Only a few months in the past I used to be at Cisco Reside 2023 in Amsterdam and bought the possibility to listen to straight from prospects about their largest challenges. What I heard the clearest and most persistently was their must simplify their industrial networks and extra simply scale as their companies develop.
Some steep challenges are within the path of that purpose. Safety is all the time prime of thoughts. How are you going to shield your networks from extra bodily and environmental challenges in these operational settings? Doing extra with much less was additionally a standard thread within the conversations. How are you going to leverage your IT expertise and investments to speed up your digitization of their operational settings? The digital acceleration is including to the complexity to operational environments. How are you going to leverage the cloud to make sure easy, safe and predictable experiences throughout the community?
To assist handle these challenges, we introduced new cloud providers at that very same occasion for a brand new manner for IT and OT to collaborate on managing and securing the community through our Catalyst Industrial Routers. With our cloud-delivered IoT Operations Dashboard, prospects can use Cyber Imaginative and prescient to offer visibility into OT property and their safety posture, in addition to leverage Safe Gear Entry for protected distant entry to machines.
We’re excited to develop these cloud providers to our Industrial Ethernet switching portfolio in alignment with our Networking Cloud announcement right here at Cisco Reside 2023 in Las Vegas. Now, prospects can leverage their current Catalyst Industrial Ethernet Switches and rapidly notice the advantages of those cloud-driven software program functionalities since there’s no extra {hardware} wanted. This additional permits our prospects to make use of their community as a platform for IT to simplify, innovate, and ship unified experiences to their prospects. And it’s a key a part of our Cisco Networking Cloud imaginative and prescient.
One of many important challenges we see in digitization initiatives is the complexity round deploying totally different level options in a rising infrastructure with small IT and operations groups. Cisco is tackling this problem by remodeling the community right into a platform by providing cloud-delivered OT providers deployed on the edge as a converged answer with the community, decreasing the necessity for extra {hardware}. This demonstrates Cisco’s intent to simplify IT for industrial networks and assist organizations obtain actual enterprise transformation quicker.
– Patrick Filkins, Senior Analysis Supervisor, IDC
Industrial IoT delivers simplification throughout industries
Let’s dig a bit deeper into how we’re delivering simplicity at scale. Right here at Cisco IIoT, we work with 1000’s of shoppers throughout industries and throughout the globe to assist them speed up their journey to digitization and automation.
On the coronary heart of our manufacturing prospects’ networks are a whole lot and even 1000’s of commercial switches that every one want connectivity. OT must have visibility of what’s related to the community; technicians must entry machines remotely to troubleshoot and keep. Clients can buy these providers from totally different distributors and sew them collectively, however this leads to complexity, shadow IT and safety dangers. Now Cisco is converging functionalities as software program options on our industrial networking portfolio delivered via IoT Operations Dashboard with none extra {hardware}.
- The Cyber Imaginative and prescient service within the IoT Operations Dashboard inventories related property and identifies unsecure configurations and rogue gear — decreasing danger of property related on the manufacturing facility ground.
- The Safe Gear Entry service within the IoT Operations Dashboard delivers distant entry to property to troubleshoot issues or for routine operations — eliminating the necessity for OT to put in rogue gateways and/or shadow IT answer to allow distant entry.
Our transportation prospects are dealing with the identical know-how challenges as they try to make journey safer and safer. They should join 1000’s of indicators and intersections, in addition to different units like high-definition cameras, LiDar sensors, and digital signage.
- All the identical providers from our cloud delivered IoT Operations Dashboard will help them safe and handle these providers to geographically various property with out sending personnel to troubleshoot.
- To assist energy excessive bandwidth and excessive energy units, we’re additionally introducing 5 new fashions of our Catalyst IE9300 Rugged Collection Switches, together with 1GE and mGig copper ports, 10GE uplinks, and excessive wattage PoE.
“We’re excited concerning the new Cisco Catalyst IE9300 Rugged switches with 10Gbps uplinks. It’s going to enable Pennsylvania Turnpike to deploy the Cisco SD-Entry cloth to extra rugged areas, connecting our roadside property with all of the Cisco Catalyst switching, options, safety, and bandwidth we have to function a extra dependable and safer freeway system.”
– Jesse Ream, Supervisor of Transportation Tech & Communications, Pennsylvania Turnpike Fee
Enterprise-grade outside connectivity
Clients throughout industries are on the lookout for new wi-fi connectivity choices for his or her outside areas. Our new Catalyst IW9167I Heavy Responsibility Entry Level is objective constructed to face up to rugged outside circumstances with its IP67 ranking and is Wi-Fi 6E prepared. It’s the excellent approach to lengthen your current Cisco investments into new outside use instances, like parking heaps, college and faculty campuses, outside malls, and extra.
The Energy of Simplicity
Right here at Cisco Reside, we introduced the Cisco Networking Cloud – our imaginative and prescient and dedication to simplify IT, in every single place, at each scale. With our expanded cloud providers and a full portfolio of cloud enabled IoT connectivity units, Cisco IoT is delivering on the imaginative and prescient of Cisco Networking to offer a easy and constant expertise throughout all Cisco platforms.
- We’re serving to our IT and industrial networking prospects extra effectively handle and safe their industrial community at scale and lengthen their Cisco investments and expertise.
- We’re decreasing complexity by delivering cloud providers like OT asset visibility, distant gear entry, and safety to ship a unified expertise to our prospects.
Learn the way our newest improvements convey simplicity, safety, and scale to your industrial networks.
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