May 1, 2014, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—John D’Ambrosia from Dell envisioned the paths leading to a TbE network. The efforts in defining the next-generation transport technologies is starting now. Speed will always exist as a limiting factor in all electronics. For networks, the latest efforts are to get to 400 GbE, even though…
April 23, 2014, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Wayne Adams and David Dale from the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) provided an update on the association’s latest activities. The organization continues to provide leadership and guidance to the storage industry. Among their latest achievements are a cloud interoperability conformance test program to complement the…
April 5, 2014, NAB, Las Vegas—A panel of content owners looked at the use of interoperability standards in their work. Howard Lukk from Disney moderated the panel, while panelists were Annie Chung from Disney, Arjun Ramamurthy from 20th Century Fox, and Bill Baggelaar from Sony. The interoperability mastering format is a new and improved implementation…
March 25, 2014, GPU technology conference, San Jose, CA—Kobi Ben Zvi from Mishor talked about heads-up displays and augmented reality for cars. There is an ongoing trend to include more augmented reality functions in cars to provide greater ease of use, safety, and greater access to relevant information. The advance of augmented reality in cars…
March 3, 2014, US Flat Panel Display Connected Devices Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Paul Gray from NPD DisplaySearch moderated a panel on the emerging 4k TV segments. Panelists included Rob Tobias from Silicon Image, Joe Kane from Joe Kane Productions, Ken Lowe from Vizio, Amine Chabane from Marseille Networks, and Brian Markwalter from the Consumer Electronics…
February 24, 2014, RSA Conference, Trusted Computing Group, San Francisco—Jon Oltsik from the Enterprise Strategy Group moderated a panel focused on compliance and automation implementations. Panel members were Steve Whitlock from Boeing, Dan Griffin from JW Secure, and David Waltermire from NIST. In this time of security skill shortages and increased attack vectors, can standards…
February 11, 2014, ISSCC, San Francisco—Low-power wireless for short-range communications is becoming widely in demand for such devices as personal area networks, ID cards, and medical applications. The newest radios are operating in a wide range of frequencies and bandwidths to address many diverse applications. for wireless, low power is the key factor. Wee Liang…
February 4, 2014, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Al Bovik from the University of Texas at Austin detailed the efforts in developing automated tools for assessing video quality in video networks. The volume of digital videos is doubling every year, and the computational and network capabilities for the image processing and delivery is struggling to keep…
February 3, 2014, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Harry Matthias from San Jose State University talked about mythologies and their effect on digital cinema. This summer, there will be no more film deliveries to theaters, and all projected films will be digital. Standards from SMPTE and ISO exist to define all facets of these movies from…
October 5, 2013, IEEE Communications Society and Consumer Electronics Society, Santa Clara, CA—Peter Symes from SMPTE, the Society for Motion Picture and Television Engineers, talked about the displays and infrastructure beyond HD. The next generation of TV will have brighter and sharper pictures, but the challenge is for the industry to not have another 3-D…