Featuring a new biometric identification technique, Intel
Labs demonstrated how to eliminate passwo
In his keynote today at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel Chief
Technology Officer Justin Rattner said, "In the future, if it
computes, it connects. From the simplest embedded sensors to the most
advanced cloud datacenters, we're looking at techniques to allow all of
them to connect without wires."
Rattner demonstrated for the first time a working, all-digital WiFi
radio, dubbed a "Moore's Law Radio." The CTO explained that an
all-digital radio follows Moore's Law by scaling in area and energy
efficiency with such digital chip processes as Intel's latest 22nm
tri-gate technology. System-on-chip designs for smartphones and tablet
computers would be the most likely spot for the all digital radios to be
integrated. The small size and lower cost of integrated digital radios
will enable a host of new applications from wearable devices to "The
Internet of Things" where devices such as home appliances with sensors
can communicate with each other, exchange data and can be operated
remotely.
Rattner went on to describe a next-generation wireless standard called
WiGig that operates in the millimeter wavelengths of the radio spectrum
and delivers bandwidths well over 5 gigabits per second. The WiGig
standard is an industry-wide effort to consolidate a number of
proprietary 60 GHz wireless technologies under the existing WiFi
standard.
"WiGig is so fast it will let you wirelessly dock your enabled Ultrabook?,
tablet or smartphone without wires," said Rattner. "Even multiple
displays can be docked at one time."
Delivering Convenience and Increasing Battery Life for Cloud
Connected Devices
Users love the ability to receive email and social media updates while
their devices are asleep. To bring this always on, always connected
capability to the Ultrabook? platform, Intel® Smart Connect technology
currently wakes up the Ultrabook? just long enough to receive the
incoming packet traffic and then it goes back into standby mode to
ensure long battery life.
Showing how the benefits of Smart Connect technology could be enhanced
to include active operation for file transfer and video streaming,
Rattner demonstrated "Spring Meadow," which manages communication
between the cloud and the device more intelligently. By pre-processing
incoming network traffic and proactively managing traffic flow, "Spring
Meadow" makes more efficient use of the host processor, allowing it to
remain in a low-power state longer without impacting system performance.
Eliminating Passwords, Increasing Security
Passwords remain the common, yet inconvenient way of protecting access
to valuable or sensitive information. In an effort to eliminate the need
for passwords, Intel Labs has developed a replacement scheme called
Client Based Authentication Technology. Not only does it replace
passwords, it dramatically simplifies and accelerates the process for
accessing bank accounts, stock portfolios and other cloud-based personal
information.
The technology allows the user to authenticate once to the physical
device such as an Ultrabook? or smartphone using a biometric sensor and
then lets the device automatically authenticate itself with one or more
cloud-based services. Reading a person's unique vein patterns in the
palm of the hand, the user is then directly taken to his or her bank
account, social network page or any kind of secure service. It also
provides presence monitoring capability that locks the device and the
secure service connection when the user puts his or her device down. A
new biometric scan unlocks the platform and immediately restores the
previous secure service connections. The whole process is virtually
transparent, easy to use and more secure.
Cloud-Based Radio Access Networks, Future of Wireless Broadband
Rattner was joined onstage by Dr. Chih-Lin I, chief scientist at the
China Mobile Research Institute in Beijing, to discuss the research
collaboration between Intel Labs and China Mobile to design and
prototype a full-scale Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN). C-Ran is an
alternative to traditional RAN, which is the basis for modern cellular
communications. Instead of simply moving the proprietary base station
hardware to the data center, it is replaced by standard Intel-based
servers running a software-defined radio application. Dr. I explained
that C-RAN technology will dramatically reduce both capital and
operational expenses for wireless service providers while providing
superior levels of wireless services to users with fewer dropped
connections during periods of peak demand.
Rattner described another research area, called a Video
Aware Wireless Network (VAWN), where both service providers and end
users will benefit from the latest wireless research. VAWN is the focus
of a joint academic research program sponsored by Intel, Cisco and
Verizon. With mobile video traffic expected to grow significantly over
the next 5 years, according to Cisco Visual Networking Index, wireless
networks could be constrained and video quality limited without new
innovations. VAWN aims to increase the streaming video capacity of
wireless networks while improving the viewing experience by optimizing
network performance on an end-to-end basis.
About Intel
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Connie Brown, 503-791-2367
connie.m.brown@intel.com
© Business Wire 2012
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