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Associated Press
5 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
Lyntia Networks Accelerates Automation with Oracle Unified Operations
Spanish service provider transforms key processes to enhance business agility and service delivery with Oracle Communications and Optare Solutions AUSTIN, Texas and MADRID, June 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Lyntia Networks, a leading neutral operator in the wholesale telecom sector, is relying on Oracle solutions to help meet its ambitious growth in the highly competitive infrastructure and connectivity markets. The operator is leveraging the out-of-the-box capabilities of Oracle Communications cloud native solutions to transform its operational support systems (OSS), enabling faster service delivery through automated orchestration processes. 'To shorten time to revenue, more rapidly expand our service portfolio and geographic reach, and improve key performance metrics, it was paramount to choose an agile, scalable solution with proven experience in OSS automation,' said Marta Ruperez Yague, IT Director, Lyntia Networks. 'The close collaboration between Oracle, Optare Solutions, and our team delivered immediate value from this implementation. Oracle's TM Forum-compliant service orchestration solution is helping us to confidently automate key service delivery processes and accelerate our autonomous operations journey.' Lyntia Network's wide-ranging wholesale connectivity services—including dark fiber, spectrum, capacity, VPN, cloud connect and colocation—help make simple, secure communications possible for national, international, and regional carriers, hyperscalers, utility companies, and data center providers. Through numerous acquisitions, Lyntia Network's fiber optic network now covers all of Spain and Portugal, with points of presence in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Modern orchestration and assurance With Oracle Communications Order and Service Management (OSM) at the heart of Lyntia Network's OSS processes for service delivery, the company can now launch and deliver new Ethernet Line (E-Line), multipoint, and other specialized services more quickly, through a fully automated, scalable, and high availability service orchestration solution. Lyntia Networks has also implemented Oracle Communications ASAP, which provides complementary service activation capabilities across new or updated network interfaces, further accelerating service delivery. Finally, once fully implemented, Lyntia Networks plans for Oracle Unified Assurance to provide real-time service and network assurance, helping Lyntia Networks swiftly identify root cause analysis, prioritize service impacting issues, and drive automated remediation actions through tight integration with OSM. 'Lyntia Networks is a market innovator and disruptor who is rapidly expanding beyond the Iberian Peninsula, and Oracle Communications solutions are helping to power the company's impressive growth,' said Andrew Morawski, executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Communications. 'Our long history of collaboration with Optare Solutions on OSS transformations has been essential in supporting Lyntia Networks' move from vision to reality.' Optare Solutions SA, a member of Oracle Partner Network with deep expertise in Oracle Communications solutions, was instrumental in expediting the implementation. 'Our comprehensive understanding of telecom processes, combined with our extensive experience in Oracle OSS deployments, allowed us to work with Lyntia Networks to achieve their automation goals,' said Luis Alves, general manager, Optare Solutions. 'Lyntia Networks' commitment to this program was instrumental in ensuring a rapid and successful implementation.' Lyntia Networks selected Oracle in May 2024. About Lyntia Networks lyntia Networks is the leading neutral operator in the wholesale telecommunications market, with more than 48,000 km of deployed fiber, offering connectivity services over optical fiber, with extensive network coverage and a high level of capillarity. Lyntia Networks also provides all types of connectivity services: dark fiber, capacity, Internet, co-location, cloud connection, etc. lyntia Networks' fiber optic network connects the country's major cities and serves more than 3,200 cities and towns. It also has connections to the main mooring points for underwater cables on the Iberian Peninsula. About Optare Solutions Optare Solutions is a leading service consultancy in the telecommunications sector, specializing in delivering innovative and tailored solutions for CSPs and ISPs. Focusing on Network and Services automation, as well as OSS processes and platforms optimization, Optare Solutions is committed to helping clients achieve operational excellence and remain competitive in an ever-evolving market. With more than 160 professionals and a presence in 5 countries, the company has completed over 2,000 projects in more than 25 countries, collaborating with over 30 telecom operators. Since October 2024, Optare Solutions has been listed on the BME Growth market (BME:OPTS), opening new opportunities for international expansion and development. About Oracle Communications Oracle Communications provides integrated communications and cloud solutions for Service Providers and Enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation journey in a communications-driven world from network evolution to digital business to customer experience. About Oracle Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. 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Business Mayor
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Mayor
Real-world map data is helping make better games about farms and transportation
I'm feeling a strange sense of pressure as I set up my first bus route in City Bus Manager . I want to get things right for the public transportation users of this city, probably because it's the city I actually live in. City Bus Manager uses OpenStreetMap (OSM) data to populate its maps, so I can see all the familiar streets and points of interest laid out in front of me. These are my neighbors, who, like me, want an efficient transit service. I want to be able to provide it to them — even if only in a simulation. City Bus Manager is part of a small group of management sims that are using OSM's community-generated database to make the whole world their game setting. Other examples include Global Farmer , NIMBY Rails , and Logistical: Earth . In these games, players can build farms, railways, or delivery networks all over the globe, using data about real fields, settlements, and infrastructure to inform their decisions. When the idea of using OSM was first raised at PeDePe, the studio behind City Bus Manager , 'we had no idea if it would be technically feasible,' says Niklas Polster, the studio's co-founder. But once established, the license gave them access to an entire world of streets, buildings, and even real bus stops. And these do more than just form the game's world. They're also used for gameplay elements like simulating passenger behavior. 'Schools generate traffic in the mornings on weekdays, while nightlife areas such as bars and clubs tend to attract more passengers in the evenings on weekends,' ' Polster says. Typically, Polster says, people are drawn to playing City Bus Manager in their local areas. (This seems to be confirmed by looking at YouTube playthroughs of the game, where creators often begin by saying they're going to dive into their own city or town.) That personal connection appears almost hardwired into people, says Thorsten Feldmann, CEO of Global Farmer developer Thera Bytes. When they showcased the game at Gamescom in 2024, 'every single booth visitor' wanted to input their own postal code and look at their own house. Global Farmer. Image: Thera Bytes There's a specific fantasy about being able to transform a space you know so well, Feldmann says. In addition to your own home or town, the marketing for Global Farmer suggests using famous tourist locations, such as Buckingham Palace, as the beginning of your new agricultural life. '[Players creating their] own stories around those places can be even more impactful than in purely fictional environments,' Feldmann says. There is something inherently fun about being in control of a place you see every day or one that is deeply iconic. In particular, tearing down a perfectly manicured gated garden from which the British royal family takes £510 million per year and turning it into land to grow food for a country where 4.5 million children live in poverty might not be a one-to-one political solution, but it is emotionally compelling. 'We've heard stories of players who became interested in public transport as a career thanks to the game.' The quality — or lack thereof — of public transportation is another key political topic where I live. The local buses are currently in the process of being nationalized again after what South Yorkshire Mayor Oliver Coppard calls a 'failed experiment' in privatization. Maybe that's why, even though these might just be pixels on a screen, I want to do it right. That's a feeling many players seem to experience. 'Our Discord community is full of players who are passionate about public transport,' Polster says. 'We've heard stories of players who became interested in public transport as a career thanks to the game.' Read More Topgolf launches a golfing experience on Fortnite's UEFN platform Of course, game developers using OSM data are still making games, rather than exact simulations. The real world is not always a well-balanced game design space. 'In smaller towns and villages, routes can be unprofitable with realistic numbers,' Polster says. City Bus Manager compensates for this by giving players more financial support, which is a straightforward and useful bit of game design. But when it comes to treating the games as direct representations of the world, it elides some complexity. For example, according to Polster, some players have reached out to their local transportation agencies with data they've gathered from playing in their local areas — despite the fact that the game is not actually designed as a faithful recreation of the real world, even if its map is. NIMBY Rails. Image: Weird and Wry Another challenge is that OSM data isn't always fully reliable. Polster explains that there can be errors or missing data that break very specific areas in the game, requiring PeDePe to manually find the issues and fix them. But OSM is also a volunteer-run program, meaning players can correct the data at the source. 'Many of our players contribute directly to OpenStreetMap,' if they find errors in their local area, Polster says, which improves the dataset for everybody, no matter what they're using it for. Density of data is also a particular issue for the Global Farmer developers, who found that OSM has a lot more information about roads than field systems. There are plenty of areas where individual field boundaries aren't mapped, making 'total grey areas where gameplay actually couldn't happen.' The developers compensated for this by making a map editor, where players can copy satellite images from other sources to correct the data, but it means that those who don't want to build their own maps are limited to the places where OSM has detailed data or where other players have shared their creations. Read More The best split-screen PS5 games Management sims have often reached for a sense of realism, and OSM data is a useful tool in that toolbox. It also allows players to control environments they know well and can connect with. But it is not a perfect recreation of the world, and even if it was, that isn't always what games need. According to Feldmann, navigating these factors 'can be very frustrating.' But, just like players, developers are drawn to the idea of blurring the lines between places they know and places they simulate. 'It is also super rewarding whenever you manage to find a solution and get great results that are connected to the real world,' Feldmann says.
The Verge
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
Real-world map data is helping make better games about farms and transportation
I'm feeling a strange sense of pressure as I set up my first bus route in City Bus Manager. I want to get things right for the public transportation users of this city, probably because it's the city I actually live in. City Bus Manager uses OpenStreetMap (OSM) data to populate its maps, so I can see all the familiar streets and points of interest laid out in front of me. These are my neighbors, who, like me, want an efficient transit service. I want to be able to provide it to them — even if only in a simulation. City Bus Manager is part of a small group of management sims that are using OSM's community-generated database to make the whole world their game setting. Other examples include Global Farmer, NIMBY Rails, and Logistical: Earth. In these games, players can build farms, railways, or delivery networks all over the globe, using data about real fields, settlements, and infrastructure to inform their decisions. When the idea of using OSM was first raised at PeDePe, the studio behind City Bus Manager, 'we had no idea if it would be technically feasible,' says Niklas Polster, the studio's co-founder. But once established, the license gave them access to an entire world of streets, buildings, and even real bus stops. And these do more than just form the game's world. They're also used for gameplay elements like simulating passenger behavior. 'Schools generate traffic in the mornings on weekdays, while nightlife areas such as bars and clubs tend to attract more passengers in the evenings on weekends,' ' Polster says. Typically, Polster says, people are drawn to playing City Bus Manager in their local areas. (This seems to be confirmed by looking at YouTube playthroughs of the game, where creators often begin by saying they're going to dive into their own city or town.) That personal connection appears almost hardwired into people, says Thorsten Feldmann, CEO of Global Farmer developer Thera Bytes. When they showcased the game at Gamescom in 2024, 'every single booth visitor' wanted to input their own postal code and look at their own house. There's a specific fantasy about being able to transform a space you know so well, Feldmann says. In addition to your own home or town, the marketing for Global Farmer suggests using famous tourist locations, such as Buckingham Palace, as the beginning of your new agricultural life. '[Players creating their] own stories around those places can be even more impactful than in purely fictional environments,' Feldmann says. There is something inherently fun about being in control of a place you see every day or one that is deeply iconic. In particular, tearing down a perfectly manicured gated garden from which the British royal family takes £510 million per year and turning it into land to grow food for a country where 4.5 million children live in poverty might not be a one-to-one political solution, but it is emotionally compelling. 'We've heard stories of players who became interested in public transport as a career thanks to the game.' The quality — or lack thereof — of public transportation is another key political topic where I live. The local buses are currently in the process of being nationalized again after what South Yorkshire Mayor Oliver Coppard calls a 'failed experiment' in privatization. Maybe that's why, even though these might just be pixels on a screen, I want to do it right. That's a feeling many players seem to experience. 'Our Discord community is full of players who are passionate about public transport,' Polster says. 'We've heard stories of players who became interested in public transport as a career thanks to the game.' Of course, game developers using OSM data are still making games, rather than exact simulations. The real world is not always a well-balanced game design space. 'In smaller towns and villages, routes can be unprofitable with realistic numbers,' Polster says. City Bus Manager compensates for this by giving players more financial support, which is a straightforward and useful bit of game design. But when it comes to treating the games as direct representations of the world, it elides some complexity. For example, according to Polster, some players have reached out to their local transportation agencies with data they've gathered from playing in their local areas — despite the fact that the game is not actually designed as a faithful recreation of the real world, even if its map is. Another challenge is that OSM data isn't always fully reliable. Polster explains that there can be errors or missing data that break very specific areas in the game, requiring PeDePe to manually find the issues and fix them. But OSM is also a volunteer-run program, meaning players can correct the data at the source. 'Many of our players contribute directly to OpenStreetMap,' if they find errors in their local area, Polster says, which improves the dataset for everybody, no matter what they're using it for. Density of data is also a particular issue for the Global Farmer developers, who found that OSM has a lot more information about roads than field systems. There are plenty of areas where individual field boundaries aren't mapped, making 'total grey areas where gameplay actually couldn't happen.' The developers compensated for this by making a map editor, where players can copy satellite images from other sources to correct the data, but it means that those who don't want to build their own maps are limited to the places where OSM has detailed data or where other players have shared their creations. Management sims have often reached for a sense of realism, and OSM data is a useful tool in that toolbox. It also allows players to control environments they know well and can connect with. But it is not a perfect recreation of the world, and even if it was, that isn't always what games need. According to Feldmann, navigating these factors 'can be very frustrating.' But, just like players, developers are drawn to the idea of blurring the lines between places they know and places they simulate. 'It is also super rewarding whenever you manage to find a solution and get great results that are connected to the real world,' Feldmann says.
Time of India
10-05-2025
- General
- Time of India
From Kyiv to Delhi: How underground metro stations double up as bomb shelters in times of conflict
NEW DELHI: Metro stations have served as bomb shelters in times of conflict across the world. From the use of London metro tunnels during World War II to people spending nights on mattresses spread out in the subway stations in Kyiv, , , underground tracks have played a crucial role in protecting people. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Deep beneath the bustling streets of the capital, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has 71 underground stations, with Hauz Khas station being the deepest at 29 metres and Chawri Bazar at 25m. The average depth of the stations is 15m below ground. Of the total operational network of 394.4km, the underground length spans around 106.1km. Cities and govt often use underground subway stations as shelters during aerial attacks and conflicts across the world. In times of conflict, especially with the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, underground infrastructures can accordingly provide a safe haven for residents if needed. Some subway systems have been designed for the dual purposes of transportation and bomb shelters. For instance, , underground chambers and subway stations lies below the roads in Moscow, which served as crucial defensive infrastructure during that country's most challenging historical periods. These stations were designed both for transportation and as nuclear bunkers during the Cold War. Park Pobedy station in Moscow, , is one of the deepest metro stations in the world alongside Admiralteyskaya station in St Petersburg at 86m. Even recently, , , , protecting residents from air raids. Throughout 2023, the metro network served as a sanctuary for hundreds of thousands of civilians seeking protection. People carrying mattresses and accompanied by their pets fled to these underground spaces to spend the night to prevent themselves from air strikes. Apart from safety, , food and water and to charge mobile phones. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now A similar example is the Prague underground railway network, which incorporated a sophisticated defence structure known as OSM, constructed in the 1970s during the Cold War. These fortified underground facilities were engineered to safeguard citizens from nuclear, chemical and biological warfare for a duration of up to 72 hours. The protective infrastructure includes heavy-duty blast doors weighing around 20 tonnes and advanced air purification systems, which would become operational if the external environment becomes polluted with radioactive particles or if the city faces biological or chemical warfare attacks. Similarly, many underground railway stations across Germany were transformed into protective shelters during the Cold War. These facilities underwent modifications or were specifically constructed to safeguard the population against nuclear strikes. Last year, German authorities reportedly compiled an inventory of both govt and private structures suitable for conversion into emergency bunkers when required. Though not designed as a bomb shelter, Delhi Metro's underground network still offers a considerably safer environment than above ground during aerial attacks or emergencies and can accommodate a large population. Of the 71 underground metro stations in the network, the Yellow Line has the maximum underground stations at 20, , which is also an interchange with the Magenta Line. The 40km Magenta Line has 15 underground stations, , the longest line stretching around 59.2km, has 12 underground stations, followed by 11 on the Violet Line.
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
We're Hopeful That Osmond Resources (ASX:OSM) Will Use Its Cash Wisely
Even when a business is losing money, it's possible for shareholders to make money if they buy a good business at the right price. Indeed, Osmond Resources (ASX:OSM) stock is up 450% in the last year, providing strong gains for shareholders. Nonetheless, only a fool would ignore the risk that a loss making company burns through its cash too quickly. So notwithstanding the buoyant share price, we think it's well worth asking whether Osmond Resources' cash burn is too risky. For the purposes of this article, cash burn is the annual rate at which an unprofitable company spends cash to fund its growth; its negative free cash flow. The first step is to compare its cash burn with its cash reserves, to give us its 'cash runway'. Check out our latest analysis for Osmond Resources A company's cash runway is the amount of time it would take to burn through its cash reserves at its current cash burn rate. When Osmond Resources last reported its December 2024 balance sheet in March 2025, it had zero debt and cash worth AU$3.2m. Looking at the last year, the company burnt through AU$1.4m. That means it had a cash runway of about 2.4 years as of December 2024. Arguably, that's a prudent and sensible length of runway to have. The image below shows how its cash balance has been changing over the last few years. Although Osmond Resources reported revenue of AU$191k last year, it didn't actually have any revenue from operations. That means we consider it a pre-revenue business, and we will focus our growth analysis on cash burn, for now. Even though it doesn't get us excited, the 22% reduction in cash burn year on year does suggest the company can continue operating for quite some time. Osmond Resources makes us a little nervous due to its lack of substantial operating revenue. So we'd generally prefer stocks from this list of stocks that have analysts forecasting growth. While Osmond Resources is showing a solid reduction in its cash burn, it's still worth considering how easily it could raise more cash, even just to fuel faster growth. Generally speaking, a listed business can raise new cash through issuing shares or taking on debt. Commonly, a business will sell new shares in itself to raise cash and drive growth. By looking at a company's cash burn relative to its market capitalisation, we gain insight on how much shareholders would be diluted if the company needed to raise enough cash to cover another year's cash burn. Osmond Resources has a market capitalisation of AU$39m and burnt through AU$1.4m last year, which is 3.5% of the company's market value. That's a low proportion, so we figure the company would be able to raise more cash to fund growth, with a little dilution, or even to simply borrow some money. It may already be apparent to you that we're relatively comfortable with the way Osmond Resources is burning through its cash. For example, we think its cash burn relative to its market cap suggests that the company is on a good path. And even though its cash burn reduction wasn't quite as impressive, it was still a positive. Looking at all the measures in this article, together, we're not worried about its rate of cash burn, which seems to be under control. Separately, we looked at different risks affecting the company and spotted 4 warning signs for Osmond Resources (of which 3 are significant!) you should know about. Of course Osmond Resources may not be the best stock to buy. So you may wish to see this free collection of companies boasting high return on equity, or this list of stocks with high insider ownership. Have feedback on this article? Concerned about the content? Get in touch with us directly. Alternatively, email editorial-team (at) article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned.
