixed broadband. It’s the same case in China, if you compare it to the rest of Asia, for example. This is why both regions are ahead of Europe when it comes to implementing 5G at scale.

Without the customer demand and overcapacity on existing networks, can telcos justify launching wide scale 5G across Europe?

This is the next challenging facing the industry:
Monetising 5G with edge computing

There will be a race to see who can market 5G the quickest and who will have it as standard first. We’re already seeing tests from multiple providers across the world in isolated areas, and the speed and size of rollouts will only increase as providers look to gain the upper hand.

However, this race could be a costly one. Consumer need for 5G isn’t as great as it was for previous generations. 4G can handle most consumer use cases (such as streaming, gaming, browsing etc.) comfortably with reasonable speed.

5G’s main benefit is providing increased capacity, not speed and latency, making it more of a technical development. Being the first 5G standard network will be a marketing coup but may not come with the consumer kudos and demand it once did.

From a more non-commercial perspective, edge computing is touted by many as the next big thing, but there is still some way to go before it becomes fully mainstream.

5G will be a major kickstarter in the move in this direction. Standalone edge devices (those that directly link to the cloud) are reasonably rare, at least on a large scale. However, with 5G, a huge number of network connected devices will come into contact with the cloud and start to become edge computing devices.

Innovation at the edge

The question that stems from all this is: who is going to make use of the fresh potential for edge computing? Mobile devices themselves are fairly powerful nowadays, and many are able to run some AR processes effectively, meaning you don’t need edge at the bottom of the machine to enhance its compute power. The same goes for self-driving cars, another innovation people are watching keenly to see how 5G and edge will impact. There’s certainly an interest in putting data closer to the user in this case, but again, a lot of compute power can be delivered directly within cars themselves.

There are use cases which telecoms providers can demonstrate the importance of using 5G and edge together, but the challenge moving forwards once again is monetisation. Some current examples include location-specific use cases such as museums tapping in to AI or local caching of media, and for phone related tools where Wi-Fi capacity won’t be enough. However, it’s quite challenging to do these things on a commercially viable level, and it seems that 2019 could still be too early to see the industry truly revolutionise.
Taking a collaborative approach

2019 could be the year of collaboration within collaborative telco groups and its communities, but the challenge will be in the competition and development of differing standards between these groups. As new technologies arrive, each company will be vying to define the standard. This “too many cooks” approach can create significant confusion and wipe out the benefits of collaboration.

Cloud computing companies have long benefited from collaboration on open source - one only needs to look at the number of different enterprises centred around creating products based on Linux or Kubernetes to see that open source can prove to be a viable business model. Telecoms providers should look to do the same in 2019 by making infrastructure work for everyone, improving efficiency and opening up networks for all apps on their infrastructure.

Nathan Rader is the Director of NFV Strategy at Canonical - the company behind Ubuntu

[ghaon] 13/12/2018 20:55

spekky - O2 not BT

[spekky] 13/12/2018 17:13

On this side of the pond I have been reading that BT are going to sue Ericsson for $100 million in relation to last week's 4g outage.
It's clear from your article that companies (not countries) are now suspicious of the possible enemy within..........fingers crossed we can achieve a trusted supplier status.

[fse] 13/12/2018 15:54

Actually its a bit of an eye opener as Softbank say they will replace Huawei 4 G gear with Ericsson and Nokia who make the hardware. The chips and software solutions for 5G are likely to come from you know where and these are all companies that have worked together in the past. Will the likes of Nokia be guided by what Telco advise them this time around.
All a bit speculative at the moment but ARM/Telco looking to move into a rather nice position ........

[spekky] 13/12/2018 15:33

LOL....Sometimes life is just too illogical :-)

[fse] 13/12/2018 15:22

Hey spekky this one is definitely for you !!!!



Softbank own ARM..

[fse] 12/12/2018 15:26

>spekky..... lot of people asking the same question. Telco systems were in the past one of the few trusted companies to even be able to bid on the US rural initiatives program to bring internet services to remote US locations.
It should be a benefit to them stateside and hopefully they can remain at arms length elsewhere ;-)

[red army] 12/12/2018 13:44

Hoping 55p next stop.

[mr hangman] 12/12/2018 13:33

Looks like all the top slicers from the Simon Thompson article have now done their business, onwards and upwards

[spekky] 11/12/2018 19:10

"With nearly 30%-unit share, and growing, we are the infrastructure architecture of choice. It’s with this momentum that we’ve decided to invest more deeply and build upon our successes."

That's from ARM blog....



That's a pretty big share of the market and I'm sure it should get bigger with whole countries now suspicious of Huawei and China in general.

[fse] 10/12/2018 16:59

amen to that statement !

clip below is an example as to how NFVTime works in actual client deployment

[cbeadle] 10/12/2018 09:53

The market seems really slow to wake up to the potential of Telco

[james dean] 08/12/2018 08:59

Thanks reeltime

The company is looking more exciting every time one reads something like this.

Other parts of the group are also making headway with development.

AIMHO of course.

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[reeltime] 07/12/2018 22:23

Arm tries to become a power house in the datacenter market that has been historically dominated by x86. This is why Telco Systems has been selected as a strategic component for Arm’s new Neoverse cloud-to-edge infrastructure......

Telco Systems NFVTime uCPE solution to serve as virtualization infrastructure for Arm Neoverse
December 6, 2018 Raanan Tzemach

The recent launch of Arm’s new Neoverse line of technologies powering the infrastructure from the core datacenter to the network edge is aimed at strengthening the position of Arm in a market that has been historically dominated by x86.

Neoverse will enable a new and transformative cloud infrastructure designed to support the demands of intelligent devices. The datacenter infrastructure IP portfolio represents the first time that Arm, which is a key player in providing chip technology to the phones and devices market, tries to become a power house in the datacenter market.

As part of the new move, Telco Systems has been selected as a strategic component for Arm’s new Neoverse cloud-to-edge infrastructure. According to Arm, the Neoverse chip designs are tuned for infrastructure products. They’ll accommodate up to 256 processing cores, faster memory interfaces, reliability features, chip-to-chip interconnects, and virtual machine technology to squeeze more work out of computing hardware.

The new infrastructure will also include a broad ecosystem to enable diverse solutions through innovation for microarchitecture, hardware, software, tools and services.

Building the cloud to edge infrastructure foundation for a world of one trillion intelligent devices will require a broad ecosystem with the technology, expertise, and commitment to transform the internet.

Telco Systems’ NFVTime is a holistic solution for Network functions virtualization (NFV) universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) edge compute. The NFVTime-OS provides the NFVi virtualization software that can turn any Arm or x86-based whitebox device into a carrier-class uCPE, running any virtual network function.

NFVTime includes a uCPE management and orchestration (MANO) that supports zero touch provisioning, deployment automation and services lifecycle management capabilities. The NFVTime solution is optimized to run in the Arm environment utilizing its unique acceleration and security capabilities.

Telco Systems will benefit from the fact that a powerhouse like Arm selected the company as a strategic component of its Neoverse initiative. The move is in line with Telco Systems overall strategy of expanding the company’s offerings, to enable customers enjoy new technologies that deliver higher performance at lower costs as well as an innovative business ecosystem for greater agility to support new business models.

Earlier this year, Telco Systems and Arm announced that the two companies signed a strategic investment and joint development agreement. As part of this collaboration, Telco Systems and Arm are working together to expand the technology partner ecosystem, customer pipeline and other go-to-market activities for the newly developed offerings.

Telco Systems and Arm are focusing on developing NFV virtualization and operational software to support NFV use cases, such as software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN), security and others.

The two companies are also creating an ecosystem for system on chip (SoC) vendors, such as Marvell, Cavium and NXP, white box vendors, virtual network function (VNF) providers and leading service providers.

The partnership between the two companies has already been translated into several requests by leading service providers placing Telco Systems at the forefront of market development in the field of network function virtualization.

[spekky] 06/12/2018 18:14

It's been interesting to see how folk react to not being able to use their smartphones.....O2 say it's a software issue.Separately I have read an article saying that British Telecom is taking all Huawei kit out of the network....it does make one think something else is going on.....whether Arm/Telco may benefit (eventually) who knows?

[car1pet] 06/12/2018 16:41

The FTSE is following the US and is down 3.3% at the close so all shares are down. There are a number of factors impacting the markets at the moment. Could fall further or could rise. There has been talk of a market correction of 10% so maybe this is it

[mr hangman] 06/12/2018 14:34

This looks over sold to me

[fse] 06/12/2018 13:31

5g is a different animal and utilizes a much larger array of antennae and satellites it ought to be more robust in usage. We are moving to a technically controlled world whether we like it or not.AI and robotics all need to compute on the edge in actual time. Quantum solutions will be employed with hardware and communications systems that can handle the requirements.

We have theoretically understood this for some time we lacked the tools to see it through. Not saying that we won’t get in a pickle with this but point is it’s happening

[spekky] 06/12/2018 11:15

The 4g outage is causing problems everywhere.....the implications of a future 5g outage could be catastrophic for autonomous vehicles for example.