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FirstNews Briefs: NetScout, Accenture, GSMA, Alcatel-Lucent, KT

By Wireless Week staff | October 13, 2014

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NetScout Systems, Inc., a provider of performance analytics and operational intelligence solutions, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Communications business of Danaher Corporation, comprising Tektronix Communications, Arbor Networks, and certain parts of Fluke Networks. Under the terms of the transaction, Danaher shareholders will receive approximately 62.5 million shares of NetScout common stock, which values the transaction at $2.6 billion based on NetScout’s closing price of $41.91 on October 10, 2014.

Accenture today announced that it has created its first solution in a suite of solutions to help life sciences companies improve customer and patient engagement leveraging cloud, social and mobile technologies. The first solution, the Accenture Connected Physician Solution, offers physicians a way to access disease, treatment and product information. It provides doctors with training and gives them the opportunity to collaborate in real time with fellow doctors and medically trained pharmaceutical experts.

The GSMA announced the publication of guidelines for the Internet of Things (IoT) market that outline how devices and applications should communicate via mobile networks in the most intelligent and efficient way. The report, ‘IoT Device Connection Efficiency Guidelines,’ has received the backing of leading mobile operators including AT&T, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, KT Corporation, Orange, NTT DOCOMO, Tata Teleservices Ltd., Telefónica, Telenor Connexion and VimpelCom as well as ecosystem partners including Sierra Wireless and Jasper

Alcatel-Lucent has signed a technical collaboration agreement with KT, the largest communication service provider in Korea, to drive the adoption of a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)-based infrastructure.


Filed Under: Infrastructure, IoT • IIoT • internet of things • Industry 4.0

 

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