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Patrick Grossetete

Distinguished Engineer, Technical Marketing

Industrial IOT Networking

Patrick Grossetete is a Distinguished Engineer, Technical Marketing, working on field communication architecture and design (IEEE 802.15.4g/e RF, IEEE 1901.2a PLC, LoRaWAN, IPv6, IP routing, 6LoWPAN, RPL,...) in Cisco Industrial IOT Networking business group and joined Cisco through its acquisition of Arch Rock. At Arch Rock, he was Director of Product Management and Customer Solutions, focusing on IPv6-based wireless sensor network technology for smart grid, energy and environmental optimization applications.

Previously, Patrick led a product management team at Cisco, responsible for a suite of Cisco IOS software technologies, including IPv6 and IP Mobility. Patrick is a regular speaker at conferences and industry events, including the IPv6 Forum, which he joined in 1999 as a Cisco representative. Patrick also acts as reviewer on European Commission sponsored projects (GEANT, ENVIROFI).

Patrick is coauthor of the books “IoT Fundamentals: Networking Technologies, Protocols, and Use Cases for the Internet of Things”, “Global IPv6 Strategies” and “Deploying IPv6 Networks” published by Cisco Press as well as several white papers, such as “Unified Field Area Network architecture for Distribution Automation (2014)” and “IPv6 architecture for Field Area Networks (2012)”. In June 2003, he received the "IPv6 Forum Internet Pioneer Award" at the San Diego summit and is an IPv6 Forum Fellow. Before to joining Cisco in 1994 as a Consulting Engineer, he worked at Digital Equipment Corporation as a consulting engineer and was involved with network design and deployment. He received a degree in computer science from the Control Data Institute, Paris, France.

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February 24, 2020

INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)

For your industrial IoT deployment: A four-step guide to selecting a wireless technology

Most everyone agrees that wireless technology is a key pillar of the Internet of Things. Exactly which wireless technology is a different story. Opinions may vary from enterprises, to service providers or vendors, but one size does not fit all. The best wireless technology is the one that addresses…

November 5, 2019

INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)

How 5G/Wi-Fi 6 will transform multi-access networks in industrial IoT

The excitement around 5G and Wi-Fi 6 is dominating the news, with  5G networks estimated to be 10 times faster than 4G. While national rollouts are still in infancy, leading service providers say they expect to see more national rollouts in 2020 and shortly thereafter. U.S. service providers are cur…

February 26, 2019

INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)

What does 5G look like for Industrial IoT?

The next big thing in wireless is almost here. 5G mobile technology will soon be available, bringing the promise of compelling new uses cases and capabilities to transform industrial IoT (IIoT). But how will 5G impact networking architecture for industrial environments? Our new white paper, Demystif…

Industrial IoT Routers & Gateways – Under the Hood of IPsec VPN

At Cisco Live Barcelona 2018, engineers from our Industrial IoT Product Management and Customer Experience team, led a lab on industrial gateways and VPN technologies. While we look forward to repeating this session in future Cisco Live events, let’s discuss the impact of VPN technology on industria…

Best Security Practices for Fog Computing

For several years now, Cisco has been advocating for Fog Computing as an essential element of a scalable, reliable and cost effective IoT architecture. By developing Industrial IoT solutions based on Cisco IOx, data originating from “things” can be locally filtered, analyzed and manipulated on IIoT…

How to Harden Your Devices to Prevent Cyber Attacks

The 2016 Distributed Denial of Service attack on Dyn came from more than 100,000 infected devices. DDoS attacks leverage massive quantities of unsecured Internet-connected devices to disrupt Internet services worldwide [DYN]. The malicious and sophisticated attack kicked off serious conversations ab…

January 23, 2018

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

A Necessary Paradox: Trust and Value for Industrial IoT

Introducing: Cisco Industrial IoT Security Journey Series. It’s a fact: most people are worried about data breaches. A Cisco Value/Trust Paradox report, based on a survey of 3,000 consumers, revealed that while 42 percent of respondents appreciate the values of the Internet of Things (IoT) data, onl…