While the number of businesses investing in IoT
across all markets continues to grow, recent research shows that 60 percent of IoT
initiatives stall at the proof-of-concept (POC) stage. This highlights that companies
today are still struggling with the key challenges of IoT, including the need
for more flexibility, greater security, and the ability to address new use
cases. Cisco Jasper has been partnering with service providers to help its
customer base, which has grown from 3,500 to 11,000 enterprises in the past
year alone, to overcome these challenges and accelerate their IoT
success. To continue to meet the exponential demand for IoT solutions, and
in keeping with Cisco’s dedication to helping customers get from paper to
successful IoT deployment more quickly, today Cisco Jasper introduced a new
expanded model to bring the benefits of its IoT connectivity platform – Control
Center – to a broader audience.
Control Center 7.0 addresses business’ needs for
greater flexibility with a new multi-tiered IoT platform that gives companies
various options to meet their specific needs, regardless of their stage of IoT
implementation. This new platform is also paired with a new set of Premium
Services that address previously unmet needs in the industry related to IoT
monetization and security.
“We first introduced our Control Center IoT
connectivity management platform to the market over 10 years ago, and since
then it has become the largest IoT platform with over 43M devices being managed
today, and more than 1.5M new devices being added per month,” said Jahangir
Mohammed, GM of IoT at Cisco. “What we’ve learned from enabling IoT success for
our 11K customers is that companies have different needs at different stages of
their IoT journey. So today we’re introducing the biggest evolution of our
Control Center IoT platform ever, providing a flexible model and new Premium
Services that help meet the needs of customers at any phase.”
With Control Center 7.0, Cisco Jasper is
introducing a unique approach to IoT solutions unmatched in the industry,
giving customers and service provider partners the flexibility to select and
customize the capabilities and services that are right for their deployment,
while also providing an easy path for growth as their IoT businesses scale.
Control Center 7.0 provides this flexibility by being the first IoT platform to
offer:
Advanced Capabilities: A new tier of the platform – Control Center
Advanced – caters to customers with more sophisticated deployments that need
greater capabilities, including advanced security solutions, automation and
analytics.
Premium Services: The introduction of our first two Premium
Services, compatible with Control Center, enables customers to solve for
previously unmet IoT business needs. The Threat Protection &
Smart Security (TPSS) service provides an IoT-specific solution to
protect against malware and other cybersecurity threats, and is built on Cisco
Umbrella. The second service, Traffic Segmentation, provides
a new solution to support different types of revenue generation models. Cisco
Jasper service providers can customize Premium Services to meet their
customers’ specific needs.
LPWAN Support: Control Center 7.0 extends the platform’s capabilities
– including the platform’s global reach and scale via support for cellular
networks – to low power devices via support for multiple LPWAN technologies,
including NB-IoT and LTE-M.
AT&T, a Cisco Jasper service provider, is
integrating these additional capabilities to meet IoT needs for a broad range
of industries. The platform will be called AT&T Control Center – Advanced,
and will be paired with additional premium services.
“We work with companies of every size, across
every industry, around the world,” said Chris Penrose, President, IoT Solutions,
AT&T. “AT&T Control Center - Advanced with additional premium services
are the next step in continuing to provide differentiated platform capabilities
and solutions for our IOT customers. These enhancements around security,
analytics and automation allow our customers to manage their IoT solutions even
more effectively and to further increase their ROI.”
Control Center 7.0 is the first version of the
IoT platform to integrate multiple Cisco technologies, delivering on the
promise made at the time of Jasper’s acquisition to combine the power of
Cisco’s portfolio with the world’s leading IoT connectivity management
platform. As a result, Control Center 7.0 solves the biggest challenges
companies currently face in IoT with:
Multi-layer Security: Expanding upon Control Center’s existing
security capabilities, users now get multi-layered security controls including
closed user groups, two-factor authentication, whitelisting capabilities and
more to identify and solve known issues.
Collaboration: Integration with Cisco Spark gives users the
ability to easily collaborate on issues with connected devices, enabling them
to lower resolution time and manage costs.
Enhanced Analytics: New reports on historical trends of device
behavior and usage enable users to take action on issues that impact
performance, costs and security.
Support for Low Power Devices: Control Center 7.0 is the first
commercially available IoT platform that supports the management of IoT devices
across cellular, NB-IoT and LTE-M networks to accommodate a wide range of use
cases.
“When we acquired Jasper, we made a promise to
the industry that Cisco and Jasper would be more than the sum of our separate
parts – that we would create something better together,” said Rowan Trollope,
SVP and GM of IoT and Applications at Cisco. “This is the realization of that
promise. And what we’ve built in the past year has surpassed even our lofty
expectations.”
With Control Center 7.0, Cisco Jasper has
created a single, integrated solution to address the needs of both Information
Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) professionals. Previously,
Control Center – which automates and manages connectivity of devices on
cellular networks globally – was a standalone offering. Today, Control Center
7.0 is yet another proof point of Cisco’s leading innovation in IoT solutions,
and is now compatible with Cisco’s broader IoT Operations Platform, which integrates Connection Management, Data
Delivery and Fog Computing for a complete end-to-end solution. And this
complements the Cisco DNA offerings, which are delivering the next generation
of networks to provide new levels of security, analytics and automation to
enable exciting new IoT, cloud and mobile experiences. As a result, customers
in any industry can now manage IoT from the edge to the cloud.
Availability
Cisco Jasper Control Center 7.0 is available
now.
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