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IoT, information and communications technologies are converging, accelerated by virtualization, consolidated onto servers for software defined everything, and connected across an intelligent and ubiquitous network Infrastructure.

With the total solution for innovative technologies, SKY server featured with the full range of the Server Systems which included GPU Server, Storage Servers, Networking Servers and Hybrid servers and so on, from components to systems, providing agility, longevity and performance.

We cooperate closely with software partners for flexible designs and solutions to optimize your applications across diverse infrastructure, such as AI & Deep learning Solution, Video Streaming, AIoT-Ready Private Cloud and security gateways.

N1: AI Acceleration on SKY Server-Deep Learning

For the coming era of AIoT, Advantech’s SKY Servers provide complete, front-end to back-end hardware solutions for machine deep learning: covering data acquisitions, data management, data analytics, and data inference.
In this section, we proudly introduce the advantages for each AI deep learning application.

For the coming era of AIoT, Advantech’s SKY Servers provide complete, front-end to back-end hardware solutions for machine deep learning: covering data acquisitions, data management, data analytics, and data inference.
Data Acquisition

Advantech delivers applications for automatic inspection, process control, and robot guidance in industrial fields. The SKY-6200 supports 36 channels for high-speed video transmission and related control data over Ethernet via GigE protocol for optimal machine vision.

Data Analytics

Analytics servers offer plug-and-play into the hardware resource pool for massive amounts of data and computation. SKY-6000 series’ convergence computing, networking, and storage resources, offered on a single administrative platform for the hardware and software layers, supports virtualization and container technology.

Data Management

Data Management Servers provide consistent, accurate, and reliable access.
The SKY-4000 series’ flexible architecture simplifies data management across different scenarios to accelerate digital transformation for data visibility and insights.

Inference Engine

The Inference Server provides quick reaction and execution on the edge side.
The high density design of the SKY-6100 supports 5 single deck GPU cards in a 1U chassis; carrying out a substantial amount of computation locally as well as transduction of signals over edge devices for performance advantage.

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N2: Low Latency Live Video Streaming

Advantech VEGA Video Platforms and PCI Express Accelerators are designed to boost video infrastructure performance from acquisition to distribution at the lowest power budget while fully complying with the media industry needs. By providing access to the latest 4K/8K video processing and IP media technologies on commercial-off-the-shelf IT platforms we accelerate the deployment of next-generation, open and more efficient solutions across a wide range of media applications from broadcast encoding and OTT transcoding to cloud, mobile and 360° video.

Advantech VEGA Video Platforms and PCI Express Accelerators are designed to boost video infrastructure performance from acquisition to distribution at the lowest power budget while fully complying with the media industry needs. By providing access to the latest 4K/8K video processing and IP media technologies on commercial-off-the-shelf IT platforms we accelerate the deployment of next-generation, open and more efficient solutions across a wide range of media applications from broadcast encoding and OTT transcoding to cloud, mobile and 360° video. Advantech’s proven expertise in networking and computing enables us to lead innovation in the IP transition of the industry and get our customers ahead of the curve.Here are the principal issues confronting the industry and how we can help.
The Move to IP

One of the major disruptors in the industry is the migration to IP that improves flexibility, reduces costs, and allows more use of commercial computing and networking gear. Advantech accelerates this transition by working together with key industry partners through industry alliances such as AIMS or IP Live on standard and interoperable solutions that unlock the full potential of the new IP media infrastructure.

UltraHD and HEVC

The advent of 4K/8K and H.265 are a double whammy for the industry, together significantly outstripping the processing capability of many infrastructure elements.
Advantech provides a wide range of easy-to-integrate, ultra-low-power video acceleration cards and application-ready platforms that efficiently scale throughput of high-density video infrastructure solutions to enable next-generation UHD services.

The Media Cloud

As the need for video ingest, processing and storage skyrockets, media companies are considering moving to cloud-based architectures. However, some aspects of video processing are less than optimal in a generic IT cloud environment. Advantech acceleration technology offloads heavy-lifting video processing tasks and enables higher density, server based solutions that bring data center efficiencies to cloud media deployments.

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N3-1: AIoT-Ready Private Cloud-Industry Private Cloud

Rapid advances in industrialization and informatization methods have spurred tremendous progress in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and given rise to Industry 4.0. IIoT unlocks greater efficiencies, accuracy, scalability, and predictable maintenance in the production process while saving time and proving cost-effective.

Capturing the benefits of IIoT is an imperative for enterprises operating across a range of industries. However, while presenting many opportunities, IIoT technology poses new challenges for information systems; ranging from information accuracy and security to rapid data growth and excessive workloads.

In order to manage these challenges, Advantech provides comprehensive Industrial Private Cloud solutions. Our SKY servers offer advantages in the following:
1. Security & Privacy

SKY-7210 can be customized based on required performance, security level and reliability. SKY-7210 has the ability to secure your IoT private cloud from any cloud leaks.

2. Software-defined-Storage and Auto Tiering

SKY servers have the ability to scale out storage from 100TB to 300TB. They leverage key features of NVM Express(NVMe, SSD, and Hard Disk to satisfy various types of workloads. SKY-7210 offers 4x NVMe SSD and 8x SAS/SATA HDD to scale out your capacity and performance without any compromise.

3. Distributed Storage System

SKY servers can achieve 99.99999% availability; in the meanwhile, they can erasure codes to help storage systems lower the storage overhead when performing fault-tolerance.

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N3-2: AIoT-Ready Private Cloud-WISE-Stack Fully Integrated Edge Intelligence Private Cloud

WISE-Stack is Advantech’s private cloud offering with an on-premise deployment method. The fully integrated system offers cloud capabilities complete with a development toolset.

End-to-end security features and a user defined access pathway ensure the safety and privacy of data and AI models. WISE-Stack is specially designed with high availability, elastic expansion, and high data throughput characteristics for AIoT applications. All WISE-PaaS services integrate seamlessly with Advantech edge devices.

Pre-built with Advantech WISE-PaaS industrial servers and cloud platform, WISE-Stack is a fully integrated system offering the complete cloud experience and development toolset.

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Combining Advantech’s edge computing products with WISE-Stack, customers can easily complete their IoT initiatives. By streaming IoT data continuously to WISE-Stack’s data infrastructure, companies can easily establish the foundation for digital twin technology. Visualization tools in the WISE-PaaS/Dashboard and WISE-PaaS/SaaS Composer provide comprehensive business intelligence and process monitoring dashboards for effective management.

WISE-Stack comes with advanced AI frameworks and development environment. Users can manage and deploy inference engines built with different AI frameworks onto Advantech edge devices with a few mouse clicks. SSO (single sign-on), metering, and space management functionalities makes it easy to adopt WISE-Stack as the central system for all IoT or AIoT solutions.

N4: IoT Security Gateway Solutions

To meet the growing demand for network security solutions, Advantech presents its cost-effective and high-performance IoT Security Gateway.

Unified threat management (UTM) software, developed by Advantech’s strategic partner Venustech, comes pre-installed in the Advantech IoT Security Gateway. The IoT Security Gateway integrates Firewall, Anti-virus, IDS/IPS, Web Filter, and Spam filer functions together in a unified platform. Web accessed GUI allows users to easily setup and monitor situations without complicated configuration processes.

The Advantech IoT Security Gateway is fan-less and compact while powerful enough to handle network-security demand. It is equipped with Intel x86 Apollo Lake multi-core processors…

and i210 network controllers with 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports, 1 HDMI, and 2 USB expansions.
Although successful network attacks occur every 39 seconds, 80% of enterprises are still unable to protect themselves. Effective solutions require high costs for network infrastructure development and expensive software licenses demanding extensive technical consultation from third-party venders. Given both time and monetary constraints, these solutions are often not applicable for small business or SOHO users.

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Unified threat management (UTM) software, developed by Advantech’s strategic partner Venustech, comes pre-installed in the Advantech IoT Security Gateway. The IoT Security Gateway integrates Firewall, Anti-virus, IDS/IPS, Web Filter, and Spam filer functions together in a unified platform. Web accessed GUI allows users to easily setup and monitor situations without complicated configuration processes.

The Advantech IoT Security Gateway solution ready package integrates UTM software with the hardware platform to provide small enterprises with affordable high-performance network security.