Cisco Systems' planned US$1.4 billion acquisition of Jasper Technologies could make it easier for enterprises to build businesses around services instead of products.
Much of Jasper's business is connecting the products companies make to mobile networks.
It sits between enterprises and mobile operators, doing the complicated work of tying IoT applications to network connections.
Cisco builds a lot of the gear on the network side of that equation, plus higher-level smarts like analytics on the other end that can make IoT more effective and profitable.
Bringing their capabilities together will simplify deployments that currently involve lots of different companies and pieces of software, the companies say.
