What is the reality of 5G's power needs? RCR Wireless reached out to Ian Campbell, CTO of cable and mobility at Cisco’s Service Provider segment, for his thoughts on the matter. This Q&A was conducted via email and has been lightly edited for length...
Cisco is readying a Wi-Fi-style pay-as-you-go private LTE and 5G offer for enterprises, and particularly for industrial enterprises, which comprises Cisco-led pre-sale network-design consultancy and post-sale network management support. Details about the in-between build-phase, in terms of sale-side network parts and ownership, are less...
Cisco released Wi-Fi 6E access points and a private 5G managed service designed specifically for the hybrid work environment
Cisco clearly believes that work from home is here to stay, at least to a certain extent. The company has introduced Wi-Fi 6E and private 5G...
The IoT platform market is innovating and expanding, and about to boom. So says ABI Research, which has counted 62 companies offering connectivity management platforms for enterprises to keep track of their varied IoT estates, and calculated $31 billion will be spent on them...
'Cisco has added elements of smart buildings to everything it's doing,' the exec says
According to Bob Cicero, Cisco's smart building lead for the Americas, technology and connectivity have become the fourth utility, after water, gas and electricity. As a result, Cisco has been focused...
Helium has followed roaming deals with LoRaWAN operator Senet in the US and LoRaWAN platform provider Actility in Europe with a new roaming tie-up with LoRaWAN provider X-TELIA in Canada. San Francisco-based Helium uses a blockchain model to crowd-source LoRaWAN coverage, where LoRaWAN hotspots,...
Chandan Mehndiratta, senior director of Cisco's Enterprise Wireless and Volume Business, shared with RCR Wireless News what the company is most excited about when it comes to Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E and how its working with customers to navigate this technology upgrade. ...
Cisco exec: 'We have seen the world transform over the last year and a half, and the internet had to transform with it'
Deutsche Telekom (DT) and Cisco have been working together on what they refer to as a shared vision “to connect more people...
Cisco is to provide car-to-trackside wireless connectivity at the first autonomous car race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway next month. The firm has signed as a sponsor of the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) on October 23, a new competition with teams from 21 universities...
Keysight Technologies joined forces with Xilinx and Cisco to showcase fronthaul solutions that support a smooth migration from traditional 4G LTE networks to 5G open radio access networks (O-RAN).
Keysight Technologies noted that multi-vendor Radio Access Network (RAN) deployments based on open standard interfaces defined...
The results of the Open RAN trial will be shared with the TIP community
Telecom Egypt is working on a proof-of-concept trial for Open RAN solutions in Egypt. With support from Altiostar, Cisco, the Evenstar program and the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), the operator is...
What will the internet look like going forward? I recently spoke with Jonathan Davidson, SVP and GM of Cisco Mass-Scale Infrastructure Group. He did a great job of clearing away the confusion and showing us exactly what Cisco’s technology means for connectivity going forward....
Cisco has announced a new portfolio of industrial 5G routers for edge networking setups, with support also for LTE, WI-Fi 6, as well as the open Wi-SUN (‘wireless smart utility network’) mesh protocol, which Cisco is promoting for indoor IoT-style sensor networks. The new...
Mavenir is working with state-owned National Telecom Public Company Limited (NT) in Thailand to make Ban Chang, in Thailand, the “first” smart city to deploy private 5G based on open RAN infrastructure. Cisco and local firm 5GCT, focused on 5G in the smart city...
Cisco exec: 'The only thing faster than the Wi-Fi 6 network is the process of connecting to it'
The world’s first at-airport Wi-Fi 6 network using Wireless Broadband Alliance’s (WBA) OpenRoaming has been established at Brazil’s São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport (GRU), providing secure and automatic connectivity...
Cisco characterizes Power-over-Ethernet as a "fourth utility" in smart buildings
In a new blog post, Cisco's Anoop Vetteth, vice president of product management for Enterprise Switching and Software Solutions, examined the role of connected buildings as providing "a fourth utility" that, when combined with internet...
German company EnOcean announced new solutions for facilities management, lighting, environmental monitoring, and space occupancy, which are fully integrated with the Cisco DNA Spaces platform.
EnOcean chiefly focuses on energy harvesting, a technology that uses movement, light or temperature differences to gather energy for operation...
The FiRa Consortium, the organisation looking to build the IoT market around the burgeoning ultra wideband (UWB) technology, is taking on new members at a decent rate. Germany-based wireless test company Rohde & Schwarz is the latest to sign up, as an associate member....
Verizon and Cisco have added three new SD-WAN managed services offerings
Verizon Business and Cisco have expanded their SD-WAN partnership, which began more than five years ago, with the addition of three new SD-WAN managed services. According to the companies, the expansion gives enterprises access to...
Cisco announced a collaboration framework with the government of Japan through Cisco’s Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) Program to drive mass-scale digitization across Japan in support of its Society 5.0 vision and towards an "inclusive recovery" from the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Cisco said that the CDA...
The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has released a “blueprint” for the combination of 5G and Wi-Fi 6 in the broad IoT sector, notably for smart industry, smart cities, smart buildings, and the smart home, as well as sundry edge-based network deployments. It said, done...
Cisco will acquire cloud communications software and service company IMImobile for approximately $730 million, a move that will allow Cisco to provide its business customers with an end-to-end customer interaction management solution.
IMImobile’s software and services allow enterprises and organizations to stay constantly connected to...
