I’m happy to report that Cisco was named Industrial IoT Firm of the 12 months 2025 within the IoT Breakthrough Awards Program. Since 2017, IoT Breakthrough has made annual awards to industrial IoT corporations and merchandise primarily based on high quality, distinctive know-how, and market management. I wish to thank our clients, companions, and the complete Cisco industrial IoT workforce for making this award doable.
“Most individuals know Cisco for his or her enterprise networking merchandise, however for over 20 years, Cisco has been instrumental in making enterprise applied sciences decisive for digitizing industrial operations.”
– Steve Johansson, Managing Director at IoT Breakthrough
On this weblog I’ll summarize the the explanation why the analysis committee awarded Cisco prime honors as Industrial IoT Firm of the 12 months. Our options allow our clients to guard their operations and lay a strong basis for AI, all with seamless IT-OT collaboration and validated designs in-built partnerships with main industrial automation corporations.
“The identical sturdy safety because the enterprise”
Within the award announcement, IoT Breakthrough emphasizes Cisco improvements in industrial cybersecurity and AI readiness, which it phrases paramount issues for industrial operations. The announcement says, “Designed particularly for industrial wants, Cisco’s switches, routers, and wi-fi gear share a standard basis with their enterprise counterparts… A shared working system, administration platform, and safety measures facilitate collaboration between IT and OT groups.” As proven within the determine, Cisco industrial networking options include built-in visibility, segmentation, zero-trust distant entry, and the risk intelligence wanted for efficient incident response. A case research: Brazil’s CPFL Energia makes use of Cisco options to routinely detect and profile OT belongings in substations and determine vulnerabilities and anomalies.
Determine 1: Visibility, segmentation, and safe distant entry are constructed into Cisco community material
Johansson from IoT Breakthrough says, “By enabling IT finest practices in OT, Cisco has freed industrial networks to scale and be versatile, whereas having fun with the identical sturdy safety because the enterprise.”
“The facility of AI/ML”
I meet repeatedly with main industrial corporations, lots of them already utilizing AI to modernize operations—as an illustration, for predictive upkeep, manufacturing anomaly detection, robotics and autonomous autos, provide chain optimization, and extra. For instance, Audi makes use of Cisco options for digital actuality prototypes and predictive upkeep. Argos Cement makes use of AI to investigate historic knowledge and construct digital twins and predictive fashions to take care of high quality, cut back vitality consumption, and improve throughput.
AI purposes like these place excessive calls for on the community. Consider the community because the nervous system connecting the brains within the knowledge middle to the commercial IoT belongings in vegetation and within the discipline. Within the award announcement, IoT Breakthrough states, “Cisco’s industrial options empower industries to leverage the facility of AI/ML to drive innovation to fulfill present and future wants. The community’s high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity between OT and IT domains transports massive volumes of knowledge generated by sensors, machines, controllers, and different gadgets to analytical purposes in datacenters and the cloud.”
“Validated design guides which might be blueprints”
In addition to our know-how, IoT Breakthrough additionally calls out Cisco for “publishing validated design guides which might be blueprints for profitable networking and safety deployments… that obtain enterprise targets.” We offer greater than 80 Cisco Validated Designs and architectures for industries together with manufacturing, energy and water utilities, oil and fuel, mining, ports and terminals, roadways and intersections, and public transportation. My colleague Keith Higgins, Director of Product Advertising at Cisco, provides that “Validated designs enhance IT/OT collaboration, which helps to scale back danger, improve operational effectivity, and speed up implementation.”
Industrial corporations additionally profit from our partnerships and joint designs with Rockwell Automation®, Schneider Electrical®, and CODESYS. Integration with Splunk provides OT groups the observability that’s wanted for digital resilience.
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