Cisco is gearing up to invest aggressively in smart grid technology, which it sees as the successor in opportunity and scope to the internet, the networking company's chief executive John Chambers ...

For more than a year information technology giants have been talking up their readiness to power the much hyped "smart grid," a digitally enabled upgrade to electric utilities that promises to make ...

Cisco, whose hardware is at the core of the Internet, is readying communications gear for utilities, businesses, and consumers to modernize the electricity grid.

Cisco and Itron said that they will respect current grid investments, but plan to look for ways to build out for the future and roll out smart grid technology over time.

For Cisco, the Energy Wise strategy offers another foot in the door of the smart grid, the much-lauded next generation of the power system, which will be designed to change electric demand in ...

Computer networking powerhouse Cisco on Thursday announced it intends to buy smart grid specialty firm Arch Rock. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. "Arch Rock's wireless mesh technology ...

Cisco has lined up another partner for its IP-based smart grid buildout initiative. Landis+Gyr, a Swiss developer of metering infrastructure and applications, will work with Cisco to deliver combined ...

But Cisco’s clearly still committed to the energy business and, if it helps establish a standards-based system, we may start to see the benefits of the long-promised smart grid.

Cisco hopes to do more than simply secure a large part of the smart grid market for itself; it's also hoping that its technology helps prevent the kind of cyber-security breaches that could threaten ...

Specifically, Cisco and Itron will come up with a reference design, based on IPv6 technology, for standards-based smart grid technology.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the nation’s largest municipal utility, has selected Itron and Cisco technologies for its smart grid demonstration project. The Los Angeles Department of ...

Cisco this morning announced its intent to acquire privately-held Arch Rock, which specializes in IP-based wireless sensor network technology with a focus on energy and environmental monitoring ...