Cisco Plans to Make a Massachusetts City Smarter, Rather Than Build One From Scratch

February 12th, 2010 / Posted by InnovateHolyoke

Cisco signed a deal on Wednesday with Holyoke, Massachusetts to transform the onetime mill town into a “Smart+Connected Community” over the next six-to-twelve months. Cisco has moved aggressively into the smarter city business in the last year as it chases IBM, which started the vogue for wired cities just as the world’s governments were earmarking billions of dollars in stimulus funds for infrastructure. (See “Cisco’s Big Bet on New Songdo: Creating Cites From Scratch” from the February issue.) The strategy has paid off handsomely for both companies thus far–public sector sales are IBM’s strongest, while Cisco considers SC+C one of its most promising new lines of business.

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