MAVENIR WELCOMES O-RAN ALLIANCE REPORT FOR SPECTRUM AGGREGATION IN MULTI-VENDOR DEPLOYMENTS

New technical report – initiated and led by Mavenir – evaluates an open interface specification support between DUs for carrier aggregation in multi-vendor deployments

RICHARDSON, Texas, Oct 30 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mavenir, the cloud-native network infrastructure provider building the future of networks, today welcomes the publication of a new Technical Report by the O-RAN ALLIANCE, ‘Spectrum Aggregation for Multi-Vendor Deployments’, that evaluates multiple spectrum aggregation techniques and proposes an open interface specification support between DUs for carrier aggregation in multi-vendor deployments.

The O-RAN ALLIANCE report – which was initiated and led by Mavenir – sets out the practical scenarios for spectrum aggregation across equipment from multiple network equipment vendors comparing different approaches and includes a recommendation for specification development for carrier aggregation in multi-vendor RAN deployment. The carrier aggregation solution using an open interface between DUs has gathered significant support from operators and vendors to pursue specification development within the O-RAN ALLIANCE.

Commenting on the report, Dr. Sridhar Rajagopal, Senior Vice President, Access Technologies for Mavenir and rapporteur for the technical report, said: “This report from the O-RAN ALLIANCE, with its welcome set of recommendations on multi-vendor carrier aggregation, could not come at a more pivotal time for Open RAN as spectrum discussions continue for expanding 5G deployments and with 6G on the horizon. Standardizing the interface between DUs for multi-vendor carrier aggregation will remove single vendor stickiness and will be a game changer for Open RAN.” 

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THREDD RELEASES EXPERT GUIDE FOR U.S. ISSUANCE VIA BIN SPONSORSHIP

Developed for new market entrants, the 22-page report provides important facts and expert insights to inform a journey to the American payments sector.

LONDON, Oct 23 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Thredd, a leading next-generation global payments processor, today released “Launching in America. A guide to issuing via BIN sponsorship.” a complimentary report for programme managers and fintechs considering expansion into the American payments market.

Filled with important facts and expert insights into the challenges and requirements faced by foreign entities, the guide is a must-have for global payments executives and any organisation considering bringing their payments-related value proposition to the U.S.

“Entering the U.S. payments market can be challenging. Having successfully helped our clients make the journey, we've created this guide to share some of the key facts and learnings,” said Jim McCarthy, CEO of Thredd. "Passporting programmes into the U.S. is complex, but with a well-considered plan, forward-thinking organisations can rapidly expand their business.”

Contents of the guide include:

· Why the American market?
· Current regulatory and business climate
· Key parties and their roles
· Requirements and due diligence
· Evaluating and being evaluated by BIN sponsors
· Definitions, checklists and regulatory primers
· Go to market
· Takeaways
 

To download a free copy of the guide, visit https://bit.ly/Launching-in-America.

About Thredd:

Thredd is the trusted next-gen payments processing partner for innovators looking to modernise their payments offerings worldwide. We process billions of debit, prepaid and credit transactions annually, serving over 100 fintechs, digital banks, and embedded finance providers, from consumer to corporate, across 44 countries.

Thredd’s unique offering is its client-centric approach, combining hands-on support with modern, reliable, and scalable technology. Thredd’s assured solution accelerates the development and delivery of consumer and corporate payments components embedded within digital banks, as well as for expense management, B2B payments, crypto, lending, credit, Buy Now Pay Later (“BNPL”), FX, remittance, and open banking innovators. By partnering with our clients from concept to creation with our easily configurable solutions, we allow these leaders the agility to achieve their core business aspirations.

Thredd has enabled market leaders since 2007 and has a highly reliable platform with 99.99% availability. Thredd’s highly customisable solutions on our API-first platform, surrounded by our in-depth industry expertise, value-added services, global presence, and technical resilience, are designed to scale with ease. Thredd is certified by Visa and Mastercard to process transactions globally and has branded offices in London, Newcastle, Singapore, and Sydney, with remote colleagues based all over the world.

 

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Xsolla Certified Parental Controls Solution Addresses Compliance, Safety Challenges

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 24 (Bernama) -- Xsolla, a global video game commerce company, has introduced its Parental Controls solution which is now certified with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA) and GDPR-K badges.

Xsolla’s enhanced Parental Controls offer game developers an integrated solution to safeguard young gamers while enabling parents to manage and control their children's access to digital payments, ensuring secure transactions.

Sharing his thoughts on the release, Xsolla Chief Product Officer, Fintech, Anton Zelenin said the company believed that creating a safe and secure environment for young gamers is essential.

“Our COPPA-certified Parental Controls empower parents and developers by ensuring transparency and safety in gaming transactions. We are committed to helping developers meet regulatory requirements while providing peace of mind to families,” he said in a statement.

As developers begin to embrace direct-to-consumer strategies, such as web shops, to complement platform sales, they face new challenges around compliance. While platforms manage many regulatory issues, games sold directly to consumers must navigate complexities that platforms previously shielded them from.

Adhering to legal standards like COPPA and GDPR to fulfil jurisdictional requirements in every market highlights the rising demand for effective parental control solutions.

In response to the growing demand, especially on platforms where younger players are more vulnerable to excessive spending, Xsolla, following its partnership with PRIVO just last year, has developed a robust suite of Parental Control tools.

Xsolla Parental Controls key features include age gating to protect minors from unauthorised transactions; guardian consent and real-time notifications and approval, allowing guardians to receive instant email or SMS notifications to approve or reject transactions initiated by minors; comprehensive transaction history; and spending limits.

The solution empowers game developers to comply with global regulations while giving parents enhanced visibility and control over in-game transactions. By integrating this feature, Xsolla addresses critical concerns about protecting children from unauthorised or excessive purchases, fostering a safer gaming environment for families worldwide.

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TOSHIBA RELEASES AUTOMOTIVE PHOTORELAY WITH OUTPUT WITHSTAND VOLTAGE OF 900V, HOUSED IN A SMALL PACKAGE

 

-Suitable for 400V automotive battery systems-

KAWASAKI, Japan, Oct 24 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has launched “TLX9150M,” an automotive photorelay^[1] with an output withstand voltage of 900V (min) that is highly suitable for application in 400V automotive batteries. The new photorelay is housed in a small SO12L-T package. Volume shipments start today.

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Electric vehicles (EVs) are using ever higher capacity and higher voltage batteries to improve cruising range and charge time, and battery management systems (BMS) to constantly monitor and manage the battery to maximize life and performance. They also monitor the isolation between the battery and the vehicle body to ensure safety. In BMS that must handle high voltages, electrically isolated photorelays are used.

Photorelays commonly used in battery systems must have a withstand voltage approximately twice that of the system voltage; an output withstand voltage of over 800V is necessary for a 400V system. TLX9150M is suitable for 400V systems as it has an output withstand voltage of 900V. It also uses the new SO12L-T package, which is 25% smaller^[2] than Toshiba's SO16L-T package. This helps to miniaturize the battery unit and allows cost reduction. The pin pitch and pin layout are the same as those of the SO16L-T, enabling a common circuit board pattern design.

Notes:
[1] In photorelays, the primary (control) side and the secondary (switch) side are electrically isolated. Switches connected directly to the AC line and switches between equipment that differ in ground potential can be controlled through insulating barriers.
[2] Comparison of SO16L-T package size (10.3×10.0×2.45 mm) with SO12L-T package size (7.76×10.0×2.45 mm).

Applications

Automotive equipment

• Battery management systems: battery voltage monitoring, mechanical relay sticking detection, ground fault detection, etc.
• Replacement of mechanical relays

Features

• Output withstand voltage: V_OFF=900V(min)
• Normally open (1-Form-A) device
• Avalanche current rating: IAV=0.6mA
• High isolation voltage: 5000Vrms (min)
• AEC-Q101 qualified
• Compliant with IEC 60664-1 International Standard

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JUMIO’S PATENT COUNT EXCEEDS 300, REINFORCING POSITION IN IDENTITY SOLUTIONS

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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 (Bernama) -- Jumio, an automated, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven identity verification, risk signals and compliance solutions provider, announced it has more than 300 issued patents and patent applications.

The strength of Jumio’s global Internet Protocol (IP) portfolio spans nearly 100 unique patent families and further accelerates the company’s vision of eradicating identity theft and leveraging AI, biometrics, machine learning, liveness detection, authentication and anti-spoofing technology.

Jumio chief executive officer, Robert Prigge said these newest developments put the company in an even stronger position to evolve and maintain its position as the leader in identity solutions.

“Our ever-growing IP portfolio represents our continued investment and dedication to innovation. We have the best and brightest talent in the industry as is evidenced by the robust pipeline of patentable ideas coming from our employees,” he said in a statement.

Jumio pioneered the ID + selfie approach to identity verification, has processed over one billion transactions and enables organisations to orchestrate the customer identity lifecycle with a single, unified platform supporting more than 5,000 ID types in over 200 countries and territories.

Leveraging the unmatched global coverage, scale and size of its data network, Jumio is able to drive smarter verification and fraud detection decisions, all to provide industry-leading catch rates with fewer false positives.

Jumio’s patent programme encourages innovation and creativity among employees.

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Augment Threat Models With AI-assistant Jeff - IriusRisk

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 (Bernama) -- IriusRisk, the industry-leading platform for automated threat modelling, has launched ‘Jeff: AI Assistant’, a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool that can help developers and architects generate threat models from images.

The new feature is the latest development in IriusRisk’s expansion into AI, a move which helped to deliver more than 50 per cent annual recurring revenue (ARR) growth last year, according to a statement.

‘Jeff’ is a world-first in that it is the only automated secure-by-design tool that fully leverages the latest advancements in AI to produce fully functioning threat models prompted by image or text description inputs and also differs from other large language models (LLMs) as it is able to focus on extracting the most useful information from that input to generate an outline for a specific threat model.

This new tool works by harnessing AI to analyse inputs, which can range from images to transcriptions of conversations discussing an idea for a new product, and create the first draft of a tailored threat model.

This represents a landmark moment for the cybersecurity industry in that it will make the threat modelling process significantly more accessible for architects and security teams, enabling model creation and implementation at a speed and scale not seen before.

With the AI-powered technology, it takes two to three minutes to process an input and generate a preliminary threat model, which is then complete with threats, weaknesses, and countermeasures.

In addition, ‘Jeff’ users can skip several steps in the threat modelling process, significantly reducing time and making it more streamlined by helping architects and security teams to create a refined threat model quicker. This can then be run through the IriusRisk platform to build it out further.

‘Jeff’ is currently available to paying customers as well as through its free Community Edition platform, and will be constantly improved and refined as it is integrated into all IriusRisk products over the coming years.

For context, the IriusRisk platform uses threat modelling to help organisations understand the security flaws and risks in software design, automatically generating potential threats and the countermeasures to address them before a line of code is written.

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CopilotIQ, Biofourmis Merger To Create Maiden AI-driven In-home Care Platform

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 (Bernama) -- CopilotIQ, a health tech company, has announced a strategic merger with Biofourmis, a global technology-enabled care delivery company, to create the industry's first artificial intelligence (AI)-driven platform that delivers in-home care across the full spectrum from pre-surgical optimisation to acute, post-acute, and chronic care.

The newly combined entity CopilotIQ and Biofourmis Chief Executive Officer, David Koretz said the company’s mission is to redefine the future of healthcare delivery by extending care to the comfort of patients’ homes and driving improved health outcomes, at the lowest possible cost to the system.

“This merger is a major step toward realising our vision of transforming healthcare from reactive treatment to proactive prevention and from generalised to deeply personalised, data-driven care,” he said in a statement.

For customers, the combination delivers a single vendor that can provide a best-in-class offering across the entire care continuum and creates a ‘single pane of glass’ solution by which enterprise customers will enjoy observability of patients across the care continuum via one technology integration, one security audit, simplified procurement, and a much better patient experience.

Biofourmis’ capabilities in supporting health systems, payors, and life sciences companies’ delivery of complex care for their patients in the home with Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared algorithms and technology will be expanded further upstream and downstream when combined with CopilotIQ.

The combined company will unlock coordinated, convenient, and cost-effective care for patients managing chronic conditions.

In addition, CopilotIQ’s transformative software suite for driving patient engagement, improving clinician efficiency, and delivering clinical personalisation, will be integrated across Biofourmis’ acute and post-acute offerings.

As part of this combination, leading investors from both businesses, including General Atlantic, Openspace Ventures, and Bessemer Venture Partners, are investing in the combined business.

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Kioxia SSD With Flexible Data Placement Demonstrates Improvements In Lifespan, Performance

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 (Bernama) -- Kioxia Corporation is showcasing and demonstrating the benefits of a KIOXIA XD Series SSD equipped with Flexible Data Placement (FDP) functionality running the RocksDB database at the 2024 OCP Global Summit, taking place from Oct 15 to 17 in San Jose, United States of America.

The RocksDB database excels in high-performance searches through vast amounts of data and managing history data, and is widely used in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and cloud applications.

FDP is a feature defined in the NVM Express Technical Proposal TP4146 that allows flexible control of data placement within a solid-state drive (SSD), according to a statement.

By appropriately managing data placement within the SSD, while minimising changes to host software and device drivers, FDP optimisation can enhance performance and extend the lifespan of the SSD.

SSDs follow instructions from host software and device drivers for data storage and erasure. As this process is repeated, data reallocation may occur within the SSD, potentially leading to reduced access speed and unnecessary consumption of flash memory write cycles, especially when data reallocation occurs frequently.

Leveraging FDP can help mitigate potential data reallocation, maximising the performance and lifespan of the SSD.

The demonstration at OCP Global Summit shows FDP functionality in a KIOXIA XD Series Data Center NVMe SSD and a Kioxia developed plugin, a small programme that extends functionality in an application enabling FDP capability, and tested with RocksDB.

Thorough testing and evaluation have resulted in approximately three times the lifespan improvement and approximately 1.8 times the performance for the RocksDB application in an FDP-enabled system, compared to a traditional system utilising conventional SSDs and file system.

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H2O.AI AND SINGTEL DIGITAL INFRACO'S RE:AI FORGE PARTNERSHIP TO DELIVER GENERATIVE AI-AS-A-SERVICE

Brings together one of Asia’s leading digital infrastructure providers with the world’s leading Generative and Predictive AI to spur economic growth


HIGHLIGHTS:
 

• H2O.ai and Singtel Digital InfraCo’s RE:AI partner to bring sovereign AI for private, protected data.
• H2O.ai full stack AI software to be offered as a service on Singtel Digital InfraCo’s AI Cloud to reduce time to develop AI applications for public sector and commercial enterprise customers.
• The combined AI- and GPU-as-a-Service will offer customers a full stack cost-effective AI platform as a service bundled with powerful and state of the art GPU infrastructure from Singtel AI cloud, for Generative and Predictive AI to address a wide range of robust Document AI business use cases.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct 10 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- H2O.ai, the leader in open-source Generative AI and the most accurate Predictive AI platform, today announced a strategic partnership with Singtel’s Digital InfraCo to bring Generative AI-as-a-Service (GenAIaaS) to organizations across APAC. This partnership brings together H2O.ai's best-in-class Generative and Predictive AI with Singtel AI cloud’s powerful and secure GPU infrastructure to deliver a sovereign GenAI platform for private and public sector organizations with strict data protection needs.

H2O.ai Generative AI software suite will be integrated with Singtel’s Paragon platform that powers Singtel AI Cloud, to enable customers to reduce time to develop and deploy AI use cases with optimal total cost of ownership (TCO). Customers can skip the complexity and risk of building their own RAG and benefit from a robust, built-in enterprise multimodal agentic RAG through Enterprise h2oGPTe offered as an AI service on Singtel’s AI cloud powered by Singtel Paragon platform.

Singtel, an existing customer of H2O.ai, is expanding to offer H2O.ai full stack AI service to be integrated with Singtel Paragon platform to offer an “AI as a service” offering on Singtel GPU cloud. The unified AI as a Service solution that bundles the needed GPU infrastructure will offer customers a cost-efficient full stack AI platform for Generative and Predictive AI to address a wide range of robust Document AI business use cases.

Every nation needs to be an AI nation. Public servants and ministries worldwide need their sovereign AI agencies to fulfill their missions with great outcomes. To address both local and continental needs, nations must find economical ways to take AI from pilots to production.

AI will transform the GDP of the world and every nation and community by amplifying the economic output of the population with AI agents. With the right AI infrastructure, nations of any size can leverage AI to create significant growth and transform their economies.

Public servants and all ministries worldwide need their own GPTs and sovereign AI to fulfill their missions with great outcomes and serve their people and communities.

Our partnership with RE:AI represents the future of Generative AI—purpose-led, SLMs on protected data, open source, secure, hybrid and ubiquitous on the edge at a fraction of the economic cost for training and inference.

“H2O.ai is home to the world’s best AI talent with more Kaggle Grandmasters than any company or continent. With our open source community, partnership ecosystem and unique mindset of co-creation with customers we are transforming large banks, telcos and public sector by leveraging their data, upskilling their people, and building custom GenAI and Predictive AI for solving problems and bettering life of citizens globally,” says Sri Ambati, Founder and CEO of H2O.ai.

“As organizations move toward AI-driven solutions, our partnership with H2O.ai ensures that they have access to state-of-the-art Generative AI solutions developed on RE:AI’s cloud platform. Together, we’re enabling businesses to innovate faster, enhance customer experiences, and optimize internal operations with the power of AI,” says Bill Chang, CEO of Singtel Digital InfraCo.

In addition to the SingtelGPT products, H2O.ai has developed the H2O Danube3 series of small language models (SLMs), specifically designed for on-device, offline use cases. Trained on 100 H100 GPUs using a proprietary dataset of 6 trillion tokens, Danube3-4B and 0.5B models outperform Apple’s OpenELM-3B and 0.5B instruct models in key benchmarks. These open-weight SLMs offer developers economical options for fine-tuning their own AI applications. H2O.ai plans to release a series of multimodal SLMs in the coming weeks to further expand its AI offerings.

This collaboration between H2O.ai and Digital InfraCo marks a major step forward in bringing secure, scalable Generative AI-as-a-Service to organizations across APAC while ensuring data sovereignty and compliance.

About H2O.ai

Founded in 2012, H2O.ai is at the forefront of the AI movement to democratize Generative AI. H2O.ai’s open-source Generative AI and Enterprise h2oGPT, combined with Document AI and the award-winning autoML Driverless AI, have transformed more than 20,000 global organizations and over half of the Fortune 500, including AT&T, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Chipotle, ADP, Workday, Progressive Insurance, and AES. H2O.ai’s AI for Good program supports nonprofit groups, foundations, and communities in advancing education, healthcare, and environmental conservation. With a vibrant community of 2 million data scientists worldwide, H2O.ai is on a mission to co-create AI applications that are valuable to all users.

H2O.ai has fundraised $256 million from investors including Commonwealth Bank, Nvidia, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Capital One, Nexus Ventures and New York Life.

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Trilliant's Analytics As A Service Empowers Utilities Worldwide To Leverage Collected Data

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8 (Bernama) -- Trilliant has introduced Analytics as a Service (AaaS), a new offering that enables utilities worldwide to further leverage data by providing deeper insights and understanding of that data at Enlit Asia 2024.

With AaaS from Trilliant, information gathered from data collection tools is deeply analysed to enable forecasting, increase the management of resources, and better predict outcomes, among others.

According to Trilliant in a statement, this improved analysis leads to greater automation of processes, enhanced decision-making, and reduced energy loss, among other benefits.

“With AaaS, utilities have the ability to more accurately collect information and use it to automate models and forecasting, saving them time and improving decision-making,” said Trilliant Global Vice President, Product Management, Greg Myers.

AaaS is a subscription-based, cloud-independent platform comprising all of Trilliant’s analytical artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning offerings.

Acting as a data scientist, AaaS complements and augments the capabilities of data sources, such as Trilliant’s Prime Energy Suite; its Unity Suite Head End System (HES) software platform; or other third-party tools.

Data models and results from these source applications are consumed in AaaS, transforming them into information that supports intelligent decision-making and actions.

In the case of a utility that wants to improve its non-technical loss (NTL) detection, AaaS can be deployed to routinely pull data from any data source such as Trilliant’s own Prime Energy Suite databases or third-party software, hence providing a more accurate and detailed analysis.

An international provider of solutions for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), smart grid, smart cities and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Trilliant empowers the global energy industry with the only device-agnostic communications platform that enables utilities and cities to deploy any application securely and reliably on one powerful network.

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Mavenir’s 5G UPF Solution Bags Leading Lights Network Energy Efficiency Award

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 3 (Bernama) -- Mavenir, the cloud-native network infrastructure provider, has won the Leading Lights Network Energy Efficiency Award for its Energy-Efficient 5G User Plane Function (UPF) solution.

Mavenir President, Core Networks, Ashok Khuntia said this award underscores the value of strategic collaborations and the integration of the company’s ‘green by design’ advanced technologies in driving industry-wide progress and sustainability.

“We have not only demonstrated significant energy savings and performance improvements for 5G core networks but have also set a new standard for energy-efficient network infrastructure,” he said in a statement.

Delivering substantial energy savings, operational efficiency, and enhanced performance for its mobile network operator customers, Mavenir has demonstrated remarkable success with its UPF solution.

With a significant 40 per cent power saving even under the most demanding conditions, such as a 100 per cent traffic load, this impressive efficiency is due in part to Mavenir's utilisation of NVIDIA ASAP2 Accelerated Switching & Packet Processing technology, which allows Mavenir to accelerate the UPF- data plane on NVIDIA solutions and plays a pivotal role in conserving power.

Mavenir's cloud-native architecture seamlessly integrates with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNIC acceleration technology, and this powerful combination allows customers to enjoy the dual benefits of enhanced power efficiency and high-performance packet processing.

Its solution also enables a small footprint UPF at the edge, reducing latency, improving local data processing, and minimising operational costs. The innovative architecture, coupled with advanced technologies, ensures that Mavenir's customers can achieve significant energy savings and operational efficiencies.

The Leading Light Network Energy Efficiency Award is given to the company that has helped a network operator best improve the energy efficiency of its networks by retiring or consolidating infrastructure, using modern software and equipment, and adopting more data-driven operations, among others.

The Leading Lights Awards is Light Reading's flagship awards programme, now in its 20th year, recognises the top companies and their executives for outstanding achievements in the global communications industry, presenting an exceptional snapshot of the technology, applications, services and innovation that help telecom, cable and cloud providers stand out.

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