Yep, Cisco in usual form with their version of embrace, extend, extinguish.
Cisco looks to LoRaWAN for IoT device connectivity
Cisco has anointed another industry alliance into its Internet of Things embrace, with LoRaWAN The company's added a LoRaWAN-capable gateway to its sprawling product set, a decision that its global marketing and corp comms veep Doug Webster explains lets service providers create networks of low-powered sensors – “devices and …
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Thursday 17th November 2016 21:22 GMT Anonymous Coward
LoRaWAN in the cloud can we trust it?
So all these folk want in on IoT.
They try and sell systems based in the cloud.
We cannot turn our lights on if the DNS goes down.
Here in Scotland, we are used to clouds. Local clouds give us protection from INTERNET DDOS DNS issues. We don't want krap systems here. Stop trying to sell krap on top of more krap.
Stream Technologies also tried this sales in Inverness LoRaWAN presentation 2016. Shame on Inverness UNI letting sales people educate folk, stop it, fools. They say their DNS is SECURE even when America goes down. And its £2 per week rental also on a FREE to use ISM band width.
CENSIS is just as bad they show a lamp post with WiFi & Video, thats not IoT fools.
LoRaWAN can only have devices sending every 100 seconds up to 255 bytes, how can you support WiFi & VIDEO, IDIOTS
But then these guys are government backed, NEVER TRUST THESE GUYS, they are all fools.
Beware of AI & machine learning also, these guys sell RUBBISH also.
SNAKE OIL SALES.