NetScout financial results
NetScout Systems reported its first quarter of results since its massive network monitoring and security acquisition from Danaher. Company president and CEO Anil Singhal said the company is pleased with its initial progress and integration work is proceeding according to plan.
Earnings per share beat analysts’ estimates, but revenues were less than analysts had predicted. Investors sent the stock down from around $40 per share prior to its earnings release on Thurday, to around $35 per share in midday trading on Friday.
NetScout’s financial results include about two and a half months of contributions from Danaher’s communications business, which NetScout bought in July for $2.3 billion. Total revenues were $261.1 million and a net loss of $7.9 million for the quarter. On its call, the company highlighted recent success in the government market for its NGeniusOne platform, as well as a multi-million dollar deal with a cable providers to monitor a Wi-Fi network with the platform. For the quarter, the company said 75% of its revenues were domestic and the rest from international sources.
-Keysight Technologies announced a research partnership for “5G” massive multiple-input/multiple-output with China Southeast University to “accelerate research progress of the massive MIMO related algorithms, system design and antenna technologies” and provide an overall boost to core 5G research in China.
Keysight said the collaboration will help the university address test and measurement issues for massive MIMO design and implementation, while letting Keysight gain technical insight into testing methodologies for the new technology – specifically, the massive antenna array as well as multi-channel phase shifters’ calibration and measurement, according to the company.
Commonly anticipated to be part of 5G technologies, massive MIMO has been the subject of some interesting discussions of late – with Tom Marzetta, co-head of FutureX Massive MIMO project at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, telling an audience at the Texas Wireless Summit the technology would render small cells useless as massive MIMO can address the issues small cells were designed to solve.
-The MIPI Alliance has new debugging specs for mobile devices, which can be used by chipset makers and device OEMs as they implement components, and were developed with an eye toward optimizing mobile systems – including remote debugging of “Internet of Things” products, according to MIPI Alliance.
“Debugging has always been an important part of mobile system development but the process has become increasingly difficult because today’s components are more complex than ever before and often embedded in system-on-chips, which prohibits the use of traditional, dedicated debug and test equipment,” said Joel Huloux, chairman of the board of MIPI Alliance, in a statement.
“The solutions … will standardize the interfaces and protocols used for debug instrumentation to make testing more convenient, reduce costs, and help companies expedite the delivery of high-performing products to mobile and mobile-influenced sectors,” Huloux added. “The solutions can also be used to tune devices for optimum performance.”
–Rohde & Schwarz expanded its MIPI-related support this week with a new option for its RTO oscilloscopes for triggering and decoding for developers who are working with the MIPI D-PHY interface.
-Spanish mobile operators Yoigo, which has about 4 million subscribers, implemented InfoVista’s end-to-end performance monitoring solution.
–Anritsu has a new waveguide mixer for millimeter wave measurement, designed as an integrated solution for its MS2830A Spectrum Analyzer/Signal Analyzer to be used for checking equipment used in E-band wireless backhaul as well as radar systems used for automobile collision avoidance in connected car applications.
