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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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Integrated medical devices

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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

For distributed applications in the digital era, robust security policies are essential. Because in today's demanding, data-intensive environments,...

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Interoperability by Design for JADC2 Systems

Part 7 of the JADC2 Blog Series One of the most challenging issues facing JADC2 systems is interoperability — the ability to integrate and deploy...

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Integrating Video Streaming with Real-Time Data for Surgical Use Cases and Beyond

The integration of video streaming with real-time data is emerging as a key use case for intelligent and connected systems across industries ranging...

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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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Optimizing Medical Device Security

A Comparison of DDS, TLS and DTLS Security Standards

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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

Today, medical device manufacturers are committed to bringing next-generation connected health technologies to market. Companies using Connext®...

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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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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 The Central Florida Tech Grove is a community-driven initiative that aims to foster innovation...

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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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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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Weather Gage and RTI Connext: Helping Your Developers Navigate UMAA

RTI is pleased to introduce David Yancich, Director of Software Engineering at Weather Gage Technologies, as this month’s featured guest author.

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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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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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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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Autonomy is Like Happiness

A perspective on the state and future of autonomy

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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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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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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

RTI releases OpenSSL CNG Engine RTI Connext® is considered by many to be the proven and preferred connectivity framework for securely distributing...

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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: Enabling Flexible Vehicle Architectures

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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 You 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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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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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

The Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard is what is called an "open standard." This means that the standard is...

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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

In a world full of acronyms, some catch on and some don’t. For better or worse, “Internet of Things (IoT)” gained traction early on. But recently,...

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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

Building secure systems and keeping them safe from increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks is a top challenge for developers. One way to combat this...

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Using Connext DDS Secure 6.0 to Protect your Data

If enforcing system-wide security has turned into an elaborate puzzle, I’m pleased to share that we have the answer! RTI Connext DDS Secure 6.0...

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How PNNL and RTI Built a Secure Industrial Control System with Connext DDS

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is one of the U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, taking on some of the world’s...

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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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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

This is Part 3 in a six-blog series on this topic. If you’re new to this series, please read the previous blogs here.

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DDS Security the Hard(ware) Way - SGX: Part 2 (Micro + Security + SCONE)

This is Part 2 in a six-blog series on this topic. If you missed the Part 1 overview, please read it here.

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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...

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Telegraf Plugin for Connext DDS: Build a Time-Series Monitoring System with DDS and InfluxDB

A few months ago, I wrote a blog about monitoring your IIoT systems. The blog mainly covered the overview of a monitoring architecture with Connext...

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Ways to Integrate DDS & UPC UA for Future Industrial Systems | RTI

Integration is a big challenge in large, industrial systems. In the past, industrial system integration focused on devices, networks and other...

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Connext 6: Now Available!

I’m honored to announce the availability of Connext 6, the newest release of the RTI Connext suite of products.

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Connext DDS and the Industrial IoT: The Top 5 Things to Know

The Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard has been a trusted connectivity standard in the Aerospace and Defense market since its launch in 2004,...

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The DDS Foundation: Growing the DDS Community – and Standard – in the IIoT Era

This week the Object Management Group® (OMG®) launched the DDS Foundation, a global organization for DDS users, vendors, technology enthusiasts and...

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Here's Why RTI is Frost & Sullivan's Top Healthcare Leader

Today, RTI received a major award from Frost and Sullivan (F&S). F&S is one of the largest analyst firms, with over 1,800 analysts around the world....

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Bootstrapping FACE Open Industry Standards with Live Training Events

How do you expand awareness and adoption of a new industry standard? This is a challenge every standards organization encounters, but few master. As...

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DDS & TSN to Develop Single Hardware Solution for Real-Time Data | RTI

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) works by leveraging real-time data from multiple sources to create smarter applications and systems. This...

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5 Steps to Creating an Evaluation Platform Using the RTI Field Build Kit

Antonio Garcia, a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Wind River, approached me to ask about running our Connext® DDS Professional for a...

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HIMSS19 and the Future of Connected Healthcare

It's that time of year again when the who’s who of healthcare technology converge to a single location for a week of education, networking,...

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Introducing the IIC, Now with OpenFog!

Recently, the IIC and OpenFog announced that they are joining efforts. The combined organization is clearly the world leader of the new distributed...

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ROS2 + DDS: Play it Again

Real-world testing is a necessary – and often expensive – part of creating distributed and autonomous systems. Tests are designed to put the system...

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RTI Connext DDS: First TSS Solution to Achieve FACE Conformance Certification

I am very proud to announce today that RTI has announced that RTI Connext® DDS has passed all verification and conformance tests required for the...

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Developing Connext DDS in Golang in 4 Simple Steps

Let’s get Go’ing with DDS in 2019! I am so excited to share that there is a new and quick way to develop a DDS application in Go! RTI Go Connector...

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I/ITSEC 2018: Demonstrating Interoperability Using Connext DDS

How do you demonstrate a distributed communications framework at a trade show? In a busy show like I/ITSEC 2018 where you are surrounded by...

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Data for All: Is Democratizing Patient Data the Future?

Over the past few years we have seen major changes in the Healthcare landscape. These changes are fundamentally driven by three industry megatrends:...

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A Virtual Tour of RTI’s IIoT Lab

“Make sure you tell them about the software systems operating the lab,” my team told me as I was preparing to guide a tour of RTI’s IIoT Lab as part...

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Creating the Perfect DDS Data Model Using Component Based Modeling

Modeling data for DDS systems can be challenging. There is a seemingly never-ending list of variables to take into account: memory usage, message...

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How Data-Centric Gateways Help Scale IIoT Systems

In a recent episode of the Connext Podcast, Rajive Joshi and Fernando Crespo-Sanchez discussed the challenges of developing and scaling connectivity...

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GVA & DDS: How to Speed Up Development Using RTI Prototyper

The traditional approach to designing a land platform system – composed of standalone subsystems – is laborious and challenging for developers and...

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What You Missed at the Silicon Valley Connext Conference

After hosting Connext Conferences in Munich and Boston earlier this year, last week we held the Silicon Valley edition of the Connext Conference,...

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Connext DDS Micro is Huge for Developing Autonomous Vehicles

You have already heard how RTI Connext 6 offers the necessary capabilities for architecting highly autonomous systems, but it also streamlines...

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Top 5 Reasons to Attend the Silicon Valley Connext Conference

RTI’s second annual Silicon Valley Connext Conference is right around the corner and I could not be more excited about it! Just in case you haven’t...

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