DUBAI, UAE, Oct. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — During GITEX GLOBAL 2024, Huawei released the All-Optical Network Technical and Application White Paper for Smart Hotel at a forum called “Digital Smart Hotels, Creating Ultimate Experience for Guests.” The white paper describes the trends and challenges in networking smart hotels, and introduces the Fiber to the Office (FTTO) all-optical network design and application solution for smart hotels. The white paper aims to help hotels build high-quality networks and accelerate their digital and intelligent transformation.

In the intelligent era, building comfortable, convenient, and intelligent smart hotels is key to the hotel industry, while high-speed and stable network connections can greatly enhance the competitiveness of smart hotels. As application terminals grow denser and more diverse, hotels need to invest more to build cost-effective and future-oriented sustainable networks providing full Wi-Fi coverage, easy deployment, and simple maintenance.

Drawing on the extensive experience of Huawei, industry customers, and partners, the white paper analyzes the differences between smart hotel FTTO all-optical network solution and traditional network solutions in terms of network architecture and integrated cabling. It also describes the design of FTTO networks serving hotel rooms, offices, and public areas. According to the white paper, the FTTO all-optical network solution delivers the following key benefits:

Simplified architecture: FTTO all-optical networks use passive optical splitters to replace active aggregation switches, simplifying the network architecture from three layers to two layers. Passive optical splitters do not require power supply or ELV rooms, greatly reducing the network fault rate. Optical fibers are directly connected to rooms, facilitating data point expansion in the future.

Superior experience: FTTO all-optical networks support hierarchical quality of service (HQoS) and dynamic bandwidth assignment technologies, which guarantee the data transmission requirements of key services and users while improving network utilization. Optical line terminals (OLT) have built-in access controllers (AC) and support automatic Wi-Fi optimization for Wi-Fi 6/Wi-Fi 7 optical network units (ONUs), achieving seamless roaming and premium experience in wireless network services in all hotel scenarios.

High reliability: FTTO all-optical networks for smart hotel support Type B or Type C protection technologies and protection switchover for all devices and fibers links. FTTO networks harness passive optical LAN (POL) technology and support AES128 data encryption. In addition, optical fibers, as transmission media, are resistant to electromagnetic interference and corrosion. They can be used in various hotel environments, such as seaside, city or mountain, to ensure high reliability of data transmission.

Intelligent O&M: The OLT centrally manages ONUs and delivers configurations in a unified manner. ONUs are plug-and-play. In addition, network-wide data is visible, manageable, and controllable on the OLT or NMS. This makes network deployment, management, and fault locating more efficient, and ensures that services are always online.

Liu Yue, Vice President of Enterprise Optical Domain, Huawei, said: “The FTTO all-optical network solution for smart hotel is green and simplified. It has significant advantages in architecture, bandwidth, O&M costs, deployment scope, and service life. It meets the requirements of hotels for full Wi-Fi coverage, intelligent management, and Internet of Things (IoT), and has been widely used in hotels around the world. We look forward to working with industry partners to fully explore the application of POL technologies and further promote the intelligent transformation of the hotel industry.”

For more information about the white paper, please visit: https://e.huawei.com/en/material/enterprise/a38e9a6079c145848f82b92c2865543a

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — SpiderOak, the leader in zero-trust cybersecurity solutions for next-generation space and tactical edge operations, today announced the release of their core technology platform as an open-source offering. The project is called “Aranya” and offers the same protections as the companies OrbitSecure platform currently deployed within the Department of Defense. Now technology manufacturers will be able to embed and extend these same zero-trust protections natively into their own systems, while offering contributions to advance cyber protections and accelerate secure by design adoption recently advocated by the European Union and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

The Aranya project represents an inflection point for how cyber protections can be applied against ever increasing and sophisticated AI assisted attacks using malware, ransomware, command injection, and spoofing techniques. By transitioning protections typically enforced by vulnerable centralized security solutions and network controls to the technology manufacturers’ applications and devices themselves, end user organizations will see significant reductions in cost, complexity, and their overall attack surface. With this secure by design approach, technology providers from any industry can use Aranya to embed protections to ensure every message is authentic, authorized and protected between applications, machines, and devices.

“Cybersecurity is the single greatest challenge for distributed systems with very complex architectures, especially in defense,” said Charles Beames, Executive Chairman of SpiderOak. “From communication networks to weapons platforms, our national security depends on systems that can resist sophisticated cyberattacks. By open sourcing the core technology, we’re providing both the defense and commercial industries with a critical tool to cyber harden their most important systems and protect the critical operations these systems support.”

By leveraging the Aranya toolkit, developers can embed secure by design concepts into their products, enabling high assurance message delivery, secure data exchange, and access control between applications, machines, and sensors without requiring additional security tools. The lightweight size of Aranya makes it ideal for supporting any deployment model including low size, weight and power (SWaP) devices operating in decentralized, serverless architectures, ideal for the most challenging and constrained environments.

“The Aranya project addresses the need for technology providers to aid industry in mitigating the cybersecurity risk of deploying their products driving critical operations,” added Dave Pearah, CEO of SpiderOak. “This next generation capability ensures every interaction is authentic and authorized providing a level of cyber protections, which until now were unattainable by traditional approaches. This breakthrough allows developers to save time, effort, and money while providing powerful tools to apply security controls consistently across systems to deliver higher levels of protection and operational assurances.

SpiderOak’s Aranya project is available on GitHub complete with the resources users need to get started. Also check out our open-source landing page at “https://spideroak.com/open-source/” for additional updates and notifications. SpiderOak is excited to support this collaborative effort, ensuring that connected technology evolves to meet the growing threats faced by companies around the world.

For more information about secure by -design – default visit CISA’s website https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/secure-by-design.

About SpiderOak

SpiderOak is a 100% U.S.-owned and operated software company dedicated to solving the computer security challenges of the 21st century. Our technology allows applications to secure all interactions between each other providing strong assurances of authority and identity, as well as the flexibility to integrate with existing systems, software and devices beyond centralized cloud services and data centers to the far reaches of the tactical edge. For more information about SpiderOak products, services or business development opportunities, check us out at www.spideroak.com.

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DUBAI, UAE, Oct. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — By reading one’s behaviours and preferences, a digital twin exclusively belonging to oneself can be replicated, enabling interaction that breaks the barrier between making friends and obtaining companionship. Nowadays, the scenarios depicted in science fiction movies are moving towards reality.

From October 14th to 18th, the leading Chinese social networking platform Soul App is participating in GITEX GLOBAL with its latest self-developed multimodal large model, which possesses characteristics such as 3D virtual human replication, human body movement restoration, response recommendation, voice call, and multimodal understanding.

Soul App’s CTO Tao Ming stated, “At GITEX GLOBAL, we anticipate communicating with technology companies from both domestic and international, presenting the company’s latest application practices in the social field and innovative solutions in digital entertainment, and jointly exploring new possibilities for social development.”

Digital Twin: Innovative Interaction between Virtual and Reality

GITEX GLOBAL has been held to its 44th edition. This year, it has once again escalated in scale, spanning two large venues – Dubai World Trade Centre and Dubai Harbour. With over 6,700 global technology giants and innovative start-ups participating, it showcases the most breakthrough innovative technologies in the AI field and gathers the most cutting-edge technological trends and leads the new direction of industry transformation.

As one of the representatives of Chinese Internet platforms that introduced AI into social relationships, Soul is demonstrating its AI technologies and the latest applications in social scenarios. This is also Soul’s first appearance at a major international exhibition.

Soul unveiled its beta-testing feature “Digital Twin” at GITEX GLOBAL.

The digital twin represents an intelligent communication assistant for the users to make friends and develop in-depth relationships. It ensures that the recommended reply is appropriate for the conversation context and that the reply itself is fit for the user’s persona and based on the diction, tone and style they use in daily life.

The technology addresses the pain points users frequently encounter when socializing by offering icebreakers, chat topics and suitable response options.

Besides, Soul plans to introduce a new feature to the digital twin, enabling it to automatically interact with other users or their digital twins when the user is offline. Judging from the conversations that the digital twin had with others, users can determine whether they can make good friends and continue from there themselves.

During this process, the users’ images hold the key to shaping vivid and dynamic digital personas. Thus, Soul would encourage users to upload their photos to create digital replicas capturing their facial features.

At GITEX GLOBAL, the on-site visitors could instantly generate 3D virtual humans and experience immersive multi-modal interaction through real-time motion capture and restoration.

Multi-modal End-to-End Large Model: Super Anthropomorphic Emotional Companion Experience

Since its launch in 2016, Soul has not encouraged users to upload photos in real life to alleviate social pressure. In 2022, Soul integrated technologies such as AI, rendering, and image processing and launched its self-developed NAWA engine, providing technical support for users to create customized 3D social images and scenes. With this engine, users can independently create vivid avatars and showcase each person’s distinct personality.

Drawing on past technical reserves and breakthroughs in the R&D progress of its self-developed large models, at present, Soul’s 3D virtual human capabilities have been comprehensively upgraded, forming a mature AI interaction solution – that is, a multi-modal large model direction integrating text, voice, and action interactions, achieving a more human-like interactive experience and more efficient, natural, and rich-dimensional information transmission.

Soul has been continuously delving into the direction of multi-modal large models.

After launching the intelligent recommendation engine “Lingxi” and using algorithms to assist in the discovery and sedimentation of social relationships, in 2020, Soul officially initiated the R&D work on AIGC technology, systematically progressing the development of AIGC technologies and facilitating the implementation of AI capabilities in various social scenarios.

Currently, Soul has successively launched its self-developed large language model Soul X. In June this year, Soul also launched its self-developed end-to-end full-duplex voice call large model, featuring characteristics such as ultra-low interaction delay, rapid automatic interruption, ultra-realistic voice expression, and emotion perception and understanding capabilities.

It can directly understand the rich sound world, support super anthropomorphic multi-style languages, and achieve interaction dialogues closer to daily life and “human-like” emotional companion experiences. This marks Soul’s innovative breakthrough in human-computer interaction experiences. At the same time, the modal upgrade from text to voice to vision also implies a revolutionary change in interaction methods.

Next, through the latest AI interaction solution integrating 3D virtual human capabilities and multi-modal end-to-end large model, the 3D digital twins independently created by Soul users can serve as multi-modal all-round assistants in the digital world, fully empowering users’ relationship discovery, establishment, and sedimentation processes in rich social scenarios such as Audio Partyroom and Soul Square on the platform.

While expanding new relationships, it provides high-quality, interesting, and immersive human-computer interaction experiences and brings genuine and natural emotional companionship.

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