A day after IBM rolled out its SAFE smart grid platform for power companies and software vendors, Cisco announced its Smart Grid Ecosystem, designed to bring together such players and service providers, energy companies and IT vendors for building a standards- and IP-based communications infrastructure for smart grids. Cisco also created a technical advisory board of power companies to help Cisco align its efforts with the customers needs.
– Cisco Systems and IBM continue to pull in partners and roll out products and services tied to their smart grid efforts.
A day after IBM introduced a platform designed
to make it easier for utilities to become more efficient and software
makers to build their offerings, Cisco Sept. 17 is announcin…