• This first software release represents a consolidated step towards O-RAN-compliant Radio Access Network Commercialization

• It covers initial functionality of the O-RAN unique Near Real-Time RAN Intelligent Controller, the O1 interface and the protocol stack

• With more than 1 million lines of code, the “Amber” release is the result of contributions of over 60 developers from more than 10 companies

BONN, Germany-Friday 6 December 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, the O-RAN Alliance, working with the Linux Foundation, announced the O-RAN Software Community's first software code release, “Amber”.

The goal of the O-RAN Software Community is to advance opening the Radio Access Network (RAN) with a focus on the open interfaces, followed by implementations that leverage new capabilities enabled by the O-RAN specifications.

The Amber release includes initial contributions ... Read more »

SAN DIEGO-Saturday 7 December 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), the world’s leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), has been advised that the Australian Government has selected GA-ASI’s MQ-9B SkyGuardian® variant to provide the Armed RPAS for the Australian Defence Force (ADF) under Project Air 7003. This follows the Government’s announcement in November 2018 that GA-ASI would provide Armed RPAS to the ADF. The ADF expects to take first delivery in the early 2020s.

 “We have worked closely with the ADF to determine the right RPAS to meet their needs,” said Linden Blue, CEO, GA-ASI. “MQ-9B will provide the all-weather, multi-mission support, and interoperability that the ADF requires. We look forward to working closely with our Australian industry partners to provide a highly capable RPAS to the ADF, while creating high-tech jobs in Australi ... Read more »

—PCI Contactless Payments on COTS (CPoC™) Standard Provides Security and Test Requirements for Solutions that Enable Contactless Payment Acceptance on Merchant Mobile Devices Using NFC—

LAGOS, Portugal-Saturday 7 December 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Africa Finance Corporation (“AFC” or the “Corporation”), the leading infrastructure solutions provider in Africa is pleased to announce its Joint Development Agreement (“Agreement”) with Brahms Oil Refineries Limited (“Brahms”), which is part of Brahms Group, a diversified company based in Switzerland that has a strong industrial & international finance network and an excellent knowledge of Sub-Saharan Africa, to act as co-developer on the development and subsequent financing to a petroleum storage and associated refinery project in Kamsar, Guinea. This will include a 76,000m3 crude oil storage terminal; 114,200m3 storage terminal for refined products; ancillary support transportation infrastructure, and 12,000 barrels oil per day modular refining facility (the “Project”).

Through this joint development, AFC will invest in the proj ... Read more »

- To be released on Thursday, December 5 on the official website and YouTube in 7 languages -

TOKYO-Saturday 7 December 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- As part of its activities to broadly communicate its corporate brand and “fasteners (zippers) ”, YKK Corporation(President: Hiroaki Otani; head office: Chiyoda, Tokyo; “YKK”) has created a short anime, “FASTENING DAYS 4”. “FASTENING DAYS 4” is the fourth episode to follow the series “FASTENING DAYS” (released in 2014), “FASTENING DAYS 2” (2016), and “FASTENING DAYS 3” (2017), which have hit a total 30.6 million plays in Japan and abroad. Starting December 5 (Thu), it will become available for global release on YKK’s official YouTube channel (URL: https://www.youtube.com/user/YKKfastening), on the special site (URL: http://www.ykkfastening.com/fd/), and on YOUKU (URL: http://i.youku.com/u/UMTgzMTA0NzM0NA) in ... Read more »