Cisco Shifts Direction With SD-WAN For Industrial IoT
Gestalt IT, Monday, July 15th, 2024
Cisco is pivoting from traditional networking towards software-defined networking, and its target market is the industrial IoT sector.
Since the last decade, use of IIoT in verticals like clean energy grids, smart cities, utility, road and railways, have been blowing up, attracting investments from big corporations. A lot of these companies require capabilities like auto-VPN, next-generation firewall, cellular connectivity for remote sites, and in some cases, advanced routing.
'The industrial IoT customers are not using bleeding-edge technology. For them, what is important is availability,' said Emmanuel Tychon, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco.
When it comes to IIoT, there are three things that make the top of the list for networking vendors - operations at scale, security and ease of use.
But customers are willing to take a chance and sacrifice their security needs, if the trade-off is availability.