Cisco Extended Enterprise

Modernize and secure your industrial operations through IT

Enhance productivity and efficiency by using IT networking proficiencies in OT. Bolster security, streamline management, advance industrial AI, and nurture the IT-OT partnership.

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Unite IT with OT to meet the unique needs of industry


Extend Your Enterprise Network

IT and OT networks built with compatible equipment, secured and managed with common tools, enables you to seamlessly incorporate new technologies and evolve your operations.

Standardize to boost efficiency

Bring IT and OT together with shared frameworks, capabilities, and policies. You can improve efficiency, streamline operations, and cut maintenance costs.

Build a more adaptive network

Respond faster to business needs with automated onboarding and rapid reconfigurations. Prevent performance bottlenecks while saving time and reducing errors.

Unite, streamline, and protect

Bring advanced security to industrial operations with a comprehensive view of IT and OT security data to detect threats faster, drive security best practices in OT, and better protect your entire company.

Prepare for a future with AI

Improve operations with a deterministic, resilient, and low-latency secure network as you lay the foundation for data-driven decision making, more software control, and industrial AI.

Discover products and solutions for your extended enterprise

Industrial Ethernet switches

Strengthen IT-OT partnership by bringing IT best practices to OT for smooth communication and collaboration and better operational efficiency.

Industrial routers

Make enterprise connectivity for industrial sites easier and more secure with robust security features and shared management.

Industrial wireless

Support both IT and OT with a unified wireless infrastructure by aligning the needs of business systems with production technologies.

Software-defined networking (SDN)

Gain holistic control across your domains by applying shared security and management policies to IT and OT networks.

Cisco Software-Defined Access

Grow your IT-OT partnership through a unified approach to networking, visibility, and security.

Cisco Industrial Threat Defense

Extend your IT security tools to OT to realize cybersecurity best practices, promote regulatory compliance, and better defend against cyberthreats.

Cisco Secure Firewall

Protect your company with clear IT-OT boundaries. Detect encrypted and zero-day threats. Enforce consistent security policies between IT and OT.

Cisco Cyber Vision

Gain visibility into your OT assets, their vulnerabilities and behaviors to understand your security posture. Share context with your IT tools.

Cisco Secure Equipment Access

Secure remote access to your OT assets with a zero-trust solution that is simple to deploy at scale and is built for the needs of your operations team.

Cisco Identity Services Engine

Enforce zero-trust security across IT and OT environments with access control policies to protect field network equipment and help to contain threats.

Splunk

Get a unified view of IT and OT data to correlate events, detect advanced threats, and orchestrate responses across your security stack.

Cisco Catalyst Center

Simplify network management, preserve performance, and stay compliant across IT and OT with one dashboard.

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN

Connect and secure distributed field assets with ease using a single console to manage routers, unify security policies, and integrate your OT with your SASE infrastructure.

Cisco Meraki dashboard

Track IT and OT networks, get insights, visualize traffic, and solve issues with a single platform for your Cisco Catalyst devices.

Improve warehouse management

Increase throughput, optimize space, and prevent thefts with devices connected and secured by a rugged network managed by trusted IT tools.

Increase profitability

Improve safety, revenue, and user experiences with devices and systems powered by a rugged network managed by familiar IT tools.

Make travel smoother at airports

Boost passenger safety and satisfaction with a secure, IT-managed network for cameras, conveyors, and other essential airport equipment.

Make manufacturing smart and secure

Drive manufacturing innovation, secure operations, and adapt to change with an automated network managed and secured by proven IT tools.

Build a modern, smart power grid

Power a sustainable future with a secure and reliable grid. Unify your power sources and secure critical resources with an easily managed network.

Connect and protect roadways

Improve traffic management and secure critical infrastructure effectively with a scalable, flexible network that's managed by familiar IT tools.

Move more through ports and yards

Increase efficiency and enable autonomous operations by securely connecting your port assets and terminal operating system through a managed network.

Enhance train, trackside, and station operations

Securely scale your connected rail infrastructure to improve operations efficiency and offer innovative passenger services on board and in stations.

Enhance mining safety and efficiency

Improve environment monitoring and worker tracking, automate processes, and optimize resources with a robust network managed with IT proficiencies.


Start your journey here

Modernize your OT network

Unlock the value of IT-OT partnership for faster innovation.

Future-ready OT security with IT-OT partnership

Safeguard your operations today and prepare for the future with a shared IT-OT security strategy.

Jump-start your projects with proven architectures

Cut down on deployment risk while you shorten your time to value with our validated design guides.

More resources to help you on your way

Extend enterprise networking to your industrial space with Cisco solutions and discover the benefits.

The Business Case for IT/OT Collaboration

This business case explores key drivers of OT modernization, including standardization, cybersecurity, network automation, and AI readiness. Learn how leaders extend IT proficiencies to OT, through a simple IT/OT collaboration framework, to make real-world gains in operational and financial efficiencies.

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Bridge the gap between IT and OT and transform your operations.

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