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Alaska Airlines and Intelsat to roll out next-gen satellite WiFi on regional jets starting in 2024

GeekWire

(Intelsat Photo) Alaska Airlines will invest $25 million to upgrade its regional jets with a new WiFi system from Intelsat capable of download speeds in the hundreds of megabits per second, using both traditional geostationary and new low-Earth orbit satellites. Intelsat’s system uses the OneWeb LEO satellite network for connectivity.

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American Airlines Adopts Public Cloud Computing

Cloud Musings

With all the major technologies changes since then, it’s clear that IBM has already accomplished a herculean task by keeping an application viable for over 50 years! Just like Americas aging physical infrastructure, the airlines are suffering from years of minimal investment in their information technology. JetBlue, Feb.

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Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

CIO Business Intelligence

Instead, the publicly held operator of Cathay Pacific Airlines and HK Express is shifting from migration to optimization mode in an effort to wrest additional benefits from its all-in cloud transformation. It will replace the standard MPLS network, he adds.

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Fraport goes all in on private 5G network

CIO Business Intelligence

There were a multitude of reasons for Fraport AG, the operating company of Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt, to build one of the largest European private 5G campus networks: automation, autonomous driving, localization of devices, and processing data in real time. Autonomous vehicles controlled by 5G would help to alleviate this.

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The 4 pillars of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange: Customers share their successes

CIO Business Intelligence

The attack surface now extends to home offices, cloud applications, and public clouds, and there is an ever-increasing risk of lateral threat movement within highly interconnected hub-and-spoke networks protected by castle-and-moat security models. A large enterprise with a hybrid network requires modern technology to secure it.

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Enabling enterprises to exert business level control over CSPs’ 5G network connectivity

TM Forum

This Catalyst explores how communication service providers (CSPs) can offer enterprises guaranteed and differentiated 5G connectivity services – with the security, data sovereignty and control that enterprises need to move more mission critical workloads onto the CSP’s 5G network. 5G: Accelerating smart aviation – Phase IV.

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Why Aren’t Our Networks Staying Up?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Clearly, despite the importance of information technology, the networks that we’re designing and building today don’t work anywhere this reliably. Network Outages Seem To Be A Part Of Life. Back in the day, when the phone network was “the network”, an outage was a big deal.

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