Spirent’s communications division particularly helped the company’s impressive performance, doubling its operating profits and accounting for almost three quarters of the group’s overall operating profit.
Despite the bleaker conditions in the telecoms sector and the string of recent profit warnings, the company maintains an upbeat outlook. We believe our customers will concentrate increasingly on next generation high speed networks to remain competitive. We are uniquely positioned to meet their critical needs on a global basis, Nicholas Brookes, the company’s chief executive was reported as saying.