Integrator
Integrators build solutions that solve business problems using their unique expertise.
Provider
Providers deliver as-a-service and managed solutions with flexible consumption options, powered by Cisco.
Developer
Developers build unique solutions and applications on Cisco platforms to deliver customer-specific business outcomes.
Advisor
Advisors provide expert market and business consulting services.
Learning
Learning partners enable end-user success through training and education.
Consultants
Consultants provides business and technology consulting capabilities well before the systems integration phase.
Digital solutions integrators
DSIs are niche consulting companies with specialized focus on workflows for industries/critical business processes. They specialize in making digital business transformation a reality. They help integrate digital capabilities across all business operations and are experts at driving those conversations with customers in new buying centers and line-of-business.
Global industry partners
GIPs lead Cisco’s market penetration into industry verticals through their RTM by integrating Cisco technologies into their operational technology solution platforms.
Independent hardware vendors
IHVs specialize in hardware-based solutions. The hardware might be combined with Cisco platforms to provide customers with integrated systems or appliance stack. Typically, this is a meet-in-the-channel model.
Independent software vendors
ISVs specialize in developing and selling software solutions. The software might be integrated with Cisco platforms to enable more capabilities for customers, or it could be that Cisco features are part of the ISV application modernization and re-architecting roadmap. Some ISVs are on the Cisco GPL, but most meet in the channel.
IT resellers
IT resellers partner with a resale contract agreement with Cisco to resell Cisco technology and services.
Service providers
SPs specialize in large-scale deployment of communications and technology solutions built on Cisco platforms.
Systems integrators
SIs create complex information systems that may include designing or building a customized architecture or application, integrating it with new or existing hardware, packaged and custom software, and communications.
Cisco portfolio for manufacturing: What can we help you solve today?
Manufacturing supply chain operations
Advanced manufacturing operations
Workforce enablement
Industrial security and safety
Sustainable operations
- Explore the use cases
- Explore the architectures
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Manufacturing supply chain operations
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Advanced manufacturing operations
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Workforce enablement
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Industrial security and safety
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Sustainable operations
Advanced warehouse operations
People, machines, and materials are in constant motion within a manufacturing warehouse operations. Proactively monitor and manage supply chain for plant warehousing operations by connecting machines, sensors, scanners, and video systems with secure, standards-based connectivity to improve operations, supply chain visibility, productivity, safety, and sustainability.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Reliable operations to reduce unplanned downtime
- Optimal operations, labor, orders, and equipment
- Optimize for material flow, work orders, and sequencing tasks
- Connect to increasing number of devices in warehouse operations
- Develop solutions that can support sustainability goals
- Address the skilled workforce shortage in the warehousing and distribution center business
- Improve customer service with asset tracking and real-time delivery models
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Business needs
- Robust connectivity environment
- Reduced overall costs and maximized uptime
- Real-time, multi-site asset management
- Reduced costs and downtime through predictive and remote maintenance
- Adaptability and support for next-generation systems
- Drive cybersecurity visibility and protection into warehouse operations
- Support more sustainable operations
- Reliable, extended coverage (indoor and outdoor)
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Capabilities
- Intuitive connectivity deployed across new and legacy equipment providing edge processing, secure forwarding of critical data, and real-time analytics
- Secure remote access
- Paperless picking and intelligent put-away
- Visualization of sensor data to anticipate failures
- Ultra-low latency, high availability, and reliable broadband coverage (indoor and outdoor)
- AI-enhanced predictive maintenance and process optimization
- Machine learning to detect anomalies and predict asset failure
- Real-time analytics across a diverse set of tools and data sources
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Business outcomes
- Traffic flow monitoring to enable optimization of current operations, including setting proper levels of staffing
- Improved customer experience with real-time order tracking and expediting of critical orders
- Improved facility-wide productivity
- Lowered operating costs
- Reliable asset tracking within and across multiple sites
- Promotes flexible/intelligent warehouse design
- Faster time to anticipate and respond to failures; reduced downtime
- Increased asset cybersecurity posture and incidence response
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Stakeholders
- Chief financial officer
- Chief sustainability officer
- Chief operations officer
- VP of supply chain
- Warehouse manager
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Category | Products |
|---|---|
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Routing (SD-WAN) |
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Meraki SD-WAN |
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Switching |
Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Cisco Catalyst Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Data center |
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix |
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Edge intelligence and compute |
Cisco Catalyst IE3400 Heavy Duty Series Switches Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Routers Cisco IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
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Wireless |
Cisco Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller Cisco Private 5G Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (Cisco URWB) Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
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Industrial asset vision |
Cisco Industrial Asset Vision Cisco Wireless Gateway for LoRaWAN |
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IT operations and full-stack observability |
Cisco AppDynamics Cisco Catalyst Center Cisco IoT Operations Dashboard Cisco ThousandEyes Splunk IT Service Intelligence Splunk Observability Cloud |
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Log analytics |
Splunk Cloud Splunk Enterprise |
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Security Special offers above |
Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks Cisco Cyber Vision Cisco Duo Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Secure Firewall Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Manager Cisco Secure Firewall ISA3000 Cisco Secure Network Analytics Cisco Security Cloud Splunk Security Portfolio |
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Location-based services |
Cisco Spaces |
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Collaboration Special offers above |
Webex |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
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Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
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Success Tracks |
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Support Services |
Expert Care |
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Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
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Solution Support (hardware, software) |
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Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
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Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
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Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right manufacturing solutions for your business size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Inventory management
Complete visibility into all assets, raw material utilization, and material handling within the facility to meet plant demand and inventory management goals.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Lack of real-time visibility into on-hand inventory
- Inefficient space utilization
- Assurance of supply (AOS)
- Moving away from error-prone paper-based processes
- Latency of information exchange across the supply chain
- Improve customer service with asset tracking and real-time delivery models
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Business needs
- Ensuring warehouse inventory is as accurate as possible, so staff and customers know what is available for manufacturing order fulfillment
- Identifying the most efficient and effective way to fulfill manufacturing orders
- Manage inventory across all phases of production
- Deploy advance inventory management systems (JIT, digital Kanban, lean, etc)
- Improve supply chain agility
- Real-time visibility of products and orders during work in process
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Capabilities
- RTLS platform leveraging Cisco infrastructure as a sensor
- Real-time asset tracking and inventory management with sensors/cameras in-plant, in-transit, and in-warehouse, allowing up-to-date stock information to improve order fulfilment and inventory accuracy
- Real-time collaboration with suppliers and partners
- See, diagnose, and fix the source of any network interruptions
- Ultra-low latency, high availability, and reliable broadband coverage (indoor and outdoor)
- Enhanced mobile broadband
- Real-time analytics across a diverse set of tools and data sources
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Business outcomes
- Improve assurance of inventory supply and order fulfilment rate
- Enhanced service level with customers and suppliers
- Improved labor productivity (turns/labor hour)
- Reduced inventory waste and lowered inventory carrying cost while increasing inventory turns
- Promotes flexible/intelligent warehouse design
- Inventory and process optimization; reduced downtime
- Improved asset utilization and equipment performance (OEE)
- Reduce latency across systems for real-time performance and accuracy
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Stakeholders
- VP of manufacturing
- VP of supply chain
- Warehouse manager
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Category | Products |
|---|---|
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Routing |
Cisco Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Cisco Crosswork Network Controller |
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Switching |
Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Cisco Catalyst Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Data center |
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) Routers Cisco 100G/400G coherent pluggable optics |
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Edge intelligence and compute |
Cisco Catalyst IE3400 Heavy Duty Series Switches Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Routers Cisco IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
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Wireless |
Cisco Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
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Video |
Meraki MV Smart Cameras |
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IT operations and full-stack observability |
Cisco AppDynamics Cisco Catalyst Center Cisco IoT Operations Dashboard Cisco ThousandEyes Splunk IT Service Intelligence Splunk Observability Cloud |
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Log analytics |
Splunk Cloud Splunk Enterprise |
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Security Special offers above |
Cisco Duo Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Umbrella Splunk Security Portfolio |
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Location-based services |
Cisco Spaces Cisco Spaces Smart Operations/ACT |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
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Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
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Success Tracks |
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Support Services |
Expert Care |
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Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
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Solution Support (hardware, software) |
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Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
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Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
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Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Industrial mobility
Enable a comprehensive wireless asset roaming environment across and between plants, warehouses, and storage yards.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Increase capacity and factory performance
- Meet customer demand
- Leverage the best mobile material handling (AGVs, forklifts, and stacking conveyor systems)
- Lack of skilled workers on the floor requires industrial mobility solutions
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Business needs
- Improve factory operations/OEE
- Reducing human picking errors
- Increase throughput
- Reduce both scheduled and unscheduled downtime
- Secure network
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Capabilities
- Comprehensive wireless asset roaming environment across and between plants, warehouses, and storage yards
- Gives workers a consistent and robust networking and communications platform for secure networking and collaboration (including video)
- Enhanced mobile broadband
- Fast, reliable handoff between radios
- Ultra-low latency and high availability
- Supports intelligent/flexible warehouse layout
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Business outcomes
- Improved asset utilization and equipment performance (OEE)
- Improved labor productivity (turns/labor hour)
- Lower cabling and labor costs
- Increased productivity for specialized resources
- Reduce human picking errors
- Assign vehicles in real time to specific tasks and areas within a warehouse or factory
- Manage more goods at once
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Stakeholders
- Chief operations officer
- VP of manufacturing and/or plant management personnel
- VP of supply chain
- VP of operations
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Category | Products |
|---|---|
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Routing |
Cisco Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Cisco Crosswork Network Controller |
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Switching |
Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Cisco Catalyst Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Data center |
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) Routers Cisco 100G/400G coherent pluggable optics |
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Wireless |
Cisco Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller Cisco Private 5G Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (Cisco URWB) Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
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Location-based services |
Cisco Spaces |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
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Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
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Success Tracks |
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Support Services |
Expert Care |
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Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
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Solution Support (hardware, software) |
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Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
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Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
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Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Industrial automation
Securely connect production systems--including IACS devices, sensors, actuators, and controllers; key machines; and assets such as robots, CNC machines, tools, process skids, and RTUs--to plant and enterprise networks.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Reliable operations to reduce unplanned downtime
- Efficient operations to lower operating costs and maintain a productive working environment
- Optimize operations to drive excellence and create a competitive differentiation
- Connect to increasing number of factory devices
- Need to connect factory environments to Industry 4.0 applications
- Address the skilled worker shortage across the manufacturing industry
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Business needs
- Robust connectivity environment
- Reduced overall costs and maximized uptime
- Real-time, multi-site asset management
- Reduced costs and downtime through predictive and remote maintenance
- Adaptability and support for next-generation systems
- Drive cybersecurity visibility and protection into factories
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Capabilities
- Intuitive connectivity deployed across new and legacy equipment transmitting process data
- Real-time edge processing and secure forwarding of critical data
- Secure remote access
- Leading validated designs for robust connectivity of an increasing number of devices and machines
- High resolution predictive visibility into network and application to fix, anticipate, and/or prevent performance issues or failures
- Enhanced mobile broadband
- AI-enhanced operations, predictive maintenance, process optimization, generative design, and quality assurance
- Real-time observability and analytics tools for systems, processes, and production equipment
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Business outcomes
- Improved equipment performance (OEE)
- Real-time production management
- Optimized uptime; reduced turnaround time and downtime
- Improved plant-wide productivity, yield, and throughput
- Lowered operating costs
- Unrestricted line moves, adds, and changes
- Faster time to anticipate and respond to failures
- Improved product quality and efficiency
- Increased asset visibility for improved cybersecurity postures and incident responses
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Stakeholders
- Chief operations officer
- Chief financial officer
- VP of manufacturing
- VP of operations
- Plant manager
- Industrial network architect
- Reliability manager
- Process engineer
- Facility manager
- Engineering director
- Control engineer
- Director of` IT
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Category | Products |
|---|---|
|
Switching |
Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Cisco Catalyst Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
|
Data center |
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix |
|
Edge intelligence and compute |
Cisco Catalyst IE3400 Heavy Duty Series Switches Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Routers Cisco IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
|
Wireless |
Cisco Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller Cisco Private 5G Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (Cisco URWB) |
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IT operations and full-stack observability |
Cisco AppDynamics Cisco Catalyst Center Cisco IoT Operations Dashboard Cisco ThousandEyes Splunk IT Service Intelligence Splunk Observability Cloud |
|
Log analytics |
Splunk Cloud Splunk Enterprise |
|
Security Special offers above |
Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks Cisco Cyber Vision Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Secure Firewall Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Manager Cisco Secure Firewall ISA3000 Cisco Secure Network Analytics Cisco Security Cloud Splunk Security Portfolio |
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Location-based services |
Cisco Spaces |
|
Collaboration Special offers above |
Webex |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
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Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
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Success Tracks |
|
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Support Services |
Expert Care |
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Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
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Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
|
Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right manufacturing solutions for your business size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Data collection and management
Capture compute information from point of acquisition to target systems for faster decision-making, real-time insights, machine learning, and sustainability.
The Future of Manufacturing is Now
See how Cisco edge and collaboration enable real-time decisions and operational efficiency needed for a hybrid workforce.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Improved operational efficiency
- Real-time production visibility
- Lowered operating and maintenance costs
- Develop solutions that can support sustainability goals
- AI for manufacturing
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Business needs
- Obtain valid performance information for increased efficiency through multi-site sensor data management
- Data capture and analysis and sharing in real time
- Reduced overall costs and maximized uptime
- Early identification and mitigation of risk
- Optimize employee performance
- Support more sustainable business practices
- Cybersecurity across the network
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Capabilities
- Data can be collected from devices/sensors and stream via a high-speed API to OT, IT, and other third-party systems
- Obtain more accurate data at a massive scale leveraging a comprehensive network design
- Provide a secure platform for visualization across all equipment and sensor data to anticipate failures
- Real-time edge processing and secure forwarding of critical data
- Simpler and scalable architecture to interconnect the data center
- Acquire new insights based on factual models and anomalies
- High resolution predictive visibility into network and application for preventing performance issues
- Digital twin for OT systems leveraging RFIS, UWB, and BLE frequencies
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Business outcomes
- Increased uptime by preventing equipment issues before they occur
- Optimized parameters leading to better asset operations
- Improved performance monitoring and process condition optimization
- Elimination of paper-based systems, resulting in lower carbon footprint
- Reduced delays, improved network assurance, and improved user experience
- Faster time to anticipate and respond to failures, reduced downtime, and improved product quality and efficiency
- AI-enhanced data processing capacity for predictive maintenance, process optimization, and quality assurance
- Increased asset cybersecurity posture and incident response
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Stakeholders
- VP of manufacturing
- Plant management personnel
- Control engineer
- Manufacturing engineer
- Engineering/product development
- Data scientists/analysts
- Director of IT
- Chief sustainability officer
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Category | Products |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Cisco Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN |
|
Switching |
Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Cisco Catalyst Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
|
Data center |
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) Routers Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) B-Series Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) C-Series Cisco 100G/400G coherent pluggable optics |
|
Edge intelligence and compute |
Cisco Catalyst IE3400 Heavy Duty Series Switches Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Routers Cisco IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
|
Wireless |
Cisco Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
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Gateway and application management |
Cisco IoT Field Network Director Cisco IoT Operations Dashboard |
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IT operations and full-stack observability |
Cisco AppDynamics Cisco Catalyst Center Cisco IoT Operations Dashboard Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance Cisco ThousandEyes Splunk IT Service Intelligence Splunk Observability Cloud |
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Log analytics |
Splunk Cloud Splunk Enterprise |
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Security |
Splunk Security Portfolio |
|
Location-based services |
Cisco Spaces Cisco Spaces Smart Operations/ACT |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
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Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
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Success Tracks |
|
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Support Services |
Expert Care |
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Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
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Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
|
Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Asset visibility and control
Apply asset status, condition, and/or location to improve utilization.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Industry 4.0 requires connecting people, processes, and assets
- Increasing factory automation and robotics
- Mass customization requires real-time asset visibility
- Integrated extended supply chains require faster response
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Business needs
- Improve asset utilization
- Improve worker productivity
- Improve plant safety
- Reduce search times for misplaced assets
- Remote asset monitoring
- Increase plant agility
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Capabilities
- Track tools, WIP and personnel status, location, and condition
- Trigger and broadcast notifications and physical alarms based on asset status, location, and condition across an integrated network
- Improve visibility and control of robots and AGVs
- AI-enhanced predictive maintenance, computer vision analysis, and process optimization
- High resolution predictive observability and network/application performance management
- Reliable, extended coverage (indoor and outdoor)
- Predictive and preventive maintenance for equipment
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Business outcomes
- Reduce time to locate assets
- Improved asset utilization and equipment performance (OEE)
- Improved plant-wide productivity and uptime
- Eliminate shrinkage due to lost direct and indirect materials
- Improve worker safety
- Faster time to anticipate and respond to failures, reduced downtime, and improved asset utilization
- Distribution line and workflow automation
- Asset compliance/certification shift or anomaly detection
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Stakeholders
- VP of manufacturing
- Plant management personnel
- Plant maintenance
- Purchasing
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Category | Products |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Cisco Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Cisco Crosswork Network Controller |
|
Switching |
Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Cisco Catalyst Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
|
Data center |
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) Routers Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) B-Series Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) C-Series Cisco 100G/400G coherent pluggable optics |
|
Edge intelligence and compute |
Cisco Catalyst IE3400 Heavy Duty Series Switches Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Routers Cisco IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
|
Wireless |
Cisco Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller Cisco Private 5G Cisco Wireless Gateway for LoRaWAN Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
|
IT operations and full-stack observability |
Cisco AppDynamics Cisco Catalyst Center Cisco IoT Operations Dashboard Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance Cisco ThousandEyes Splunk IT Service Intelligence Splunk Observability Cloud |
|
Log analytics |
Splunk Cloud Splunk Enterprise |
|
Security |
Splunk Security Portfolio |
|
Location-based services |
Cisco Spaces |
|
Collaboration Special offers above |
Webex |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
|
Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
|
Success Tracks |
|
|
Support Services |
Expert Care |
|
Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
|
|
Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
|
Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Remote operations
Gain visibility and insights, stop manual troubleshooting, and reduce time spent on issues with wireless solutions that are highly secure, scalable, easy to manage, and support sustainability.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Wi-Fi technology is now robust enough to handle video and mobility tasks on the factory floor
- Industry 4.0: Large amounts of data drive insights that increase productivity and reduce costs
- Transition from traditional laborers to knowledge workers
- Reduced expertise in workforce
- Develop solutions that can support sustainability goals
- Machine builders are part of that ecosystem of knowledge workers that require access to plant floors
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Business needs
- Issues to be diagnosed and fixed without the need for an on-site worker
- Increase worker productivity and safety
- Increase time on tools
- Location awareness
- Safety and security
- Modernize communications
- Support more sustainable business practices
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Capabilities
- Control and manage qualified employee, third-party, and remote access for repairing, maintaining, and servicing plant equipment over secure LAN/WAN/cloud
- Enable remote experts to collaborate and support on-site operations
- Provide secured access across multiple communication devices and platforms
- Deliver a self-service model to enable access during all planned and unplanned maintenance windows
- AI-enhanced operations, predictive maintenance, computer vision analysis, and process optimization
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Business outcomes
- Increase worker productivity
- Reduce response and repair times
- Improve equipment utilization and reduce operating costs
- Enhance recruiting and development by attracting a digital technology skilled workforce
- Reduce repair-related costs
- Reduced travel can result in lower carbon footprint for travel-related emissions
- Faster time to anticipate and respond to failures; reduced downtime; workforce optimization
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Stakeholders
- Chief operations officer
- Chief sustainability officer
- VP of manufacturing and/or plant management personnel
- VP of operations
- Control engineer
- Vendors
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Category | Products |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Cisco Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN |
|
Switching |
Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Cisco Catalyst Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
|
Edge intelligence and compute |
Cisco Catalyst IE3400 Heavy Duty Series Switches Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Routers Cisco IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
|
Wireless |
Cisco Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
|
IT operations and full-stack observability |
Cisco AppDynamics Cisco Catalyst Center Cisco IoT Operations Dashboard Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance Cisco ThousandEyes Splunk IT Service Intelligence Splunk Observability Cloud |
|
Security Special offers above |
Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Cisco Duo Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Secure Firewall Cisco Umbrella Splunk Security Portfolio |
|
Collaboration Special offers above |
Webex |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
|
Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
|
Success Tracks |
|
|
Support Services |
Expert Care |
|
Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
|
|
Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
|
Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Digital twin
Automate the collection and integration of all available data sources into a digital twin engine for training, analytics, and simulation.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Reliable operations to reduce unplanned downtime
- Efficient operations to lower operating costs by simulating multiple operating scenarios before deployment
- Safe operations to train and entrench safety procedures in hazardous simulation environments
- Optimize operations to drive excellence and create a competitive differentiation
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Business needs
- Increased speed and quality of decision making
- Early identification and mitigation of risk
- Intelligent analysis of information in simulated operating environments
- Further mitigating the risk of changes in simulation environments before implementation
- Growing the culture of safety by simulating hazardous scenarios and training optimal responses
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Capabilities
- Industrial wired and wireless connectivity to plant assets and sensor networks
- Pre-integrated sensors for common use cases: faster first-pass yield; improved maintenance and MTTR; faster and safer employee training and onboarding; and faster NPI
- Cloud-based dashboard for provisioning and asset visibility
- Hybrid cloud infrastructure for network and compute capabilities from the cloud to the edge
- AI-enhanced operations, training, predictive maintenance, computer vision analysis, and process optimization
- Simpler and scalable architecture for data center interconnect
- High-capacity optical interfaces, including 100G/400G
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Business outcomes
- Faster onboarding of new employees
- Faster time to anticipate and respond to failures, reduced downtime, improved operational yields, and workforce optimization
- Improved labor productivity
- Reduced cost of operations
- Improved worker safety
- Enable remote operations
- Enable predictive maintenance
- Faster new product introduction (NPI)
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Stakeholders
- Environmental health and safety team members
- Reliability manager
- Process engineer
- Facility manager
- Project engineer
- Enterprise architect
- Plant manager
- Engineering director
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Category | Products |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Cisco Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cisco Catalyst Industrial Router (IR) Portfolio Cisco Crosswork Network Controller |
|
Switching |
Cisco Catalyst Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
|
Data Center |
FlexPod from Cisco and NetApp Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) Routers Cisco 100G/400G coherent pluggable optics |
|
Edge intelligence and compute |
Cisco Catalyst IE3400 Heavy Duty Series Switches Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Routers Cisco IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
|
Wireless |
Cisco Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points and IoT modules Cisco Industrial Wireless 3702 Access Point Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller Cisco Private 5G Cisco LoRaWAN Pluggable Interface Module Cisco Wireless Gateway for LoRaWAN |
|
SD-WAN |
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN |
|
Industrial asset vision |
Cisco LoRaWAN Pluggable Interface Module Cisco Wireless Gateway for LoRaWAN |
|
IT operations and full-stack observability |
Cisco AppDynamics Cisco ThousandEyes Splunk IT Service Intelligence Splunk Observability Cloud |
|
Location-based services |
Cisco Spaces Cisco Spaces Smart Operations/ACT |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
|
Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
|
Success Tracks |
|
|
Support Services |
Expert Care |
|
Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
|
|
Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
|
Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Plant floor collaboration
Provide reliable voice and video communications to the plant floor from any location at any time.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Enabling workforce productivity with digital capabilities
- Attract next-generation, digitally-capable workers
- Integrated, extended supply chains demand faster response times
- Industry 4.0: large amounts of data drive insights that increase productivity and reduce costs
- Transition to knowledge workers
- Reduced expertise in the workforce
- Ensure continuity of operations
- Develop solutions that can support sustainability goals
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Business needs
- Improve asset utilization
- Improve worker productivity
- Improve plant safety
- Provide a secure environment
- Reduce response and repair times
- Supply chain visibility
- Enhanced communications on the factory floor
- Safety and risk management
- Support more sustainable business practices
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Capabilities
- Support remote maintenance and operations over secure collaboration cloud
- Provide easy, on-demand access to subject-matter experts
- Enable remote workforce training
- Virtual technologies and real-time engagement
- Provide real-time view into factory floor issues
- Secure access for WFH policy
- AI-enhanced remote expert support with automated meeting summaries and action items; language translation, optimized framing, and camera intelligence
- Virtual technologies and real-time engagement
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Business outcomes
- Accelerate new product launch cycles and new product introductions (NPIs) with real-time collaboration
- Improved service restoration times and mean time to repair (MTTR)
- Improved training effectiveness
- Reduce worker idle and travel time
- Improved process efficiency and productivity
- Improved business continuity and incident response during abnormal operating conditions
- Reduced travel can result in lower carbon footprint for travel-related emissions
- Improved remote access security for servicing legacy machines, robots, and work cells
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Stakeholders
- VP of manufacturing
- CIO
- CISO
- Chief sustainability officer
- Plant management personnel
- Control engineer
- Engineering/product development
- Supply chain/procurement
- Human resources
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Category | Products |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Cisco Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN |
|
Switching |
Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Cisco Catalyst IE3x00 Rugged Series Switches |
|
Edge intelligence and compute |
Cisco Catalyst IE3400 Heavy Duty Series Switches Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Routers Cisco IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
|
Wireless |
Cisco Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9120 Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
|
Video |
Meraki MV Smart Cameras |
|
IT operations and full-stack observability |
Cisco AppDynamics Cisco ThousandEyes Splunk IT Service Intelligence Splunk Observability Cloud |
|
Log analytics |
Splunk Cloud Splunk Enterprise |
|
Security Special offers above |
Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Cisco Duo Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Secure Endpoint for iOS Cisco Umbrella Splunk Security Portfolio |
|
Location-based services |
Cisco Spaces |
|
Collaboration Special offers above |
Cisco Unified Communications Manager Webex Webex Expert on Demand |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
|
Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
|
Success Tracks |
|
|
Support Services |
Expert Care |
|
Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
|
|
Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
|
Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Digital workforce
Build a smart workplace environment for optimized communication and collaboration while improving employee productivity, asset utilization, and support sustainability.
Workforce Enablement
See how the mean time to repair (MTTR) is reduced by connecting the digital workforce with improved interactions between plant workers and remote experts.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Modernize the workforce
- Migrate from waterfall to agile operations
- Increase capacity and factory performance
- Decrease factory downtime
- Wireless tooling and AGVs
- Connect factory to enterprise
- Develop solutions that can support sustainability goals
-
Business needs
- Enable worker mobility--data, voice, video, and location
- Improve response through collaboration, dashboards, and automation
- Mobile applications (tablets/phones/RFID)
- Equipment/sensor telematics and real-time decision making
- Improve factory operations/OEE
- Support more sustainable business practices
-
Capabilities
- Connect and extend utilization of legacy equipment
- Increase asset tracking and utilization
- Secure vendor and guest access
- Replace cellular/licensed spectrum with VoIP
- AI-enhanced collaboration and remote expert support with automated meeting summaries and action items; language translation, optimized framing, and camera intelligence
- Provide single-pane views of asset metadata, source types, and behavioral indicators
- Provide prioritized vulnerability scoring and matching from NIST NVD and more
-
Business outcomes
- Improved equipment performance (OEE) and reduced time to resolution (MTTR)
- Improved labor productivity (turns/labor hour)
- Improved asset utilization
- Lower cabling and labor costs
- Increased productivity for specialized resources
- Elimination of paper-based systems at scale can result in lower carbon footprint in relation to the paper-based removals
- Reduce cost to detect, respond to, and fix data breaches
- Improved OT and application vulnerability management (AVM)-defined applications of MITRE/MTTI
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Stakeholders
- VP of manufacturing and/or plant management personnel
- Control engineer
- Chief sustainability officer
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Category | Products |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Cisco Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN |
|
Switching |
Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Cisco Catalyst IE3x00 Rugged Series Switches |
|
Data center |
Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) Routers Cisco 100G/400G coherent pluggable optics Cisco Crosswork Network Controller |
|
Wireless |
Cisco Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller |
|
IT operations and full-stack observability |
Cisco AppDynamics Cisco ThousandEyes Splunk IT Service Intelligence Splunk Observability Cloud |
|
Log analytics |
Splunk Cloud Splunk Enterprise |
|
Security |
Splunk Security Portfolio |
|
Location-based services |
Cisco Spaces |
|
Collaboration Special offers above |
Cisco Unified Communications Manager Webex |
|
Augmented reality |
RealWear |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
|
Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
|
Success Tracks |
|
|
Support Services |
Expert Care |
|
Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
|
|
Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
|
Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right manufacturing solutions for your business size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Industrial security foundation
Build a cybersecurity foundation with a robust industrial infrastructure providing OT visibility, macro/zone segmentation, zone access control, and threat detection and response, all with security intelligence feeding a security operations center (SOC).
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Manufacturing is nearly always in the top five of most-attacked industries
- Protect critical business, customer, and supplier data
- Maintain strong regulatory compliance
- Mitigate risk exposure for shareholders and SCC demands/GDPR
- Increase digitization/IoT initiatives
-
Business needs
- Minimize risk, liability, and downtime of unsecured legacy equipment
- Improve visibility
- Maintain strong regulatory compliance
- Protect critical business, customer, and supplier data
- Protection from intellectual property (IP) theft
-
Capabilities
- Embed security into factory workflows and operations
- Visibility of OT assets with passive and/or active discovery
- Protect legacy non-patchable and new assets
- Create macro-based segmentation protecting zones, lines, equipment, and devices
- Intrusion and malware protection
- Integration to SOC for timely threat investigation and response
- AI-enhanced cybersecurity
- Provide prioritized vulnerability scoring and matching from NIST NVD and more
- Improved OT and application vulnerability management, including defined applications of ICS MITRE ATT&CK
-
Business outcomes
- Limit and contain security incidents within a zone
- Reduce lost production and labor hours
- Minimize property and equipment damages
- Avoid compliance violation penalties
- Improve worker and community safety
- Reduce costs to detect, respond, and fix data breaches
- Predictive and automated threat response to optimize staffing and faster time to respond to incidents
- Provide a unified, real-time view across an organization's IT and OT environments
-
Stakeholders
- Chief security officer
- VP of manufacturing and/or plant management personnel
- Control engineer
- Risk management
- Chief financial officer
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Category | Products |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Cisco Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Cisco Crosswork Network Automation Cisco Crosswork Network Controller |
|
Switching |
Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Cisco Catalyst IE3x00 Rugged Series Switches |
|
Data center |
Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) Routers Cisco 100G/400G coherent pluggable optics |
|
Wireless |
Cisco Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio Cisco Private 5G |
|
IT operations and full-stack observability |
Cisco AppDynamics Cisco ThousandEyes Splunk IT Service Intelligence Splunk Observability Cloud |
|
Log analytics |
Splunk Cloud Splunk Enterprise |
|
Remote access |
Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Cisco Duo Cisco Secure Endpoint |
|
Security operations center (SOC) |
Cisco Cyber Vision Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Cisco Security Cloud Splunk Security Portfolio |
|
Industrial demilitarized zone (IDMZ) |
Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Cisco Secure Firewall |
|
Industrial zone |
Cisco Cyber Vision Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (local if not in SOC) |
|
Cell/area zone |
Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks Cisco IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway with Cyber Vision sensor Cisco Secure Firewall ISA3000 |
Special offers above
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
|
Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
|
Success Tracks |
|
|
Support Services |
Expert Care |
|
Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
|
|
Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
|
Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Learn about right-sized solutions
Talk to a Cisco technology specialist to learn about the right manufacturing solutions for your business size. (When filling out the linked form, please identify your industry in the comments.)
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Industrial security full spectrum
Extend foundational cybersecurity to provide greater granularity of policy enforcement and access control with software-defined microsegmentation for the industrial environment and increased cybersecurity visibility, threat detection, awareness, and response.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Manufacturing is nearly always in the top five of most-attacked industries
- Protect critical business, customer, and supplier data
- Maintain strong regulatory compliance
- Mitigate risk exposure for shareholders and SCC demands/GDPR
- Increase digitization/IoT initiatives
-
Business needs
- Minimize risk, liability, and downtime of unsecured new and legacy equipment
- Improve visibility
- Maintain strong regulatory compliance
- Protect critical business, customer, and supplier data
- Manage individual access to shop floor assets
- Protection from intellectual property (IP) theft
-
Capabilities
- Embed security into factory workflows and operations
- Protect legacy non-patchable and new assets
- Visibility of OT assets with passive and/or active discovery
- Create macro or microsegmentation with software-defined policy to protect equipment, networks, and devices at the edge
- Integration to SOC for timely threat investigation and response
- Provide secure remote access for servicing legacy machines, robots, and work cells
- AI enhanced cybersecurity
- A single platform for threat detection, investigation, and response across IT and OT environments
- Improved OT and application vulnerability management, including defined applications of ICS MITRE ATT&CK
-
Business outcomes
- Limit and contain security incidents with granular policy control
- Reduce lost production and labor hours resulting from malicious individual attacks
- Minimize property and equipment damages
- Avoid compliance violation penalties
- Improve worker and community safety
- Reduce costs to detect, respond, and fix data breaches
- Predictive and automated threat response to optimize staffing and faster time to respond to incidents
- Provide a unified, real-time view across an organization's IT and OT environments
-
Stakeholders
- Chief security officer
- VP of manufacturing and/or plant management personnel
- Control engineer
- Risk management
- Chief financial officer
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Category | Products |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Cisco Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN |
|
Switching |
Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Cisco Catalyst IE3x00 Rugged Series Switches |
|
Wireless |
Cisco Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
|
IT operations and full-stack observability |
Cisco AppDynamics Cisco ThousandEyes Splunk IT Service Intelligence Splunk Observability Cloud |
|
Log analytics |
Splunk Cloud Splunk Enterprise |
|
Remote access |
Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Cisco Cisco Duo Cisco Secure Endpoint |
|
Security operations center (SOC) |
Cisco Cyber Vision Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Cisco Security Cloud Cisco Umbrella Splunk Security Portfolio |
|
Industrial demilitarized zone (IDMZ) |
Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Cisco Secure Firewall |
|
Industrial zone |
Cisco Cyber Vision Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Secure Network Analytics |
|
Cell/area zone |
Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks Cisco Catalyst IE3400 Rugged Series Switch with Cyber Vision sensor Cisco IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway with Cyber Vision sensor Cisco Secure Firewall ISA3000 |
Special offers above
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
|
Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
|
Success Tracks |
|
|
Support Services |
Expert Care |
|
Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
|
|
Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
|
Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Health, safety, and environment (HSE)
Monitor and enhance overall manufacturing operations for unsafe working conditions and practices. This is informed by employee location and environmental conditions, enabling real-time operational insights and essential collaboration, and supporting sustainability.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Automated manual processes, e.g., permit to work process
- Safety of employees, community, and environment
- Claims for worker's compensation are increasing in value and frequency
- Increased process and people safety
- Increasing regulatory requirements and compliance reporting
- Minimize or eliminate downtime due to accidents
- Develop solutions that can support sustainability goals
-
Business needs
- Viewing and recording activity in and around facilities
- Collecting information about where staff members are and what they are doing in and near facilities
- Understanding all visitor and supplier activity in and near facilities
- People, vehicle, and asset tracking
- Employee health and safety
- Workforce optimization by eliminating redundancy in staff assignments
- Support more sustainable business practices
-
Capabilities
- Understanding presence, proximity, and location of assets, staff, suppliers, and visitors to facilities by leveraging video and wireless analytics
- Providing a safe and compliant environment for staff, visitors, and suppliers
- Monitoring for safe, in-policy usage of equipment and facilities
- Indicators for presence in risky environments
- Monitoring environmental conditions
- AI-enhanced workplace monitoring for improved safety and workflow
- AI-powered anomaly detection
- Edge AI to identify intruders, dangerous objects, or damaged systems
-
Business outcomes
- Compliance with regulations and corporate policies
- Reduced costs associated with legal issues and worker's compensation
- Reduced operational costs
- Improvements in contact tracing, provisioning, and clearance time
- Improved visibility into real-time risk detection and personnel location
- Increased health and safety of employees
- Monitoring can help reduce environmental impacts and improve ecosystem protection
- Safer workplace and faster resolution of intrusion and vandalism incidents
-
Stakeholders
- HSE manager
- Facility manager
- Factory manager
- VP of supply chain
- Chief risk officer
- Chief security officer
- Chief sustainability officer
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Category | Products |
|---|---|
|
Switching |
Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Cisco Catalyst Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
|
Data center |
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix |
|
Wireless |
Cisco Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Cisco Private 5G Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
|
Video |
Meraki MV Smart Cameras |
|
Security Special offers above |
Cisco Duo Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Secure Endpoint for iOS |
|
Location-based services |
Cisco Spaces |
|
Collaboration Special offers above |
Webex |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
|
Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
|
Success Tracks |
|
|
Support Services |
Expert Care |
|
Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
|
|
Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
|
Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Electric vehicle charging
- Overview
- Business overview
- Products and services
- __________
Securely connect and scale electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure to enable uptime, station maintenance, and improve driver experience.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Growth in electrification and EV adoption
- Increase in government funding support for EV infrastructure
- Increased need for EV charging infrastructure at scale
- Need for efficient management of EV charging station network
- Growing safety and security concerns
- Growing cybersecurity threats
- Develop solutions that can support sustainability goals
-
Business needs
- Connected and reliable EV charging stations
- Secure aggregation, sharing, and management of data
- Elimination of duplicate network infrastructure/extended enterprise
- Safe environment for customers
- Monitor and manage load balancing among charging stations
- Support more sustainable business practices
-
Capabilities
- Extract, transform, and share vehicle and charging session data with AI-enabled visibility into charging station status
- Video streaming and analytics of activity in and around the parking lot
- Efficiently control, govern, and secure data
- Monitor charging equipment with network-connected sensors
- Network and application uptime and performance monitoring
- Support vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies
- Secure equipment access
- AI for load disaggregation and EV load balancing
- Real-time analytics across charging stations and equipment
-
Business outcomes
- Improve charging station uptime, availability, reliability, and throughput
- New revenue streams
- Improve driver experience
- Meet public demand for large-scale charging infrastructure
- Support more sustainable EV infrastructure at scale
- Provide actionable insights into energy usage
- Predict excess load due to EV adoption vs. what can be generated and transmitted
- Decrease transaction fraud/theft/disruption/outages
- Improve customer usage preferences and brand affinity
-
Stakeholders
- CIO/CTO/CSO
- Chief sustainability officer
- Government leaders of mobility, sustainability, and transportation
- EV charging station manufacturers and network operators
- Automotive OEMs
- Charging point operators
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Category | Products |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Cisco Catalyst Industrial Router (IR) Portfolio Cisco Crosswork Network Automation Cisco Crosswork Network Controller |
|
Switching |
Cisco Catalyst Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
|
Data center |
Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) Routers Cisco 100G/400G coherent pluggable optics |
|
Wireless |
Cisco Catalyst Industrial Wireless (IW) Portfolio Cisco Private 5G |
|
Wireless backhaul |
Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (Cisco URWB) Cisco Private 5G |
|
Cameras |
Meraki MV Smart Cameras |
|
Sensors |
Cisco Industrial Asset Vision |
|
SD-WAN |
Secure SD-WAN |
|
Management |
Cisco Catalyst Center Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Cisco IoT Operations Dashboard Meraki Systems Manager |
|
IT operations and full-stack observability |
Cisco AppDynamics Cisco ThousandEyes Splunk IT Service Intelligence Splunk Observability Cloud |
|
Log analytics |
Splunk Cloud Splunk Enterprise |
|
Security Special offers above |
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Cisco Secure Network Analytics Cisco Umbrella Splunk Security Portfolio |
|
Location-based services |
Cisco Spaces |
|
Collaboration |
Webex Expert on Demand Augmentir |
Cisco Services
| Category | Services |
|---|---|
|
Core Services |
Cisco Lifecycle Services |
|
Success Tracks |
|
|
Support Services |
Expert Care |
|
Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
|
|
Solution Support (hardware, software) |
|
|
Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
|
Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
|
|
Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Smart and sustainable facilities
Build an intelligent plant to better manage energy, waste, and materials to achieve emissions and recycling objectives for a sustainable business while balancing social responsibility and regulatory compliance.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Stakeholders’ sustainability and energy efficiency goals
- High/variable energy costs
- Public funding supporting sustainability
- Data complexity and interoperability across siloed systems
- Product takeback, reuse, and recycling
- Develop solutions that can support sustainability goals
- Efficient design cycles
-
Business needs
- Reduce the cost of energy consumption
- Reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
- Waste reduction
- Support energy monitoring with sensors and data collection systems
- Granular, real-time, vendor-agnostic, and unified data insights on energy and CO2e for optimization and reporting purposes (mandatory energy management systems in the EU)
- Inventory monitoring for consumables, packaging, and inventory scrap
- Support evolution to regenerative, circular models
- Co-design and remote design collaboration
- Smart and more sustainable buildings, factories, and data centers
-
Capabilities
- Connect and extend utilization of legacy equipment
- Increase asset tracking and utilization
- Centralized and automated environmental controls (using AI, software applications, and a single pane of glass)
- Monitor water, temperatures, and opened/closed doors for IT closets and carpeted locations (not replacing existing environment sensors)
- Smart buildings and renewable energy generation
- Electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure
- Energy management with AI-driven, granular data insights to optimize energy efficiency, energy cost, and CO2e at scale
-
Business outcomes
- Overall reduction in resource utilization
- Improved asset utilization
- Lower energy costs
- Compliance with global, national, and local regulations
- Support sustainability goals related to energy consumption, water usage, and waste
- Balance energy needs by integrating on-site renewable energy
-
Stakeholders
- Chief sustainability officer
- VP of manufacturing and/or plant management personnel
- VP of supply chain
- Safety and regulatory manager
Products and services
Free trials and special offers
Use case architecture
Cisco products
| Category | Products |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Cisco 8000 Series Routers Cisco Crosswork Network Automation Cisco Crosswork Network Controller Secure SD-WAN |
|
Switching |
Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Cisco Catalyst Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
|
Data center |
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) Routers Cisco 100G/400G coherent pluggable optics |
|
Edge intelligence and compute |
Cisco Catalyst IE3400 Heavy Duty Series Switches Cisco Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Routers Cisco Catalyst Industrial Router (IR) Portfolio Cisco IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
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Wireless |
Cisco Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controller Cisco Private 5G Meraki MR Access Points Portfolio |
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Industrial asset vision |
Cisco Industrial Asset Vision Cisco Wireless Gateway for LoRaWAN |
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Gateway and application management |
Cisco IoT Field Network Director Cisco IoT Operations Dashboard |
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IT operations and full-stack observability |
Cisco AppDynamics Cisco ThousandEyes Splunk IT Service Intelligence Splunk Observability Cloud |
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Log analytics |
Splunk Cloud Splunk Enterprise |
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Security Special offers above |
Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks Cisco Duo Cisco Cyber Vision Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Secure Firewall Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Manager Cisco Secure Firewall ISA3000 Cisco Secure Network Analytics Splunk Security Portfolio |
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Location-based services |
Cisco Spaces |
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Collaboration Special offers above |
Webex |
Cisco Services
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Cisco Lifecycle Services |
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Success Tracks |
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Support Services |
Expert Care |
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Software Support Services (Enhanced, Premium) |
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Solution Support (hardware, software) |
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Advanced Services |
Advanced Services Transactional |
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Insights for Internet and Cloud Visibility Solution Attached Services |
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Training |
Learning and Certifications |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
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