Featured Partner: Cisco
Making the internet work is definitely a priceless challenge, and that’s what our partner, Cisco, has been doing since 1984. For this reason, and many others, we proudly announce Cisco, the worldwide technology leader that has shaped how we see the internet today.
Cisco has also had a huge impact on many of the most relevant IT transitions — such as VoIP, video, unified computing, Cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT) — creating unprecedented value and opportunity for their customers, employees, investors and ecosystem partners. They have seriously become the worldwide leader in networking — transforming how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Their team, products, and partners help society securely connect and seize tomorrow’s digital opportunity today.
WHY THEY’RE JOINING PIXELS CAMP
Digital transformation is here. With less than 1 percent of things in the physical world connected to the Internet, there is an incredible opportunity to connect the unconnected, creating vast opportunities for the IoT to transform businesses and industries by re-inventing business processes, operational efficiencies and customer service innovations.
No company can do it alone. And Cisco is aiming to grow an ecosystem of digital transformation solutions and partners, but this depends on everyone’s participation. They aim to be at the forefront of innovation and so, it’s part of their goal to discover the next generation of startups and provide them with the best possible tools, as well as help them face the challenges ahead.
They’ve been searching the world over for the most disruptive technologies, solutions, services or business models that harness the power of Cisco’s digital platform. Cisco wants to co-innovate the next tectonic idea to digitalise industry and government around the IoT — the technologies that connect people, process, data and things.
Following this commitment to innovation, in 2014 Cisco launched an initiative called DevNet (http://developers.cisco.com) to make a shift to this new world. This also helped step closer to a software and services company, allowing Cisco to have the ability to scale and help create the value that our customers consume.
Altogether, the DevNet portal provides more than 100 APIs in areas like collaboration, security, and Mobility. The portal also provides SDKs, code samples, and a developer sandbox. The site has been redesigned to make it easier for developers to find APIs and, today, this community has more than 370,000 members
At Pixels Camp, Cisco will be having 2 interesting talks:
- Tropo: An interactive Voice & Chat for the Pixel Camp event — with Steve Svartz (bio info) and Austin Hyland
- Open DNS: Who Says That a Crystal Ball Is The Only Way To Predict Cyber-Attacks? — with Sérgio Silva
They will also be hosting the Cisco APIs challenge! All you have to do is integrate Cisco APIs in your hack and win Wifi Access Points:
- Tropo for phone communications (Voice & SMS)
- Meraki for Wifi integration (presence, location, landing page).
They’ll give away one Meraki Access Points for each of the best prototypes built with the Meraki technology. The Meraki technology lets you build outstanding applications by interacting with the Wifi Network. You can use it in the following examples:
- Detect presence from Mobile phones that have Wifi or Bluetooth activated,
- Customize the landing page as users join your Wifi Network
- Geo-locate your users via Wifi triangulation
See you at Pixels Camp this week!
