• Viodi View – 09/17/16

    Viodi View – 09/17/16

    What should the role of telecom providers be in the so-called Internet of Things? @GoFarley inspired that question with his Tweet about Verizon’s aggressive push into the “Things” part of the Internet. Is being the central nervous system of IoT enough or should a provider extend beyond the telecom network to be the brains (e.g.…

  • Autonomous Vehicles Staying the Course with a Fiber Gyro #AVS16

    Autonomous Vehicles Staying the Course with a Fiber Gyro #AVS16

    Redundancy of inputs might be the secret sauce that will lead to the expected safety improvements of autonomous transportation. In the above interview, Sean McCormack, Director, FOG/OEM Sales for KVH Industries, talks about KVH’s inertial sensor as a way for an autonomous vehicle to understand where it is at all times, even, in those cases…

  • HOTi Summary Part II. SDN & NFV Impact on Interconnects & Cloud Orchestration Lacking

    HOTi Summary Part II. SDN & NFV Impact on Interconnects & Cloud Orchestration Lacking

    Introduction: This article summarizes the HOTi August 26th keynote presentation from SDx Central’s Roy Chua. The impact of SDN, NFV and other Software Defined WAN/ open networking schemes on Interconnects (for intra-Data Center (DC) communications) are described along with Roy’s conclusions. Mr. Chua described the emerging trends, hot topics and the impact SDe will have on interconnect…

  • Viodi View – 09/06/16

    Viodi View – 09/06/16

    The announcement and demonstrations by farm implement manufacturer, CNH Industrial, make it pretty clear that autonomous technologies will have a huge impact on rural areas just as they will make a huge difference to urban landscapes. This could be a boon to places that face shortages of people to drive tractors and combines, but, at the same time, has the potential…

  • HOT Interconnects (HOTi) Summary- Part I.  Building Large Scale Data Center Networks

    HOT Interconnects (HOTi) Summary- Part I. Building Large Scale Data Center Networks

    The annual IEEE Hot Interconnects conference was held August 24-25, 2016 in Santa Clara, CA. We review selected presentations in a series of conference summary articles. In this Part I. piece, we focus on design considerations for large-scale Data Centers (DCs) that are operated by Cloud Service Providers (CSPs).

  • Automation Will Be a Continuum

    Automation Will Be a Continuum

    “You will need all of them”, says Dr. Louay Eldada. Eldada, CEO of Quanergy was referring to the idea of fusing multiple types of sensors together to paint a complete picture of a vehicle’s environment. This picture Eldada describes is one that is more crisp and extensive (360 degree view) than what a human could see. Quanergy’s…