Cisco partners with Kepware Technologies to deliver network device monitoring and management to automation software vendors

Kepware Technologies, the leader in Communications for Automation, announced today that Cisco has joined the "Connected with Kepware" program to deliver OPC based network monitoring and management drivers for use with their products.

As a "Connected with Kepware" partner, Cisco and Kepware will collaborate to ensure the Kepware's iSNMPnetwork monitoring and management solution will deliver full support for Cisco networking products. In addition, Kepware will deliver proven Cisco device connectivity to its broad range of OEMs. The Kepware OPC Server solution will be maintained to the latest OPC standards, including OPC-UA, to ensure interoperability with as many client applications as possible. The OPC Server offering will maintain an OPC Foundation "Certified" status.
 

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"Kepware is the market leader in industrial SNMP OPC Serverconnectivity," states Roy Kok, VP of Marketing and Sales of Kepware Technologies. "Our success in OEM relationships combined with our channel and end user sales will ensure Cisco has a solution delivering the broadest automation connectivity for their industrial networking solutions. This partnership will ensure Cisco customers have OPC standards compliant solutions, proven with the industry's leading software applications, now and into the future."

"Kepware offers a very unique solution in terms of product and market delivery." explains Dan Knight, Manufacturing Solutions Manager, Cisco. "Kepware is a great partner and our joint efforts will ensure our customers can monitor and manage our networking products with most leading HMI/SCADA, Historian or Enterprise Dashboard products on the market. We are very excited about this partnership and its benefits to our joint customers."

"Manufacturers operate in an environment that requires a pervasive exchange of information across all domains of the manufacturing enterprise," said Craig Resnick, research director, ARC Advisory Group. "As manufacturers move into a global business climate that demands the integration of manufacturing operations and business systems, collaboration must move beyond hype to become a commonplace reality. Kepware and Cisco will provide manufacturers with the guidance and solutions needed to facilitate reliable automation network infrastructures.

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