Airtel deploys cloud-based VoLTE network powered by Nokia software products

Nokia on Monday said its product items are driving Bharti Airtel's Voice over LTE (VoLTE) arrange in India.

Aspart of its 'cloudificationstrategy', Airtel will convey Nokia's CloudBand Infrastructure Software.

The system underpins more than 110 million clients, which makes it "the biggest cloud-based VoLTE arrange in India andthe biggest Nokia-run VoLTE on the planet," an announcement by Nokia said.

Airtel has sent India's biggest open cloud-based VoLTE coordinate with Nokia programming items, the announcement said including the cloud-based VoLTE organization permits Airtel to give its portable clients quicker and progressively dependable, cost-proficient call availability.

The arrangement, which will cover every one of the 22 telecom administration territories in India, utilizes business 'Off-the-Shelf' IT equipment with cloud-based Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), expending considerably less force and space contrasted with the customary 2G/3G Circuit Switched inheritance center, it said.

The arrangement empowers Airtel to let loose range by sloping down its 3G organize, permitting the administrator to utilize the opened up radiowaves to send 4G/LTE administrations for better speed and limit.

As a major aspect of its cloudification methodology, Airtel will likewise convey Nokia's CloudBand Infrastructure Software with the mean to make new income open doors for 5G and web associated gadgets, it said.

CloudBand will empower Airtel to establish the framework for 5G organizes and convey new advanced serviceswith more prominent dexterity and guarantee a dependable and high-performing system for conveying improved client experience.

"CloudBand is an open, versatile, adaptable stage that will permit Airtel to adjust organize limit as per changing utilization designs progressively and in a cost-proficient way," the announcement included.

Randeep Sekhon, CTO of Bharti Airtel, said,The nation's biggest open cloud-based VoLTE arrange is a significant achievement in Airtel's excursion. Our goal is to receive the rewards of cloud answers for rearrange our design and empower quicker conveyance of inventive administrations, eventually conveying an upgraded client experience.

Remarking on the turn of events, Bhaskar Gorti, President of No

Google is gathering health data of Americans without consent: Reports

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Google is reportedly gathering health information of millions of US citizens -- without informing them or their doctors -- to design an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven software, the media reported.
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, "Google is engaged with one of the US's largest health-care systems on a project to collect and crunch the detailed personal-health information of millions of people across 21 states" and at least 150 Google staffers may have access to the data.St. Louis-based faith-based healthcare organisation Ascension is sharing lab results, diagnoses and hospitalisation records -- as well as health histories complete with patient names and dates of birth -- with Google, the report claimed.
"The initiative, code-named 'Project Nightingale,' appears to be the biggest effort yet by a Silicon Valley giant to gain a toehold in the health-care industry through the handling of patients medical data," the report said.The crunching of health data is the next big frontier for tech giants as Apple to Amazon and Microsoft are aiming big to infuse data findings into their devices and solutions in the burgeoning healthcare space.
The New York Times later wrote that "dozens of Google employees" may have access to sensitive patient data and some may have downloaded that data too.As part of "Project Nightingale", Ascension uploaded patient data to Google's Cloud servers.In a blog post, Google tried to clarify its partnership with Ascension."All of Google's work with Ascension adheres to industry-wide regulations regarding patient data, and come with strict guidance on data privacy, security and usage," said Tariq Shaukat, President, Industry Products and Solutions, Google Cloud.

Google said it has a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with Ascension, which governs access to Protected Health Information (PHI) for the purpose of helping providers support patient care."To be clear: under this arrangement, Ascension's data cannot be used for any other purpose than for providing these services we're offering under the agreement, and patient data ...READ MORE

Monsanto's troubles over Roundup mount as US jury fines company $2 bn

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A jury in California on Monday ordered Bayer-owned Monsanto to pay more than $2 billion damages to a couple that sued on grounds the weed killer Roundup caused their cancer, lawyers said.
The award was the latest in a series of court defeats for Monsanto over Roundup. The company insists the glyphosate-based product is not linked to cancer.

The couple's legal team described the damages award as "historic," saying it totaled $2.055 billion after adding in slightly more than $55 million in compensatory damages.

"The jury saw for themselves internal company documents demonstrating that, from day one, Monsanto has never had any interest in finding out whether Roundup is safe," said plaintiff's counsel Brent Wisner.

"Instead of investing in sound science, they invested millions in attacking science that threatened their business agenda." In a statement, Bayer said it was disappointed with the jury's decision and would appeal the verdict, which it argues was at odds with a recent US Environmental Protection Agency review of glyphosate-based weed killers.

"The consensus among leading health regulators worldwide is that glyphosate-based products can be used safely and that glyphosate is not carcinogenic," Bayer said. The verdict in a California state court in Oakland was the third courtroom defeat for Bayer in cases accusing the chemicals in Roundup of causing cancer.


 Glyphosate developer Monsanto was convicted in the United States in 2018 and 2019 of not taking necessary steps to warn of the potential risks of Roundup -- their weedkiller containing the chemical, which two California juries found caused cancer in two users.