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Trend Overview By the end of 2021, Caterpillar has hauled more than 4 billion tons of product and driven more than 145 million kilometers autonomously. As an aside, that’s the distance of a round trip to Mars. Autonomous technology is mature. Perhaps haulage is the simplest of all autonomous problems to solve and has the most significant return on investment. In 2017, Rio Tinto identified that in one year, each of their autonomous trucks had…

The more workloads that you migrate to the cloud, the more difficult it becomes to predict monthly cloud costs. Cloud services vendors such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft can help organizations avoid capital costs for new hardware, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you have made the most cost-effective decisions about the particular services that these and other cloud vendors offer. And while it is great that you’re only paying for the services you need, trying…

At the start of the pandemic, nearly every organization was forced to expand their security to include an entirely remote workforce. All those home offices significantly increased the organization’s attack surface and exposed it to more risks because home networks often aren’t well secured. These remote office vulnerabilities have led to increased attacks as employees, vendors, partners, and guests move to different locations using an array of devices. Now, as organizations embrace more of a…

Have you ever wondered how many days it’s been since you started your diet, begun your daily jogs, or were first working with Linux? If you can remember the start date, a simple Linux script can count the days for you. All you need is the date command and a calculation that turns your dates into seconds, subtracts the start date from the end date and then divides the result by the appropriate number to…

Maintaining a network that hosts thousands of users requires constant information. But as the needs of the user base continue to grow, the strain on the network grows as well. Keeping up with that growth means understanding the ways in which traffic and load affect the network and the users who rely upon it, as well as expanding the infrastructure that enables the growth. This leads to a couple of problems: how can we stress…

AWS is making a push into an area of quantum computing that hasn’t received as much attention as other aspects: networking. The AWS Center for Quantum Networking (CQN) will work toward solving scientific and engineering challenges around creating new hardware, software, and applications for quantum networks, AWS stated. The center will expand other AWS quantum work being done at the vendor’s AWS Center for Quantum Computing, the Amazon Quantum Solutions Lab, and its Amazon Braket service….

StorONE has introduced what it claims is the first storage platform to enable connectivity between standard mechanical hard disk drives (HDD) and flash drives over NVMe-over Fabric (NVMe-oF) infrastructures, which it says can reduce the cost of an NVMe solution by tenfold or more. Storage arrays have traditionally been separated by drive make. You have all-flash arrays and all-hard-disk arrays but not a mix of the two. Typical operation is to put “hot” data, or…

Written by Vasanta Rao, Technical Marketing Engineer, Transceiver Modules Group (Cisco Optics) Understanding FEC Part 1: The Basics of FEC In part one of this two-part blog post, we review the basics of forward-error correction (FEC). In part two, we will discuss implementation and the impact of FEC on performance. Today’s insatiable demand for bandwidth is pushing network speeds higher and higher. Unfortunately, the faster the data rate, the greater the likelihood of transmission errors….

In collaboration with Dipesh Patel What new demands will our network face in 2025? In this blog series, the Cisco IT networking team will share our vision for the future of our network—and the investments we’re making to get there. Insights and automation will power our future network. Think of it as a circular process: collect data from network infrastructure. Analyze it for insights. Share those insights with teams to help them improve service. Use…

Part 2 of the 3-part Wireless Catalyst 9800 WLC KPIs In the previous blog Wireless Catalyst 9800 WLC KPIs, Part 1 we shared how to check WLC and connections to other devices. In this blog, we will concentrate on Key Performance Indicators for Access Points (AP) and Radio Frequency(RF). I will share approaches and commands to measure the health of the APs and RF. KPIs different buckets or areas: WLC checks, Connection with other devices…