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Cisco, Google bring high-speed, public Wi-Fi to India

Cisco and Google's partnership in India is part of the global initiative to scale accessible, reliable Wi-Fi Cisco announced early this week that it has teamed up with Google to provide free, high-speed Wi-Fi to 200 locations across India in the next two months. The...

Trump agrees to make ‘timely’ decisions on Huawei sales requests

  President Donald Trump has agreed to grant "timely" licensing decisions to U.S. technology firms that want to sell components and services to Chinese vendor Huawei, the White House said in a statement. The decision was adopted following a meeting between Trump and the CEOs of...

Cisco to acquire Acacia in $2.6 billion deal

Cisco is buying out of one of its optical equipment suppliers in a $2.6 billion deal. Acacia Communications will become part of Cisco's Optical Systems and Optics group under its networking and security business. "With the explosion of bandwidth in the multi-cloud era, optical interconnect...

Test and Measurement: Ixia highlights the 400GbE ecosystem

Keysight Technologies' Ixia put together what it says was the world's first public open demonstration of the progress of the 400 Gigabit Ethernet ecosystem for hyperscale data centers, during this week's Interop Tokyo conference in Japan. Ten companies participated in the demo, Ixia said, which...

Cisco to buy industrial IoT cyber-security firm Sentryo

Cisco is set to acquire French cyber-security firm Sentryo, with which it has worked to author digital change solutions in the industrial IoT sector. Headquartered in Lyon, France, Sentryo provides device visibility and security solutions for industrial control system (ICS) networks, promising availability and resiliency...

Connecting agriculture: LoRa, NB-IoT, LTE, and 5G – once and future kings of smart farming (part 3)

As we have heard, the UK’s 5G RuralFirst project is trying to do with 5G (or 5G-related tech) what the telecoms industry has failed to do with previous generations, and connect the unconnected, including farming communities looking for a digital edge. It is transformative...

Connecting agriculture: LoRa, NB-IoT, LTE, and 5G – and a ‘network of networks’ for smart farming (part 2)

Low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking technologies like LoRaWAN and NB-IoT, among others, are helping farmers to connect their work to the internet, as we have heard. This connectivity provides a platform for them to start to introduce new automation and intelligence into their operations. But LPWA...

Philly gets smart with Cisco and CIMCON; AT&T IoT VP joins CIMCON

The city of Philadelphia in the US is deploying lighting, sensors, and networking technologies from Cisco and CIMCON Lighting as it seeks to be “one of the leading smart cities in the United States”. The new NearSky lighting platform from CIMCON, running lighting controls, air...

US and UK cities double-down on smart-city lights and lighting controls

Two new announcements this week, by cities both sides of the the Atlantic, make clear, again, the case for smart street-lighting is undeniable. In the US, the city of Syracuse in New York State has teamed with the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to...

Cisco gets deeper into Manchester smart-city scene with new IoT ‘maker-space’

Cisco has launched an IoT ‘maker-space’ in conjuction with Manchester Metropolitan University, continuing its close involvement in the UK city’s tech scene. Over the past two years, Cisco has led a number of collaborative initiatives to help solve challenges and drive opportunities in the Greater...

Cisco to work with Italian gas utility Snam on 5G and IoT, as part of €850m digital change

Cisco has signed a deal with Italian natural gas infrastructure company Snam to research and develop solutions in the smart energy and industrial internet-of-things (IoT) space, making use of 5G, edge and fog computing, and artificial intelligence (AI). The deal, in the form of a...

UK aerospace firm tests Wi-Fi 6 in industrial 5G setup, with BT, Cisco, HPE, Intel

UK-based Mettis Aerospace, manufacturer of components for the likes of Airbus, Boeing and Rolls-Royce, is to test Wi-Fi 6 for connecting industrial machines and processes. The Wireless Broadband Alliance said the trials represent the first of Wi-Fi 6 for enterprise and industrial internet-of-things (IoT)...

Breaking down Rakuten’s greenfield approach to building a fully-virtualized network

Rakuten says it will build a cloud-native, nationwide network for about $5 billion As operators transition from LTE to 5G, there's significant discussion around how 5G requires a cloud-native, fully-virtualized design capable of dynamically supporting the myriad applications and device types that will connect over...

Port of Rotterdam extends private LTE setup to drive automation and intelligence

Dutch industrial tech provider Koning & Hartman and Irish private-network provider Druid Software have extended their work to bring automation and intelligence to operations at the Port of Rotterdam. The pair have established a private LTE network at the port, using spectrum licensed by...

Cisco CEO says governments should not worry about Huawei

  The executive said that 5G networks will be deployed by a combination of suppliers from Europe, China and the U.S. Cisco System’s CEO Chuck Robbins said that governments should not be worried about the possibility that Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies will dominate the race to...

Cisco strikes a slew of carrier network deals

Cisco inks deals with Verizon, Sprint, KT, Rakuten, Softbank and Airtel BARCELONA--Cisco kicked off Mobile World Congress by touting its 5G prowess, both in terms of technology and operator contract wins. Cisco said it has 40 service providers actively trialing and deploying its 5G offerings,...

Siemens-led IoT security charter doubles members, puts focus on supply chains

Eight further organisations have joined the Charter of Trust for cybersecurity, an initiative launched by Siemens last year to raise security in the internet of things (IoT) market. Membership of the charter now stands at 17. Siemens said the group’s first task is to...

AT&T, Cisco, Microsoft back new Dallas tech incubator to bring IoT, AI to smart cities

A new smart cities incubator has been launched in the Dallas Fort Worth region. It will focus on smart cities related technologies. Big-name collaborators on the project include AT&T, Cisco, and Microsoft, as well as local academic institutions. The new Innov8te incubator, led by the...

State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 4): Buying digital change

This article is the fourth instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine...

Rakuten invests in US vRAN vendor Altiostar ahead of mobile launch

  The Japanese company aims to launch mobile services in Japan in October 2019 Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced plans to invest in U.S.-based virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) vendor Altiostar, as the former company is on track to launch a mobile network in Japan using...

Itron starts certifying Wi-SUN devices for smart cities, utilities, factories

Liberty Lake IoT provider Itron has started to certify devices under the Wi-SUN Field Area Network (FAN) 1.0 programme. It follows fellow Wi-SUN leader Cisco to have its products passed by the Wi-SUN Alliance. Itron said its Bridge 5-WS product was the first to gain...

In 5G trial, Cisco and partners look ‘beyond the city’

Precision agriculture is a key focus of rural 5G trial While the long-term plan for 5G is widespread coverage, we're still in the early days and commercial deployments are largely focused on major metro markets. However, Cisco U.K., along with partners are looking "beyond the...

Cisco launches new offerings in the IoT field

  The networking firm said its developer program DevNet offers a new set of developer tools for IoT   Cisco has launched new internet of things networking products, developer tools, validated design guides and partner specializations to increase flexibility and security for IoT environments, the company said...

Cisco, Iteris form partnership to target smart city solutions

  The two companies initially deployed an IoT-based solution for the city of Las Vegas   Iteris, a U.S company that focuses on applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, has signed a strategic partnership with Cisco with the aim of promoting the latter’s Connected Roadway solution through...