Smarter. Interconnect. Differentiation.

More than 50 billion devices and machines will be interconnected by 2020. Once connected, they must be secure enough to withstand direct intrusion at the hardware level. Because these devices, machines, systems, and networks are increasingly aware of the environment, they must adapt to their environment and needs, resulting in greater programmability and software definition. In addition, they must be scalable, as more and more features are not only virtualized, but also efficiently mapped to shared computing resources. Because data and video are captured by ubiquitous sensors and cameras, analysis must help these machines identify, account, make decisions, and act.

In addition, these systems and networks must also meet the growing needs of anxious end users and real-time scenarios that require immediate low latency response. Behind the scenes, however, they must also process exponentially increasing amounts of data, packets, and pixels through more advanced algorithms while minimizing power consumption. And they must also be highly differentiated, otherwise they will fail in an increasingly competitive low-cost global market. This can only be achieved by combining software intelligence with hardware optimization and "arbitrary" connectivity.