Cisco is quitting the LoRaWAN market, with gross sales of recent LoRaWAN gateway merchandise stopping on January 1 subsequent 12 months (2025) and repair and assist for all merchandise and elements ending utterly on December 31 2029, with a phased withdrawal for sundry elements and repair between instances. It’s not providing an onwards migration path for patrons.
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 stated in an announcement: “There is no such thing as a substitute out there for the Cisco LoRaWAN at the moment. Cisco might be exiting the LoRaWAN area. There is no such thing as a 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 because the begin, and a key contributing member to the LoRa Alliance, prompt attainable trade-ins of previous LoRaWAN merchandise for credit score in the direction of purchases of recent tools.
It additionally hinted at attainable availability of previous merchandise by way of its refurbished tools scheme. However its assist will finish for software program upkeep on January 1 2026, and for each safety and working programs on December 31 2026. {Hardware} assist 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 experiences. “Affected prospects [should] go to the LoRaWAN Market to analyze and join with different suppliers,” it stated
Alper Yegin, interim chief govt and chair on the alliance, stated: “We will confidently say that the LoRaWAN ecosystem continues to see substantial world progress and innovation throughout a number of industries… The market… will not be solely thriving however increasing, with new use circumstances rising each day to fulfill 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 normal, [it] will not be reliant on any single vendor and prospects can proceed to make use of LoRaWAN by way of new suppliers. Prospects have a major alternative of distributors throughout the provision chain with a number of gateways utilizing LoRaWAN extensively out there.”
