Cisco IoT Overview: Part 2, IOT Hardware

PETER WELCHER?| Solutions Architect?

This blog post is part of a series discussing Cisco IoT, with this post focusing on Cisco IoT networking hardware.?

I’m excited by the networking and security opportunities in IoT, and all that Cisco supports. For more about that, see the first blog in the series (link below). ?

Why IoT? First, it is an expanding area of networking, with increasing use cases. Secondly, it is impacting current organizations, especially healthcare and retailing, but touching anything where new forms of sensor may provide valuable security or cost-saving benefits, or enable new capabilities (better inventory, better products, etc.). ?

Blog Series Plan?

Part 1: Background and Overview of Cisco IOT?

• Introduction?
• Perspective: What Skills Are Needed? Who Are the IOT Customers???
• Industrial Edge Computing?
• Link: Part 1 Blog Article?

Part 2: Cisco IOT Hardware (THIS BLOG)?

• Industrial Routers?
• Industrial Switches?
• Industrial Wireless?

Part 3: Other IOT Essentials?

• Industrial Security?

• Industry Use Cases?

Part 4: Finishing IOT Touches?

• Meraki IOT?
• IOT Skillsets?
• More IOT Links?

Part 5: The IOT Competition?

• Juniper?
• Aruba?
• Arista?

Read more on the BlueAlly Blog ?