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Human Needs: Sustaining Life During Exploration

Human needs have not changed for centuries. As the world's first explorers set off to discover new lands and map uncharted territories, they had to make sure that basic survival requirements were met. To endure these long voyages, human beings had to make sure they had food, water, air and adequate shelter on hand. If any one of these basic needs were not met, life would be put in jeopardy.

Having sufficient supplies while traveling has always been a problem for explorers. Pioneers either brought food and water on their journeys or gathered them along the way. Shelter was either carried or built on site to protect settlers from the weather or other dangers.

NASA researchers have tested dwarf wheat in confined quarters
Image above: Kennedy Space Center researchers have grown dwarf wheat in confined quarters to gauge the crop's ability to produce food, water and oxygen, and remove carbon dioxide during extended space travel.

Beyond the boundaries of our Earth, 21st century explorers will face a unique set of challenges as they return to the moon, travel to Mars and scout the far reaches of the solar system. Much as did the earliest terrestrial pioneers, this newest generation of travelers will have to transport nourishment and materials with them on journeys that will be every bit as difficult as those undertaken by their ancestors.

Famine and Perseverance

In 1606 King James I granted a charter to the Virginia Company, a group of London entrepreneurs, to establish an English settlement in North America. Before beginning the long journey, the settlers estimated how much food and water they would need for the voyage and for sustenance once they arrived in the New World. There was no guarantee that food would be plentiful in this strange new land.

The voyage lasted nearly five months. With limited space on board the ships and few methods for preserving food, very few kinds could be stored and carried. No cooling or refrigeration was available, so all food was salted, dried or pickled in vinegar to help prevent spoiling. These foods, which could be used for weeks or even months, did not taste very good.

The typical Native American diet consisted of oysters, nuts, corn and other vegetablesImage to left: Typical Native American food consisted of oysters, nuts, corn and other vegetables. Credit: St. Margaret's School, Tappahannock, Va.

Basic daily rations for each traveler included dried hardtack (biscuits that were baked until all moisture was removed); salted, dried or pickled meats and fish; cheese; oatmeal or barley; and a gallon of beer or wine. In bad weather, no cooking was allowed on board the ships, so the settlers soaked the biscuits in water to make them edible. Cheese and cold pickled meats completed these meals.

Ships often stopped at the Canary Islands, or Caribbean islands, to trade for fresh provisions. Fruits, vegetables and sea tortoises could be added to the normally bland diet, but fresh supplies needed to be used quickly before they spoiled.

A wonderful sight greeted the Jamestown settlers when they finally reached Virginia. George Percy, one of the settlers, wrote about the beautiful trees and fresh waters. The area appeared to be filled with wildlife and edible plants. When Captain Newport returned to England for fresh supplies, the settlers were instructed to trade for food with the native inhabitants of the area, the Powhatan Indians. Unfortunately, relations with the Virginia Indians were often unpredictable.

Weather conditions and inexperience worked against the settlers, and soon they had little fresh food or water. With the beginning of a drought that lasted for several years, even the Powhatan crops failed. The settlers did not know how to hunt and fish for the strange species of animals they found in this new environment. Captain Newport's return trip with fresh supplies was delayed by several months. Reports tell of settlers trying to survive by rationing barley soaked in water divided among five men.

Artist's concept of the burial of Jamestown's deadImage to right: Burial of the Jamestown dead during the "starving time," winter 1609-10. Credit: National Park Service, Colonial National Historical Park.

Water near the settlement was brackish, containing not only large amounts of salt, but also carrying bacteria causing typhoid fever and other diseases. Many historians believe that the lack of fresh water was the leading cause of many of the settlers' deaths.

George Percy wrote, "Our men were destroyed with cruel diseases, as swellings, burning fevers, and by wars, and some departed suddenly, but for the most part they died of mere famine."

Eventually, the settlers adapted to this new environment and learned how to find fresh water and hunt. By 1610, about half of the meat sources for the settlers came from local wildlife. The settlers established more friendly relations with the Virginia Indians who shared their knowledge about food, water and shelter.

The Powhatans taught the settlers to use Tuckahoe, an edible plant root, to make bread and prepare a nutritional meal of succotash. Succotash was a mixture of beans, corn, squash and meat. The settlers traded coins, beads and metal products with the Virginia Indians for deer, waterfowl, melons, beans, squash and berries.

Sustenance In Space

Astronauts must also take their food with them when they travel. Some of the same methods used by early explorers are still being used to store food onboard the space shuttle and the International Space Station (ISS). Preparation varies with the food type. Some foods can be eaten in their natural form, such as fruit. Other foods require adding water for rehydration, such as macaroni and cheese or spaghetti.

When astronauts travel into space, NASA scientists determine how much food will be needed for each mission. For example, an astronaut on the ISS uses about 1.83 pounds (0.83 kilograms) of food per meal each day. About 0.27 pounds (0.12 kilograms) of this weight is packaging material. Longer-duration missions will require much more food.

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Image above: A space shuttle food tray. Credit: NASA

A trip to Mars and back, for instance, may take more than three years and require the provision of thousands of kilograms of food. A crew of four on a three-year martian mission eating only three meals each day would need to carry more than 24,000 pounds (10,886 kilograms) of food.

In the early days of the American space program, food for astronauts consisted of freeze-dried powders, bite-size cubes and semi-liquids in tubes. Most astronauts agreed that the foods were unappetizing and hard to eat. As scientists learned more about the space environment, better ways to prepare and package foods were developed.

Today, the types of foods available include rehydratable, temperature-stabilized, irradiated and natural-form foods. Most foods are ready to eat simply by adding water or by heating. All food is precooked and processed so it requires no refrigeration. The only exceptions are fresh fruits and vegetables.

No refrigeration is available on the space shuttle so fresh foods must be eaten within the first few days of flight or they will spoil. Food for the ISS is similar to that on the space shuttle except that fewer foods require rehydration because of the limited amount of water available on the station.

Shuttle astronauts work with nutritionists to select menus that appeal to their individual tastes. Five months before flight, menus are selected and analyzed for nutritional content by the shuttle dietician. Foods are tested to see how they will react in a reduced gravity environment. Meal times and the amount of food consumed are closely monitored because the astronauts often report not feeling hungry in space. Caloric requirements are determined using a basal energy expenditure (BEE) formula.

The food list looks much like the foods Americans would eat at home. Astronauts may choose from foods such as cream of mushroom soup, macaroni and cheese, chicken, beef, ham, scrambled eggs and cereal. Shrimp cocktail is a favorite because of its spicy flavor. Foods such as nuts, granola bars and cookies are classified as natural-form foods. They are ready to eat and are packaged in clear, flexible pouches that are cut open with scissors. Beverages come in powdered form and include coffee, tea, apple cider, orange juice and lemonade.

On Earth, the average American uses about 35 gallons (132 liters) of water every day. Water is heavy, so attempts are made to minimize the amount of water carried on board spacecraft.

On the space shuttle, water is produced as a byproduct from fuel cells. The process is complicated but, simply put, fuel cells make electricity when hydrogen and oxygen are combined. When the atoms combine, they not only make electricity, but water as well. This water can be recycled and used by the astronauts.

Because electrical power for the ISS is generated from solar panels rather than from fuel cells, no water is produced. Small amounts of water are recycled from cabin air onboard the ISS, and the astronauts limit water use to only about three gallons (11 liters) per day.

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Behind the Wheel: Getting ready for Daytona, Phoenix

February 09, 2011, Brad Keselowski, Special to NASCAR.COM,

Getting ready for Daytona, Phoenix and Truck season with Kligerman

Hey race fans. As hard as it may be to believe that we head down to Daytona this week, I'm actually pretty excited to get the season going. It's been a long offseason and I think we have a lot of positive things to look forward to in the sport right now. I think the fans are really looking for a reason to come out to the race track this year. Most of the track operators that I've talked to are just as excited as I am because they have already seen improvements in ticket sales.

The first thing we'll do when we get down there is Daytona 500 media day, which takes place on Thursday. Everybody gets under one gigantic tent at the race track and will take turns talking to different forms of media: print, radio, television and internet are all there. We'll do promo work for Fox Sports, ESPN and TNT. It's such a busy week-and-a-half down there; this makes it easier on everyone to get done what they need. Then we can concentrate on racing.

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We've still been going to the race track over the last few months. Walt Disney World Speedway has been a pretty popular place during the winter. It's a lot like Phoenix International Raceway. The driver input for both tracks is almost identical when you lay them on top of each other. The one big difference is that the "kink" is on the frontstretch at Disney and on the backstretch at Phoenix. As much attention that Daytona demands, we still have to go to Phoenix the next week for a race that pays just as many points toward the championship. We can't lose sight of that.

Last week we took the No. 22 Discount Tire Dodge Challenger down to Disney and shared the track with the guys from my NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team at Brad Keselowski Racing (BKR). Parker Kligerman will drive my No. 29 BKR Ram in at least 15 races this year and I'm as anxious to see that program get started as I am to get behind the wheel myself. Parker is our Penske Racing development driver; he has a lot of talent and he needs to be racing somewhere next year. I'm happy that we were able to work something out to put him in my equipment because I'm proud of what we have been able to build at BKR.

People that know me know that I'm a big Michigan guy. I'm very proud to be from the Detroit area -- I loved the Super Bowl commercial that Eminem did for Chrysler. On Tuesday of this week I flew back up to my home state so that the Michigan State Assembly could proclaim it "Brad Keselowski Day." I'll be honest, it felt really good. I could see how proud it made my family. I never thought I would be receiving an honor like that from the State of Michigan. After the proclamation I went and did a media event with my friend Roger Curtis, president of Michigan International Speedway. Roger is a great guy and a hell of a race track promoter. He and I talked about anything and everything going on in the sport right now, and hopefully sold some tickets to MIS along the way.

From the fans

This week's fan question comes from Stephen MacDonald. He wants to know if running in the Nationwide Series is a positive or a negative to my Cup Series efforts.

Hands down, Stephen, it is a positive. We didn't run as well as we wanted to on the Cup side last year. The fact that I had success in the Nationwide Series kept my confidence up. To take that a step further, the Nationwide program gave my crew chief, Paul Wolfe, a platform to showcase his skills. As a result, he led our team to the championship and he parlayed that into a job as my Cup crew chief on the No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge. Nationwide programs go a long way in building depth within an organization, whether that is a crew chief or a pit crew member.

And we won Roger Penske his first NASCAR championship. I don't know how that couldn't be quantified as a positive.

Have a question for Brad? Submit inquiries to and follow him on Twitter at The opinions expressed are solely those of Keselowski.

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"In addition to our recruitment of new medical staff and state-of-the-art technologies, we are excited to announce that we will be doing a cosmetic upgrade to the hospital, including hardwood floors and new ceilings," said Perla.

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Perla said 99 percent of patients report a positive experience.

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Academic Notes: Plans to major in secondary education and mathematics.

Personal Bests: 10:45.78@ (3,000m)

2013 Cross Country: Did not compete.

2012 Cross Country: Ran three races for the Lumberjacks in her first cross country campaign ... Finished sixth on the team in 31st overall at NAU's home opener, the George Kyte Classic, clocking her season-best time of 19:18.0 ... Finished second on the team and 24th overall at the Grand Canyon Invitational in a time of 19:39.2.

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"CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Do you have the sense that many of the nation's sports fans are pulling for LeBron James to return to Cleveland?

A Today Show poll had 62 percent of people saying James should pick the Cavaliers, the rest believing he should stay in Miami. An ESPN Sports Nation poll with 79,388 votes had 43 percent favoring the Cavs, 36 percent favoring "another team," and 21 percent favoring his return to the Heat.

The Heat have been to four consecutive finals, and have won two titles. But most sports fans want to break up Miami's Big Three -- and they want James to come home.

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"CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It's official, Kyrie Irving will be a Cavalier for the foreseeable future.

Irving's contract extension -- agreed in principal in the minutes after free agency began on July 1 and believed to be worth $90 million over five years -- was announced in a statement released by the team.

"We couldn’t be happier to have Kyrie firmly at the core of our Cavaliers team and family for years to come," Cavaliers General Manager David Griffin said in the statement. "He’s already proven he's among the best in the NBA and we’re excited to watch his continued growth and success."

The deal keeps Irving, the 2011 NBA Rookie of the Year, in Cleveland through the 2019-20 season."

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"What’s up, Cavalier fans. It’s Joe Harris – Cleveland’s second-round pick in this year’s Draft. My 2014 Draft classmate – Andrew Wiggins – along with the rest of the squad are out here in Las Vegas, getting ready for 2014 Summer League. And this is the first installment of my Rookie Blog that I hope to continue through our stay out West.

Some of you probably don’t know much about me – other than this video that NBA.com posted the night I was drafted by the Cavs. That was an incredible night.

I was really excited. I didn’t know that everybody was going to be shooting off confetti and all that stuff. That was a surprise. But I just wanted it to be fairly low-key. I was just hanging out with my family and my friends and my girlfriend. Obviously everyone was very excited and happy – it’s a very cool moment.

And I have to admit, I had known about it before all that. I knew because they actually went to commercial after my agent called me. He was really excited, saying that we were going to Cleveland. And obviously I was extremely excited. But then they went to commercial and I really didn’t tell anybody. Then, it came back and they showed the pick and I was really happy. It was a really cool moment."

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So I have been watching this big fella for quite a while, and though I know that this draft is loaded with decent big men, I really would find it hard to pass on him in the second round, if I needed a project at 5 (for teams with 3-4 picks in the draft, like the Hawks, it's a no brainer IMO).. Before you reject the thought, watch the video below.. He is 7'2 but very skinny (220 lbs, similar to rudy gobert) and facing a quite high level of cometition this year in Europe he showed flashes of a legit big man's game.. I like him a lot, sure he is not Cody Zeller but who knows what can happen in 5 years.. Heck he can even hit fadeaways with the D right on him, I see him developing into Ante Tomic/Stanko Barac 2.0 at worst.. Take a look and share your thoughts guys

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Ecologists Unwelcome After Criticizing City's Plans

    The Heron's Head Park is a 24-acre public space and the location of the Eco Center.

    Why is Arc Ecology no longer welcome in the Bayview? Some people suspect that it has something to do with the ecological organization's criticism of the city's redevelopment plans.

    For thirty years, Arc Ecology has looked after the environmental health of the neighborhood, first fighting against nuclear weapons and then later working as neighborhood science advisers.

    But the SF Redevelopment Agency recently decided not to renew a lucrative contract with them, removing a significant source of funding. Now, Arc must move to smaller offices.

    The move came after Arc called attention to the city's plan to transfer property and build structures around Bayview, Hunter's Point, and Candlestick Point. The area is highly controversial due to historic, social, and environmental factors.

    For years, Arc has been charged with evaluating the redevelopment of the economically depressed region. But they were suddenly left high and dry last year, despite recommendations from the state and a panel or experts that the city make use of the organization's extensive experience.

    There's also a suspicious connection to Newsom's economic development office. A representative from that office gave Arc an oddly low evaluation, which was just enough to place the contract out of reach.

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Chicago-native Kellie Madison filming Gacy documentary this week

    John Wayne Gacy became notorious as the "Killer Clown" because of the many block parties he threw for his friends and neighbors, entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup, under the name of "Pogo the Clown".

    Keep your eyes open this week, as filmmaker Kellie Madison will be shooting some scenes for her new project: “Dear Mr. Gacy.”

    The Chicago-native is working on a documentary about Jason Moss, who wrote about the serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

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    The upcoming documentary will be based on the book Moss wrote while a student at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, when he got to meet and talk with Gacy on several occasions while the serial killer was in prison.

    "It's been interesting to talk to people because they all have the same message. It's so clear — that there are predators all around, especially now on the Internet," Madison told Crain’s Chicago.

    "If you're a kid, you have to be careful. The guy next door may seem friendly and jovial and charming, but you just don't know."

    Places you’ll most likely find her are Lincoln Park and the Lakeview neighborhood, where the filmmaker will be interviewing police officers and attorneys involved in the Gacy murder investigations.


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Five Nights That Could Save Your Life: How to Save Lives With AEDs

Automatic external defibrillators are common, easy to use

    If a loved one, a co-worker or even a complete stranger collapsed, would you know what to do?

    Automatic external defibrillators are becoming commonplace, especially in big, public places such as airports. They are simple devices that shock the heart back into a normal rhythm.

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    If you can use a Band-Aid, you can use an automatic external defibrillator. (Published Friday, Nov. 11, 2011)

    "AEDs are probably one of the most foolproof things we have in medicine," said Dr. Paul Pepe, a nationally known expert on the devices at Parkland Medical Center and UT Southwestern Medical Center.

    Sudden cardiac arrest kills 325,000 people in the United States per year, more than 1,000 per day, according to the Heart Rhythm Foundation.

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    Doctors say an automated external defibrillator saved the life of a Lewisville student who collapsed on a soccer field. (Published Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011)

    "Almost the majority of the cases can be reversed, and the person can come around and be waking up and talking to you in a matter of minutes," Pepe said.

    But many people don't know where to find AEDs -- or how to use them.

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    A seventh-grade Azle boy is in good condition less than 24 hours after he collapsed and stopped breathing during a junior high football game Tuesday evening. (Published Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011)

    "They say, 'We got AEDs in our building,' and then when it happens, they don't know where it is," Pepe said.

    For every minute that ticks away without treatment, the chances of surviving sudden cardiac arrest drop 10 percent.

    AEDs are often located in high-traffic areas such as break rooms or near restrooms. In a crisis, call 911. Someone should start chest compressions while another person runs to get the AED.

    The American Red Cross says the devices are easy to use.

    Step 1: Open the box, and the machine starts telling you what to do.
    Step 2: Follow the instructions and stick the pads on the person's bare chest.
    Step 3: Step away. The machine will decide if the person needs to be shocked.

    There are different models of AEDs, but they're all basically the same.

    "We actually put these AEDs in front of a bunch of six-graders and said, 'Just use them,'" Pepe said. "And most of them were able to use them within a matter of seconds."

    Laura Friend works full-time with Cook Children's Medical Center as an advocate for AED awareness in schools in memory of her daughter.

    "If I can save my neighbor's child, then this is what I'm supposed to do," she said.

    Her 12-year-old daughter, Sarah, died in 2004 after she collapsed at a North Texas water park. The use of an AED almost certainly would have saved her, Friend said.

    "They did bring AEDs to her side," Friend said. "They have them at the park, but they didn't use them. She laid there for 21 minutes before EMS arrived."

    AEDs cost about $1,500.

    NBC 5's Brian Curtis contributed to this report.


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    Could Siri take over the world, or just your life? Apple filed a patent application for its virtual assistant Siri, which explained what the company plans to do with it -- and that could be almost anything with a human-machine interface.

    Siri will not only he a helper to find information, but could also be a teacher, a navigator and entertainment manager, according to Patently Apple.

    The patent also reveals that Apple envisions the technology playing a role in vehicles and in-vehicle entertainment systems where an Intelligent Assistant will be considered the king of user interfaces. Apple's patent shows us that Siri will be able to be configured to work with various new scenarios and even act as an instructor when we purchase future devices. Forget using a manual – as Siri will simply teach us what we'll want to know about our new devices when we're ready to ask it a question about a new function or feature.

    The application also suggests that Siri could listen in on conversations to send appropriate texts or respond to external events, such as calling someone to say you missed your flight and Siri would immediately create a listing of local hotels. There's even a possibility that Siri would already have booked a room based on one's previous information.

    In short, there seems little need to even type in information ever again. But should we trust a virtual assistant with that much power over our lives and future? Isn't there a chance it could be very wrong? (Even the Woz has noticed that Siri's search content has become saturated with ads rather than helpful information.)

    We hope that Apple also includes an ON/OFF switch for Siri doing things on our behalf -- from texting people information to online shopping. Sometimes a little power can be a dangerous thing.


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    Virginia has identified 10 transportation projects that are candidates for public-private partnerships.

    The list released Monday by Gov. Bob McDonnell includes improvements to the Interstate 66 and Interstate 73 corridors, a Route 460-Interstate 85 connector and an extension of express lanes on Interstate 495.

    McDonnell says enough work has been done on these projects to move them through the screening process.

    The list also includes 10 conceptual projects. These projects need additional business and financial analysis before they are moved to the screening process. They include electric car charging stations at rest areas and new park and ride facilities.

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    (NECN: Tom Langford, Cape Cod) - Some people are not heeding warnings to evacuate. Not only are some continuing their vacations, but some people are actually starting to it.

    The ferry to Martha's Vineyard will not be running tomorrow, so Saturday is the last opportunity to leave.

    Still, with the storm weakening, there is no mass rush to escape. Luggage is piling up outside the ferry terminal in Woods Hole, MA, but people aren't fleeing the island. Instead, they are going to Martha's Vineyard.

    They know Hurricane Irene is on her way, but they aren't concerned.

    "You only live once. It's not going to be that bad. It's going to rain, a little wind," said one woman.

    Others are heading over to check on their summer home, and some simply don't want to miss out on vacations they already paid for.

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367. War, oil, oil companies, and Iraq

In 1971, Iraq nationalized its oil industry. It replaced the Iraq Petroleum Company which was made up of the precursors to BP, Total, Shell and a consortium of American oil companies including what was to become Exxon Mobil and folded their assets into the Iraq National Oil Company. On June 30, 2008, the successor companies were allowed back into Iraq receiving no bid contracts to modernize production in Iraq’s oil fields. The contracts were structured to circumvent the absence of a Petroleum Law, much sought after by the Bush Administration but stymied by conflicts between the central government and the regions, most notably the Kurds. The oil companies would be paid for their work in oil, currently a rapidly appreciating commodity. They would also get a chance to match the bid of any other companies on future contracts. The Bush Administration has said that it did not influence the award of the contracts although officials from the Departments of State, Commerce, Energy, and Interior work in Iraq’s Oil Ministry. USAID also has a contract with Management Systems International to advise the Ministry. Clients of MSI’s parent company Coffrey International include BP and Shell, so no conflict of interest there. Bush has said his invasion of Iraq was never about oil. But does anyone seriously think that Iraq would have been a target if it’s major export had been oranges?

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Companies must confront security concerns and vendor hype when planning and adopting software-defined networking.
IT executives should take a measured approach--and no less--when considering adopting one of today's hottest infrastructure technologies: namely, software-defined networking.

Such is the conclusion of the latest InformationWeek report, which highlights the business benefits of SDN. The report, which draws from InformationWeek surveys of IT decision makers completed in the past several months, indicates that while many enterprises are at least thinking about their SDN strategies, most have done little or nothing to move closer to adoption of SDN.

In fact, 43% of respondents said their companies either had no plans to test SDN technologies or didn't know what the plans were, while another 27% said they didn't plan to start testing for at least a year. Another 21% had SDN testing on the calendar for the next year, while just 9% either had SDNs in production or were actively testing the technology.

"The technology is both sophisticated and elegant. It also promises tangible business benefits, including faster provisioning of network resources, more automation and a concomitant reduction in operational expenses, greater flexibility in network configuration and customization, increased utilization of network capacity with a reduction in capital expense, and better security," writes the report's author, Kurt Marko. "The key word, for now, is 'promises.' Real live SDN implementations are few, and commercial products are young and scarce."

That's not stopping a multitude of vendors from trying to capitalize on the fast-developing SDN hype, with good reason. The report notes that research firm MarketsandMarkets conservatively predicts that the SDN market will reach $2.1 billion by 2017, while IDC is much more aggressive, predicting that the SDN market will reach $3.7 billion by 2016.

The pursuit of those riches is expected to spur many vendors to get a little overzealous in slapping the SDN label on their products. For that reason, Marko argues that getting educated enough about the technology to effectively separate the SDN market's wheat from its chaff is an increasingly critical priority for any company heading down the SDN path.

"IT leaders should begin developing a strategy to harness productivity and business benefits while being informed enough to withstand the inevitable overselling and misappropriation of an admittedly loosely defined term--the 'SDN-washing' of vendors seeking to capitalize on the trend du jour," he writes.

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Among the primary business benefits Marko identifies in the InformationWeek report are faster, more agile service provisioning; more holistic network management; the ability to apply more granular unified security policy; reduced operational expenses resulting from improved server utilization and administrative efficiency; and reduced capital expenses due to better use of existing equipment, phasing out of dedicated hardware and reduced vendor lock-in.

As Marko notes, those benefits jibe with the results of InformationWeek's recent IT Spending Priorities Survey, which found that the top four priorities for 2013 are improved security, increased server virtualization, and upgraded storage and network infrastructures.

Security, in particular, appears to be the hot-button consideration among companies investigating SDN adoption. Some 44% of respondents expect SDNs to help them overcome security complexity introduced by virtualization of server and storage resources, and 42% say SDNs will make their networks somewhat or much more secure. Meanwhile, 12% believe SDNs will compromise security, with 44% worried about lack of integration with existing security technologies, 40% concerned about potential hacking of SDN controllers and 38% fearing added complexity.

Security fears notwithstanding, Marko strongly recommends that IT leaders not push SDNs to the back burner.

"We're very early in the evolution of enterprise networks from a collection of physically interconnected hardware to a pool of abstract, algorithmically controlled virtualized resources," writes Marko. "However, like server virtualization, it's both likely to succeed and too big to ignore."

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Researchers from Microsoft and University of Massachusetts test a promising new protocol to offload 3G traffic to WiFi even from a moving vehicle.

Microsoft Researchers have been working on a technology that would let mobile phones and other 3G devices automatically switch to public WiFi even while the device is traveling in a vehicle. The technology is dubbed Wiffler and earlier this year, researchers took it for some test drives in Amherst, Mass, Seattle and San Francisco.

Mind you, WiFi was available only about 11 percent of the time for a mobile device in transit, the team discovered, compared to 87% of the time 3G was available. So it would stand to reason that, at best, the mobile device wouldn't only be able to use WiFi a tiny bit of the time. However, the Wiffler protocol allowed the device to offload nearly half of its data from 3G to WiFi.

How so? Wiffler is smart about when to send the packets. It doesn't replace 3G, it augments it and transmits over WiFi simultaneously, allowing users to set WiFi as the delivery method of choice when it is available -- and when an application can tolerate it. Not every application can handle even a few seconds delay in the stream (VoIP) -- and WiFi tends to drop more packets than 3G does. But many apps can handle even a minutes-worth of delay perfectly well (messaging).

Wiffler uses what researchers call "prediction based offloading" in which it determines how likely it is to travel within the area of an acceptable WiFi hotspot within a certain time frame.If the car is moving in an urban area, discovering frequent hotspots, it predicts it will find another one quickly. If it is traveling on a highway and hasn't run across a hotspot in a while, it figures it won't find another one soon. If the the device doesn't find a hotspot within a predicted maximum delay time it goes ahead and fires up the 3G.

"We try to ensure that application performance requirements are met. So, if some data needs to be transferred right away (e.g., VoIP) we do not wait for WiFi connectivity to appear. But if some data can wait for a few seconds, waiting for WiFi instead of transmitting right away on 3G, that can reduce 3G usage," Ratul Mahajan told me in an e-mail interview. Mahajan is a researcher with the Networking Research Group at Microsoft Research Redmond. Mahajan worked on the project with two teammates, Aruna Balasubramanian and Arun Venkataramani, both of whom are researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

"The second feature is that we may actually use both connections in parallel instead of using only one. So, if we deem that some data cannot be transferred using WiFi alone within its latency requirement, we will use both 3G and WiFi simultaneously. This parallel use is different from a handoff from one technology to the other, and it better balances the sometimes conflicting goals of reducing 3G usage and meeting application constraints," Mahajan explained.

The results of the test was presented in a paper, Augmenting Mobile 3G Using WiFi (PDF), presented in June 2010 at the eighth annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services.

The test consisted of running Wiffler units on 20 buses in Amherst, MA as well as in one car in Seattle and one in San Francisco at SFO. The Wiffler unit itself was a proxy device that included a small-from factor computer, similar to a car computer (no keyboard), an 802.11b radio, a 3G data modem, and a GPS unit. The 3G modem was using HSDPA-based service via AT&T.

Microsoft Wiffler

Interestingly, the researchers didn't actually use Wiffler with mobile phones during their tests. They ran phone-like applications on the embedded computer. But the project team does envision Wiffler as a technology for smartphones, perhaps embedded directly into the smartphone. It could also be adapted to run in an in-vehicle infotainment system.

While this research focused on using free WiFi in a moving vehicle, Mahajan says Wiffler could be used in other ways. Carriers may want it to for private WiFi services that augment their 3G/4G data networks. It could be used by pedestrians who might get even higher WiFi offload rates if they were wandering in a city with their Wiffler-equipped smartphones. It could be valuable in a stationary setting, too, like hanging out at Starbucks.

"Today, the WiFi/3G combo management is highly suboptimal.  Today, smart phones tend to use WiFi connectivity only when they are stationary and not use WiFi connectivity when they are on the move. At the same time, they experience poor application performance when the WiFi connectivity is poor because they happen to be far from the AP (access point) or because the WiFi network is congested.  This experience occurs because the devices insist on using WiFi whenever they are connected, largely independent of the performance of WiFi.  Our technology provides an automatic combo management that is aware of application performance," Mahajan says.

Next up, the crew plans to test the Wiffler protocol in other uses, including the 3G savings "in a setting when users have Wiffler running all the time rather than just driving. Another is to understand current smartphone traffic workloads to get a sense of how much traffic individual applications generate; this is important because data for some of the applications can be delayed and for some it cannot be delayed," Mahajan explains.

There is no association of Wiffler to Windows Phone 7 at this time. I hope it stays that way. Wiffler could be of best use if it were something that any handset on any phone could have. Plus, by the time a commercial product came to market based on Wiffler, Windows Phone 7 will either have found its niche, or died.

At this time it's unclear how or when Wiffler will formally come to market. Neither the researchers nor Microsoft PR would comment on that, and in truth, I got the sense that it hadn't yet progressed to that point anyway. Despite the long road to commercial use, now that the world knows that WiFi offloading from 3G is worthwhile, even from a car, it's only a matter of time before someone creates the first product.

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