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AUDIN The IEEE has formed a working group to
vendor producing a proprietary solution. less than a dozen. It also does not cover the
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produce some structure to the many of IoT The drawback to ZigBee is the number of higher layer functions.
Even if a standard is adopted, there is speciications being developed. It plans
different implementations making product
the necessity of certiication. You can see to turn the information from different
interoperability problematic.
Thread www.threadgroup.org.
competing standards humor http://xkcd. IoT platforms into commonly understood This is a new comer to the IoT wireless
com/927/.
data objects. This group is developing AllSeen Alliance https:// network world. Thread is the product of
relationships with other IoT organizations.
allseenalliance.org/
an alliance between Nest, Samsung, ARM,
Deining a Standard
The AllSeen Alliance framework is initially and four other companies. The Thread
A standard is a document that deines a Competition of or Harmony?
based on the AllJoynM open source project. Group plans to provide rigorous testing,
speciic process, procedure, measurement, The real standards work will come at
It will be expanded with contributions certiication, and standards enforcement.
or production of something that is agreed upon by a group of people, governments, or the applications level. The networking standards will probably be those we already from member companies and the open source community. Products, applications, Existing Thread speciications will be able to support a network of up to 250 devices.
organizations. The adoption of a standard have for layers 1 and 2. The mid-level and services created with the AllJoyn
Thread uses the same radio technologies as
produces interoperability, compatibility, standards are up for grabs. The application open source project can communicate
ZigBee from the IEEE standard 802.15.4.
safety, repeatability, and/or quality.
level standards are the most dificult
over various transport layers without the Thread developers want to avoid what
The development of IoT leads to technical to complete since the application level need for Internet access. The software
they see as the ZigBee problem of fractured
standards. A technical standard is an relates to speciic industry and function will continue to be openly available
standards by requiring a certiication
established requirement and/or agreed upon requirements.
for developers to download. It runs on program or products.
options in regard to technical systems. It is There may be multiply industry groups platforms such as Linux and Linux-based
a formal document that establishes uniform participating at the application level
Android, iOS, and Windows.
Open Interconnect Consortium
technical criteria, methods, processes, which could create anarchy until this all The framework consists of a code
(OIC) http://openinterconnect.
procedures, and protocols.
settles down. The lower level standards base of various modular services that org/
We use standard protocols in networks. may harmonize, that is there will be few produce activities such as discovery
The Open Interconnect Consortium has
Unfortunately, sometimes vendors use the standards to adopt. It is at the application of adjacent devices, pairing, message been founded by technology companies
term standard to present their products
level where we will probably see a great deal routing, and security. The cross platform with the goal of deining the connectivity
or services, but are really presenting of competition, not cooperation. ■
nature of the open source codebase requirements and ensuring interoperability
defacto standards that many organizations ensures interoperability among even the of the billions of IoT devices. The OIC
have adopted but are not formalized
● http://www.computerworld.com/ most basic devices and systems.
is composed of vendors including Intel,
by a standards body such as the IEEE, article/2863498/networking-hardware/ Samsung Electronics, and Dell. The OIC
ANSI, ITU, and many others. Standards iot-groups-are-like-an-orchestra-tuning- Wi-Fi
plans a set of speciications to help devices
usually lead to the commoditization of products and services. When something is up-the-music-starts-in-2016.html
This is a LAN wireless technology that
uses 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz radio. It is widely locate each other and work together. These open-source standards are expected to cover
commoditized, the competition devolves into deployed in both enterprise and consumer device discovery, communication protocols,
price competition and sometimes quality ● http://www.computerworld.com/ article/2686714/networking-hardware/ locations. It is the implementation of the data exchange, and other functions. The
competition.
ieee-standards-group-wants-to-bring- IEEE 802.11 standards, 802.11 a, b, g, n
OIC’s irst speciication is expected in early
order-to-internet-of-things.html
for layers 1 and 2. Wi-Fi is best applied to 2015, with certiied products following by
Standards Organizations
sending large amounts of data wirelessly the end of that year.
Not all of the standards bodies are pursuing ● http://www.computerworld.com/ between devices. Many IoT endpoints only
all the OSI layers for IoT. Some deal with article/2490292/networking/a-guide- require a low level of data throughput.
Industrial Internet
layers 1 and 2. For them, IoT endpoints
to-the-confusing-internet-of-things- The bandwidth capabilities of Wi-Fi far Consortium (IIC) http://www.
are just endpoints like any other. So the standards-world.html
exceed the requirements for the majority of industrialinternetconsortium.org/
layer 1 and 2 standards can be used by a IoT endpoints. If the Wi-Fi endpoint runs GE, Cisco, IBM, Intel, and AT&T
wide range endpoints outside of the IoT ● “Google’s Nest launches network with batteries, then the batteries have to announced the IIC in March 2014 with
environment. Layers 3, 4, 5, and 6 are technology for connected home”
recharged or replaced in days. Most Wi-Fi a focus on enterprise, not consumer IoT.
pursued by other standard groups some of http://www.reuters.com/ endpoints derive their power from PoE LAN This group is not focused on creating
whom are focusing on IoT. The application article/2014/07/15/us-google-nest- switches, not batteries.
standards. The IIC expects it will work with
layer 7 is the interest of speciic IoT idUSKBN0FK0JX20140715
standards bodies to ensure technologies
standards groups.
Bluetooth
work together across business sectors.
● “Introducing Thread: A New Bluetooth technology was introduced by The goal is to foster coordination among
ZigBee Alliance www.zigbee.org
ZigBee 3.0 is a speciication used to create Wireless Networking Protocol for the Ericsson about 20 years ago for personal data networks (PAN). A Bluetooth PAN industries with IoT and older M2M (machine-to-machine) technologies most
personal area networks (PAN) that supports Home” http://www.marketwatch. transmits data over the frequency band of which have been developed in relative
low-power digital radios. ZigBee is based on com/story/introducing-thread-a-new- between 2.4 and 2.485 GHz. It supports isolation. This effort involves deining
an IEEE 802.15 wireless LAN standard that wireless-networking-protocol-for-the- home-2014-07-15
shorter distances compared to Wi-Fi
requirements for standards, developing
speciies transmission distances to 10–100 and operates with less power than Wi-
reference architectures and creating test
meters line-of-sight. The ZigBee endpoints “4 things to do now to get ready
Fi. Devices can be paired like phones, facilities. The membership has grown
are usually powered by batteries that have ● for the Internet of Things” http://www. smartwatches, headsets, speakers, and including Microsoft, Samsung, and Huawei
a long life, months to years, because of the computerworld.com/article/2488136/ computers together. Bluetooth v4.0 delivers Technologies.
endpoints low power consumption.
internet-4-things-to-do-now-to-get-ready- the ability to implement low-energy
The lower two OSI layers are deined for-the-internet-of-things.html
features that conserve power. Version 4.2 IEEE P2413 http://standards.ieee.
by the IEEE standard http://standards. introduces three low energy updates to the org/develop/project/2413.html
ieee.org/about/get/802/802.15.html. The ● Ed Note: the original piece has speciication; data packet length extensions, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics
ZigBee Alliance embraces the middle several links not reproduced herein. See privacy upgrades, and secure connections. Engineers (IEEE) has been in existence for
four layers. The top application layer can online version at tinyurl.com/q8m96qt for IoT endpoints can use Bluetooth but the decades. The working groups at the IEEE
be deined by the ZigBee Alliance or a
access to all links.
number of endpoints per network is small,
are composed l of engineers from vendors.
Network Monitoring as Big Data

Network monitoring has been around (NFV) means that much of the resource software designed to handle data sets that
in some form ever since networks conigurations will be under software control are too large and complex, or are growing AUDIN
were established. Networking
dynamically producing the responses to any and changing too quickly for traditional
monitoring has been focused on ixing changes or problems. These are dynamic databases and applications. Analytics refers By Gary Audin
failures and improving performance. This networks supporting dynamic trafic.
both to general purpose statistical software (originally run in nojitter)
is still necessary today. The amount of data These responses will be automated and the and to special purpose software applications
collected especially historical data can be changes with the assumption that trafic human network operators will be informed for more speciic analytic functions within
considered big data.
will not drastically change in the near of the changes after the fact. The enterprise the organization.”
term. If the trafic changes are substantial, needs to be able to analyze the automated There is poorer visibility of the data
New Technologies Change the static network does not the ability to actions to ensure that they deliver what was center network connecting the virtualized
the Scope
restructure itself to respond to the changed expected and to modify automated behavior servers. There is a need to correlate the
Most networks today are static in structure trafic.
to satisfy the enterprise’s’ goals.
trafic within the data center with the trafic
but have to support dynamically changing The advent of virtualization across from the WANs and LANs. One affects the
trafic. When trafic changes enough, the data center and its trafic among servers, Network Data = Big Data
other but most data center and WAN/LAN
network is redesigned, routing tables software deined networks (SDN), see In Big Data: Tools and a Test, Sandy monitoring is separate and disconnected
changed, bandwidth reassigned/increased. SDN: A Network Troubleshooting Black Borthick stated, “Stratecast deines Big AUDIN continues on page 10 ››
Performance issues are resolved by these
Hole? and network function virtualization
Data as the database hardware and

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