Cisco and Itron said that they will respect current grid investments, but plan to look for ways to build out for the future and roll out smart grid technology over time.

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 Cisco, the Energy Wise strategy offers another foot in the door of the smart grid, the much-lauded next generation of the power system, which will be designed to change electric demand in ...

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 ...

Cisco is continuing its interest in smart-grid infrastructure and management with an equity investment in GridNet, the smart grid start-up announced Thursday. The sum of Cisco's investment in ...

Anyone wondering when and where Cisco Systems Inc. was going to make its big push into the smart grid can stop wondering – it's now, and it's going to be everywhere. Well, not quite everywhere ...

Cisco goes after smart grid marketCisco says the members of the ecosystem include system integrators, technology vendors, power and utility integrators, service providers, and services and sales ...

Last year, Cisco created a business unit to pursue opportunities in smart grids. Arch Rock will be folded into that unit although its technology has applications beyond smart grids. Earlier this year ...

Networking giant Cisco and energy management solutions maker Itron announced a jointly developed smart grid architecture that fuses together technologies from both companies. The solution is ...

But Cisco’s clearly still committed to the energy business and, if it helps establish a standards-based system, we may start to see the benefits of the long-promised smart grid.

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 ...