IBM and Cisco have announced a pilot smart grid project for 500 households in Amsterdam to increase energy efficiency. The program is part of the Amsterdam Smart City initiative which endeavors to make Amsterdam a more sustainable city.  Cisco will provide IP-based management solutions enabling real-time, secure monitoring of appliances and energy systems while IBM will provide software and web-based technology.
Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) has closed its proposed $28 billion acquisition of San Francisco-based software company Splunk as part of a push to expand its networking capabilities and security and observability platforms designed to help organizations drive digital resilience while advancing the adoption of artificial intelligence. The transaction is expected to bring together partner and developer
EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS) subsidiary Hughes Network Systems will continue to deploy Open Radio Access Network-based private 5G networks at military installations in Hawaii and Washington State through 2025 under a contract extension awarded by the Department of Defense. The contract extension awarded by DOD’s Office of the Undersecretary for Research and Engineering covers the installation
Tony Frazier, former executive vice president and general manager of public sector earth intelligence at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR), has been named CEO of LeoLabs, a space visualization company that tracks objects in low Earth orbit. He will succeed LeoLabs co-founder Dan Ceperley, who will assume the chief operations officer post responsible and lead the