BROWSING: Cisco

The city of Newcastle in the UK will procure a “technological partner” after the summer to set down the infrastructure to help it develop its connectivity and sensor capabilities and make it the “UK’s leading smart city,” it has said. Cisco appears to be...

Forget the notion of an integrated smart city platform for a moment, says Jonathan Reichental chief information officer for the city of Palo Alto in the US. “What does a park system, a police system, and a library system even have in common?” We have...

The problem with smart cities is no one wants to pay for them. That’s the challenge for Manchester, now, having just completed a ground-breaking two-year smart-city pilot, CityVerve, which appears to have much to recommend it, but nothing to prove it. CityVerve was designed...

Cisco and Samsung have completed the first successful 5G fixed-wireless tests on Orange’s live network in Romania. The fixed-wireless access (FWA) tests, in the 26 GHz band, have verified a number of smart city use cases, the trio said. The trial started on June 1,...

Nick Chrissos takes a breather from a packed agenda at the CityVerve 'market-place' in Manchester, at the end of last month. Innovate UK has just told a conference room the CityVerve project, designed and co-funded by the UK government as the definitive UK smart...

At the end of last summer, Enterprise IoT Insights compiled a state-of-the-market report on smart cities, considering the entire sector through the lens of four unique approaches to smart-city building. These varied approaches were brought to life in Gaudalajara in Mexico, Barcelona in Spain,...

Where is the edge of the data network, where compute power increasingly resides? This is the question industrial operatives are asking, as they look to combine advanced connectivity technologies and analytics techniques to bring new intelligence to their systems and processes. It is the...

Cisco has said its so-called ‘platform-of-platforms’ has been proven as “procurable and replicable,” as Manchester’s ground-breaking CityVerve smart city pilot in the UK gets set to wind up after two years. Cisco will develop a commercial proposition for cities out of the final ashes...

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has mapped out a “continuum” of edge computing in industrial settings, with the ‘edge’ variously located at certain points of remove from the data source depending on the technical requirements of the use case. For simplicity, it summarises four...

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has issued a white paper with practical guidance on edge computing in industrial internet-of-things (IIoT) settings. The publication seeks to define edge computing architectural functions and drivers, highlight key use case considerations. The IIC paper, called IIC Introduction to Edge...

The emergence of the OPC UA TSN communications stack, backed by a loose-knit consortium of automation specialists, is a key part of the developing industrial IoT narrative, with halting technological innovation and industrial transformation set to be kick-started by its release and deployment in...

A great number of enterprise IoT projects remain stuck in pilots, put aside for another day. Before they even start, the challenge is how to make money from, at least to cover the initial investment and take a first giant leap into the unknown....

MTN has selected Cisco's Jasper Control Center platform as a launchpad for enterprise customers' 'internet of things' (IoT) services on its mobile network in South Africa. MTN said interest in new IoT services was strongest in the connected car, vehicle tracking, building security and...

The ‘internet of things’ (IoT) market is moving towards new value-based and event-based pricing, led by smart cities and industrial operatives, according to Cisco. Until now, device-as-a-service, and latterly anonymised data sharing with third-parties, have thrived as business models in the nascent IoT space. However,...

Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson has added PTC’s Thingworx platform, offering tools for developing industrial ‘internet of things’ (IoT) and augmented reality (AR) services, to its cloud-based IoT Accelerator platform, designed to make it easier for developers to launch IoT applications. It is the latest...

Cisco appears to have found its rhythm in the enterprise IoT space by integrating communications technologies and data streams in its Kinetic platform for smart factories and smart cities. Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Bryan Tantzen, in charge of its manufacturing IoT business,...

Three quarters of enterprise-based ‘internet of things’ (IoT) projects are failing, reckons US networking specialist Cisco. This is an alarming statistic, especially when considered in the context of the head-spinning growth of new IoT deployments. Analyst house IDC calculates the total base of installed IoT...

US firm Rockwell Automation is heading a team of industrial automation specialists and solution providers to create a new communication solution based on the OPC-UA protocol for real-time and sensor-to-cloud applications. ABB, Belden, Bosch Rexroth, B&R, Cisco, Hilscher, KUKA, National Instruments, Parker Hannifin, Phoenix Contact,...

Cisco and IBM have completed the integration of their Kinetic platform and Watson IoT system to improve data processing and intelligence at the network edge. The partnership is being brought to bear on autonomous shipping and logistics in the Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s largest...

The real impact of industrial technologies will be discussed and demonstrated at Hannover Messe next week (April 23-27). Automation and digital twins, powered by data analytics and artificial intelligence, will be the mainstays of the developing Industry 4.0 movement, reckon Bosch, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom,...

Finnish operator DNA has debuted an ‘internet of things’ (IoT) platform for enterprises in its home country to launch national and international IoT services of their own. DNA’s new platform uses Cisco Jasper’s ‘control center’ product, providing enterprises with control over their IoT connectivity...

Manchester city council in the UK has deployed a new smart city lighting system as part of its continuing CityVerve project, led by Cisco. The new lighting system can be fitted retroactively to existing infrastructure. Cisco has managed the installation with the council, in...

SevOne introduces SDN Monitoring Solution 2.0 for Cisco ACI Infrastructure management software company SevOne premiered the second version of its software-defined defined (SDN) monitoring platform for Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). SevOne launched its SDN Monitoring Solution last year. The solution combines SevOne’s network and infrastructure...

Cisco aims to secure workloads across data centers and multi-cloud environments Cisco announced it is combining Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Tetration, Stealthwatch and Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) technologies into an integrated solution to protect data center workloads. Cisco noted security challenges are growing alongside sophisticated cyber...