Digitalization is reaching the manufacturing sector, albeit very slowly. Less than 14% of machinery manufacturers have interconnected their machines or production systems to their corporate network, according to Industry Week. In other words, more than 86% of manufacturers have no automated interaction between their manufacturing and business systems.

Arrow Electronics announces that it has signed a distribution agreement with Siretta, the leading provider of M2M wireless products, specializing in wireless modems, cloud-based software, and M2M application solutions.

TE Connectivity (TE) has appointed Susana González as Sales Director for Europe at TE Automation & Control. Susana González, who has assumed her position with immediate effect, will be based in Darmstadt, Germany, and will report to Christian Hoess, Managing Director of A&C Sales.

In the latest edition of its updated semi-annual observatory for super-fast broadband access, IDATE, a global provider of FTTH intelligence, announces the impressive milestone of 300 million global subscriptions as of mid-June 2015. Furthermore, super-fast technologies (1) account for almost 38% of broadband access subscriptions as of mid-2015, up 8 points from a year earlier.

451 Research has published its first Foresight Report: "The Coming Revolution: 5G and its Impact on IT", available for free download, exploring the potential technological and business impact of 5G on the IT industry over the next decade.

ShoreTel® has announced the acquisition of Corvisa LLC, a provider of cloud-based communications solutions, from Novation Companies, Inc. This acquisition is expected to increase cloud revenue growth by 30% in 2017 by enhancing ShoreTel's solutions and architecture in four key areas:

TelecOcable offers two hands-on workshops on fiber optic connectorization and copper connections. These workshops are aimed at technicians and installers from companies looking to update their skills in fiber optic technology or expand their knowledge of its handling, both fiber and copper. The workshops are held in person over a 4-hour day in Madrid.

EET Europarts continues its expansion with the acquisition of the Swedish distributor, Barex AB. Just a few months after acquiring the Norwegian distributor Barex AS, and the Norwegian company CashPOS, EET Europarts has secured another strategic acquisition that will further strengthen the company's already strong position in the Nordic market.

Italtel announces the availability of its "SIP Trunking as a Service" solution, based on the NetMatch-S Session Border Controller (SBC) Cloud Inside, for enterprise customers of service providers.

Royal DSM, a global science-based company active in health, nutrition, and materials, is pleased to announce a new multi-year agreement between Corning Incorporated, a global fiber optic company, and DSM, the world's leading fiber optic coatings company, which will deliver best-in-class solutions for the telecommunications industry.

The third annual edition of AT Kearney's study of the European high-tech sector reveals that in the next ten years, the EU28 market for Internet of Things (IoT) solutions will reach 80 billion euros and its potential value to the economy could be around one trillion euros, equivalent to 7% of the EU's GDP.

Rigby Private Equity (RPE), the private investment arm of Rigby Group Investments, along with its partners Zycko and Wick Hill, has announced the opening of a new office in Vienna, Austria. This move demonstrates the commitment of both distributors and RPE to Austria, aiming to strengthen and accelerate their growth in the region.

According to KEYMILE, 2016 will see significant trends in mission-critical communications networks. These will include the implementation of extensive requirements generated by new German IT legislation, the modernization of SDH networks, the migration to Ethernet/IP, and the creation of greater efficiency in network monitoring and control.

With growth exceeding 150% in the last year and more than 10 new clients signed every week, Matooma continues its rapid development. Increasingly attracting the attention of telecommunications giants, the French company announces the addition of Telefónica to its list of international partners.

Excel Networking Solutions, a provider of copper, fiber optic and rack solutions, is pleased to announce that the Excel product range has a price database in Presto 2016, a tool that helps consultants when carrying out design and engineering projects.

The Tokyo Institute of Technology and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. have announced that, in an effort to further expand the capabilities of wireless equipment, they have developed a CMOS wireless transceiver chip that can process signals at high speed with little loss, across a wide frequency range, from 72 to 100 gigahertz (GHz).

The Experimental Hospitalization project Hospital 2050, SISENS, developed by Televés and Indra for the Galician Health Service (SERGAS) has won the award, in the ICT application category, from the “Ad Qualitatem” Foundation for the best Quality, Sustainability and Innovation initiative in the Socio-Health Sector.

Indra has won the contract to expand the ground segment of Hispasat for more than 5 million euros, with a completion deadline of January 2017. The company will prepare the ground segment to enable it to track and control the new Hispasat 1F and Amazonas 5 satellites.

HP Inc. Spain and the Hotel Technology Institute (ITH) have signed an agreement with the aim of helping Spanish hotels improve their customer service through the use of technology.

ZTE Corporation has completed the tests set by the Computing and Big Data Department of the Research Institute for IoT (Internet of Things) of China Mobile, a key step for the deployment of network function virtualization (NFV) technologies.