Altran, part of Capgemini, and Blue Planet, a division of Ciena, have announced a collaboration to provide network operators with intelligent automation solutions. This collaboration will support operators that are grappling with increasingly complex requirements across physical and virtual domains driven by 5G, cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Altran has announced that it is delivering enhancements to its ENSCONCE edge computing platform. The platform now integrates Open Network Edge Services Software (OpenNESS), an open-source toolkit developed by Intel, along with other Intel technologies. The platform combines multiple capabilities, accelerators and frameworks for rapid development of Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) solutions.

Altran has announced the release of a new tool, available on GitHub, that predicts the likelihood of bugs in source code created by developers early in the software development process. By applying Machine Learning (ML) to historical data, the tool - called 'Code Defect AI' - identifies areas of the code that are potentially buggy and then suggests a set of tests to diagnose and fix the flaws, resulting in higher quality software a...

Altran has announced that it has more than 50 active 5G-related projects underway worldwide. The engagements span all major regions - North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific - and serve a broad range of clients, including Communications Service Providers (CSPs), Network Equipment Providers (NEPs), semiconductor makers, other large corporate enterprises, industry consortiums and public-sector institutions.

Altran, Benetel and Phluido have co-created a disaggregated, multi-organisation, containerised LTE RAN reference solution that provides 4G RAN services over existing cable networks. Working under the guidance of CableLabs, the companies developed the solution as part of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) vRAN Fronthaul Project Group.

An overwhelming majority of cyber security and risk management leaders believe that developments in 5G wireless technology will create cyber security challenges for their organisations. Their top three 5G-related concerns are greater risk of attacks on Internet of Things (IoT) networks, a wider attack surface and a lack of security by design in 5G hardware and firmware.

In a move that accelerates the development path to 5G for network equipment providers, Altran announced that its pre-integrated 5G RAN framework will now be used by Shenzhen Fu Hua Ke (FHK), a subsidiary of Foxconn Industry Internet (FII),  which develops the 5G wireless and edge computing technologies with an emphasis on the applications in IIoT systems both inside and outside Foxconn.

Altran Praxis has today announced the appointment of Stuart Matthews as SPARK Product Manager. He will work alongside Rod Chapman, who continues at Altran Praxis as SPARK Technical Authority. The new appointment ensures that SPARK customers can benefit from a bigger and highly experienced team, continuing to provide high quality consultancy and support on SPARK.

Altran Praxis and AdaCore today announced a new reference implementation of the Skein algorithm, written and verified using the GPL 2010 Edition of the SPARK language and toolset. Skein is a cryptographic hash function and an entrant in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hash function competition to design what will become the new Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-3) standard. Such hash functions are used to compute short “diges...