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Following on my previous post, today I focus on automated meter infrastructure (AMI) and field area network (FAN). Local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) are well-known terms and do not need explanation. There are a few XANs to indicate the scope of the area covered. For example, a met...
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Although I have not abandoned the green IT/data center field, I have also started following smart grid. Smart grid includes the three areas of power, IT, and communications. In this post, I’ll briefly touch on how ICT is used in smart grid.
The power system consists of generation, transmiss...
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The Internet may be the one thing so many countries and people got right the last fifteen years. Now if our culture and education could catch-up with the rest of the global economy, a competitive edge would at least be possible once again. Today the big money is sorting out the differen...
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This white paper describes how Panasas Storage delivers high throughput to many concurrent backup IO streams to standard backup applications such as Veritas NetBackup™ or EMC® NetWorker™. It also offers an overall strategy for backup and restore taking into account the tape subsystem...
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Tremendous effort has been made by IT organizations, and their providers, to make enterprise storage more efficient and effective, but the technical computing side of the organization has been left behind. This paper details the compelling benefits created by improving the efficiency and performance...
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Obama’s lip service on transparency apparently was just that, and it was also meant to exclude how his light-footed FCC champ Julius Genachowski danced a two step around Net Neutrality. The current news is that Julius, "called off its closed-door meetings with big Internet compan...
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Thirty years ago most psychologists, philosophers and psychiatrists thought that babies and young children were irrational, egocentric and amoral. They believed children were locked in the concrete here and now—unable to understand cause and effect, imagine the experiences of other people,...
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There are a few technologies to make networking more energy efficient. But a more energy efficient Ethernet would have by far the biggest impact because of its ubiquity.
I visited Broadcom to meet with David Berry, senior marketing manager, and Wael William Diab, technical director, office of t...
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There are those who are still want to think that macro technology decisions are based solely on performance, or benefit to human kind. They need to be reminded from time to time that the only thing that decides which technologies are adopted -at a macro level- is the choice made by those who p...
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After having attended Berkeley as an undergraduate, Paul Fine has returned as a professor of integrative biology. He is holding one of his transplanted tree seedlings. Image courtesy Paul Fine
The tropics are hotbeds of biodiversity. Compared to other regions, the variety of b...
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It is often said that smart grid is the power grid superimposed on information and communications technology (ICT). To support smart grid, it is imperative that communications be improved and used for smart grid.
At ConnectivityWeek several weeks ago, a representative from the Federal Communications...
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After his presentation, I sat down with Bob Heile, who was chairing one of the IEEE meetings colocated at the recent ConnetivityWeek. I first saw Heile’s name in an article about several wireless protocols, including ZigBee, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and UWB. After following that space for a ...
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I remember when ZigBee was first officially announced in San Francisco. I was researching wireless mesh networking and attended the TinyOS workshop, which was hosted by Professor David Culler at UC Berkeley. The workshop was in 2005, and the ZigBee meeting was right after that, so it must have been ...
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I wrote about my first idea for a panel discussion in my previous blog, and here’s my second. When we analyze the power consumption ratio among servers, storage equipment, and networking, we find that servers consume far more power than storage and networking equipment combined. That is why th...
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In a typical conference, people start to disappear after 3 p.m. It was quite different at ConnectivityWeek this week. At 5 p.m. (just before a reception with cocktails and food), Vint Cerf, Father of the Internet, gave a keynote speech. A pretty good-sized room, called Theater, was packed with peopl...
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