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Those could be network interfaces, laptops, mobile devices or any other elements of a network.
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Decoupling refresh cycles lets data center customers purchase server compute nodes, which are essentially very small motherboards (processor, system memory, boot environment, management, and connection to a local network fabric), separately from rack-level data center network interfaces (1GbE and 10GbE), separately from mass storage (hard disks and solid-state drives).
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Itron (ITRI) has the leading market share in the global smart metering industry, and Echelon (ELON) provides network solutions and interfaces for street lighting, residential appliances and facility monitoring.
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The industry has long flirted with the vision of low-end computers that act as relatively simple interfaces to the wider network.
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Optimizing functionality for a particular task, such as playing a DVD or recording a TV show, may still be an advantage of standalone devices, but the sheer amount of content both on a device and accessible through a home network will soon bring these archaic interfaces to their knees.
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Juniper has also opened up its application programing interfaces to 70 outside developers, in the hopes of generating some new ideas around network efficiency and functionality.
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