IoT
Cisco Kinetic is helping cities become “Smart Cities”
How do cities gather operational information? In what ways do city traffic engineers and planners gain visibility to traffic conditions and impacting weather conditions? Exactly how do Road Maintenance Supervisors determine if they need to send their crews to repair a problem? The answer is through…
The Future of Utilities: A Partner Opportunity
Energy and specifically electrically powered devices and appliances are part of everyday life for all of us. However, the dependency on personal computing devices like phones, tablets, headsets and the likes has made us realize how important energy savings and battery efficiencies are! Who hasn̵…
Why the Future of Freedom, and Secure Communications, Is in the Cloud
We enjoy a wonderful array of freedoms in our nation. But with the ever-shrinking news cycle and flurry of daily life, that fact is often ignored. It’s easy to forget that our freedoms started with thousands of farmers, small business owners, laborers, and other colonists seeking self-governance. To…
The Five Focus Areas for 5G Security Innovation and Thought Leadership
5G brings the promise of new revenue opportunities for service providers. Service providers will be able to offer new differentiated services and capabilities, connecting customers to multi-cloud services and applications with specific KPIs. To help service providers in the delivery of 5G, Cisco’s C…
Unleash the power of 5G
Cisco’s agile, programmable infrastructure will help service providers enter new markets by supporting next generation services 5G is coming, and it is bringing telecoms, internet and cable service providers new revenue generating opportunities. By enabling greater flexibility and capacity, 5G will…
Cisco Partners: Digital Systems Integrators Modernizing Industrial Networks
Strategy, Technology and Operations Delivering business outcomes for enterprise and IT buyers requires a new approach, new capabilities, and new relationships. An entirely new business solutions practice. Digital Systems Integrators (DSI) represent that new business practice as follows: These DSI’s…
Edge and fog computing: Key to safer streets? (Part 3)
In parts one and two, we used Michael Crichton’s 1973 sci-fi movie, Westworld, to illustrate the concepts of edge and fog computing and how they may be the key to smarter cities. In our third and final blog, we’ll break with the old west theme a bit and look to the future of transportation. From aut…
Telecom operators: Are you ready for 5G?
Unleashing the Potential of Mobile Cloud Services 5G networking will create many opportunities for service providers. Enhanced mobile broadband and fixed wireless access are two examples of the kind of new service that will be possible. And there will also be opportunities to support growth in areas…
A Security Fabric for the Internet of Things
What’s Really Out There in IoT Cyberspace? Do you know what is connected to your network right now? If you don’t, your network is vulnerable to attacks you might never see coming. You can’t protect what you don’t know exists. You’re in good company if you’re mistaken about what’s connecting to…