Cisco IoT

While chatting with people at Cisco Live Europe 2020 in Barcelona, I heard someone say, “3D printing and coffee together.” My initial thought was that there’s some 3D printer demo happening around and they were serving coffee along with it 😀 (crowd-puller sessions 101!) So, FOMO kicked i…

The next frontier of Internet of Things (IoT) is going to be won with the right applications. Applications deliver business outcomes that drive metrics for growth and profitability. However, the most common problem witnessed with these applications is getting clean and well-groomed data securely, re…

Subscribe to Cisco Optics Blog by Email Written by Kaushik Mittra, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group   To support the growth of service provider and IoT (Internet of Things) applications and accommodate the explosion in network bandwidth that will accompany this transformation, network…

Digital Transformation calls for the right combination of people, process and technology. Done right, it brings efficiency and the agility to deliver what the business needs – fast. Done wrong, it can result in more complexity and cost – especially in a globally distributed business. In this blog I…

The number one reason that the organizations I talk to are so eager to digitize their environments? Data. There is so much rich data at the edge of the network – at that IoT edge. Organizations want to leverage that data to gain a competitive advantage – including utility operators such as Finland’s…

It seems that every day brings a new development to IoT. Our customers are trying to figure out how new products and new technologies can help their business and overcome the complexities of IoT.  They often tell me that there is so much information out there, that it is difficult to know what or wh…

“We do not remember days; we remember moments.” Those words from Cesare Pavese have been one of my personal favorites. Interestingly, we remember these significant, or “flashbulb” moments in our lives in vivid detail. We remember exactly where we were, whom we were with, what we felt, or even what w…

In my previous two blog posts, I explained how Cisco addresses the security and scalability challenges associated with an Internet of Things (IoT) deployment. In this post, I cover the final of the top three challenges: complexity. For an IoT initiative to be successful, the deployment and managemen…

It isn’t hard to imagine the havoc a physical attack on an oil and gas operation can wreak. But few pause to consider the extent of damage that can be achieved with cyberattacks alone. Be it malware taking over control systems or ransomware shutting down data access, the consequences of cyberattacks…