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The Business Side of Open Systems Architecture

The Business Side of Open Systems Architecture

With a number of directives promoting the use of open systems architecture (OSA) in military systems, including Better Buying Power and the US Government Accountability Office (GAO...

12 years 2 months ago

How Virtual Switch Performance Improves Service Provider OPEX

How Virtual Switch Performance Improves Service Provider OPEX

This post will explain how increasing the performance of the virtual switch in an NFV platform causes very significant improvements in service provider opex. We’ll show an example...

12 years 2 months ago

Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful

Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful

I had to learn this the hard way. About a decade ago I was sitting among the five computers occupying most of the space in my small student dorm room. I was looking for a project...

12 years 2 months ago

Wind River joins Car Connectivity Consortium

Wind River joins Car Connectivity Consortium

I’m pleased to share that Wind River is now a member of the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), an organization driving innovation for phone-centric car connectivity solutions. The...

12 years 2 months ago

Predictive Maintenance and Adaptive Analytics Raise IoT Value

Predictive Maintenance and Adaptive Analytics Raise IoT Value

One of the most intriguing aspects about the Internet of Things (IoT) is that it can positively impact such a wide range of markets, including industrial, energy, health care, and...

12 years 3 months ago

5 barriers to NFV – and how to tackle those challenges

5 barriers to NFV – and how to tackle those challenges

Network functions virtualization has fast become of part of the road map for equipment vendors, operators and other suppliers in the industry. However, many see the transition from...

12 years 3 months ago

Wanted: One Copy of ‘NFV Orchestration for Dummies’

Wanted: One Copy of ‘NFV Orchestration for Dummies’

Thanks to all the work done by the ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group (ISG), it seems that everyone working in this space has a precise, shared understanding of most of the...

12 years 4 months ago

Is the Internet our best metaphor for the IoT?

Is the Internet our best metaphor for the IoT?

Last week Dave Evans ( @DaveTheFuturist) tweeted about a search engine for the Internet of Things called Thingful. In the interview that Dave referenced, there’s discussion of how...

12 years 5 months ago

U.S. Navy, Northrop Grumman & X-47B Team Receive Aviation’s Highest Honor

U.S. Navy, Northrop Grumman & X-47B Team Receive Aviation’s Highest Honor

Congratulations to the U.S. Navy, Northrop Grumman, and the X-47B Industry Team for winning the prestigious Robert J. Collier Trophy. The 2013 Collier Trophy was formally presented...

12 years 5 months ago

What Makes “Carrier Grade” Reliability So Hard?

What Makes “Carrier Grade” Reliability So Hard?

I recently talked about the need for full Carrier Grade reliability in telecom networks. Today’s telecom networks are incredibly reliable. Over decades, service providers have...

12 years 5 months ago