During Wednesday’s Current trade, Shares of Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE:ALU), lost -2.31% to $3.38.
Alcatel Lucent (ALU), and Telefónica have signed a memorandum of understanding under which the companies will test NFV (network functions virtualization) technologies as part of the operator’s strategy to evolve its networking infrastructure. The work will focus on enhancing network performance and efficiencies to support ever-growing demand for flexible connectivity.
Telefónica has already tested Alcatel-Lucent’s Virtualized Service Router in its NFV Reference Lab using the OpenMANO NFV orchestration stack. The results delivered were outstanding, reaching 100% line-rate performance which allowed data to be transported with zero losses. The companies will continue testing other elements of Alcatel-Lucent’s NFV portfolio in the coming months.
NFV offers new efficiencies and automation to simplify network operations, allowing service providers to enhance innovation and offer new revenue-generating services with a comprising high quality end-user experience, while lowering costs.
Alcatel-Lucent provides Internet protocol (IP) and cloud networking, and ultra- broadband access worldwide. The company’s Core Networking segment offers IP routing, carrier Ethernet, network functions virtualization, and software defined networking applications and infrastructure to meet the challenges of network traffic growth while supporting the delivery of cloud-enabled business, mobile, and residential services for service providers, mobile network operators, cable/multiple system operators, transportation, utilities, and large-scale enterprises.
Shares of Eli Lilly and Co (NYSE:LLY), declined -0.72% to $88.09, during its current trading session.
Eli Lilly and Co (LLY), will declare its financial results for the second quarter of 2015 on Thursday, July 23, 2015. Lilly will also conduct a conference call on that day with the investment community and media to further detail the company’s financial performance.
The conference call will start at 9 a.m. EDT. Investors, media and the general public can access a live webcast of the conference call through a link that will be posted on Lilly’s website at www.lilly.com.
Eli Lilly and Company discovers, develops, manufactures, and sells pharmaceutical products worldwide. It operates in two segments, Human Pharmaceutical Products and Animal Health products. The company offers endocrinology products to treat diabetes; osteoporosis in postmenopausal women and men; human growth hormone deficiency and pediatric growth conditions; and testosterone deficiency.
Finally, Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc (USA) (NYSE:TC), decreased -5.79 %, to $0.705.
Thompson Creek Metals Company (TC), declared production and sales results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2015. Total concentrate production for Mount Milligan for the quarter ended June 30, 2015 was 39.6 thousand dry tonnes, with 20.2 million pounds of payable copper and 59.9 thousand ounces of payable gold, which represented enhances of about 26% and 62%, respectively, from payable copper and gold production during the second quarter of 2014. Total concentrate production for Mount Milligan for the six months ended June 30, 2015 was 69.9 thousand dry tonnes, with 35.6 million pounds of payable copper and 106.0 thousand ounces of payable gold, which represented enhances of about 17% and 39%, respectively, from payable copper and gold production during the first six months of 2014.
Jacques Perron, President and Chief Executive Officer of Thompson Creek, said, “During the second quarter of 2015, we achieved our highest average daily mill throughput on a quarterly basis of 44,940 tonnes, and for May and June averaged 49,913 tonnes. Recoveries steadily improved during the quarter, averaging 85.5% for copper and 72.7% for gold. Additional operational improvements at Mount Milligan are predictable to be made during planned maintenance shutdowns later this year, which will impact mill availability. We are confident that we will continue to experience improving performance at the operation through the remainder of the year.”
Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc. engages in mining, milling, processing, and marketing of copper, gold and molybdenum products in the United States and Canada. It operates in three segments: Copper-Gold, US Operations Molybdenum, and Canadian Operations Molybdenum.
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