I hope you’ll join Advantech during our 100G showcase at the Next Generation Network Components Event on Nov 6 at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara. We are gold sponsor at this Light Reading event which will highlight the key technologies for next-generation networks, encompassing Wired, Wireless, and Virtual elements along with the building blocks that will enable them. Advantech’s focus at the event will be on how 100G traffic...

  IDF opens its doors on Sep 9 and this year the theme is about Developers, Makers and Creators coming together in Intel’s “playground” for innovation. For many of us in the networking business it’s an opportunity to discover (new) ways of designing equipment that can handle 40G and 100G traffic, advancing our NFV strategies and checking the pulse of SDN, perhaps even all three. For those making gear that’s not so...

Branding – for a lot of people this simply means painting a system in customer colors and/or adding their logo. That’s merely branding 1.0. With Advantech you receive branding 2.0 and more! Branding – it’s more than just paint. Besides custom colors, logos, and port labeling (on systems and blades), Advantech offers branding services to include the whole complement of packaging including custom cartons, collaterals and...

SoL– Serial Over LAN is a way to provide a serial, terminal style console over a LAN connection. The cool thing about it is that the x86 host does not need to run any special software. It just talks to the standard serial port and an extra microcontroller, usually the BMC in a server type platform, sits on the other side of the x86 COM port and forwards the serial characters using a standardized protocol (RMCP+) over an IP connection....

For Advantech DUI does not mean “Driving Under the Influence.” It is a term created by our x86 SW architect Thomas Kastner and “DUI” stands for our diagnostic and update framework – “Diagnostic and Update Infrastructure”. So, what is Advantech DUI ? It is our response to customers’ requirements to provide diagnostics and update utilities. Of course we already have an extensive suite of diagnostics and utilities,...