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HUAWEI CONNECT 2024 Paris: Huawei shares 3 optical industry trends at Global Optical Summit

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PARIS, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — During HUAWEI CONNECT 2024 Paris, Huawei Global Optical Summit was successfully held in Paris, France. Themed “Accelerate F5G-A, Amplify Intelligence”, the summit attracted more than 200 industry experts, customers, and partners from many countries around the world. At the summit, focusing on the “3 In 3 Out” trends, Huawei released a series of F5G Advanced (F5G-A) solutions and products for customers in Europe.

Gavin Gu, President of Huawei’s Enterprise Optical Business Domain, shared key industry trends on this summit: Intelligent transformation is placing greater demands on data sensing and transmission and is driving 3 important trends in the optical industry. 

For intelligent connectivity, homes and campus networks are evolving from gigabit to 10G as optical fibers replace copper cables. This trend has been dubbed “Fiber-in, Copper-out”. Moreover, on the industry communications networks of industries like electric power and transportation, SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) is evolving to fgOTN (Fine-Grain Optical Transport Networking) at an increasing pace, which is called “fgOTN-in, SDH-out”. For intelligent sensing, in scenarios such as oil and gas pipeline inspection and perimeter inspection, manual onsite operations will be replaced by remote operations. This will require converged sensing such as vision and fiber sensing, which is a trend called “Optical-sensing-in, Hard-work-out”.

Focusing on the “3 In 3 Out” trends, Huawei is dedicated to developing innovative products and solutions. The newly launched F5G-A series solutions can be applied in various scenarios, covering homes, campuses, industry communications networks and perimeter inspection.

1. Fiber-in, Copper-out

In the home scenario, Huawei has launched the all-optical target network for ISPs in the “fibre to the room (FTTR)” era. On the access side, full-scenario home broadband solutions, such as FTTR and Trouble-Free Optical Network Terminal, are used to help ISPs improve user experience and reduce operating expenses.

On backbone and metropolitan area networks, Huawei’s industry-leading 400G Optical Transport Network (OTN) products and innovative OptiX Alps-WDM Solution enable ISPs to easily cope with rising traffic on the networks.

In the campus scenario, as campus networks embrace Wi-Fi 7 technology, traditional copper lines will inevitably be replaced by fibre-optic cables, which enable higher bandwidth, offer longer service life – future-proofing for about 30 years – and are more environmentally friendly.

Targeting large campuses in industries such as education, healthcare, and manufacturing, Huawei has launched its fiber-to-the-office, or FTTO 2.0, solution to upgrade the bandwidth, networking, and operations and maintenance (O&M) on the live network.

Huawei made an innovative breakthrough with the industry’s first XGS-PON Pro technology, a passive optical network standard that supports ultra-high bandwidth access of 12.5G or 25G services, providing 2.5 times the industry bandwidth.

The solution, an industry-first, supports end-to-end (E2E) slicing, enabling up to 8 dedicated networks (such as office and production networks) to run on a single infrastructure. This eliminates siloed network architectures and reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) by 30%.

Furthermore, the Network Cloud Engine (NCE) management platform implements holistic management of IP and Passive Optical LAN networks, enabling a single view to manage an entire campus network via a unified platform, improving O&M efficiency by 50%.

2. fgOTN-in, SDH-out

Synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) has been widely used on industry communication networks as a secure and reliable solution in the past 30 years. But as digital intelligence continues to ramp up in the industry, the bandwidth limit imposed by SDH has become a bottleneck, creating a need for a next-generation production communication network that supports higher bandwidth without sacrificing security and reliability.

SDH networks in the electric power and transportation industries are now being upgraded and reconstructed with fine-grain OTN, or fgOTN.

This comes after the International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) officially approved the fgOTN standard in 2023 and defined it as a next-generation technology to replace SDH.

Huawei has launched the industry’s first fgOTN-compliant solution with the OptiXtrans E6600, a highly reliable product offering five-nines availability and providing ten times the bandwidth of SDH. It supports services like PCM, PDH, SDH, and Ethernet, and retains SDH O&M practices, ensuring smoother evolution.

3. Optical-sensing-in, Hard-work-out

Critical infrastructure such as railways, airports, and oil and gas pipelines often require perimeter inspection as part of manual on-site operations. The efficiency for such inspection often tends to be low, and with poor associated working conditions.

Smart perimeter inspection and monitoring solutions, across vast expanses such as for pipelines, can now be implemented, thanks to next-generation fiber-optic sensing and AI analysis.

These accurate and always-on solutions enable employers to redeploy staff from outdoor sites to offices, improving their productivity and conditions at work.

Another advantage of Huawei’s optical-visual linkage solution is its use of fiber-optic vibration and video detection to achieve zero false negatives. With a leading optical DSP module and an AI foundation model, the OVLS solution provides 10 times the accuracy of the industry standard and offers high anti-interference capabilities. Even in level-7 winds and heavy rains, high accuracy can be guaranteed.

Looking ahead, Huawei will continue to innovate and work with all global customers and partners to seize new “3 In 3 Out” opportunities, and to accelerate industrial intelligence, achieving win-win results in the intelligent era.

About Huawei

Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. We have 207,000 employees and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world.

Our vision and mission is to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. To this end, we will work towards ubiquitous connectivity and inclusive network access, laying the foundation for an intelligent world; provide diversified computing power where you need it, when you need it, to bring cloud and intelligence to all four corners of the earth; build digital platforms to help all industries and organizations become more agile, efficient, and dynamic; and redefine user experience with AI, making it smarter and more personalized for people in all aspects of their life, whether they’re at home, on the go, in the office, having fun, or working out. For more information, please visit Huawei online at www.huawei.com or follow us on:

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Orderful Raises $15M Growth Round Led by NewRoad Capital Partners to Transform B2B Integration with Modern EDI Solutions

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Orderful secures $15M to expand its modern EDI platform, enabling faster, smarter B2B integrations with AI and self-service solutions.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Orderful, a pioneering company revolutionizing business-to-business (B2B) integration with its industry-leading Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) platform, announced today that it has raised $15 million in a growth round led by NewRoad Capital Partners. The round also saw participation from new investors 9Yards, Flume Ventures, and NFI Ventures, alongside existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and GLP Partners.

“We like to invest in companies with strong domain expertise that are solving big legacy problems and delivering on what they promise to the market. Orderful exceeds expectations in all of these areas.” Gregoire Lehmann, Principal at NewRoad Capital Partners

Orderful is changing the status quo in the B2B integration space by offering a fast, modern EDI software-as-a-service platform that drastically simplifies the way businesses connect and exchange data. Orderful customers connect once to their API platform and can go live with new EDI connections in less than 2 weeks, which is 10x faster than competitors. This year, Orderful launched its Web EDI Fulfillment product, a solution for companies of all sizes to start trading EDI without speaking with a sales representative. Orderful is the first EDI company in the world to provide this product experience.

Orderful is also the first company to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into its platform to manage and resolve EDI errors in real-time. The AI-based recommendation engine drastically reduces the time and effort required to go-live and manage trading partners. Hundreds of leading companies, including NFI, Koch Industries, Pepsi Logistics, G-III Apparel Group, Liquid Death, and Continental Mills, are leveraging Orderful’s platform to gain a competitive edge in their respective markets. With its latest funding, Orderful is poised to accelerate growth and further enhance its product offerings.

New Partnership and Strategic Insights

As part of the investment, Gregoire Lehmann, Principal at NewRoad Capital Partners, will join Orderful’s board of directors. Josh Jewett, Operating Partner at NewRoad and former Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Family Dollar and Dollar Tree, will join as a board observer. Their deep expertise in supply chain and retail technology will provide invaluable insights as Orderful continues to scale. “Orderful is fundamentally changing the way companies trade EDI. Their approach to simplifying EDI is a game changer. We like to invest in companies with strong domain expertise that are solving big legacy problems and delivering on what they promise to the market. Orderful exceeds expectations in all of these areas.” said Gregoire Lehmann, Principal at NewRoad Capital Partners.

“Having spent years in the retail industry, I understand the pain points of traditional EDI systems. Orderful’s innovative approach is precisely what the industry needs to move forward. The labor expense, delays, transaction fees, cumbersome interfaces, and poor error handling are all gone with their model. I’m excited to contribute to their journey,” added Josh Jewett, Operating Partner at NewRoad Capital Partners.

“NFI has always been at the forefront of innovation in logistics, and Orderful has been a critical partner in helping us streamline our EDI processes. Their platform has enabled us to be more agile and responsive, giving us a significant competitive advantage,” said Dave Broering, President of Integrated Logistics at NFI.

Looking Ahead

“We are thrilled to partner with NewRoad Capital Partners, whose industry expertise and extensive network will be invaluable as we continue to scale Orderful,” said Erik Kiser, CEO of Orderful. “The enthusiasm and support from our investors, both new and existing, are a testament to the impact Orderful is making in the B2B integration space. We are excited to continue growing at this pace and look forward to the opportunities ahead.” David Ulevitch, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, reflected on Orderful’s journey, “From the beginning, we saw the potential in Orderful’s vision to modernize EDI. Their progress has been incredible, and we’re excited to see how they will continue to innovate and lead in this space.”

Orderful is growing faster than any EDI company in its category, and this capital will enable the company to continue this momentum as it targets more enterprise customers in the retail and supply chain space.

With this new funding, Orderful plans to accelerate product development, expand its global reach, and continue to deliver cutting-edge solutions that empower businesses to thrive in an increasingly interconnected world.

About Orderful

Orderful is the modern EDI Platform revolutionizing how logistics providers, retailers, manufacturers, and technology companies manage their EDI trading partnerships and transactions in real-time. Its simplified integrations, pre-connected network, and user-friendly self-service approach minimize errors with customers onboarding new partners. Orderful has been recognized as a best-in-class EDI provider by industry leaders like G2 and SourceForge. To learn more, visit https://www.orderful.com/.

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30 Years After the Passing of Daddy Bruce Randolph, His Legacy of Feeding Families on Thanksgiving Is in Jeopardy Due to Lack of Funding. Epworth Foundation Issues an Urgent Call for Donations

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DENVER, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — With just one week left before the annual Denver Feed-A-Family event in honor of Daddy Bruce Randolph, the Epworth Foundation faces a critical shortfall in funding. To meet its ambitious goal of providing 7,500 Thanksgiving meal baskets, the organization needs to raise $400,000 but is far short of its goal. This significant gap puts thousands of families at risk of going without a meal this holiday season.

This year’s theme, “One Community, One Family,” embodies the foundation’s mission to bring nourishment and unity to those most in need. However, with funding levels far below what’s necessary, the Epworth Foundation urgently appeals to the community for help.

“We are at a crossroads,” said Xiomara Yanique, Program Director at the Epworth Foundation. “Without immediate support, we risk leaving many families without a Thanksgiving meal this year. Every dollar counts, and time is running out.”

The average cost of a meal basket is $55, which includes everything needed for a family meal serving 4-5 people. With current funding, the organization will be able to serve fewer than 1,000 families. The Epworth Foundation calls on local businesses, philanthropists, and community members to step in and help bridge this critical gap. Donations of any size are urgently needed and can be made directly on the foundation’s website.

A Call for Unity from Denver’s Mayor

Denver’s Mayor, Mike Johnston, expressed his concern and support for the initiative: “The Denver Feed-A-Family event has been a vital source of hope and comfort for our city’s most vulnerable families. I urge everyone to contribute. Together, we can ensure no family goes without a meal this Thanksgiving.”

How You Can Help

Donate Today: Visit www.epworthfoundation.org to make a contribution. You can sponsor one or more meal baskets or give any amount to help cover the cost of these essential meal kits.

Participate in Giving Tuesday: Join our community effort to honor Daddy Bruce Randolph’s legacy by supporting the cost of meal baskets for families in need.

Volunteer: There are still opportunities to lend a hand on distribution day, November 23rd.

For more information or to donate, please visit www.epworthfoundation.org.

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Jackie Perry
Email: socialmedia@epworthfoundation.org
Phone: 904.866.3828

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The Merriest Grinchmas Ever Awaits with Grinch Décor from Gemmy

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Grinch-Inspired Decorations from Airblown® Inflatables to Life-Size Animatronics

DALLAS, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Fans of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! will be delighted with a feast of Grinch decorations to choose from this season. Gemmy’s expansive collection, from amazing Airblown® Inflatables and yard décor to life-size animated characters, is sure to grow hearts three sizes.

Grinch fans will be delighted with Gemmy’s expansive collection of decorations to choose from.

Airblown® Inflatables

Set the scene for a Merry Grinchmas with the Grinch inflatable lineup. Big or small, hanging or arched, Gemmy has you covered:

Craft a custom scene with adorable 4-ft tall characters: Grinch in Ugly Red Sweater and Cindy-Lou Who with gift.Warm hearts and add fun to your display with 6-ft and 6.5-ft options: Max and Grinch with red heart scene and Hanging Grinch with wreath.Welcome guests with whimsical 9-ft and 10-ft styles, perfect for parties and photo ops: sneaky Tiptoeing Grinch with gift sack, Merry Grinchmas Archway, and Grinch and Max with Naughty or Nice Sign.

Musical and Animated Merriment

For a multisensory experience, Grinch enthusiasts will love animated decor that plays “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch”:

Life-Size Animated: Equipped with sound and motion features, these realistic characters are available in two styles—the charming 4-ft Animated Little Grinch and the 6-ft Animated Grinch in a Santa suit.EmoteGlow™: Featuring animated faces that light up and sing, this amazing technology is available in the adorable 6.3-in Kawaii Grinch (in-store only) and the Grinch Musical Light String with eight bulbs.

Indoor/Outdoor Lighting and Decor

Lighting and decor options are fantastic on their own or layered into the mix:

The 4-ft tall 3D Grinch Tinsel Sculpture features the Grinch holding colorful stockings and shines with 35 LED lights.Light up interior or exterior surfaces and walkways with the colorful Whirl-A-Motion™ Grinch Projection and festive Grinch Pathway Stakes.Perfect for indoor locations, battery-operated blow molds are available in two styles: 14-in Grinch and 12-in Max (in-store only).

Find this Grinch collection in-store and online at The Home Depot.

About Gemmy Industries
Gemmy Industries is a leader in the seasonal décor market, bringing festive fun and holiday cheer to homes everywhere. Dedicated to innovation and creative design, Gemmy has elevated industry standards and established recognizable brands like Airblown® Inflatable and LightShow® Lighting. For more information on products and retailers, visit www.gemmy.com. Connect with us on Instagram and Facebook.

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