I’m happy to report that Cisco was named Industrial IoT Firm of the Yr 2025 within the IoT Breakthrough Awards Program. Since 2017, IoT Breakthrough has made annual awards to industrial IoT firms and merchandise based mostly on high quality, distinctive expertise, and market management. I wish to thank our clients, companions, and the whole Cisco industrial IoT workforce for making this award attainable.
“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 high honors as Industrial IoT Firm of the Yr. 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 inbuilt partnerships with main industrial automation firms.
“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 menace intelligence wanted for efficient incident response. A case research: Brazil’s CPFL Energia makes use of Cisco options to mechanically detect and profile OT belongings in substations and establish vulnerabilities and anomalies.
Determine 1: Visibility, segmentation, and safe distant entry are constructed into Cisco community cloth
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 often with main industrial firms, a lot of them already utilizing AI to modernize operations—as an example, for predictive upkeep, manufacturing anomaly detection, robotics and autonomous automobiles, 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 power 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 heart 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 ability of AI/ML to drive innovation to satisfy present and future wants. The community’s high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity between OT and IT domains transports massive volumes of information generated by sensors, machines, controllers, and different gadgets to analytical purposes in datacenters and the cloud.”
“Validated design guides which might be blueprints”
Moreover our expertise, IoT Breakthrough additionally calls out Cisco for “publishing validated design guides which might be blueprints for profitable networking and safety deployments… that obtain enterprise aims.” 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 cut back threat, improve operational effectivity, and speed up implementation.”
Industrial firms additionally profit from our partnerships and joint designs with Rockwell Automation®, Schneider Electrical®, and CODESYS. Integration with Splunk offers OT groups the observability that’s wanted for digital resilience.
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