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…. “The Employment Intensity of Economic Growth in the G-7 Countries,” Padalino Samanta, and Marco Vivarelli, 1997, International Labour Review 136: 191-213. Assumes 33 percent employment elasticity (more conservative than the 0.5 Padalino evidenced) and the estimated “GDP” value of 33 percent of vehicles connected. Figure 1. Annual Benefits per Connected Passenger Vehicle, by Source. Source: Cisco IBSG, July 2011…
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Tags: Cisco, connected vehicle, government, IBSG, meeting of the minds, mobility, network, personal mobility, personal transportation, smart road pricing, smart traffic infrastructure
The world of transportation is rapidly changing, which is in turn driving rapid change in the world of manufacturing. Transportation products of all kinds have had connectivity in some form for many years however; the connectivity was confusing, unreliable and often deficient in adequate bandwidth and technology to sustain a continuous stream of interactions between equipment and operation centers. New means of M2M have emerged out of necessity…
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Tags: bandwidth, Cisco, connected vehicle, ethernet convergence, IBSG, M2M, Manufacturing, Transportation, UAV
Following the ITU hosted CTO meeting held in Dubai on November 18 2012, where I represented our CTO Padmasree Warrior, I had the pleasure to present at the ITU-T Global Standards Symposium [GSS] in Dubai on November 19 2012. This panel was of particular interest to us because Cisco observed a number of industries brought together on the same stage. Energy, healthcare, and transportation are important to how we live and work, and Cisco engages i…
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Tags: Energy, healthcare, ITU, Service Provider, Transportation
As organizations work to evolve their IT infrastructure into a cloud-based model, one concept becomes self-evident: connecting users to the cloud with confidence. In order to achieve that, any virtual infrastructure must have the ability to pool multiple physical devices into a single virtual instance, then expand and contract that instance simultaneously and instantaneously based on application, location or line of business requirements. Such n…
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Tags: AppNav, Baker Hughes, cisco live, enterprise wan app, quintiles, swift transportation, TechWiseTV, waas, waas 5.0
As a global director of the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group’s Urban Innovation team, I’ve seen how broadband connectivity can radically transform urban life, while forcing us to rethink our entire approach to designing and managing cities. I recently had the opportunity to share some of my ideas on the subject at the 2011 World Council of UCLG (United Cities and Local Governments) in Florence, Italy. The Council represents nearly half th…
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Tags: 21st century cities, broadband, Cisco, environmental sustainability, IBSG, infrastructure, internet of things, network, public policy, public sector, tourism, Transportation, urban innovation, utilities, World Council of UCLG
