digitization

Cisco Networking Academy to Partner in Cuba

Today, we are pleased to announce that Cisco will begin a new relationship with the Universidad de las Ciencias Informaticas (UCI) of Cuba, with the intention of bringing the Cisco Networking Academy program to UCI students.…

March 16, 2016

EDUCATION

The Digitization of Higher Education

Now more than ever, universities must establish digital strategies that bring technology to the forefront of their institutions. To stay competitive, attract and retain students and faculty, and deliver the best possible experiences, it’s essential for higher education institutions to fully di…

March 16, 2016

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Digital Transformation Brings Job Opportunities for Skilled Candidates

The fourth industrial revolution is here. Soon connections will be limitless as we evolve at an exponential pace. The World Economic Forum showcased this revolution and the technological transformation to digital transformation. Cisco believes digitization will be the most exciting phase of the Inte…

CHILL is Doing Cool Innovation

In my last blog, I touched on some of cool innovation happening at Cisco. Today, I want to focus on one in particular: CHILL (Cisco Hyper-Innovation Living Labs). CHILL is helping Cisco re-define how ideas come to fruition. CHILL takes a vertical and creates an environment where a handful of Cisco’s…

Part 2: The Ski Centre Queues and the Service Provider Internet of Things Opportunity

Last week, in Part 1, I blogged about the bizarre association of queues at my local ski centre and unreliable access to cloud payment services. Being located in an area of poor internet provision, the resulting unreliable and slow access to cloud services means that credit card payments process slow…

March 16, 2016

MANUFACTURING

Digitization@Work: The Manufacturing Plant

Digitization is rapidly transforming the manufacturing industry. Manufacturers are now tracking supplies and resources, viewing work flow status, measuring production yield, and predicting downtime through extensive data collection and analytics in real time. Companies that digitize their operation…

March 15, 2016

MANUFACTURING

General Motors Prevents Factory Downtime with Connected Machines

Factory workers often learn about issues with their production machinery too late – after the line shuts down. For example, a robot used in Automotive Body in White production may suddenly break down or start yielding poor-quality welds. This can be disastrous for final assembly, halting outpu…

Rockwell Automation Wins the 2016 Engineers’ Choice Award!

We are pleased to congratulate our industry partner Rockwell Automation for having won, for the third year in a row, the Control Engineering 2016 Engineers’ Choice Award in the Network Integration – Ethernet hardware Products category. This year, the voting session saw more than 140,000 industrial e…

More Live Networks using Segment Routing

It’s been a year since Comcast commented on the importance of Segment Routing in an announcement we made at MPLS World Congress 2015. The topic sparked even more interest after Dave Ward’s keynote (see featured content) at this very same event. Since then, Segment Routing is a top-of-mind topic and…