
Summary Bullets:
- Last week, Nokia announced a strategy to build out private industrial LTE networks, Ericsson carved out four cellular IoT segments, and Cisco offered solutions to bring ‘intent-based’ networking to the edge.
- What do these announcements imply about the future of the IIoT and how should service providers respond?
Last week, three of the most powerful infrastructure and networking equipment vendors made IoT-related announcements, some in conjunction with their Q4 earnings reports. While this clearly denotes how strongly they view IoT as a key growth market, it also brings into question their relationships with the operators which in many cases have been their primary customers. Continue reading “Infrastructure Vendor IoT Strategies: What Impact Do They Have on Service Providers?”