Season III Episode 5 - What is a digital twin and why do they matter?

‘Measure twice, cut once’ is the old adage, but what if we could cut in a non-destructive way as many times as we want? Allie and Brendan chat with Amy Cameron, Research Director as STL Partners, to discuss digital doubles, real-time modeling, and predictive simulations. Digital doubles are built for two-way realtime interactions, creating perfect copies and allowing for instantaneous rollout. The potential for this new technology is only limited by the amount of data streaming it demands. Real-world use cases are discussed, like Vodaphone’s landscaping doubles, who simulate seasonal plant growth to support the construction of their 5G telecom network. The capability of digi-doubles goes further, enabling simulated customer behaviour, planning traffic management strategies across cities, and safely executing cyber attacks on your own systems. Will digital twinning exist as an invisible safety net for system security, or evolve into something more visual with AR and VR technologies? How does the blockchain factor into this, and will the systems become interlinked in future? Inflection Points is a monthly tech podcast all about looking forward to future technology and imagining beyond the immediate horizon. Hosted by Allie Irvin and Brendan Bonner. Produced by Antonio Di Cicco. Inflection Points is brought to you by Extreme Networks’ Office of the CTO. Website: https://www.extremenetworks.com/ Office of the CTO Blog: www.extremenetworks.com/resources/blogs Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/extreme-networks

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Inflection Points is a podcast about vision of the future of network-based technology, produced by the Office of the CTO at Extreme Networks. Business leaders must always be making decisions today for an uncertain world of tomorrow. With our own experts and conversations with industry leaders spanning major sectors, we want to help spell out what is happening now to build that future digital world. Carla Guzzetti and Tim Harrison host the program, which features technology leaders who all have competing visions of how networks will be used in the future. In Season II, we speak with leaders developing the network-based tech that will emerge over the next five to 50 years, from avatars to augment reality. We want to see what ideas click, what concepts dominate and most of all, what the world of network-based technology will look like for all of us.