Cisco is quitting the LoRaWAN market, with gross sales of latest LoRaWAN gateway merchandise stopping on January 1 subsequent 12 months (2025) and repair and help for all merchandise and elements ending fully on December 31 2029, with a phased withdrawal for sundry elements and repair between occasions. It isn’t providing an onwards migration path for purchasers.
In complete, Cisco is retiring 47 merchandise or elements, together with gateways, sensors, antennas, administration software program, energy injectors, energy protectors, and cable assemblies. It mentioned in a press release: “There isn’t any alternative out there for the Cisco LoRaWAN at the moment. Cisco will probably be exiting the LoRaWAN area. There isn’t any deliberate migration for Cisco LoRaWAN gateways.”
The LoRa Alliance famous the vary of other suppliers to prospects, and urged affected prospects to hunt them out on the group’s market. Cisco, a mainstay of the LoRaWAN ecosystem for the reason that begin, and a key contributing member to the LoRa Alliance, urged doable trade-ins of outdated LoRaWAN merchandise for credit score in the direction of purchases of latest gear.
It additionally hinted at doable availability of outdated merchandise through its refurbished gear scheme. However its help will finish for software program upkeep on January 1 2026, and for each safety and working techniques 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 stories. “Affected prospects [should] go to the LoRaWAN Market to research and join with different suppliers,” it mentioned
Alper Yegin, interim chief govt and chair on the alliance, mentioned: “We are able to confidently say that the LoRaWAN ecosystem continues to see substantial world development and innovation throughout a number of industries… The market… is just not solely thriving however increasing, with new use circumstances rising each day to satisfy the evolving wants of companies and communities worldwide.
“The alliance has a whole bunch of members globally. As a result of LoRaWAN is an open commonplace, [it] is just not reliant on any single vendor and prospects can proceed to make use of LoRaWAN through new suppliers. Clients have a big selection of distributors throughout the provision chain with a number of gateways utilizing LoRaWAN broadly out there.”
