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 Expands Mavenir’s 5G Reach into Private LTE and IoT 

RICHARDSON, Texas-Wednesday, August 2nd 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mavenir Systems, Inc. (“Mavenir”) the leader in accelerating and redefining network transformation for Communication Service Providers (CSPs), announced today that it has acquired assets associated with the Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) product family from Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (“Brocade”). This acquisition extends Mavenir’s leadership in network transformation and enhances its next-generation core network with a feature-rich, virtualized evolved packet core, expanded customer base, and advanced network slicing capabilities important to 5G architectures. The transaction includes all associated Intellectual Property (IP) including 22 granted and pending patents, a research and development facility in Mumbai, India and associated customer support and maintenance contracts. ... Read more »

 - Award-winning paper details three strategic applications of data analytics in the cloud -

LONDON-Wednesday, August 2nd 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In its 50th year, the IBC Conference is still built around the technical papers programme, with the most influential paper in the programme winning the IBC Conference Prize. This year, the award goes to Marcelo Souza and his colleagues Joāo Castellani, Daniel Monteiro and Carlos Octávio Quieroz from Brazilian broadcaster, TV Globo, for their paper entitled ‘Big data for data journalism, enhanced business analytics and video recommendation at Globo’.

TV Globo has moved to bring data analytics into the core operations of the business and revolutionising their working practices. The paper details three ways in which the company is processing massive amounts of data to achieve its business goals. Using data hosting and processing in the Amazon Web Services cloud, the solutio ... Read more »

TOKYO -Tuesday, August 1st 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today that researchers at the Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Department of Anesthesiology, in Japan have published a study investigating the measurement of respiration rate in volunteers. Masimo acoustic respiration rate (Masimo), using the Masimo Radical-7® Pulse CO-Oximeter®, was studied alongside Nellcor plethysmographic respiration rate (Nellcor), using the Nellcor PM1000N.1

Dr. Kitsiripant and colleagues enrolled 50 healthy adult volunteers in the study. Respiration rate, pulse rate, and oxygen saturation (SpO2) values were measured using the two technologies: Nellcor respiration rate, pulse rate, and SpO2 on PM1000N (version 2.0.20.0) were measured using an SpO2 adhesive sensor on the left index finger; Masimo respiration rate on Radical-7 (V.7910, processor V1.3.06i) was measured using the RAS-125c (rev D) acoustic sensor on the left ... Read more »

 Justice, Bastille, Guckkasten, Charli XCX, Dua Lipa, DNCE, 5 Seconds of Summer, Idiotape and more

INCHEON, South Korea-Wednesday, August 2nd 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The final lineup for 2017 Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival which will kick off on August 11 has been announced.

The lineup includes Bastille, Justice, Dua Lipa, Charli XCX, DNCE and Swanky Dank. They have made rock fans go wild at world-famous festivals. Some 80 popular acts from the host country will also join the event.

The distinct features of this year’s lineup are popularity, musicality and uniqueness. The roster of acts for Incheon Pentaport is nothing like the bills at other festivals.

On Friday, August 11, Dua Lipa, an English singer who won NME Award for Best New Artist in 2017, and Her Name In Blood, an energetic Japanese metalcore band, will start off Incheon Pentaport.

On Saturday, August 12, Bastille will hit the stage as the headliner. ... Read more »

Visa Ready program simplifies onboarding for small and medium-sized merchants who want to deploy QR code digital payments

SAN FRANCISCO-Wednesday, August 2nd 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today Visa (NYSE:V) announced its support of the new global QR Code Payment Specifications from EMVCo, the global technical body that manages the EMV Specifications. The specifications cover consumer-presented and merchant-presented QR code use cases for digital payment acceptance. QR codes are two-dimensional machine-readable barcodes, used to facilitate mobile payments at the point-of-sale.

Visa and the other EMVCo Members worked to develop these new globally interoperable EMV specifications. Visa has already successfully enabled the merchant-presented QR technology in 15 countries around the world, with India, Kenya and Nigeria currently live in market with both bank and merchant partners.

“We’ve already seen tremendous progress towards ... Read more »

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-Wednesday, August 2nd 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- GA Telesis announced today the launch of a specialty finance unit, Structured Credit Products (SCP) to focus on structured financial solutions for airline, MRO, and OEM customers. The initial focus strategy will be inventory leasing. Going forward SCP will explore other aviation finance products including originated secured lending, trading in public and private debt, and investments in other aviation related financial instruments. SCP will be led by Stuart Weinroth, Vice President, an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in the aviation finance and leasing sector.
The initial SCP growth initiative will be enhancing the Company’s existing inventory leasing platform with a three-year capital allocation of $1 billion towards providing enhanced inventory leasing solutions to airlines around the globe. The forthcoming transition into new-technology narrowbody and widebody air ... Read more »