Telstra has renewed for a further five years its agreement with Cisco to use the Cisco IoT Control Center. It underpins the Telstra Control Center powered by Cisco, which enables organisations to manage multiple SIMs, globally, across multiple cellular networks. The service was originally the Jasper Control Center and Telstra has been using it since […]
Murdoch Uni launches IoT- focused Digital Futures Academy
Murdoch University in Western Australia has set up a Digital Futures Academy with Cisco as the foundation partner, and a focus on IoT. Murdoch University Provost Romy Lawson said the academy would offer ‘micro-credentials’ and short courses that will provide industry-relevant learning experiences and certification, initially on IoT. “Students will be given the opportunity to […]
Cisco upgrades IoT Control Center (Jasper)
Cisco has upgraded the Cisco IoT Control Center — formerly the Cisco Jasper Control Center renamed from the Jasper Control Center when Cisco acquired Jasper — with machine learning capabilities that it says will enable telco users of the service to offer their customers better management, billing and security of cellular IoT environments. Machine Learning […]
Cisco’s new IoT security offering spans OT and IT networks
Cisco has launched, at its EMEA Cisco Live! in Barcelona, an IoT security suite designed to provide visibility and analytics across IT and OT networks. Cisco says it has removed the complexity of a multi-vendor, multi-data, and multi-asset infrastructure to create simple IoT cyber security solutions that can be managed on any of Cisco’s gateways, […]
Cisco invests in agtech IoT platform partner Titan Class
Cisco has made an unspecified investment in Australian agricultural IoT company Titan Class with which it has co-developed an IoT decision support platform for farmers, eXtensible Decision Platform (xDP) incorporating Streambed, an open source event-first microservice toolkit for IoT services, also co-developed by Titan Class and Cisco. According to Cisco, XDP enables farmers to easily […]
IPv6 supporting IoT device growth, says Cisco
Cisco says IPv6 adoption is enabling IoT connectivity. “The transition from an IPv4 environment to an IPv6 environment is making excellent progress, with increases in IPv6 device capabilities, content enablement, and operators implementing IPv6 in their networks.” A few years ago IPv6 was in the news, amid dire predictions about the imminent exhaustion of the […]
Cisco’s Perth IoT Innovation Centre to showcase Quantify smart building products
Perth-based ASX-list IoT company, Quantify Technology Holdings (ASX: QFY) has scored a spot for its intelligent building technology in Cisco’s Perth Internet of Everything Innovation Centre (CIIC). Quantify says that, under its agreement with Cisco, Cisco will showcase and promote its technology to potential property development partners and will facilitate connections between Quantify and key […]
Cisco Virtual Hackathon Asia-Pacific
Cisco is running a virtual/online hackathon exclusive to participants from cities in Asia Pacific where the pillars of Cisco Innovation Centers are located: Sydney, Perth, Tokyo and Songdo. The event launched on 5 December and entries will be accepted until closing on 22 February. Along with Cisco and IoT business experts, participants will develop innovative […]
Edge computing gets foggier
A few years ago Cisco coined the term ‘fog computing’ for edge computing in IoT networks. The industry recognised the need for harmonising this component of the IoT ecosystem, the name caught on and the OpenFog Consortium was formed in November 2015 with ARM, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Princeton University as founding members. One […]
A foggy IoT reference architecture
The OpenFog Consortium, initiated last year by Cisco to promote harmonisation in edge computing (aka fog computing) architecture for IoT networks, will release the first version of its reference architecture in September, ahead of its next members’ meeting scheduled for Austin, Texas September 27-28. OpenFog Consortium chair and senior director of Cisco’s Corporate Strategic Innovations […]
