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REGENT Craft’s New Seaglider: A Sustainable Approach to Regional Coastal Travel
In many major U.S. cities on the East and West coast, urban gridlock is a significant obstacle that slows commerce, negatively affects the...
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Connext 7.5: The Top 3 Advantages for Developers
Mission-critical systems, such as autonomous vehicles and robotic-assisted surgery, cannot afford to fail. They must operate flawlessly under any...
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Running RTI Admin Console in Docker: A Step-by-Step Guide
In today's increasingly containerized world, understanding how to efficiently monitor and manage your Docker containers running RTI Connext...
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Avoiding Costly Rework: Why the Right Start is Essential
In any field, whether it's sports, business, or personal development, taking the time to train before starting an important high-stakes endeavor can...
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The Top Challenges Facing OEMs in a Software-Defined World (and How to Solve Them)
In my discussions with traditional OEM automotive executives, three topics consistently emerge as primary concerns: software-defined vehicles, AI,...
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Connext Chatbot: Built for Connext Developers Who Need Answers, Not Noise
Tired of sifting through irrelevant search engine results to find answers for your Connext projects? The Connext Chatbot is here to help!
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Decision-making at the Speed of Relevance: The OODA Loop in Modern Defense Systems
The concept of the OODA Loop – Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act – was developed by military strategist John Boyd. It is focused on the ability to...
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Future Warfare: The Key Trends Shaping Modern Military Defense
In today's rapidly evolving global landscape, the defense sector is experiencing a transformation marked by several critical trends. These...
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Data-Centric Threat Modeling: A Case Study with Surgical Robots
In the rapidly evolving landscape of medical technology, surgical robots are becoming increasingly sophisticated and interconnected. With this...
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Real-Time Data Interoperability for Intelligent and Connected MedTech Systems
Currently, the Medical Technology Devices industry is going through a profound transformation from traditional siloed devices to intelligent,...
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Elevate Your DevSecOps Pipeline with RTI’s Docker Containers and Debian Packages
RTI is pleased to announce the release of our Docker container images, now available on Docker Hub. The flexibility and efficiency of our Docker...
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AI in Healthcare: Building the Software Infrastructure for Intelligent, Real-Time Data Streaming
In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, technology continues to play a pivotal role in revolutionizing traditional surgical practices. One such...
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New Integrations for RTI Security Extensions: TPMs, SIEMs & HashiCorp Vault
This year, RTI Connext 7.3 introduced cutting-edge features that align with emerging cybersecurity standards to help ensure the integrity and...
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The True Cost of Open Source in Mission-Critical Applications
Open source software has become prevalent in many applications today. According to a recent study by Synopsys, 96 percent of the total code bases...
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Connext Chatbot: Your AI Assistant for Navigating the Connext Ecosystem
Customers are at the heart of my work every day. As the lead of RTI’s US Support team, my team and I take great pride in helping our customers build...
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Connext Drive 3.1: Building and Securing SDVs
As the automotive landscape continues to evolve, Connext Drive helps accelerate the move towards software-defined vehicles (SDVs) by abstracting...
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Plug and Play: The Challenge of Interoperable Airborne Software
The process of military aircraft acquisition is a challenging one, as airborne software needs to not only be seamlessly interoperable, but also...
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The Cambrian Explosion of Medical Robotics
About 500 million years ago, all major types of animals on earth appeared over a period of only 25 million years or so. This event, known as the...
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RTI Connext for Digital Twins: Bridging the Gap Between Virtual Systems and Physical Objects in Real Time
The only second language that I really speak fluently is acronym. Specifically military acronym. And as with any other language, there are words and...
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Intelligence Will Change Everything in Healthcare…If It Has the Data
The Future of Healthcare is Intelligent Healthcare professionals and device manufacturers love to complain about how slow the industry changes. I...
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Data-Centric MBSE: Creating Game-Changing Downstream Value
First, it's worth starting by providing some background on why you should care about data centricity. If you live in the defense space as I do, you...
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RTI at XPONENTIAL 2024: Taking Control of Unmanned Systems
[Photo source: DVIDS (Defense Visual Information Distribution Service), October, 24, 2023; Unmanned Surface Vessel Division One Arrives in Sydney...
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Unveiling RTI Connext 7.3 LTS: The Key to Smarter, Observable and Secure DDS Applications
In an era where broad connectivity and artificial intelligence (AI) are driving innovation to unprecedented heights, there has never been a greater...
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Taking Control of Data: The Many Functions of RTI Routing Service
RTI Connext is powerful infrastructure software designed for the demanding connectivity requirements of mission-critical distributed systems. A key...
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The Real Truth About Performance Testing
System development is becoming increasingly complex as developers strive to balance requirements for higher levels of autonomy and performance with...
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Streamlining Zonal Architecture with DDS and TSN
In today's interconnected world, the demand for real-time data communication is rising across such industries as automotive, healthcare, industrial...
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A Sea-Worthy Standard: 20 Years of DDS for the U.S. Navy
From ancient history when the Navies of the world were formed, each vessel needed multi-ship information sharing, sensor integration, weapons...
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Top 3 Tips to Break Through Hospital IT Silos With Connext
Increasingly complex and connected MedTech solutions need to utilize hospital networks, which poses an integration challenge. Whether they are...
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Addressing DoS Attacks: Innovations in Network Layer Policy Enforcement
**Please note that with the April 2024 release of Connext Professional 7.3 LTS, the functionalities formerly comprising Connext Secure are now...
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Interoperability by Design for JADC2 Systems
Part 7 of the JADC2 Blog Series **Please note that with the April 2024 release of Connext Professional 7.3 LTS, the functionalities formerly...
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Integrating Video Streaming with Real-Time Data for Surgical Use Cases and Beyond
**Please note that with the April 2024 release of Connext Professional 7.3 LTS, the functionalities formerly comprising Connext Secure are now...
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I/ITSEC 2023: Transforming Training and Simulation
Some people set their holiday seasons to certain traditional events. For some, Thanksgiving is the kick off of the final stretch to the Winter break....
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Navigating IIoT Protocols: Comparing DDS and MQTT
The convergence of Operational Technology (OT) and Informational Technology (IT) has become a strategic imperative for organizations aiming to unlock...
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RTI Engineering Interns are Set Up for Success
Meet New RTI Team Member Marcos Rivera! Work environments around the globe have changed as a result of the recent pandemic, and the structure of...
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OODA Loop: A Blueprint for the Evolution of Military Decisions
Part 6 of the JADC2 Blog Series We welcome guest blogger Alison Buchanan, Director, Communications at David Pratt & Associates Colin Gray once...
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SDV Advancements: Enhancing Automotive Safety and Efficiency with Connext Drive 3.0
The automotive industry is experiencing a transformative shift as it advances toward software-defined vehicles (SDVs). With the integration of...
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Navigating the Networking Challenge of Telesurgical Systems
The recent Monogram Orthopedics telesurgery demonstration, in which a surgeon was able to operate on a model from 2,700 km (1,700 miles) away, was a...
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The Top Ten Reasons for Medical Device Manufacturers to Use Connext Secure
**Please note that with the April 2024 release of Connext Professional 7.3 LTS, the functionalities formerly comprising Connext Secure are now...
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RTI Connext 7.2: Integrate With Any Observability Tool, Leverage the Fully Supported Python API, and More
Announcing RTI Connext® 7.2, the latest feature-packed release of our software framework.
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UPDATE: Avoiding ‘Titanium Cylinders of Excellence’ for JADC2
Part 5 of the JADC2 Blog Series “Data is wild” —Mark C. Kitz - PEO C3T (former PEO IEW&S) at TechNet Augusta 2023
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Balancing Act: Navigating Innovation and Affordability in Military Avionics
Part 16 of the RTI Military Avionics Blog Series The Military Avionics industry must optimize two objectives, which may sometimes seem to be in...
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Software-Defined Is All About the Data
Entry 2 of the Software-Defined Future Blog Series
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GE HealthCare’s Amazing New Portrait Mobile System
(Image credit: GE HealthCare Portrait Mobile, 2023) My daughter is a new Emergency Room doctor in Ohio. From her, I’ve learned that clinical teams...
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Using RTI Connext with Python API
Guest blog by Elizabeth Tran, Senior Test Automation Engineer, MedAcuity In today’s fast-moving world of MedTech, the need for cross-functional teams...
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FACE and TPM: The Importance of the Transport Protocol Module
Part 15 of the RTI Military Avionics Blog Series For decades, government aircraft programs have created single-purpose platforms with a dedicated...
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Pilot Training Next (PTN) Next: RTI Enables Simulator Interoperability at the Central Florida Tech Grove
Guest blog by Jordan Dauble, Founder of SimBlocks.io **Please note that with the April 2024 release of Connext Professional 7.3 LTS, the...
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Connext Observability Framework: A New Way to Monitor Distributed Systems
Maximizing Performance and Reliability – Layer by Layer – in Your Distributed Systems
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International Women in Engineering Day 2023: Problem Solving with Our Whole Selves
Every Friday morning in the spring and fall semesters, I teach a graduate course in Computer Science at Rowan University in southern New Jersey....
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Automotive Consortia: Driving the Development of Software-Defined Vehicles
The automotive industry is going through a complete revolution as it evolves towards the complex and innovative era of the software-defined vehicle...
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Enter JADC2: Real-Time Decision-Making at the Speed of Relevance
Part 1 of the JADC2 Blog Series Rapid changes in the global security environment are challenging the U.S. Military’s ability to seize, maintain and...
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The Evolving Automotive Market
Today's cars are essentially computers on wheels, with sophisticated electronics controlling everything from the engine to the air conditioning to...
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Parallel Trajectories: Behind the Scenes of the Indy Autonomous Challenge
A guest blog by Andrew Saba, Chief Engineer for the MIT-PITT-RW team and master's student at Carnegie Mellon University I've been thinking a lot...
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Why Don’t Airborne Systems Use Containers and Kubernetes?
Part 14 of the RTI Military Avionics Blog Series
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The Software-Defined Future
“In the near future, AI will play a dominant role in managing and running everyday infrastructure, from transportation systems to power grids, making...
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Lynx and RTI: The Art of Driving Down Mission-Critical System Costs
Part 13 of the RTI Military Avionics Blog Series A guest blog by Ian Ferguson, VP Marketing and Strategic Alliances, Lynx Software Technologies
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Connext 7.1: Making Systems More Observable, Secure and Easy to Validate
What is the key driver of continuous system innovation? For distributed systems, it’s the much-needed ability to gain a truly holistic, centralized...
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RTI Connext TSS 3.1: Why Avionics Systems Must Adapt for the Future Battlespace
Part 12 of the RTI Military Avionics Blog Series Connext TSS 3.1 Provides Standards-based Connectivity for Safety Critical Avionics
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RTI and GHS: Joint Secure Solutions on Intel Platforms
Part 11 of the RTI Military Avionics Blog Series
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Free Quality of Service Training is Here! Visit the RTI YouTube Channel
As a member of RTI’s Professional Services team for more than seven years, I have worked with hundreds of customers. In Professional Services, we...
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RTI Connext Cert: Delivering RTCA DO-178C Certification Evidence for Avionics Programs
Part 10 of the RTI Military Avionics Blog Series
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Data Centricity in MOSA Systems: Nice-to-Have or Must-Have?
In recent years, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has increasingly prioritized the importance of its data. In fact, it’s fair to say that in the...
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RTI Connext TSS: Certified Conformant to FACE Technical Standard, Edition 3.1
Part 9 of the RTI Military Avionics Blog Series
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MedTech Conference Recap from Boston: Excitement and Uncertainty in the Industry
What are the major trends and concerns in today’s MedTech industry? To approach this question, let me start by saying I recently had the privilege of...
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Developing Flexible Connected Medical Devices with Smart Software Data Connectivity
Healthcare is changing rapidly. With significant advances in AI, data analytics and robotics devices, manufacturers are challenged to incorporate...
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Solving the Cybersecurity Challenge for Software-Defined Vehicles
Often, the terms functional safety and cybersecurity are not well understood. We like to define functional safety as preventing the unacceptable risk...
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Blackberry QNX Meets FACE Adoption: And Now for Something Completely Different
Part 8 of the RTI Military Avionics Blog Series From time to time, the path to new avionics innovations can be nothing short of inspirational – and...
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Architecting the Future of Connected Healthcare
As software technologies continue to evolve, the healthcare industry is increasingly focused on developing and integrating connected devices and...
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The Update From Dayton: Inside FACE TIM 2022
Part 7 of the RTI Military Avionics Blog Series
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Taking a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) to Next-Gen Military Systems
Part 6 of the RTI Military Avionics Blog Series Today, the defense industry is moving rapidly to modernize its systems – and the reasons for this...
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Connectivity at the Core: The Status of DDS in AUTOSAR
Since 2016, RTI and the AUTOSAR consortium have been in direct contact through AUTOSAR’s Intra-Vehicle Communications Working Group (WG-IVC). Many...
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Ecosystem Integration: How Partners Help Drive Integrated Avionics Success
Part 5 of the RTI Military Avionics Blog Series We all love that old DIY ethic – the feeling of doing something yourself from start to finish. It is...
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The FACE Transport Services Segment (TSS): Where Data Blossoms
Part 4 of the RTI Military Avionics Blog Series In previous blog posts in this series, I have discussed the powerful avionics industry standards that...
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Leveraging Commercial Avionics Standards: Understanding the FACE Reference Architecture
Part 3 of the RTI Military Avionics Blog Series In my previous two blog posts, I discussed the ARINC 6531 standard and the DO-297 roles and...
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RTI Case+Code Feature: Next Gen E/E
For those unfamiliar with the series, RTI’s Case+Code is an ongoing set of examples that solve industry-specific needs (the ‘Case’) using RTI Connext...
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JADC2 and the U.S. DoD: Mapping Out the Future of Situational Awareness
The unbridled aggression from adversaries in Ukraine has underscored the need to create a military posture that positions the United States and its...
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Leveraging Commercial Avionics Standards to Refine and Accelerate FACE Deployments
Part 2 of the RTI Military Avionics Blog Series
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RTI Connext Drive 2.0: Tools for the Journey and the Destination
Most of the automotive market is shifting toward electric and autonomous vehicles, but this transition is not exempt from challenges. For one thing,...
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The RTI Military Avionics Blog Series Part 1: The Importance of Open Standards
Part 1 of the RTI Military Avionics Blog Series How important are open standards for the development of commercial aircraft? One way to illustrate...
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Anywhere and Everywhere: Remote Operations
In today’s era of autonomy and remote control functionality, which remote functions are truly important? Being able to perform an ever-more...
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Leveraging Software-Defined Architecture for Next-Generation Vehicles
As the automotive industry transitions into the age of the software-defined vehicle, it is essential that the whole ecosystem should be in perfect...
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Connext LTS: Long Term Support for Mission-Critical Applications
Software is a mission-critical part of your application, so choosing which iteration of a product to use can be vital to your success. This holds...
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RTI Keeps Getting Better
A company’s culture is one of the most important facets of an organization, and one that shapes the experience of everyone working within it....
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RTI Academy Gets an Upgrade for 2022!
Training anytime and anywhere just got even better… Learning is not a one-time event. In fact, we believe that online learning is key to the success...
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ITTIA and RTI: Smarter DataOps at the Intelligent Edge
Edge Computing and Intelligent Edge have become the “Buzzword-du-Jour”. Interestingly, Edge Computing has been around for decades. In 1968, Richard...
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A Trip to the Future
Come join me on a trip to the future. We won’t go far; only about 25 years from now. To get there, we simply orbit a nearby neutron star for a bit,...
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At the Speed of Light: Next-Gen Vehicle Development with DDS and Lidar
A few months ago, the first-ever autonomous racing competition using full-size Indy Lights race cars was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The...
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634 AI: Putting Vision into Motion with Autonomous Mobile Robots
The logistics automation landscape is changing rapidly. There are so many incredible projects out there, implementing Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs)...
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Rewiring E/E Automotive Connectivity for the Software-Defined Vehicle
Autonomous and electric vehicles have introduced a major disruption across the automotive industry. Auto manufacturers must now find ways to compete...
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RTI Named One of the Healthiest Employers of the Bay Area
RTI recognized for commitment to workplace wellness We are proud to be recognized in the 2021 Healthiest Employers of the Bay Area, an awards program...
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Visit RTI at Aerospace Tech Week 2021: November 3-4
Aerospace Tech Week 2021, Europe's largest showcase of aerospace technology and services for commercial and defense aircraft, is coming up fast! This...
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MOSA is Here to Stay: A Recap of the 2021 FACE TIM Event
I continue to be amazed by the promotion and advancement of the FACE™ and SOSA™ Technical Standards and Business Approach within the U.S. armed...
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ConnextCon 2021: Architecting Tomorrow’s Autonomous Systems Today
In today’s world, a system is only as good as it is secure. So here at RTI, we’re not only actively involved in delivering enhanced security...
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Introducing DDS Blockset from MathWorks
MathWorks has been a long-time supporter of the Data Distribution ServiceTM (DDS) standard. RTI Connext®, based on DDS, has been integrated with...
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These Changing Times: Inside the RTI DDS Toolkit for NI LabVIEW
With a long and storied history in embedded systems design going back 30-some years, I’ve always maintained an affinity for “old school” development...
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Building Connext DDS Applications With Connext-Config
RTI is always working on ways to simplify the process of building RTI Connext® DDS applications. With that in mind, our connext-config tool is a...
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Introducing a Free and Open Source Next-Generation Crypto Engine for DDS Security on Windows
**Please note that with the April 2024 release of Connext Professional 7.3 LTS, the functionalities formerly comprising Connext Secure are now...
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Creating a Cloud-Connected Medical Device Demo using Connext DDS
Recently, RTI agreed to participate in the demo night for RIoT, an IoT community with over 9,000 members. The theme for the event was sports...
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Connecting Autonomous Systems Near and Far with Connext 6.1
RTI is proud to announce the availability of Connext® 6.1, the latest release of the Connext Product Suite. Over the past year, the world rallied to...
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How to Nail Your Distributed Architecture
A new online tool to match your application to OPC UA, DDS, MQTT, Kafka, or ROS With the rise of AI and powerful processors, system architects in...
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Getting Better in Bad Times
When I was in 6th grade, I was in the lowest of three math “tracks” at school. I couldn’t, or didn’t want to, memorize my multiplication tables. I...
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RTI Academy is Live!
Welcome to Training Anytime and Anywhere Learning is not a one-time event. Especially in today’s competitive markets, your team needs ongoing access...
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Beyond Buzzwords: Data-Centricity Drives DDS Adoption in the DoD
Ahh, buzzwords… Buzzwords pervade all aspects of our life. From politics and social-media to business. Even if you cringe a little whenever someone...
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11x Performance Gain: Latest Connext DDS, ROS 2 Performance Benchmarks
As real-time distributed systems become increasingly complex, the factors that affect the performance of the systems also become increasingly complex...
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AUTOSAR and DDS: A Fresh Approach to Enabling Flexible Vehicle Architectures
As automotive manufacturers respond to the growing consumer demand for semi-autonomous and fully autonomous vehicles, they need to take a fresh...
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The Indy Autonomous Challenge: Achieving Extreme Performance with ROS 2
Slashing latency by 98% will help win the race. Here’s how. When it comes to competitive automobile racing, every detail counts. Aerodynamics, tire...
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The Future of Autonomy
It’s easy to look back at 2020 and see just the bad. That’s fair; we faced fear of sickness, fire, environment, and anger. It was certainly a...
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Implementing AUTOSAR’s DDS Network Binding
RTI has a long history of participation in AUTOSAR, which stands for AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture. AUTOSAR encompasses a worldwide development...
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Carpool Lanes Don’t Cut Traffic. Here’s How We Can.
Traffic is a daily reality. We burn billions of gallons of gas, waste billions of hours, and generate copious pollution in stop-and-go traffic. What...
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Developing Your First DDS Application, Part 2: Building and Running the Executables
In last week’s Part 1 blog, we walked through steps 1, 2 and 3 of developing your first Data Distribution ServiceTM (DDS) application with RTI...
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Top 5: How RTI Helps Improve Mining Industry Operations
The mining industry has unique business and logistical challenges that are being addressed with new technological solutions to lower operating cost...
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Developing Your First DDS Application with RTI Connext
As the title states, this article is all about guiding any developer through the process of creating a DDS application consisting of a Publisher...
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Remembering Irwin Moiseff
Irwin and I met while working at General Dynamics in Pittsfield, MA. I was working on a research project focused on integrating software systems for...
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Introducing RTI Xcelerators: What’s on the Menu?
In the restaurant world, the concept of a menu seems like a necessity. How would chefs plan and deliver dishes that showcase their hard-earned...
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ConnextCon 2020 in Review and Resources On Demand
All event organizers are familiar with the rush you get from seeing all your hard work come to life after months and months of planning, logistics...
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ROS 2 and DDS: Interoperability Drives Next-Generation Robotics
ROS 2 has already enjoyed widespread adoption for both automotive and robotics development projects. As today’s innovators start to build tomorrow’s...
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Don’t Miss ConnextCon 2020: Our First Virtual Users Conference is Underway!
The world is changing and the Connext Conference is changing with it. For the first time, the conference will be entirely virtual with two different...
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RTI Presents IDL Syntax Highlighter: Extending the Possibilities of Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is extremely popular with developers, including a lot of us here at RTI. However, DDS developers have been missing one useful...
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Staying in the Zone: Introducing the RTI Python API
Team leads know that allowing developers to use the programming languages they know drives productivity and results. And to keep productivity high,...
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Inside the Engine Room: Gearing Up for ConnextCon 2020
It’s official: The age of autonomy is here. Revolutionary new autonomous land, sea and air vehicles are already being created to solve real-world...
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The Layered Databus: Foundation of a Modern Distributed Architecture
It’s a data centric world out there. Today’s applications run on data – lots of data. A continuous flow of high-volume data streams across networks,...
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The Era of the Integrated Software Framework: Taking Control of Edge-to-Cloud Data
The era of ‘smart, connected everything’ is well underway. Today lightweight, powerful sensors and chips are embedded within and throughout...
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The Top 10 Reasons for Dropped DDS Messages
Today’s IoT systems often require hundreds of thousands of concurrent data points communicated in many different configurations between thousands of...
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Driving Safety into Autonomous Vehicles
As more autonomous ground and air vehicles approach commercial production, the demand for proven safety strategies increases. Due to the rigors of...
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Navigating the Virtual Job Search Waters during a Pandemic
This past February, I was a soon-to-be graduate of Chapman University’s film school with a degree in public relations and advertising. I had started...
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The Indy Autonomous Challenge Takes Off: Scholars, Start Your Systems!
This past Sunday, as I watched sleek racecars roaring around the Indy 500 racetrack, I was reminded of all the innovation produced through racing...
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Who Wants to be a DDS Insider?
As a Field Application Engineer, I’m continually amazed at how knowledgeable our customers are. Dealing with existing users, we sometimes forget that...
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What Is It Like to Be an RTI Engineering Intern in 2020?
As newly-hired engineering interns here at RTI, the three of us have certainly been comparing notes lately. The experience itself is, as you can...
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Get the Requirements Right and the Rest is Easy: Fast-tracking Next-generation UAM Systems
The excitement over Urban Air Mobility (UAM) systems is not only building steadily, but also global in its impact. At first glance, this seems like a...
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Comparing Open Source DDS to RTI Connext DDS: Considerations in Picking the Right DDS Solution to Run Your Distributed System
In 2018, I posted a blog titled “When is Open Source the Right Solution?” This question is still relevant, but as everyone knows, a lot can change in...
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DDS and Wireshark: A Deep Dive into the Newest Features
When I joined RTI a few years ago, we used to customize Wireshark® and provide our own installers to customers to help them analyze their network...
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Wheels Up: Six Behind-the-Scenes Insights About the FACE Technical Standard
It is common knowledge that the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Technical Standard has become a preeminent and trusted industry...
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Inside the New RTI Security Plugins Getting Started Guide
**Please note that with the April 2024 release of Connext Professional 7.3 LTS, the functionalities formerly comprising Connext Secure are now...
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Avoiding ‘Titanium Cylinders of Excellence’ for the Joint All-Domain Command and Control JADC2 Architecture
“We don’t call them silos, we call them cylinders of excellence, and they are made of titanium.” — Unknown
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Ready, Set, Go: Introducing the New RTI Getting Started Guide
We’ve all seen it: Someone gets a flashy new electronic gadget as a present, opens the box, deftly tosses aside the instruction manual and heads off,...
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Grounding a High-Flying Team: How the Current Pandemic Presented a Crisitunity for the RTI Professional Services Team
Note: This blog discusses how RTI is continuing to serve our customers through the COVID-19 pandemic. We would like to acknowledge our deep...
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Setting the Standard: Celebrating the First 10 Years of the FACE™ Consortium
This month marks the 10th Anniversary of The Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment™ (FACE) Consortium. It has been an amazing ride over...
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RTI Connext DDS Professional: A Better Technology for Assisting Robotics Development
Nothing hastens innovation like competition. The development of robotic and unmanned systems for military applications is a great example of this...
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My Lesson in Diversity
These words changed my life. I wasn’t even in school yet. But they changed my life more than anything else ever spoken. Before you continue with this...
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Deploy DDS Applications on Kubernetes: A Step-By-Step Guide | RTI
Scalable Software Delivery for Your DDS Systems - Part 2 of 2
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Kubernetes Explained: How It Can Improve Software Delivery in Large-Scale DDS Systems
Scalable Software Delivery for Your DDS Systems - Part 1 of 2
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Remembering Brett Murphy
RTI lost an original team member this week. Brett contributed to RTI in so many ways, from building our early vision for DDS (before the standard...
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The RTI Customer Portal: Newly Updated and Optimized to Help You Succeed!
Here at RTI, we’re committed to our customers’ success. And when we say success, we’re not only talking about the obvious things, such as offering...
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Designing a Layered Databus System with Connext DDS
In the ever-evolving world of system design, layered databus architecture is quite common and presently deployed in a wide variety of industries....
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RTI Webinar Series: What Everyone Wants to Know About Building Tomorrow’s Autonomous Vehicles
The production of fully autonomous or self-driving vehicles is now becoming an ever-more sophisticated reality. But as in any real-world journey,...
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Is Autonomy Just Around the Corner?
It’s no wonder that more and more of today’s most innovative developers are delving into the challenge of creating autonomous vehicles (AVs). There’s...
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When You Should Use ZeroMQ vs DDS Software?
Choices, choices, choices. We know you have many when it comes to your communications, messaging and integration platforms. A little over a year ago,...
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Hopping Down the Coding Trail: Unearthing a Cool Easter Egg in RTI Connext DDS Pro
Software programs can sometimes contain an 'Easter Egg' -- some hidden feature that delights the finder by being fun, unexpected or useful. The...
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A Chance to Hear and Be Heard: Introducing the RTI Coffee Chat Hour
In these challenging times, a lot of technology companies are coming up with helpful ways to stay connected in sensible isolation while working from...
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Integrating Fluent Bit and RTI Connext DDS to Manage Real-time Log Data
An important aspect of distributed system operation is the ability to monitor its overall status. This typically requires collecting logs from...
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Open DDS vs. RTI DDS Software
**Please note that with the April 2024 release of Connext Professional 7.3 LTS, the functionalities formerly comprising Connext Secure are now...
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How to Master the Art of Video Conferencing: 10 Timely Tips
Our children, and their children, will be studying 2020 in history books for years to come. Even putting the health and economic impacts aside, this...
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Multi-Domain Operations: Why DDS is the Right Solution for Securing Critical Data
**Please note that with the April 2024 release of Connext Professional 7.3 LTS, the functionalities formerly comprising Connext Secure are now...
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Bridging Domains: Using the RTI Routing Service Adapter to Connect MSQL Databases
Large Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems are composed of multiple connectivity technologies. Given that these systems often incorporate new...
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What Makes a Workplace Great?
Today, RTI announced its recertification as a Great Place to Work (GPTW). You can see our listing here.
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Designing an Autonomous Vehicle for Real-World Performance
In the Automotive market, developing an autonomous vehicle comes with huge risk and uncertainty. There are several well-funded competitors pulling in...
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It’s Here! Learn About the New RTI Connext DDS Property QoS Policy Reference Guide
As part of the latest version of RTI Connext DDS 6.0.1, we are happy to announce the new RTI Connext DDS Property QoS Policy Reference Guide. This...
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Integrating DDS Into the AUTOSAR Adaptive Platform
Solving new challenges is what drives innovation, but one fact is inescapable: Across a wide variety of industries, system architectures are rapidly...
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Engineering Beyond the Cubicle: Are You Ready to Change the World?
In my admittedly partisan view, engineering is one of the most rewarding careers to have. You get to design, integrate, test and deploy new systems...
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Charging into DISTRIBUTECH 2020: RTI to Showcase new Electric Vehicle Charging Solution
Grid-edge technology and grid-edge intelligence are hot topics for energy providers. The reason? The need for new solutions that can solve the...
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Moving from Hype to Practical Progress at CES 2020
Another CES is over, and now it’s time to move beyond the pomp and ceremony, to get on with the work at hand. But, before we all get immersed in...
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Huntsville Lunch-and-Learns Explore the Popularity of DDS in the Local Engineering Community
One of my favorite aspects of being a Field Application Engineer for RTI is the chance to interact with some of the country’s best engineers, many of...
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Digital Transformation Revisited: The Promise of Things to Come in the 2020s?
“Digital Transformation” is a trending term these days. But what’s new about it? Those who work in Marketing are constantly coming up with new trends...
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The Decade of Working Smarts
We have a lot to look forward to as we start a new decade. In this decade, truly intelligent computing will step out of the cloud to guide and...
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DDS and TSN: The Future for Real-Time Data Exchange?
Recently, one of my colleagues took part in a symposium at Kepler University in Linz, Austria, and an interesting thing happened. Even though...
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Switching Gears: Why Automotive Design is Shifting From Hardware to Software
Nearly 30 years in the automotive industry is a long time. I have had the opportunity to directly guide design an electronics strategy for numerous...
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Become the Keymaster: Why You Should Use TPM with RTI Connext DDS Secure
**Please note that with the April 2024 release of Connext Professional 7.3 LTS, the functionalities formerly comprising Connext Secure are now...
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Using Connext DDS Secure 6.0 to Protect your Data
**Please note that with the April 2024 release of Connext Professional 7.3 LTS, the functionalities formerly comprising Connext Secure are now...
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Get Hands-On at I/ITSEC 2019 with Interoperable Simulations
Are you ready for a deep dive? The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2019 is the largest Modeling,...
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RTI Connext Drive: Turn Here to Connect All Automotive Ecosystems
Building the vehicles of tomorrow provides automotive manufacturers with major opportunities for innovation at every stage of the project. But what...
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RTI Now Certified as a Great Place to Work in Spain!
You might remember that back in July, RTI announced that we were certified as a “Great Place to Work” by the GPTW Institute in the United States for...
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What’s it really like to be an Intern at RTI?
First of all, I can tell you this important fact: As an engineering intern at RTI, you won’t be stuck on coffee duty or sitting around making art...
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Charting the IIoT Use Case Evolution
For the past several years, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has been ranked among the top game-changers in industry. This week at the IoT...
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Closing the Distance: How to Remotely Monitor Your Systems With InfluxDB and DDS
Note: This blog is a companion to the on demand Influx webinar with interactive demonstration. Monitoring system performance and health is...
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Inside the Autonomous Vehicles of Tomorrow: From Proof of Concept to Reality
The automotive industry has come a long way. And the technology to build self-driving cars and autonomous vehicles is no longer science fiction. I’ll...
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The Forecast from APAC: Sunny, with a High Demand for DDS
Reflections from the Singapore Connext Conference
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Update from Dayton: Behind the Scenes with RTI at the September FACE TIM Event
I’m pleased to announce that the very first joint FACE™ and SOSA™ Expo and Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) – held in September at the Dayton...
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RTI Perftest 3.0 - now available
We are proud to announce the release of the latest version of our performance testing tool: RTI Perftest 3.0 is now released and ready to be used....
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Benefits of C++ for Your API Interface
If I had to give you one reason why C++ is king (and this isn't changing anytime soon) it would be this: C++ lets you create very powerful...
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Distributed Energy Resources (DER) and the Electric Utility: The Shift from “If” to “How”
Recently, I have noticed a very real change in the tone of the conversations around Distributed Energy Resources (DER). For the past five or so...
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What is IIoT? The Industrial Internet of Things Primer
Five years after the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) burst into corporate consciousness, much has been discussed and written about this powerful...
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Go Splunking with DDS
Splunk is a very popular commercial data analytics platform. It is used to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine-generated data gathered...
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Using XML Application Creation to simplify prototype & app development in RTI Connext DDS Micro
XML-Based Application Creation can simplify and accelerate the development and programming of Connext DDS applications. It can also be used to build...
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New IIC Data Protection Best Practices: Securing complex IIoT systems by design, not luck
A few days ago, the U.S. celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 crew landing on the moon, an incredible feat set in motion some eight years...
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Software Testing at RTI
RTI software is at the heart of many mission critical systems. Our customers of course care deeply about the reliability and quality of their...
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RTI is a Great Place to Work
Today, RTI announced that we are certified as a “Great Place to Work” by the GPTW Institute. We at RTI are grateful, proud, and humbled.
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The University of Granada Tech Challenge: Experiences of a two-time winner
Through its University Program, RTI provides free, full licenses of Connext DDS to qualified universities for classroom and research purposes. The...
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RTI Training: The Tools Needed to Drive Productivity and Performance
Have you ever used something other than a hammer to drive a nail? How well did it work?
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DDS and Drones: Scalability, Safety and Security in the Sky
It was a very informative week at the FAA UAS Symposium 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland last week. There were three days of panel sessions on unmanned...
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DDS Security the Hard(ware) Way - SGX Part 3: Hardened DDS Services
**Please note that with the April 2024 release of Connext Professional 7.3 LTS, the functionalities formerly comprising Connext Secure are now...
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DDS Security the Hard(ware) Way - SGX: Part 2 (Micro + Security + SCONE)
**Please note that with the April 2024 release of Connext Professional 7.3 LTS, the functionalities formerly comprising Connext Secure are now...
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DDS Security the Hard(ware) Way - SGX: Part 1 (Overview)
**Please note that with the April 2024 release of Connext Professional 7.3 LTS, the functionalities formerly comprising Connext Secure are now...
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Announcing the Latest RTI Launcher for Connext 6
As you may know, we just released RTI Connext 6, the latest version of our product suite and one of our largest product releases to date! Connext 6...