Название: Understanding AI, IoT, 6G, and the Infrastructure Revolution
Автор: Walter Goralski
Издательство: Mercury Learning and Information
Год: 2025
Страниц: 255
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 19.2 MB

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the essential technologies that enable the smooth functioning of the Internet on a global scale, it explains how these technologies work together to enable a variety of online experiences, including sports and entertainment, intelligent shopping, and financial transactions. This invaluable reference provides the reader with a solid understanding of the innovations and advancements in technologies like Artificial Intelligence, 6G, fiber optics, cloud computing, and more! Instead of investigating each technology in isolation, this book shows how they all fit together to reinforce and enhance a particular network capability. This hands-on guide is a unique jargon-free examination of current technologies for general audiences with only a basic knowledge of terminology: it is a foundational text, and no specialized knowledge is needed to understand the technologies discussed.

Cloud computing (often just “the cloud”) is the software-based infrastructure of an external data center accessed over a network. The cloud is made available to users on a pay-as-you-go basis. Because there is no need to own and maintain servers, cloud computing often saves customers money. Cloud providers usually offer a range of services for database, storage, application, and other types of capabilities. We will look at offerings like software as a service (SaaS) later in this chapter.

Cloud-native is an approach where all new applications and services are structured and built with the intention of running in a cloud computing environment. The application is intended to be run in a cloud environment from design to implementation to use. Cloud-native environments have their own set of terms, like microservices (small pieces of code that fetch, sort, format, and otherwise massage data), containers (semi-independent applications that can swap in and out of cloud servers), and orchestrators (software that handles containers and needed data).

Features:

Provides a strong historical foundation for understanding key technologies like Ethernet, mobile networks, and IPv6
Explains how modern data is efficiently transferred across continents using technologies like Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
Addresses how cloud data centers, IoT, and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications are transforming industries and includes guidance on managing smart factories, automated homes, and modern data ecosystems
Presents a balanced, insightful look at Artificial Intelligence separating hype from reality
Discusses AI topics including large language models (LLMs) and their role in natural language processing (NLP) and generative AI. Explores AI's integration with robotics and networking

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