Orange joins forces with industry, academia to build French quantum internet communication system

Airbus, CNRS, Cryptonext Security, Direction Générale de l’Aviation Civile, Orange, Sorbonne Université, Telecom Paris, Thales, Thales Alenia Space, Université Côte d’Azur, Veriqloud and Welinq have announced the official launch of

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Speedcast secures contract for Asia-Pacific teleport services from Airbus, UK’s Ministry of Defence

Sydney, Australia. 10 January 2023 – Speedcast, a communications and IT services provider, has been awarded a contract extension by Airbus to provide gateway hosting services offering secure access to

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Airbus to offer connectivity services using its Zephyr HAPS technology platform

Farnborough, United Kingdom.18 July, 2022  – Airbus has launched a connectivity services business through the creation of a dedicated HAPS services business based around Zephyr, Airbus’ HAPS technology platform. This will help

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European digital consortium to design future EU quantum internet ultra-secure comms

The European Commission has selected a consortium of companies and research institutes to study the design of the future European quantum communication network, EuroQCI (quantum communication infrastructure). It will enable

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Alphabet again exits drones as others jump in

In 2017, after four years of setbacks and crashes, Alphabet shut its research project flying solar-powered fixed-wing drones in the upper atmosphere to beam the internet to those cut-off. Facebook

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Loon is popped by sharp truths: Balloons won’t be ‘Connecting people everywhere’

(A Week in Telco IT) — When the news came on Friday that Loon’s journey is coming to an end it was a disappointment if, like me, you’re an admirer

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The need to integrate data is urgent and non-trivial, says the Father of IoT

Kevin Ashton has been an executive director and visiting engineer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he led work on the next generation of computing. Perhaps more importantly for

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