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Barb Rigel

Marketing Manager

Internet of Things, Connected Transportation

Barb Rigel telecommutes from the mile high city of Denver as a Marketing Manager supporting Cisco Customer Experience for Enterprise Networks. She has held sales and marketing positions in the telecom and high tech industry for the past 25+ years. Prior to her current role, she was the global IoT marketing lead for Cisco's Connected Transportation solutions.

Barb has worked for AT&T, Avaya and Gold Systems. Her most recent role prior to joining Cisco in 2012 was with Genesys/Alcatel-Lucent as a Senior Marketing Manager leading their SaaS and Hosted Contact Center strategy. ]

Barb is a native of Michigan and visits family and friends in her small hometown near Ann Arbor a few times a year. She holds a BSBA from Central Michigan University and an MBA from Wayne State University. An avid sports fan, she cheers on her favorite teams: Michigan Wolverines, Detroit Tigers, Lions, Red Wings as well as the Denver Broncos and Colorado Rockies. And, of course her alma mater the CMU Chippewas. Barb also enjoys golfing, biking, hiking, cooking, reading and photography.

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Don’t Let Wi-Fi 6 Leave You Behind

Your network. Our expertise. Technology is evolving at lightning speed and with each innovation comes the promise of making our lives easier or our businesses more profitable and efficient. The daily deluge of information about technology advancements can make us numb to it all. However, Wi-Fi 6, al…

August 22, 2018

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

You’re Not Alone in This New Era of Networking

Technology innovation is advancing faster than ever before in history.  With this rapid growth, the number of devices and network connections can become overwhelming to manage. To bring to life just how staggering this growth is, Gartner predicts that by 2020, 63 million new devices will connect to…

Denver In Running For $50 Million To Innovate City’s Transportation

Greetings from the Mile High City! When the Bronco’s won Super Bowl 50 last month, a million happy fans gathered downtown for a victory parade and rally in Civic Center Park. Transporting a million people around a city the size of Denver, in a matter of hours, is no easy task. That day saw the large…

September 16, 2014

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Delivering Better Transportation Solutions In a Connected World With Cisco IoE

Ford, GM, Honda, Toyota, the U.S. Department of Transportation.  It’s no surprise why they were front and center at the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) World Congress which wrapped up in Detroit last week.   But, Cisco? “Reinventing Transportation in our Connected World” was the theme of th…

Cisco Live Connected Buses: More Than Just a Ride

Last week when Cisco Live attendees hopped on one of 34 connected shuttle buses in Orlando, they saw the Internet of Things (IoT) in action. The buses provided service for a record breaking 20,000 attendees traveling between 17 hotels and the Orange County Convention Center.  Free Wi-Fi kept attende…