Cisco, PLDT Enterprise to accelerate industry transformation
CISCO signed a new memorandum of understanding with PLDT Enterprise, the corporate arm of the Philippines’ leading integrated telecommunications network, PLDT Inc., with the aim to collaborate on Private 5G adoption across the manufacturing, financial services, port operations and logistics, health care, retail, and smart cities sectors.
PLDT Enterprise and Cisco plan to cooperate and bring to market the technology and managed services that will enable enterprise customers to deploy Private 5G successfully and achieve better business outcomes.
The companies plan to accelerate edge connectivity through PLDT Enterprise’s Managed Private 5G solution, so that their business partners will be able to seamlessly integrate Private 5G into their pre-existing LAN, WAN, and Cloud infrastructure. This enables enterprises to leverage their existing infrastructure for security, policy and device management to take advantage of the benefits of 5G.
Together, the companies can rapidly enable critical Industry 4.0 capabilities such as push-totalk, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), always connected PCs (for digital frontline workers), machine vision (e.g., predictive maintenance, PPE detection) and more.
Cisco and PLDT Enterprise intend to collaborate on specific customer use cases to support businesses in their digital transformation.
The companies plan to focus on empowering computer vision for precise product quality analysis, enhancing predictive analytics for optimizing manufacturing equipment functionality and maintenance schedules, and advancing the integration of autonomous vehicles for streamlined product movement on factory floors.