NTT And Cisco Launch IOT As A Service For Enterprise Customers
NTT And Cisco Launch IOT As A Service For Enterprise Customers. NTT, which positions itself as a leading IT infrastructure and services company, and Cisco, which positions itself as a worldwide leader in technology, announced a collaboration to develop and deploy joint solutions that empower organisations to improve operational efficiencies and advance sustainability goals.
Leveraging NTT’s Edge as a Service portfolio and Cisco’s IOT capabilities, solutions developed by the two companies will offer real-time data insights, enhanced security, improved decision-making and reduced operational costs through predictive maintenance, asset tracking and supply chain management capabilities. The companies will deliver solutions that combine NTT’s managed services expertise, automation capabilities at the edge and the management of complex IT environments, with Cisco’s IOT capabilities, including low power wide area networking (LoRaWAN).
As part of thr news, NTT has bolstered its IOT consulting and services business that brings together more than 1 000 practitioners and 100 use cases in areas such as connected cars, fleet management, predictive maintenance, smart cities, digital twins, connected factories, utilities and more. NTT has already trained more than 500 Cisco sales experts to accelerate the companies’ combined capabilities and go-to-market efforts. “We are accelerating our IOT business initiatives to deliver a powerful portfolio of repeatable services that can be tailored to meet customer demand for these kinds of solutions. We’re in a unique position,” said Devin Yaung, SVP of Group Enterprise IoT Products and Services at NTT.
“We are excited to work together to help transition our customers to this IOT as a service model so they can quickly realise the business benefits across industries and around the globe,” said Samuel Pasquier, VP of Product Management, Industrial IoT Networking at Cisco.
