In reply to Andrew Hadsell.

Andrew, thanks for sharing your thoughts for the coming year.

One thing I've noticed is that many towns and cities have implemented their Smart City initiatives piece-meal and are lacking a unifying dashboard. It's natural - they just want to dip their toe in the water a bit before diving in. But then they have issues unifying everything as they do push forward with additional solutions.

So I think we will see Cisco's Kinetic Digital Platform breakthrough this year - it is unique in the industry as it can provide a 'single pane of glass' view; collecting and aggregating data gathered from all of a community's disparate solutions.

Kinetic may well be the key (on the technology side at least) to pushing the long-term resilience of cities to the next level. I am optimistic.