IoT

Optimize and Scale IoT Deployments with Rugged Edge Routing

As IoT matures, organizations need to connect to a growing range of industrial devices in rugged environments. However, extending enterprise IoT connectivity to, and managing, critical devices is challenging—especially when the available connectivity options vary depending on location. These options…

May 21, 2019

NETWORKING

Next Generation Wireless Infrastructure for Intent-based Networking Everywhere

We’ve come to expect that our mobile devices are always connected to our favorite applications and data sources via Wi-Fi and LTE. As enterprises move more resources to multiple domains—data center, campus, branch edge, and mobile cellular—always-available wireless connectivity for devices is not ju…

May 3, 2019

PARTNER

Partners are Doubling Down on IoT

Are you all in on IoT? Partners and customers are making big bets on IoT connectivity. As Cisco partners see the unique global opportunities IoT brings to the table, they are leveraging our ruggedized portfolio of products.  This is helping them to spearhead efforts to differentiate and capture incr…

5G + IoT Tee Up Major Disruption & Business Opportunity

Everything can be disrupted. Tiger Woods just disrupted The Masters. Telecommunications companies are being disrupted by 5G. But can 5G disrupt golf and other industries outside of telecommunications? The answer is most definitely yes. And what better time to dig into these possibilities than now- b…

May 1, 2019

NETWORKING

The Future is Now! Presenting the Cisco Catalyst 9100 Wi-Fi 6 Access Points

When I was a kid, the future meant flying cars and everyone wearing the same silver jumpsuits. It’s been a few years since I was a kid and while I may not own a flying car, but I don’t have to wear a jumpsuit and working at Cisco allows me to check out all of new innovations that we bring to the wor…

April 29, 2019

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Unplugged and Uninterrupted: What’s Driving Networking Today

Offices. Hospitals. Factories. Hotels. Universities. Sports arenas. In my job, I talk to the people around the world who run technology for all of these types of operations. They tell me that more wireless devices than ever are joining their networks, and that if they have no Wi-Fi, they have no bus…

HMI 2019: Connecting the Dots

While at Hannover Messe 2019 a couple of weeks ago, I was struck by how much the event has changed since nine years ago. Back then, the halls were dominated by components and controls. It was about five years ago that Industry 4.0 emerged, with many dismissing it as some combination of hype and pipe…

Episode 2: IT spend trends 2019

What are the best practices retailers can take to simplify their IT architecture? This set of retail videos aims to show how retailers are doing this – actually. Episode 2 (9 mins) of this ongoing IT discussion (see Episode 1 here) takes the form of a trivia gameshow, and discusses where retail IT t…

Cisco and Redline Team at ENTELEC 2019

The 91st Annual ENTELEC Conference & Expo runs April 23rd – 25th at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX.  As one of the premier events for communications and control technologies in the energy industry, it brings together leading communications, IT/OT and networking professional…