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Corner Market BBQ, nestled on an inconspicuous street corner in Dinwiddie County, diners can find all three.
Located on the site of a former farm at the intersection of Cox Road and Airport Street in Petersburg, the new restaurant is a family affair, run by Al Marek, his wife, Sue, and their son, Jason. Since its opening at the beginning of November, ribs, baked beans and pulled pork sandwiches have flown out the serving window every weekend.
âItâs almost like thereâs some kind of a spirit behind barbecue,â Al says.
A history buff, Al is enamored with the cultural heritage of barbecue, in the context of indigenous peoples and American versions of the cooking technique. But what really gets him going is the history of barbecue in Virginia.
Moline, Illinois-based John Deere packs a lot of technology into its tractors. In fact, in some ways John Deere more closely resembles a tech company than it does an agriculture firm. The company hopes to use its expertise in both agriculture and technology to improve current farming practices and increase food production around the world.
While that might sound like a lofty goal, John Deere is already using 4G technology and GPS to make farmers more efficient. The company currently offers GPS-directed tractors that, when coupled with the company s correction technology, can steer to within an inch of where the tractor needs to be, allowing for very precise seed planting. According to the company, a single John Deere tractor and planter can precisely plant more than 700 corn seeds and 2,800 soybean seeds every second.
During my self-imposed quarantine away from my now typical reading diet of literary giants, I took some time to see what people were writing about the telecom world, since this is the usual time for year-end wrap-ups and new year predictions.
I agree with Iain Morris that the crystal ball s usefulness is stymied by the realities of today s world and appreciated his clever approach of predicting non-events. In that spirit, I will forego predictions and instead share my reactions to some of what I ve seen coming across the Light Reading network and elsewhere. I inject what I hope is received as a small dose of reality into discussions of important telecom trends.
When Mahadev Satyanarayanan, group professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and an expert in edge computing, needed a network to test his edge computing applications, he knew he wanted something that was low in latency, reliable and not susceptible to any performance degradation.
Satyanarayanan turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Federated Wireless for help, and the university decided to deploy an LTE private wireless network using Citizens Broadband Radio Services General Authorized Access (GAA) 3.5GHz spectrum.
Although Carnegie Mellon has a Wi-Fi network, Satyanarayanan said it was important for his lab to use a reliable network that could handle a heavy traffic load without slowing down, something that Wi-Fi doesn t do very well. And he wanted a network that could be managed from end-to-end. We were very interested in exploring edge-native use cases on the campus and we wanted to create a test bed so we could do head-to-head comparisons of real use cas
If 2020 was the year that containerized applications became more commonplace in telco networks, then 2021 will most certainly be the year that service providers move aggressively toward cloud-native networking. But what exactly does cloud-native networking mean in the telecom world?
Cloud native is a term that comes from the IT industry that is used to describe the building and running of network functions that take advantage of the cloud computing delivery model. This model, which usually involves software containers, allows service providers to develop and deploy networks more quickly, making it possible for them to respond quickly to growth in mobile data traffic and add new services. Cloud native also typically involves automation tools that allow service providers to become more open and agile.