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Kacific’s COVID-19 response has been recognized as the Satellite Project of the Year at the Global Carrier Awards 2021, where it was described as the most ingenious and visionary project in the satellite space FREMONT, CA : When the COVID-19 outbreak caught the globe by surprise, medical care and information sharing were critical in combating the virus's spread and impact. Many rural areas in the Pacific, on the other hand, had little or no access to their major cities. To close this gap, Kacific launched a large-scale Community WiFi project to bring high-quality, low-cost satellite broadband to rural health clinics using inexpensive, easy-to-install antennas. Kacific's high-throughput satellite, Kacific1, provided capacity for the project, which uses spot beam technology to cover inhabited areas in 25 countries. Kacific received a grant from the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) Technical Assistance in collaboration with GuarantCo to fund the terminals and support governments and communities throughout Asia and the Pacific in their battle against the pandemic. Around 200 terminals have been deployed since then in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, and the Philippines, bringing fast, affordable broadband to health clinics, schools, and communities all over the world. They link clinics, schools, and government facilities to prevent, monitor, and control the spread of infectious Covid-19 clusters in rural areas, as well as teach local medical practitioners to deal with local viral epidemics. Medical practitioners in remote places have been able to coordinate with nationwide COVID-19 health responses, plan emergency evacuations, and contact city-based specialists owing to Kacific's service. The connected clinics were able to save more lives, particularly in life-or-death situations. In addition, health clinic internet connections served as community hubs for disaster response communications. Up to 1,000 rural health posts, clinics, community centres, and schools across the Asia Pacific will receive free 30GB of data as part of the experiment, with the first sites receiving three months of free bandwidth. Each terminal comes with a prepaid data subscription called Community WiFi, which allows the local community to connect using voucher cards. ...Read more

Design flexibility, waste reduction, efficient customization, and maintaining virtual inventory would drive the development of future shipbuilding technologies. The technology revolution has changed the landscape of maritime is shifting with the rising tides of technology. The emerging trends are the need of the hour. Advances in shipbuilding, smart shipping, propulsion, advanced materials, big data and analytics, robotics, sensors, and communications, in addition to an increasingly skilled workforce, are all having significant shifts in how the maritime industry are approaching new opportunities and challenges. The drivers for these technologies have resulted from both environmental and commercial necessity. As a catalyst, environmental policies are tracking faster some of the developments to drive sustainability, and as a consequence, have pushed for better R&D as well as the adoption of tech to decrease GHG emissions, and the advantages are clear. For instance, hybrid propulsion has the capability to save 20-30 percent on vessel operating costs while decreasing GHG emissions. See Also: Top Marine Tech Solution Companies Design flexibility, waste reduction, efficient customization, and maintaining virtual inventory would drive the development for future shipbuilding technologies. Aside from the breakthrough in products’ operational efficiency, environmental impact plays a major role in adopting new shipbuilding technologies. For instance, 90 percent of raw materials might be in traditional subtractive manufacturing methods. Contrastingly, the introduction of additive manufacturing deposits materials only where they are needed. Power generation and ship propulsion would be quite a significant area of technological development. It is not only the realm of applicable technology, which includes future engines, hybrid power generation, alternative fuels, renewable sources of energy, propulsion energy-saving devices, and emissions abatement technology. It is also the extent of future environmental challenges for commercial shipping that makes powering and propulsion a key technological theme. ...Read more

Multi-core processors and virtualization will help run old and new codes when it comes to data sharing between a modern and a legacy platform while at the same time providing isolation between the various functions for security purposes. Nearly a decade ago, the defense began developing its cloud computing infrastructure, with the US Armed Forces at the forefront of the modernization effort. Data within a military framework will be open to both combat and non-combat organizations. Cloud computing has paved the way for the private sector, and the Ministries of Defense have benefited from the solutions available. Allied Operations Expanding the use of cloud computing would generate communication problems between allied powers at the tactical level. The latter should extend their cooperation in developing standard interfaces and approaches and address any usability problems arising from technical requirements in their C4 systems and operational processes to reassure their actions' efficacy. SWaP-C (Size, Weight, Power, and Cost) In device and subsystem designs, SWaP-C remains a crucial feature. Increasing the amount of data would increase the size and weight of devices and platforms, increase their computing capacity, and therefore the cooling and power requirements. Onboard Data Analysis There will be an increase in data analysis requirements from sensors as data becomes the center of cloud computing. In other words, a portion of the complete analysis will have to be carried out on board by the sensors or platforms integrating it before transmitting it to other C2 nodes, where other users will obtain it for further analysis, appropriate for the mission. Localization Military organizations originally built their cloud solutions on networks under their physical monitoring and control due to data protection issues. That was also due to the lack of regional distribution of the service providers' data centers. Once the latter invested in the development of data centers within the customer's boundaries, cloud computing's growth became quicker. Virtualization Multi-core processors and virtualization will help run old and new codes when it comes to data sharing between a modern and a legacy platform while at the same time providing isolation between the various functions for security purposes. Check This Out :  Top Cloud Solution Companies   ...Read more