A major aspect of the industrial “Internet of Things” is massive machine-to-machine communications supported by a redundant, reliable, high-speed network. General Electric, which has interests in numerous industrial verticals, uses a network test bed deployed in New York capable of 100 gigabit-per-second data transmission to gain a better understanding of the full potential of the industrial “Internet of Things.”
The goal is for GE to take the lessons learned in the test bed and use the insight to gain efficiencies at its 400 manufacturing facilities.
