Leading Pharmaceutical Company Selects Zayo for Global Network - Business Wire

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A leading global pharmaceutical company has selected Zayo Group Holdings for a high-capacity network that will connect the company’s key facilities in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Zayo’s solution leverages its extensive fiber network and its Global Reach strategic partnerships to create a seamless multinational network.

The diverse wavelength solution will provide core network infrastructure and upgraded capacity to support the company’s data analytics, research collaboration and product innovation. The addition of IP transit and DIA facilitates full, diverse internet connectivity. The solution also includes zColo data center space.

The transaction illustrates trends in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector that are driving a growing need for high performance infrastructure. Research and collaboration, analytics and predictive modeling and clinical trials are generating large volumes of data. In areas like genomics, the acquisition, analysis and storage of massive data sets require solutions with unprecedented capacity. In today’s COVID-19 environment, intra- and inter-company R&D is becoming even more collaborative to advance expedited development of treatments and vaccines.

As a provider to more than 200 pharmaceutical and biotech companies, Zayo is leveraging its fiber network assets and expertise to meet the rapidly evolving needs of this industry. In addition to dedicated, secure fiber and colocation solutions, some companies are moving non-sensitive data and workloads to the public cloud, which requires robust cloud connectivity solutions such as Zayo’s CloudLink.

“Our pharmaceutical customers are re-architecting their networks so they can fully leverage big data, shorten drug development timelines and improve patient outcomes,” said Derek Gillespie, chief revenue officer at Zayo. “Our extensive network provides the foundation for the capacity and performance improvements they need.”

For more information on Zayo, please visit zayo.com.

About Zayo Group

Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 133,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, dedicated internet access and data center colocation services. Zayo owns and operates a Tier 1 IP backbone and 44 carrier-neutral data centers. Through its CloudLink service, Zayo provides low-latency private connectivity that attaches enterprises to their public cloud environments. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises. For more information, visit zayo.com.

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ADTRAN Partners with NRTC to Equip United Cooperative Services with Next-Generation 10G for Northern Texas - Business Wire

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ADTRAN^®, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation innovative fiber and fiber extension broadband access solutions, today announced that, through its Enabling Communities, Connecting Lives program, it is empowering United Cooperative Services (UCS) to deliver multi-gigabit services to the electric cooperative’s membership in 14 counties across North Texas. Represented by the National Rural Telecommunications Council (NRTC), UCS is a leading provider of high-performance broadband to previously underserved rural communities. UCS selected ADTRAN’s 10G fiber access portfolio to build and manage a flexible and highly-scalable network and ADTRAN’s Mosaic Device Manager to better manage end-to-end performance. This deployment supports the bandwidth-intensive applications its members will rely on to lead fully connected lives in a global Gigabit Economy.

“UCS is continuously working to find new ways to provide members with exceptional service and value,” said Cameron Smallwood, General Manager and Chief Executive Officer at United Cooperative Services. “Through a member vote, we received a 91% approval rate to move forward with deploying a network to provide 10G services. We will be able to provide a seamless high-speed broadband internet experience to our members, enabling them to thrive in today’s connected world.”

For over 80 years, UCS has focused on delivering reliable and affordable power to more than 62,000 residential and business customers, but high-quality and capacity-rich broadband had not previously been available to most of its region. UCS understands that multi-gigabit broadband is as important today as the electricity services it has historically delivered. By leveraging ADTRAN’s Total Access 5000 (TA5000) multi-gigabit service platform for its fiber deployment, UCS is providing its members affordable high-speed internet options that support video streaming, smart homes, telemedicine and other emerging applications. This will enable the communities that UCS serves to drive economic development, support innovation and improve quality of life for the thousands of residents on UCS’ network.

To increase operational efficiency and lower costs, UCS also implemented ADTRAN’s Mosaic Device Manager. Mosaic Device Manager provides end-to-end provisioning of subscriber devices, performs remote troubleshooting, increases first call resolution and decreases the need for truck rolls. Its secure, cloud-based deployment model will easily scale to grow with UCS while providing flexibility regardless of location or CPE.

“It is our mission to help our electric cooperative and telephone members bring the advantages of the best technology available to their communities,” said Scott Pell, Chief Technology Officer at NRTC Broadband Solutions, which designed and is managing the project for UCS. “An important step in this process is to pair with a vendor that understands the needs of our members. ADTRAN’s commitment to building flexible and scalable networks, experience in delivering XGS-PON and long history of serving rural communities made them the ideal partner for UCS’ network build.”

“UCS is a great example of electric cooperatives across the nation looking to advance fiber broadband services for their communities,” said Brian Efimetz, VP of Regional Service Provider Sales at ADTRAN. “Understanding that every service provider and their subscribers have unique needs, we take pride in being able to build and manage networks to support the unique needs and opportunities of the communities they serve. This deployment delivers robust broadband service capabilities, and also provides UCS valuable network analytics to improve service offerings and diversify revenue streams, while ensuring an exceptional customer experience.”

About ADTRAN

At ADTRAN, Inc., we believe amazing things happen when people connect. From the cloud edge to the subscriber edge, we help communications service providers around the world manage and scale services that connect people, places and things to advance human progress. Whether rural or urban, domestic or international, telco or cable, enterprise or residential—ADTRAN solutions optimize existing technology infrastructures and create new, multi-gigabit platforms that leverage cloud economics, data analytics, machine learning and open ecosystems—the future of global networking. Find more at ADTRAN, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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St. Louis Clergy Equip Churches With Masks As Many Resume Services - St. Louis Public Radio

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As the region slowly returns to some semblance of normal, many churches are preparing to reopen in June.

In an effort to keep congregations healthy, the St. Louis Metropolitan Clergy Coalition, the Baptist Minister’s Union, and 24:1 Clergy Coalition are distributing more than 125,000 masks to St. Louis city and County churches that plan to resume services next month.

The Rev. Darryl Gray, the political advisor for the St. Louis Metropolitan Clergy Coalition, said the groups have been distributing masks since Tuesday, and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. More than 150 churches throughout the region showed up to claim masks.

“You would think that it was Christmas all over again,” Gray said. “But I think people realize the danger. And so, I think people were appreciative to the governor and to the county executive for making this available and letting people know that folks do care. We’re looking at the deaths in the black community, and oftentimes we wonder if anybody cares, if anybody’s paying attention.”

They requested the masks from St. Louis County Executive Sam Page, St. Louis City Mayor Lyda Krewson and Gov. Mike Parson. With the money available through the federal economic relief package known as the CARES Act, Page was able to get 100,000 masks and the governor was able to provide 25,000. Gray said it’s unclear how many masks the city will provide.

The Rev. Rodrick Burton, the pastor at New Northside Missionary Baptist Church, a predominantly black church in Jennings, said it's especially critical for black churches to have access to masks.

“Disproportionately, in our city and all across this country, African Americans and people of color are suffering from this virus,” Burton said. “And so, we have to advocate and make sure that we have what we need for people to come together.”

Burton said he isn’t planning on opening his church anytime soon. Instead, he will continue to do livestream services and hold weekly conference calls with his members. But not all churches have memberships that have access to high speed internet connections. As a result, the digital divide has forced many churches to open their doors.

“We have people that have been disconnected from their house of faith, because of no access to broadband internet,” Burton said. “People are going to be coming, because they’ve been disconnected. And so, we have to be prepared for that.”

In addition to masks, Gray has been pushing to get more testing sites at area churches. Shalom Church City of Peace in Florissant and Westside Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis have done testing at their churches.

“We’ve gotten requests from over a dozen churches to create sites as well,” Gray said. “We’re just simply waiting on the government to say, 'Yes, we’re going to do this.' We already have an agreement with CareSTL Health and Affinia Healthcare.”

The groups distributed masks to city churches on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Churches and pastors in St. Louis County can get masks at Mt. Beulah Missionary Baptist Church Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Vaya Africa launches electric ride-hail taxi network - TechCrunch

Vaya Africa, a ride-hail mobility venture founded by Zimbabwean mogul Strive Masiyiwa, has launched an electric taxi service and charging network in Zimbabwe with plans to expand across the continent.

The South Africa headquartered company has acquired a fleet of Nissan Leaf EVs and developed its own solar powered charging stations.

The program goes live in Zimbabwe this week, as Vaya finalizes partnerships to begin on-demand electric taxi and delivery services in markets that could include Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia.

“Zimbabwe is a sandbox really. We’ve moved on to doing pilots with other countries right across Africa,” Vaya Mobility CEO Dorothy Zimuto told TechCrunch on a call from Harare.

Vaya is a subsidiary of Strive Masiyiwa’s Econet Group, which includes one of Southern Africa’s largest mobile operators and Liquid Telecom, an internet infrastructure company.

Masiyiwa has become one of Africa’s Gates, Branson type figures, recognized globally as a business leader and philanthropist with connections and affiliations from President Obama to the Rockefeller Foundation.

Working with Zimuto on the Vaya EV product is Liquid Telecom’s innovation partnerships lead, Oswald Jumira.

The initiative comes as Africa’s on demand mobility market has been in full swing for several years, with startups, investors, and the larger ride-hail players aiming to bring movement of people and goods to digital product models.

Ethiopia has local ride-hail ventures Ride and Zayride. Uber’s been active in several markets on the continent since 2015 and like competitor Bolt, got into the motorcycle taxi business in Africa in 2018.

Over the last year, there’s been some movement on the continent toward developing EV’s for ride-hail and delivery use, primarily around two-wheeled transit.

In 2019, Nigerian mobility startup MAX.ng raised a $7 million Series A round backed by Yamaha, a portion of which was dedicated to pilot e-motorcycles powered by renewable energy.

Last year the Government of Rwanda established a national plan to phase out gas motorcycle taxis for e-motos, working in partnership with EV startup Ampersand.

Vaya Mobility CEO Dorothy Zimuto, Image Credits: Econet Group

The appeal of shifting to electric in Africa’s taxi markets — beyond environmental benefits — is the unit economics, given the cost of fuel compared to personal income is generally high for most of the continent’s drivers.

“Africa is excited, because we are riding on the green revolution: no emissions, no noise and big savings… in terms of running costs of their vehicles,” Zimuto said.

She estimates a cost savings of 40% on the fuel and maintenance costs for drivers on the ride-hail platform.

At the moment, with fuel prices in Vaya’s first market of Zimbabwe at around $1.20 a liter, the average trip distance is 22 kilometres for a price of $19, according to Econet Group’s Oswald Jumira.

With the Nissan Leaf vehicles on Vaya’s charging network, the cost to top up will be around $5 for a range of 150 to 200 kilometres.

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“It’s the driver who benefits. They take more money home. And that also means we can reduce the tariff for ride hailing companies to make it more affordable for people,” Jumira told TechCrunch.

The company has adapted its business to the spread of COVID-19 in Africa. Vaya provides PPE to its drivers and sanitizes its cars four to five times a day, according to Zimuto.

Vaya is exploring EV options for other on-demand transit applications — from delivery to motorcycle and Tuk Tuk taxis.

On the question of competing with Uber in Africa, Vaya points to the reduced fares offered by its EV program as one advantage.

The CEO of Vaya Mobility, Dorothy Zimuto, also points to certain benefits of knowing local culture and preferences.

“We speak African. That’s the language we understand. We understand the people and what they want across our markets. That’s what makes the difference.” she said.

It will be something to watch if Vaya’s EV bet and local consumer knowledge translates into more passenger flow and revenue generation as it goes head to head with other ride-hail companies, such as Uber, across Africa.

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Vestdavit to Equip US Navy Expeditionary Sea Base Newbuilds - MarineLink

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The ESB 6 and ESB 7 are being built by NASSCO to the same design as the earlier ESB4, USS Hershal ‘Woody’ Williams, Woody, here pictured during sea trials (credit: NASSCO).

Boat launch and recovery systems supplier Vestdavit said it will deliver motion-compensated davits to the US Navy, following orders placed by shipbuilder General Dynamics NASSCO to equip two Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ships.

The US shipbuilder’s San Diego yard will deliver ESB 6 and ESB 7, the latest in a series of ships which act as mobile sea bases to support mine countermeasure, counter-piracy, disaster-relief, crisis-response and other operations. Bergen-based Vestdavit in 2017 established Vestdavit Inc. in Seattle, where it also offers support to the US Coast Guard, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and to offshore customers.

For the latest US Navy contract, Vestdavit will supply one 2TDB-7000-type davit for each of the new ESB vessels. With a safe working load of 14,000 kilograms, the high-performance davit can handle boats of varying size and weight, including seven- and 11-meter rigid-hulled inflatable boats and the Combatant Craft Assault. The first davit system is due for delivery to ESB 6 in early 2021.

“ESB ships are built to support the US Navy on critical and potentially hazardous missions, so they need highly flexible and responsive marine davits, says Vestdavit Managing Director Rolf Andreas Wigand. “The 2TDB-7000 type will allow safe operation in much higher sea states than has been possible for the davits used on any previous ESB vessels.”

Wigand explains that the hydraulically operated overhead telescopic davits can function in both single- and dual-point configuration, with the latter mode enabling synchronized movement of the two davit arms. They also include dual independent self-levelling winches that offer hoisting/lowering speeds of up to 40m/min, an anti-pendulation system and an automatic wire hauler and shock absorbers on each arm – among other features.

A 3D rendering of the 2TDB-7000 davit, which Vestdavit will deliver for the latest ESB ships (Image: Vestdavit)

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