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WAN Acceleration of Edge Computing

6th September 2022 - David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks speaks to Computing Security Magazine about the benefits of WAN Acceleration in edge computing.

The effects of the pandemic over the past couple of years has hastened the move towards digital transformation of many companies – and to the cloud in many cases. Organisations concerned for the safety of their personnel and what shape organisations will look like in the future, moved from a traditional capital expenditure (CapEx) model, to a work-from-home and operational expenditure- (OpEx) based SAAS model. At the same time, there is a push for Internet of Things (IoT) devices to monitor and manage many aspects of our daily lives.

This article is also found on Document Manager.

Client: Trudy Darwin Communications for Bridgeworks Ltd. 6th September 2022

Carmakers Need a Global Approach to Derive Value from Data

The automotive industry is increasingly becoming an information industry.

Vehicle manufacturers need to be able to derive and use data to improve their business operations and enhance customer experience. At Automotive Techweek delegates and speakers explored the growing focus on connected vehicle data, how to use data to integrate it with the broader automotive V2X eco-system, and they discussed some specific use cases.

Olivier Leroux, CEO and president of Oasis Smart SIM, says there has been a growing interest in the value associated with V2X connectivity and this includes ADAS technology, which he suggests is a stepping-stone towards autonomous vehicles. Furthermore, the calculation of value in each vehicle is changing. Traditionally it’s been about the value of the steel, rubber, plastic, and copper wire used in the manufacturing of each vehicle. Yet, value is now shifting towards the value of the software and content associated with it.

What is the global approach carmakers need? Read the complete article to find out. 

Client: InformaTech, published by TU Automotive on 30th December 2021. Author: Graham Jarvis.

V2X Reducing the Cyber-Security Risks

The future of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) depends on a number of factors, and one of the most vital ones is cyber-security.

Protecting the vehicles, the highways and the infrastructure that support them is now seen as one of the key elements to accelerating the technologies. One emerging technology that will inevitably have an impact on vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications is cellular-vehicle-to-everything (C2X), which the GSMA explains is “designed to connect vehicles to each other, to roadside infrastructure, to other road-users and to cloud-based services”. The aim is to enable intelligent transport, which also needs be secured.

Reduce the V2X cyber-security risks, read the complete article. 

Client: InformaTech, published by TU Automotive on 15th September 2021; also published by Urgent Communications on 22nd September 2021. Author: Graham Jarvis.

From insurance to cryptocurrencies in healthcare

Beyond his work with TU Automotive and Trudy Darwin Communications, between 2020 and 2022, Graham Jarvis - freelance business and technology journalist, wrote and edited insurtech reports for Intelligent Insurer; wrote articles on cryptocurrencies in healthcare; wrote about education; edited and wrote fleet management reports for ABAX; wrote about digital accessibility; wrote about cloud computing; wrote about customer experiences and customer management; wrote about connected, autonomous vehicles and smart cities. Other topics were also covered. 

Data Management:The March Towards Connected, Autonomous and Electric vehicles

There are many predictions about connected and autonomous vehicles, some of them suggesting that fully autonomous, levels 4 and 5 vehicles will begin to become commonplace on public roads from 2025.

A STUDY by Vynz Research says the global connected and autonomous vehicle market size was 17.7 million units in 2019; and it predicts that this will reach 51.2 million units by 2025 – a compound
growth rate of 17.1% during the period of 2020 to 2025. At present, most vehicles aren’t fully autonomous, yet still increasingly rely upon data to operate.

Growing data volumes

With their emergence will be a growth in data. Rich Miller writes in his article for Data Center Frontier, ‘Rolling Zettabytes: Quantifying the Data Impact of Connected Cars’: “The Automotive Edge Computing Consortium (AECC) is working to help stakeholders understand the infrastructure requirements for connected cars. At Edge Computing World, AECC board member, Vish Nandlall, outlined the group’s findings on the volume of data created by autonomous cars and the challenges they will create.” Vish Nandlall, VP at Dell Technologies and board member of the Automotive Edge Computing Consortium, said in his talk, ‘Driving the Zettabyte Edge’ at Edge Computing World in December 2019: “Automotive data volume will drive the edge and we’re going to hit zettascale volumes.” before adding: “We’re really starting to challenge the limits of the cloud technologies we’ve been using. It’s a challenge to the infrastructure and cloud communities, and a challenge to the automotive community.”

Discover more about why data management is crucial to the march towards connected, autonomous and electric vehicles. 

Client: Trudy Darwin Communications for Bridgeworks Ltd. Published by TaaS Magazine in May 2021. Journalist/Author: Graham Jarvis.

Digital transformation strategies: Should shaken SD-WAN confidence lead to WAN acceleration?

Before the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown struck, the predictions for software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) were glowingly positive. A Cato Networks IT survey forecasted strong growth for the technology, as buyers want to replace their multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) with a nimbler and more affordable alternative. However, the survey finds a need to consider the demands of digital transformation, and arguably now the changes in working practices, to avoid undermining confidence in SD-WANs.

Find out how to restore confidence in SD-WANs with WAN Acceleration; read the complete article : http://bit.ly/3IRUqg4  

Client: Trudy Darwin Communications. Published by CloudTech on 29th September 2020. Featuring David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks. Author: Graham Jarvis.

Driverless Tech Finding New Life in Old Data

Testing connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) in the real world is said to be the gold standard for being able to collate data to improve them.

However, for much of 2020 the lockdown has led to the use of simulation modelling to ascertain how to improve them and, to a degree, this often means that old data has been needed. It’s important because it can be used to track when and why problems have occurred, enabling changes to be made, new algorithms and new scenarios to be explored with some understanding of how to improve them in hindsight...

Find out how to discover new life in old data.

Client: TU Automotive. Published on 20th August 2020. 

Bridgeworks explains WAN Data Acceleration

Unsure about what WAN Acceleration, also referred to as WAN Data Acceleration, is or does? Well, it's not WAN optimisation - nor is it an SD-WAN. However, this video explains that it goes a lot further than other available technologies to mitigate the effects of latency and packet loss. Find out how, watch this Bridgeworks presentation today. 

How Cloud Can Give Data Transfer the Edge

David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks speaks to TU-Auto about the best practices for automotive data transfer and management in the cloud. 

Published by TU Automotive on 23rd October 2019. Author: Graham Jarvis. Client: TU Automotive. 

Bridgeworks Accelerates to Win Again

Bridgeworks continues to accelerate by winning the DCS Award for ‘Data Centre ICT Networking Innovation of the Year’ on 16th May 2019.