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Cisco advancements to its IoT portfolio enable service provider partners to offer optimized management of cellular IoT environments.
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Machine-to-machine connections are expected to rise by 19% and account for 50% of all connections by 2023.
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Cisco IoT Control Center has taken steps towards 5G readiness to incubate and promote high-value 5G business use cases that customers can simply adopt.
Cisco IoT Control Center becomes more intelligent with anomaly detection, smart billing.
Cisco declared advancements to its IoT portfolio that allow service provider partners to offer optimized management of cellular IoT environments and new 5G use-cases. The latest 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. Machine-to-machine links are assumed to rise 19% and account for 50% of all connections by 2023, according to .
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. 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.
Vikas Butaney, vice president of product management IoT, Cisco.
Both 5G and Wi-Fi 6 bring a promise of dramatically better performance to mobile workers and the enterprise. Since they are complementary technologies, they provide higher data rates to support new applications and increases in network capacity with the ability to connect more devices.
will also offer magnified mobile broadband for immersive experience via augmented and virtual reality. Although many enterprises will benefit from the enhanced mobile experience, industries such as hospitality, retail, and education will drive immersive experiences for their business.
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Advancing Cellular IoT
, the market leader in connectivity management platforms, is launching innovations to enhance management and lessen deployment complexity. These include:
Employing Machine Learning (ML) to enhance management:
Control Center practices the industry’s broadest visibility to empower machine learning models to immediately identify anomalies and address issues before they impact a customer. Service providers can also identify and alert customers of errant devices, allowing for greater endpoint security and control.
Smart billing to optimize rate plans:
Service providers can enhance customer satisfaction by empowering Smart billing to automatically optimize rate plans. Policies can also be created to proactively send customer notifications.
Support for global supply chains:
A second challenge to address is SIM portability. Today, when service providers transfer SIM management to other carriers, they must manage multiple costly integrations. The process is difficult and error-prone and will only intensify as global supply chains become the norm. Cisco IoT Control Center now provides eSIM as a service, enabling a true turnkey SIM portability solution to deliver fast, reliable, cost-effective SIM handoffs between service providers.
Cisco IoT Control Center is the leading connectivity management platform on the market on multiple fronts.
James Brehm, Founder, and Chief Technology Evangelist, James Brehm & Associates
The fifth generation of wireless, or 5G, is the latest cellular technology, engineered to increase the speed and capacity of wireless networks. It can support a diverse range of use cases, from simple to complex, at very high device densities – it’s a clear choice for powering IoT. Cisco is partnering with both key service providers and their customers to nurture and classify common 5G use cases that will drive industry value. Industrial environments can benefit from the advanced IoT capabilities presented by 5G, with use cases such as flexible manufacturing, higher throughput, and autonomous vehicles. Cisco IoT Control Center has taken steps towards 5G readiness to nurture and promote high-value 5G business use cases that customers can simply adopt.
By 2023, 5G will make up more than 10 percent of global mobile connections, with even higher concentrations in key markets, like North America, Western Europe, and Asia Pacific (Cisco Annual Internet Report, 2019).
KPN:
“We recognize that the diversity and complexity of 5G use cases can overwhelm organizations already competing in rapidly evolving and increasingly digitized industries. That is why KPN and Cisco support customers like ExRobotics to launch on 4G today and at the same time prepare for 5G tomorrow. With our 5G Field labs, we help incubate clear use cases that demonstrate how to unleash the potential of 5G and create meaningful business outcomes. KPN and Cisco are committed to providing strategic thought leadership to help customers leverage cellular IoT and drive their digital transformation forward.”
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ExRobotics:
“Robots often do jobs that are too dangerous for humans. 5G and its promise of low latency will allow robots to react faster and better to the operator’s commands. They will be capable of dealing with complex unscripted problems and making decisions in real-time in the field. We are committed in this partnership with KPN to helping our customers turn the technical advancement of 5G into real value in the area of human safety, reliability and cost savings.”
Astus:
“Our business is fleet management, which means we need to know where our assets are at all times. The human capital required to manufacture that level of visibility is demanding. But by building the power of machine learning into our connectivity management, Control Center is effectively giving us automatic visibility and the freed resources to be proactive. Instead of crunching data, our staff is free to do the high-value work of chasing down security threats or malfunctions that we’ve been alerted to and resolving them before they do damage.”
Spark New Zealand:
“The Machine Learning capability in Control Centre helps us to provide our customers with solutions that save them time and resources. Using machine learning, our customers can be sent proactive alerts when anomalies are detected in their IoT network. This allows our customers to resolve issues quickly before it causes any detrimental effects on their business processes, supply chain or end customers. Surfacing these insights within Control Centre via enhanced views and simple dashboards makes it easy and provides immediate value for our customers who might not have a data scientist or time to undertake detailed data analysis.”
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