Telstra has renewed for a further five years its agreement with Cisco to use the Cisco IoT Control Center. It underpins the Telstra Control Center powered by Cisco, which enables organisations to manage multiple SIMs, globally, across multiple cellular networks.
The service was originally the Jasper Control Center and Telstra has been using it since 2010. Cisco acquired Jasper Wireless in 2016 and renamed the product the Cisco Jasper Control Center saying it would bring to market “a comprehensive IoT service platform to enable service providers, enterprises and ecosystem partners to rapidly build IoT service businesses such as usage-based insurance for connected cars, predictive maintenance for industrial manufacturing, and asset tracking for commercial fleet management.”
It has since been renamed the Cisco IoT Control Center, and Cisco says it is used in more than 50 service provider networks and 30,000 enterprises and supports more than 185 million connected devices. It was upgraded in 2020 with machine learning capabilities to enable users to offer their customers better management, billing and security of cellular IoT environments.
According to Cisco, Telstra provides the service to thousands of customers including Australia’s major financial institutions, retailers and government.
Telstra’s group owner of industry solutions and IoT, Mark Chapman said the service would help customers automate and manage large-scale IoT deployments easily and cost-effectively. “This means customers can be faster to market, lower costs, increase reliability and take actions through the platform’s insights.”
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