Cisco is quitting the LoRaWAN market, with gross sales of recent LoRaWAN gateway merchandise stopping on January 1 subsequent yr (2025) and repair and help for all merchandise and components ending fully on December 31 2029, with a phased withdrawal for sundry components and repair between occasions. It isn’t providing an onwards migration path for purchasers.
In whole, Cisco is retiring 47 merchandise or components, together with gateways, sensors, antennas, administration software program, energy injectors, energy protectors, and cable assemblies. It stated in a press release: “There is no such thing as a substitute obtainable for the Cisco LoRaWAN right now. Cisco will probably be exiting the LoRaWAN area. There is no such thing as a deliberate migration for Cisco LoRaWAN gateways.”
The LoRa Alliance famous the vary of other suppliers to clients, and urged affected clients to hunt them out on the group’s market. Cisco, a mainstay of the LoRaWAN ecosystem because the begin, and a key contributing member to the LoRa Alliance, steered attainable trade-ins of previous LoRaWAN merchandise for credit score in the direction of purchases of recent tools.
It additionally hinted at attainable availability of previous merchandise through its refurbished tools scheme. However its help will finish for software program upkeep on January 1 2026, and for each safety and working methods on December 31 2026. {Hardware} help stops on the finish of the last decade. Cisco was unavailable for additional remark.
However the LoRa Alliance – which retains AWS, Microsoft, and LoRa proprietor Semtech amongst its ‘big-tech’ members – shrugged off the blow, pointing to a “thriving” and “increasing” marketplace for LoRaWAN-based IoT options, signposted by current analyst reviews. “Affected clients [should] go to the LoRaWAN Market to analyze and join with different suppliers,” it stated
Alper Yegin, interim chief government and chair on the alliance, stated: “We will confidently say that the LoRaWAN ecosystem continues to see substantial international progress and innovation throughout a number of industries… The market… is just not solely thriving however increasing, with new use circumstances rising day by day to satisfy the evolving wants of companies and communities worldwide.
“The alliance has tons of of members globally. As a result of LoRaWAN is an open commonplace, [it] is just not reliant on any single vendor and clients can proceed to make use of LoRaWAN through new suppliers. Clients have a major selection of distributors throughout the availability chain with a number of gateways utilizing LoRaWAN extensively obtainable.”
