BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 25, 2026--
BitRipple, a real-time data acceleration and resiliency software company, today became the Official Communications Acceleration Partner to Aotearoa Ocean Racing (AOR) for The Ocean Race Atlantic.
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BitRipple provides its LT3 software platform to support the offshore campaign of AOR IMOCA skipper Conrad Colman, accelerating mission-critical data and high-bandwidth media from one of the most challenging environments: ocean racing, far beyond terrestrial networks.
At sea, sailors rely on timely weather and routing data for safety-critical decisions, while rich media is constrained by satellite bandwidth, latency, and long upload cycles. LT3 addresses both, moving data across constrained and variable networks so information arrives faster, more reliably, and with greater fidelity. It is software only: a thin transport layer on existing hardware, beneath existing encryption, with no changes to radios, modems, or terminals.
BitRipple founder and CTO Dr. Michael Luby invented LT codes, the first practical fountain codes, and co-created RaptorQ, the IETF-standard erasure code published as RFC 6330. LT3 is the next generation of fountain-coded accelerated delivery, engineered for real-time operation on lossy, variable, or one-way links.
Onboard, LT3 will accelerate live camera feeds and race telemetry over IP across commercial Starlink terminals, from a platform in constant motion and continuous saltwater exposure. Where offshore content has traditionally been pre-recorded and transmitted hours or days later, this partnership compresses that gap.
“This is about proving what’s possible when data acceleration is applied in the harshest environments,” said Scott Brown, CEO of BitRipple. “Ocean racing pushes communications to their limits. If we can enable safer decision-making and truly real-time experiences under those conditions, that capability extends directly to any operator whose networks are degraded, congested, contested, or one-way.”
“Reliable access to information at sea is fundamental to safety and performance,” said Conrad Colman, AOR skipper. “Offshore racing also deserves to be experienced as it happens. BitRipple lets us rethink what’s possible, from how we receive critical data to how fans and broadcasters connect with life on board.”
Beyond Colman’s IMOCA campaign, the collaboration is a reference model for nearshore and offshore sport, remote and unmanned operations, and satellite and optical links: any setting where data must arrive complete and on time across lossy, intermittent, or one-way networks.
BitRipple Named Official Communications Acceleration Partner to Aotearoa Ocean Racing for The Ocean Race Atlantic.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 50,000 people during July, the highest single monthly arrest total during the second Trump administration, according to new figures.
The spike in immigration arrests shows that the administration has continued to advance its mass deportations agenda despite a shift in approach earlier this year from high-profile operations in large American cities that sparked a public outcry to arrests that have garnered less attention but have nonetheless been disruptive.
The July arrest tally of 49,571 marks a 15% jump from 43,021 arrests a month earlier and a 70% increase from 29,241 in February, in the aftermath of the Trump administration’s enforcement surge in Minnesota, according to government data that was provided by ICE to the University of California, Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project and analyzed by The Associated Press.
Immigration arrests the month before Trump entered office hovered a little over 8,000 a figure largely made up of immigrants transferred from city or state jails and prisons and turned over to ICE to remove from the country. During Trump’s first year in office the numbers started climbing as the administration loosened restrictions on where and who ICE could arrest while it also infused the agency with billions of dollars.
By December, the number of arrests jumped to more than 40,177, according to the data, which was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
In the aftermath of two fatal shootings in Minnesota in January that sparked protests and an uproar from Democratic lawmakers, arrests began to fall to nearly 30,000 in February. After remaining stagnant for months, the numbers of people arrested in June jumped to more than 43,000 and then to roughly 49,500 in July.
In his confirmation hearing earlier this year, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin pledged to keep ICE out of the headlines, suggesting that the administration’s immigration crackdown might take a softer approach. But his tenure has been marred by a number of fatal shootings of immigrants in encounters with ICE officers. And the figures show Mullin hasn’t shifted the agency from President Donald Trump’s vision for mass deportations.
Texas and Florida accounted for nearly 20,000 of the July arrests, in a sign of how important those states have become to the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. Both states have leaned heavily into cooperation agreements with ICE called 287g agreements that allow local and state law enforcement to essentially operate as arms of federal immigration enforcement.
The spike in arrests comes as the agency, infused with billions of dollars last summer by Congress, has also hired 12,000 new deportation officers and investigative agents.
FILE - A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge in New York, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
