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 ...

For more than a year information technology giants have been talking up their readiness to power the much hyped "smart grid," a digitally enabled upgrade to electric utilities that promises to ...

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.

Cisco, whose hardware is at the core of the Internet, is readying communications gear for utilities, businesses, and consumers to modernize the electricity grid.

Cisco Systems (CSCO) is expanding its foray into smart-grid technology, which helps utilities and consumers manage their electricity supply and consumption by providing realtime information about ...

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.

Cisco Offers Up Its First Smart Grid Products It makes sense that Cisco wants to break into the smart grid industry–it requires much of the same technology as the computer networking industry.