Cisco has added to its Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio that will allow service provider partners to offer optimised management of cellular IoT environments and new 5G use-cases.
New wireless technologies – such as 5G, Wi-Fi 6 – will lead to more devices and new advanced Industrial IoT (IIoT) use cases and will give service providers the tools to create competitive cellular IoT offerings for their customers, said Cisco in a blog post. Machine-to-machine connections are expected to rise 19 percent and account for 50 percent of all connections by 2023, according to Cisco’s 2020 Annual Internet Report.
“Cellular IoT deployments are accelerating across connected cars, utilities and transportation industries and with 5G and Wi-Fi 6 on the horizon IoT adoption will grow even faster. Cisco is investing in connectivity management, IoT networking, IoT security, and edge computing to accelerate the adoption of IoT use-cases,” said Vikas Butaney, Vice-president Product Management IoT, Cisco. “With today’s advancements, Cisco is further enabling our service provider partners with machine learning to simplify and accelerate cellular IoT services while creating new bundled services to grow their revenues.”
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