7 Layers: Cisco on 5G’s Pivotal Role in the Future of Transportation

On this week’s episode of 7 Layers, SDxCentral reporter Tommy Clift sat down with Matt Price, Cisco Vice President of IoT Engineering and Operations to discuss the transforming connectivity demands of future transportations systems, and how 5G and multi-access technologies are playing a pivotal role in its progress. Because transportation ecosystems must chiefly prioritize safety, having ubiquitous and extremely reliable connectivity is mission-critical, Price explained. 5G provides improved security to aid car manufacturers and fleet managers to meet the connected vehicle application requirements, and control data transport costs. The discussion echoes Cisco’s bullish behavior with its 5G plans. The vendor discussed its pivot towards private 5G at the MWC Las Vegas event in September – which first gained significant momentum earlier in the year when it launched its private 5G platform at the MWC Barcelona event. Michael Beesley, CTO for service provider networking at Cisco, explained during an interview that the vendor has seen the market slowly evolve over the past several months, and Cisco’s embedded position in a lot of enterprises sets it up to take advantage of this evolution. “It’s an area that we think is a nice intersection of both our abilities and where we see the market need and customer need,” Beesley said. “Certainly, as we engage with enterprises, both the IT and the OT sides, the fact that Cisco’s already a significant partner, we already have significant technological portfolios in these accounts, both direct and through partners, the ability to offer and service a private 5G offering that is fully integrated with the enterprise systems, fully integrated with WiFi policy, visibility, security, we think that’s a key attribute that we bring to the table,” he explained. Stream now to hear the full 7 Layers interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices