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• US high-yield bonds: junkyard dogs

  15-11-2017 19:32 via ft.com
  Stock investors better start paying closer attention
  
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• Don’t hold your breath for 5G new revenue streams – Northstream

  15-11-2017 18:36
  As we get closer to the arrival of 5G there are growing calls to chill out on the hype and be honest about the benefits its can realistically be expected to bring.
  In an interview with Telecoms.com Bengt Nordstrom, CEO of telecoms consultancy Northstream, warned that not only is 5G likely to roll out slowly, but the benefits to CSPs will be mainly in the form of efficiencies rather than sexy new revenue streams.
  “We are at a paradigm shift in the telecom industry where we, for the first ti
  
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• Altice to pull back on acquisitions and focus on cutting debt

  15-11-2017 18:25 via ft.com
  Telecoms group tries to restore calm after recent collapse in share price
  
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• We’ll connect a billion cows to the internet – Huawei CEO

  15-11-2017 16:40
  Headline chasing aside Huawei Rotating CEO Ken Hu, speaking at the MBBF 2017 event, did have a point; the future isn’t that glum when you count how many things there are to connect out there.
  After years of euphoria built on the transition from feature phones to the smartphone, trends have hit a bit of a wall. Hu highlighted that 120 countries around the world have greater than 100% smartphone penetration, but the infrastructure in the remaining ones if far too underdeveloped to make
  
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• Calix AXOS Accelerates Past 100 Gfast Service Provider Deployments

  15-11-2017 15:27
  AXOS-enabled innovations allow industry-leading Calix Gfast portfolio to pull away from pack, bringing the industry’s only symmetrical gigabit solutions over copper and coax to MDUsPETALUMA, CA – November 15, 2017 – Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced it has accelerated past the 100 service provider deployment milestone for its industry-leading AXOS Gfast solutions faster than any other vendor. Armed with Calix AXOS Gfast solutions, which simplify the delivery of new servi
  
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• ERA confirms compliance for Hit Rail’s Path Request Web App for train operations across Europe

  15-11-2017 14:48
  Brussels, 15 November 2017 – Hit Rail’s H20 Path Request tool, one of its new services designed to enable railways to meet the European Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI) , has been verified by the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) as fully compliant. This opens the way for rail organisations to streamline their processes for handling path requests across Europe without needing to invest the resources to develop their own TSI tools.Created as a...Source: RealW
  
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• EE and Huawei show off 5G network architecture with all the bells and whistles

  15-11-2017 14:14
  A UK lab showcase by EE using Huawei kit is laying claim to a breakthrough in end-to-end 5G network architecture testing.
  The demo featured a host of 5G buzzword name-dropping. It’s being positioned as a major step forward for NFV as the core network is fully virtualized on commercial-off-the-shelf hardware. EE claims to have managed consistent download speeds of 2.8 Gbps with the help of a 5G NR 64×64 Massive MIMO active antenna using the 3.5 GHz test spectrum band.
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• We need to stop talking 5G BS – Vodafone CTO

  15-11-2017 14:10
  Brutal honesty in an industry that usually flirts with the line between science and fiction; Vodafone’s CTO Johan Wibergh begged for sanity from the telco heavy weights.
  “We have a tendency to overhype things,” said Wibergh, in an almost ironic delivery.
  More specifically, Wibergh focused his talk at the Global Mobile Broadband Forum on two areas which he believes the industry needs to focus on. Firstly, is the idea of the efficiency gains which can be achieved through 5G netwo
  
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• Bwtech wins Outstanding Analytics Solution award at AfricaCom 2017

  15-11-2017 13:47
  Cape Town, South Africa, November 15th, 2017 - Bwtech is happy to announce that NetChart, their E2E Network Optimization platform, has won the award of Outstanding Data Management / Analytics Solution at AfricaCom 2017. This is the third award Bwtech has received globally in the last 12 months and once more certifies the excellence of their Optimization platform, NetChart.NetChart, is a single user interface, cloud-based, multi-vendor and multi-technology, real-time, monitoring and optimisation
  
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• TalkTalk shares hit by £75 million loss and weak outlook

  15-11-2017 13:19
  UK telecoms group TalkTalk saw its shares drop significantly upon announcing a negative set of half-yearly earnings.
  The data-points most troubling to investors will have been a loss before tax of £75 million, which compares especially poorly with a £30 million profit in the same period last year. To add to the gloom EBITDA was down to £95 million from £144 million a year ago and the company is guiding that full-year EBITDA will be at the low end of guidance.
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• Restructuring costs push TalkTalk to first-half loss

  15-11-2017 11:40 via ft.com
  Shares drop more than 10% after telecoms group warns full-year profits will be hit
  
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• Synchronoss Completes Sale of Intralinks to Siris Capital Group

  15-11-2017 03:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. ("Synchronoss" or the "Company")(NASDAQ:SNCR), a global leader and innovator of cloud, messaging anddigital transformation products, today announced that it has completedthe sale of its wholly owned subsidiary Intralinks Holdings, Inc.("Intralinks") to an investment fund affiliated with Siris CapitalGroup, LLC ("Siris"). As previously announced, on October 17, 2017,investment funds affiliated with Siris signed an agreement to acquireall of the stock of Intralinks f
  
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• U.S. Cellularandrsquo;s CruiseConnect Keeps Families and Businesses Safe and Connected While On-the-Go

  15-11-2017 01:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  U.S. Cellular customers can easily manage their vehicles and keep tabson the safety of their drivers using CruiseConnect, aneasy-to-install vehicle connectivity device developed by ZTE andaccompanying mobile app developed by Modus. CruiseConnect offers safetynotifications for families, serves as a fleet management tool forbusinesses and turns any vehicle into a Wi-Fi hotspot. Now available inU.S. Cellular stores and uscellular.com,the CruiseConnect device and service can be easily added to any U
  
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• Together for Safer Roads Launches Global Program to Support Entrepreneurs Driven to Save Lives

  15-11-2017 01:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today at the NYC4th Annual Vision Zero Fleets Safety Forum, Together for Safer Roads(TSR) launched its Global Entrepreneur Program (GEP). Through the GEP,TSR is connecting early-stage companies with road safety experts atmultinational corporations and universities to reimagine solutions thatreduce crashes and fatalities on the world's roads. Three companies -HAAS Alert, Ouster, and Zendrive - were chosen as the charter members ofthe program.Click here for more.
  
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• SC17: Kingston Celebrates 30 Years of Innovation in Data Performance Technology

  15-11-2017 01:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  DENVER andKingstonDigital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston TechnologyCompany, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, todayannounced demonstrations of its industry-leading server memory and NVMePCIe Flash solutions for HPC at Supercomputing2017 (booth # 489) as the company reflects on 30 years of technologyindustry leadership. At SC17, Kingston® and its partnersdemonstrate the consistent data performance and reliability of itsforthcoming DCU1000, the industry's fa
  
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• Orange Silicon Valley and Liqid Collaborate to Deliver a Fully Composable GPU Supercomputing Platform Prototype

  15-11-2017 01:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  SAN FRANCISCO andOrangeSilicon Valley (OSV) , the U.S.-basedbusiness innovation center for theglobal telecommunications provider Orange ,and LiqidInc., the leading provider of composable infrastructure solutions,today unveiled a joint demonstration regarding how next-generationgraphics processing (GPU) based supercomputing can be delivered. Poweredby Liqid composable infrastructure, the OSV-Liqid prototype is capableof providing on-demand GPU performance as a fully scalable resource. Forthe firs
  
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• New Research from the International Institute for Analytics Examines Analytics Maturity Levels in Financial Services Industry

  15-11-2017 01:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  New research released today from the InternationalInstitute for Analytics (IIA) explores the relationship betweendata-driven decision making, analytics maturity and success in thefinancial services industry. Sponsored by customer experience managementsolutions company NGDATA, thisresearch found that, while financial institutions are aware of the needto be more data-driven, they are lagging far behind digital nativecompanies in their effective use of data.Click here for more.
  
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• MACOM Reports Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2017 Financial Results

  15-11-2017 01:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MTSI) ("MACOM"), aleading supplier of high-performance RF, microwave, millimeterwave andlightwave semiconductor products, today announced its financial resultsfor its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year ended September 29, 2017.Click here for more.
  
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• LiveAction Doubles Down on Intent-Based Networking with Latest Release of LiveNX Platform

  15-11-2017 01:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  LiveAction,a provider of IT network performance management, visualization andanalytics software today announced the release of LiveNX 7. LiveNX 7features advanced management and monitoring of SD-WAN environments,event driven insights, greater visibility and reporting across thenetwork for on-premise and cloud environments, and tighter integrationwith IT service management.Click here for more.
  
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• Intelligent Waves Acquires Leading Virtual Mobile Security Technology and Associated Intellectual Property of Hypori

  15-11-2017 01:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  IntelligentWaves LLC announced today that it has acquired the VirtualMobile Infrastructure (VMI) technology and associated intellectualproperty of Austin, Texas based Hypori,Inc. The strategic purchase is a part of the company's ongoingdevelopment of its SPECTER capabilities, an obfuscation and securitytechnology solution enabling Command and Control (C2) capabilities inthe federal, intelligence, and military communities. The addition ofHypori's virtual platform will give secure, protected cloud
  
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• Telefonica offloads another 15.2% of Telxius

  15-11-2017 01:00
  Private equity firm KKR this week exercised an option to buy another 15.2% of Telefonica's infrastructure arm Telxius.Under the deal, KKR will pay &euro…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• TalkTalk swings to H1 loss, issues profit warning

  15-11-2017 01:00
  TalkTalk on Wednesday revealed it swung to a first half loss and warned that its full year earnings will come in at the low end of its guidance, as the U.K. telco seeks to further grow its customer base."When we simplified and reset the business in May we said our priorities were growth…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• EE lays claim to UK's first end-to-end 5G test

  15-11-2017 01:00
  EE on Wednesday laid claim to the U.K.'s first end-to-end 5G network test, reaching a downlink speed of 2.8 Gbps.The test saw the BT-owned mobile operator and its hardware partner Huawei combine EE's virtualised 5G core with Huawei's proof…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Broadcom hasn't given up on $130bn Qualcomm deal

  15-11-2017 01:00
  Broadcom this week said it has not given up its pursuit of Qualcomm, after the latter rejected its $130 billion takeover bid.Qualcomm on Monday said the $70-per-share cash and stock offer undervalues the company…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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