Full Capture System and Big Data Analysis: Connecting Businesses and Networks in IoT Era
Keywords: Internet of Things, IoT, Machine-to-Machine, M2M
As the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications become prevalent, the number of devices that connect to networks is rapidly increasing. Data traffic via networks has thus grown to a signicant volume. The connectivity to a network, and the quality of the network itself, are becoming prerequisites as opposed to added value that generates profits. Given this as a background, the service-oriented business models based on requests by upper layers, which have been around for some time, are expected to develop further and faster. To support such business models, Fujitsu has developed a real-time full capture system compatible with the 200 Gbps bandwidth, leveraging the Company’s networking and big data analysis technologies. The system is designed to capture and analyze a large volume of high- speed data using virtual platforms. This paper briefly looks at user expectations for virtual platform services and challenges with regards to providing such services. Then it describes the characteristics of the developed system.
Introduction
In a society where everything is connected to a network by virtue of the Internet of Things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, telematics, and other technologies, a huge number of devices are adapted to using information technology.
As networks continue to progress, the unit prices of peripheral devices such as sensors inevitably drop. The operating cost for such networks is also being lowered. Against this background, telecom carriers are shifting their focus of revenues from conventional connection services to offering information obtained from connected devices.
For circulating and leveraging such information, the virtual platforms are the mainstream media, offer- ing users scalability, easy provisioning, and exibility in system con guration and modi cation. The virtual platform runs software that replaces functions hitherto realized by hardware, such as controlling and data transfer. The software programs themselves are transmitted via the network as information, and thus used as services, through IoT.
Leveraging the Company’s networking and big data analysis technologies, Fujitsu has developed a real-time full capture system compatible with the 200 Gbps bandwidth. This system is designed to capture and analyze a large volume of high-speed data on a network by means of a virtual platform.
This paper describes our efforts to establish practical applications of the services this system can offer.
