Cisco Systems dominates the market for Internet networking equipment such as routers and switches. In 2009, it conducted an internal competition for the next big new business idea, which culminated with the formation of a Cisco smart grid division. Cisco's smart grid ambitions are to provide the underlying foundation for a standards-based smart grid by supplying communications, security and network management from Cisco. Smart grid companies can then build their applications on top of this foundation.
Headquartered in San Jose, the company did $40 billion in sales in 2010.
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Cisco Connected Energy Network leaders share that the smart grid is one of their key initiatives and fundamental to Cisco's growth strategy. They discuss the trends and success over the last two years, business unit growth and what's coming next.
Leading Australia's “Smart Grid, Smart City” project, Ausgrid has set the goal of developing a new smart grid architectural design for its organization. As part of this new strategy, as this case study details. the utility is establishing a design that can be used for all new substations to support modern approaches to protection and control, condition monitoring, and other services.
Earlier this year, Cisco's smart grid division saw the departure of two highly regarded executives. Not long after, we started hearing of the imminent demise of Cisco's smart grid effort. Were the rumors true? We decided to find out. Click for what we learned when we talked to three high-level Cisco executives about their company's smart grid game plan.
In this video, Channels Systems Engineer Willie Chow provides a comprehensive overview of the substation automation architecture commonly used with Cisco's Connected Grid routers and switches. The overview shows the integration of SCADA, network security and management and much more.
In case you missed this one, Laura Ipsen, who has led the Cisco business unit responsible for its smart grid strategy, has taken a job as corporate VP of Microsoft's Worldwide Public Sector organization. Sadly, energy will not be under her purview.
These are slides Cisco presented to analysts when the company announced its GridBlocks reference architecture, the focus of which is to provide utilities a single communications platform for all their smart grid needs.
A major announcement today by networking giant Cisco will propel the smart grid (finally!) into truly plug-and-play, truly interoperable smart grid. Everybody needs to study what it means and quickly or risk being stranded on a proprietary island. Utilities need to decide whether to adopt some or all of the ideas embodied in Cisco's new reference architecture. Vendors need to decide whether to plug into the Cisco world, or to find another home. It's all inside, including details on the framework, on Cisco's new line of business, its new hardware and its intriguing new software.
Cisco is in the smart grid for keeps. That message was delivered in spades this week when the company gathered analysts to reveal its latest thinking, initiatives and next steps in the smart grid space. SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst was there, and he liked what we heard. Click inside for nine reasons why.
After Cisco announced its exit from building energy management, CBS's online publication implied that the company's entire smart grid program had gotten the kibosh. SGN chief analyst Jesse Berst has a different take. He thinks the move is a necessary course correction that will make the rest of Cisco's smart grid portfolio even stronger. Click inside for more, including a link to our Tuesday Topic forum where you can see what smart grid insiders are saying and whose side they are taking.
Earlier this year Google and Microsoft abandoned the residential energy management space and now Cisco is backing away too. Is it a smart move for the networking giant? SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst has thoughts on that inside.
In a recent blog, Cisco Senior VP and General Manager Laura Ipsen provided an update on the company's plans to help Russia transform its energy infrastructure into a smart grid and some of the smart grid technology that will be a big part of that effort. SGN's Jesse Berst suggests that Cisco's involvement in Russia is an indicator of where the company will be heading next in the U.S.
Jeff Taft, chief smart grid architect for Cisco Systems, takes a good, hard look at smart grid data quality issues, the challenges utilities face when trying to deal with them – and some very useful tips on how to beef up data quality. It's the first of a two-part series, so stay tuned.
Control4 and Cisco will collaborate on providing network-enabled automation platforms for connected smart communities and Cisco's new Home Energy Management Solution. The agreement also calls for bringing Control4 technology into Cisco's Service Delivery Platform and a slate of new Cisco-branded Control4 products.
Cisco and EV charging products provider ECOtality will give EV owners the option of monitoring and controlling their EV charging while at home or on the road. ECOtality says it has completed development for the integration of its Blink Network charger with Cisco's Home Energy Management Solution.
Raritan, an innovator of power and IT infrastructure management solutions for data centers of all sizes, and a Registered Developer in the EnergyWise category of the Cisco's Developer Network, announced today that its intelligent device-level power management solutions are interoperable with Cisco EnergyWise client technology.
Cisco, Duke Energy and Charlotte City Center Partners are joining forces to make commercial buildings in Charlotte's urban core area more energy efficient with a combination of digital smart grid and building automation technologies.
Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Arch Rock Corporation, a pioneer in Internet Protocol-based wireless network technology for smart-grid applications. Based in San Francisco, Arch Rock will accelerate Cisco's ability to facilitate the utility industry's transition to an open and interoperable smart grid by enabling Cisco to offer a comprehensive and highly secure advanced metering infrastructure solution that is fully IP and open-standards based.
Today Smart Grid powerhouses Cisco and Itron announced a strategic alliance to deliver a definitive IP-based communications platform. What does it mean for the rest of us? Jesse Berst offers some insight.
This report provided by Research and Markets offers insight into Cisco's collaboration with major smart grid equipment suppliers and power companies, as well as the strategies and directions taken by Cisco in its smart grid business. Examples of Cisco's presence in the smart grid market are its EnergyWise 2.0 system and its Connected Grid series of routers and switches.
The Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG) today announced that five new members have joined its effort to educate and provide information to policymakers, utilities, consumers, and other stakeholders. The new members are Cisco, Cooper Power Systems, Tropos Networks, Grid Net, and U-SNAP Alliance.
That innovation platform that Cisco is touting could have been Microsoft’s. There was a time when the software giant was the obvious candidate to create an operating system for the Smart Grid. But Jesse Berst says Microsoft has missed out entirely. Click inside to find out why.
Cisco was a big winner in the Internet world and is looking to be equally so in the Smart Grid space. But we count at least five hurdles the networking giant will have to overcome (and you may think of a few we’ve overlooked). So click inside and take a look; there's a Quick Poll too.
Cisco calls it an innovation platform. But Jesse Berst has taken a look under the hood and he's calling it the Smart Grid’s first operating system. Either way, the important thing is that we are finally starting to see the underpinnings of a real end-to-end platform. Click inside for details on this promising development.
It has taken a while, but more and more observers are calling the Texas "experiment" with retail competition a success... and even suggesting it may be a model for the rest of the country. Is it?
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