Which option is one of the benefits of Cisco Iox to customers in the transportation industry?

Question

Options

• Aincreased use of sustainable energies for transportation.
• Bfail-safe collision avoidance.
• Cincreased number of commercial flights.
• Dless worker time spent in hazardous locations.

• A
  8% (4)
• B
  86% (44)
• C
  2% (1)
• D
  4% (2)

Explanation

Cisco IOx is Cisco's edge computing framework that runs applications directly on network-connected devices. In transportation - particularly rail and transit - it enables real-time, low-latency processing of sensor data onboard vehicles, which is what makes fail-safe collision avoidance (B) possible: safety-critical decisions require sub-millisecond response times that cloud-dependent architectures can't reliably guarantee, so running the logic at the edge via IOx is essential.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (sustainable energy): IOx is a software/compute platform - it has no role in energy sourcing or sustainability.
• C (increased commercial flights): IOx has no connection to aviation or air traffic volume.
• D (less worker time in hazardous locations): While IoT in general can enable remote monitoring, this benefit is not specific to Cisco IOx's value proposition in transportation.

Memory tip: Think "IOx = Edge + Real-time." In transportation, the only use case on this list that requires real-time edge processing to function (not just benefit from it) is collision avoidance - a system that cannot afford the latency of a round-trip to the cloud. If safety depends on milliseconds, edge computing is mandatory, not optional.

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