From the course: IoT Foundations: Fundamentals
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Overview and standards
- [Instructor] The network fabric is one of the four main components of the IoT product. Its main job is to transport internal data from the hardware-defined product and external data from the external systems to the software-defined product. It consists of the OT network, that is the operational technology network, that's inside the product. The IT network, or information technology network, that takes the data to the cloud, the backhaul which is the uplink, the internet, and the product cloud, which is a private computing resource for the product. However, the network fabric is more than just connectivity. It's called fabric but in fact, it's a distributed computing platform as well as networking. It's provides computing and storing. The languages that allow the different part of the network to talk to each other are called protocols, but this is equivalent to standards or sometimes referred to as layers. Especially in the operational technology network, these protocols have evolved…