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

As the hype around a "smarter" power grid has heated up, tech giants like Google and Microsoft are vying to create the universal remote for your home's energy use: Both have released software that ...

Cisco this week expanded its smart grid portfolio for utilities with a reference architecture, products and services intended to modernize the electric grid. Cisco unveiled the GridBlocks Architecture ...

Utilities, consumers, and businesses take note: Cisco has its laser sights on the smart grid, and it's coming to a display panel near you. For the home, the company introduced a new controller and ...

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 ...

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 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 has ...

Cisco, which competes with the likes of Juniper in the router and switch market, has traditionally used acquisitions as one element to fuel growth. However, growing investments in smart grid indicate ...

Specifically, Cisco and Itron will come up with a reference design, based on IPv6 technology, for standards-based smart grid technology. Their relationship won't be exclusive; Cisco expects to sell ...

Is the “smart grid” that everyone’s so excited about really just a communications network by another name? According to network giant Cisco, the answer is basically yes. Making the grid “smart,” for ...

When Cisco announced four months ago that it was getting into smart grid, it was more of a “we’re here, we’re Cisco, get used to it,” sort of announcement. This morning, the company shared the nuts ...

Cisco is lining up partners in its smart grid initiative, an effort to upgrade utility information infrastructures with Cisco routers and switches. Cisco is creating the Cisco Smart Grid Ecosystem to ...