From PC World: Cisco Systems is making a play for the fundamental process of putting IoT devices online, promising greater ease of use and security as enterprises prepare to deploy potentially millions of connected objects.
Thanks to a dominant position in Internet Protocol networks, Cisco can do what no other company can: Change networks that were not designed for IoT in order to pave the way for a proliferation of devices, said Rowan Trollope, senior vice president and general manager of the IoT & Applications Group.
“The internet as we know it today, and the network that you operate, will not work for the internet of things,” Trollope said in a keynote presentation at the Cisco Partner Summit in San Francisco on Tuesday. “We can solve that problem because we own the network.”
At the heart of this ambitious initiative is security, a theme that’s prominent throughout the summit in San Francisco, where the plan was announced.
Competition is heating up in the potentially lucrative area of orchestrating IoT rollouts and security. Just last week, chip design company ARM introduced its mbed Cloud service and said it was best equipped to lock down the internet of things because most IoT devices use ARM chips.
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