The Software Defined Networking (SDN) gained recognition due to its improvements at the packet switching and routing layers. The benefits of programmable, remotely controllable networking devices can be applied to the optical layer of contemporary networks as well. This work introduces CESNET's Czech Light~® family of devices and their role in enabling the SDN approach within the CESNET's produ...

Server virtualization has brought about tremendous value to a modern computing landscape and in particular to data center and cloud infrastructures. Virtual server deployments have become ubiquitous in many development and production sites, in cloud infrastructures and in disaster recovery solutions. Network connectivity is a vital aspect of modern computing. In this work we explore the new req...

Integrated Engineering is a BISE-model and combines the following dimensions within an network-oriented SME: − Cooperation engineering: networking of product features, process features and project parameters (internal Relationship Management); − Collaborative networking: initiation, management, controlling of business relationships along the value chain (external RM); − Corporate range: adaptat...

Real-time Ethernet is used in many industrial and embedded systems, but has so far mostly been statically configured. However, in the future these network configurations will be required to change dynamically, for example for highly flexible production lines or even software upgrades in modern cars that add new features which require changes to the in-vehicle network. Software-defined networkin...

When the oil and gas industry moves its production facilities into even more challenging environments, like the off-shore fields in the arctic areas, advanced use of information and communication technology (ICT) is imperative. Sensor network research lacks results from experiments with real communications between real sensors. At the University of Oslo, Norway, we are in the initial phase of b...

The researchers construct a defect occurrence prevention technique called the Total QA Network Model that uses a combination of quality assurance tools and establishes partnerships. Their focus is on integrated quality assurance spanning different departments in manufacturing companies (from design to production) and extending further to part manufacturers. The Total Quality Assurance Networkin...

This paper employs a practice perspective to understand the hanging-together of networking and production practices in small craft-food businesses. Based on case study from rural region Germany, we explore how are held together by teleoaffective structures socio-material arrangements, pointing role machines as nodes practices. We furthermore demonstrate niche-specific mode these facilitates coo...