Cisco Jasper


Cisco Jasper is an American corporation with headquarters in Santa Clara, California, that provides a cloud-based software platform for the Internet of Things. The platform is designed to help organizations launch, manage, and monetize the deployment of the Internet of Things worldwide. Founded in 2004, Jasper partners with over 120 mobile operator networks to serve IoT and machine-to-machine companies different industries including: automotive, home security and automation, agriculture, food/beverage, wearable technology, healthcare, advertising and industrial equipment.
On February 3, 2016, Cisco Systems announced its plans to acquire Jasper for $1.4 billion; the deal was finalized on March 22, 2016. With the acquisition, Jasper became the IoT Cloud business unit within Cisco. Jasper's CEO, Jahangir Mohammed, is now the GM of the IoT Cloud business unit – reporting to Rowan Trollope, SVP of the IoT and Collaboration Technology Group at Cisco.

History

Jahangir Mohammed alongside Amit Gupta and Daniel Collins founded Jasper Wireless in 2004. Prior to Jasper, Mohammed founded Kineto Wireless and worked at Bell Labs. He is the holder of over 80 U.S. and international patents related to IoT, mobile communications and software. He is also credited to have contributed to technologies used to converge GSM and Wi-Fi that have become GSMA standards. Jasper is privately owned and was founded with venture funding from Sequoia Capital and Benchmark Capital. Jasper Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA with satellite offices in Alpharetta, Georgia, United Kingdom and Singapore as well as ten total data centers. Jasper employs approximately 400 people. In May 2014, Jasper Wireless became Jasper Technologies.
During its ten-year run, Jasper became a globally known cloud-based IoT platform used by 3,500 companies to manage different types of connected products and devices. Under Mohammed's leadership, Jasper was selected for the 2015 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award which recognizes technology companies impacting business and society. In February 2016, Cisco announced that they made an acquisition offer of $1.4 billion to acquire Jasper Technologies, "We’ve been keeping an eye on this market and what we noticed was that Jasper represented a unique asset. We believe they are the largest Internet of Things service platform of scale today." The acquisition was finalized in March that same year and the company was renamed from Jasper Technologies to Cisco Technologies. Following the acquisition by Cisco, Mohammed is now the GM of the IoT Cloud business unit.

Product

Jasper Control Center Platform

The Jasper Control Center Platform is a cloud-based product that allows enterprises to launch, manage and monetize an Internet of Things deployment using a single turnkey result. The Jasper Control Center delivers visibility and real-time control for connected service businesses, along with IoT/ Machine to Machine capabilities like provisioning, mobile service management, real-time engagement, support diagnostics, billing and business automation. The platform is deeply integrated with 35 mobile operator groups, that represent various worldwide companies — including: AT&T, China Unicom, Telefónica, SoftBank, NTT DoCoMo, América Móvil, SingTel, Telenor, and Telstra.
Jasper's platform operates on a single base of code that can be configured to meet specialized enterprise needs across a wide range of business models, technologies, and industries. Currently more than 9,000 enterprises have deployed connected devices with Jasper Control Center.

Functionality

Jasper's Connected Car Cloud is used by eleven automotive OEMs worldwide including General Motors, Nissan, Ford Motor Company, Volkswagen, and Tesla Motors. The Jasper platform enables carmakers to offer real-time diagnostics, safety, security, information and entertainment services, as well as apps and Wi-Fi hotspot services. The Jasper platform is also used by companies like Coca-Cola, Starbucks, GE Aviation, Allstate, Audi, and Garmin to offer new IoT services. Coca-Cola is known to use Jasper to connect vending machines, which can help notify the respective manager of inventory and service needs. As opposed to that, GE is known to use the Jasper platform for their connected jet engines, which provide performance data to their service teams on the ground, intended to reduce maintenance costs and increase engine life span.

Strategic Partnerships