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Iridium signs five-year contract with L3Harris to protect FAA critical infrastructure
Iridium has confirmed a new five-year commercial contract with L3Harris Technologies for the Iridium Satellite Time and Location ( STL ) service .
Under the terms of the five-year agreement , Iridium will provide the STL service to more than three dozen L3Harris-operated communications network backbone nodes and a similar number of Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) facilities throughout the United States .
L3Harris owns and operates a private nationwide network for the FAA , providing voice , data and video communications for the National Airspace System operations and mission support functions .
Timing synchronization is essential within the L3Harris communications network since it supports several critical infrastructure applications .
The Iridium STL service is a vital component of the overall network timing architecture that removes dependencies on GPS as a primary timing source .
Compact devices provided by Adtran ’ s Oscilloquartz division that receive Iridium STL signals are also included in the solution for L3Harris . This high-performance equipment is easily integrated into the network and helps fulfill network timing synchronization requirements nationwide .
“ With Iridium STL , data center managers can count on dependable timing synchronization throughout their facilities ,” said Christina Riley , Vice President and General Manager , Commercial Resilient Time and Location , Iridium .
“ STL solutions offer cost-effective resiliency in critical infrastructure environments where GPS is unreliable or unavailable , so L3Harris and the FAA can benefit from uninterrupted , high-performance operations .”
Infinidat announces strategic alliance with TCS
Infinidat and Tata Consultancy Services ( TCS ) have confirmed a collaboration focussed on building new services that TCS will provide to augment Infinidat ’ s InfiniBox and InfiniGuard solutions , enabling enterprises to simplify IT operations , improve the cybersecurity and cyber resilience of storage infrastructure and reduce TCO .
This corporate-level partnership expands upon Infinidat ’ s longstanding relationship with TCS .
“ Together , Infinidat and TCS will drive higher business and technical value that streamline all types of enterprise data infrastructures for our shared customers , everywhere and in any part of the storage lifecycle ,” said Erik Kaulberg , VP of Strategy and Alliances , Infinidat .
“ We are excited to expand the strong business we have with TCS and our joint customers , opening the aperture more broadly for our step-change capabilities , including cyber resilience , AI-powered automation and storage consolidation .”
V . Rajanna , President , Technology , Software and Services , TCS , said : “ TCS ’ deep domain expertise , talent pool and extensive partner ecosystem are helping customers drive digital transformation , boosting enterprise-wide growth .”
As they both sell to the Forbes Global 2000 , TCS and Infinidat already share some of the same enterprise customers across industries , including financial services , insurance , retail , biomedical and manufacturing .
The two companies will work together to leverage their tight synergies and ecosystems and enhance relationships with large enterprises through collective knowledge-sharing and storage technology guarantees – while forming new relationships with a growing number of customers .
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