Saturday, July 30, 2011

Teledyne Relays And Hardware Engineering

In the age of the internet, in the age of the cloud, everything depends on the hardware. All of these services wouldn't and couldn't possibly exist if it weren't for hardware systems such as teledyne relays. The companies that build these systems and hardware devices realize that there's a lot of building out that telephone companies and other internet backbone type of conglomerates are doing. The problem is that they're often neglected, and society isn't really interested in the somewhat geeky endeavors of the background mechanics of networking. Networking isn't easy; not these days; it's not at all clear cut or straightforward, as to how things will proceed. And it's not necessarily super fun.

Undergraduates, for example, are more likely to look into software engineering than electrical engineering for majors and degree programs. It's websites that make the headlines, not the internet backbone operators and managers. So, it's no wonder, then, that ingenious apparatuses such as teledyne relays aren't really well known or even talked about all that much. But they do contribute a whole lot to the progress and pace of progress in the technological world. Electronics (i.e. hardware) still defines the outer limits of what we will be able to do with software. Without that hardware, software just wouldn't have anything to reside in or on. Without that network of switches, time delay relays, and routers to organize the unimaginable amounts of data that course through the internet's backbone over the course of any given second, we just wouldn't have the web that we do have today. Routers, teledyne relays and the like are absolutely critical to the way that we all communicate and, in fact, work going forward. And what sort of threatens this pace of progress is the lack of attention that electronics and hardware engineering receives these days. There's a concern in academia that there aren't enough undergraduates that are interested in the bone dry topics of bandwidth and fiber optic specifications. Many more of our younger minds are looking toward creative software projects than commodity-like hardware projects.

This is something that has to change, but how this change? It seems like more and more of the mechanical computing that goes on is happening further and further away from end users. It used to be that all of the computing happened on the local workstation, and that nothing was saved up in the cloud. But that's all changing; almost everything is in the cloud now, and it just doesn't sense to try to save things locally. If there is the option to do so, users tend to prefer to want to save things in the cloud, in order to ensure that all that information is saved properly. So it seems as though teledyne relays and routers will likely disappear from plain view. In a few years, we could all be plugging into a greater hub automatically, through smarter laptops and mobile phones.

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