In October of 2016, Gartner issued a report on the direction things will take in 2017. The vision is forward looking, examining what will come and begin to develop. They break it into three broad categories, Intelligent, Digital, and Mesh. They include Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Machine Learning, Intelligent Things, Adaptive Security Architecture, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Digital Twins. They all have implications for today’s connectivity planning.
Digital Twins, number five on their list, they describe as “a dynamic software model of a physical thing or system that relies on sensor data to understand the state of the thing or system.” The significance of using a digital clone based on sensor data to control a real asset or system cannot be understated. The authors, Cleary, Walker, and Burke estimate that by the end of this decade “there will be more than 21 billion connected sensors and endpoints, and digital twins will exist for potentially billions of things.” These digital twins will be used monitor equipment, predict failures, and operate entire facilities. Their use will extend to “common things.” Many of them mobile or remote assets, from factories to vehicles.
The significant takeaway for today is that throughout the Gartner report, connectivity is simply assumed. The IT assets that will underlie all of these changes are critical to operation, and expected to be in place. The digital twin technology will develop and become quickly available; the 100%, no fail connectivity required must be operational for these advances to work. Remote monitoring of a system based on a digital twin using sensor data requires an unbreakable connection, for just one example.
Connectivity is no longer a “good enough” technology. Even businesses using mostly-on solutions will quickly need to have 100% connectivity in place. Despite their best efforts, ISPs and network providers cannot guarantee a 100% connection. The only way to assure that all devices can communicate all of the time is with bandwidth bonding, duplication and automatic failover switching.
Peplink and Pepwave design and build robust, capable connectivity solutions with the reliability and failover duplication required. Peplink offers everything you need to assure that your upgrades or new installations will meet your needs today, and what will come in the very near future. Frontier Computer Corp. has the largest inventory of Peplink products in stock, and Peplink certified technicians to help you plan, build, and implement your 100% connected, unbreakable network.
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