[HN Gopher] Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space, and there's n...
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       Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space, and there's no lifeboat for
       IoT customers
        
       Author : LinuxBender
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2024-10-02 21:06 UTC (5 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theregister.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.com)
        
       | mikewarot wrote:
       | >The likely reason for discontinuing the LoRaWAN products is cost
       | cutting.
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       | Sounds reasonable. When you can get modules to do LoraWan and
       | Meshtastic for $35, there's no way Cisco can make their margins.
        
       | wienke wrote:
       | They never really were part of it. These gateways are barely
       | used.
        
         | bigfatkitten wrote:
         | And their gateway was an extremely expensive but very mid range
         | product.
        
           | asn1parse wrote:
           | the firmware releases were infrequent, the distro is not
           | fully hardened, the linux kernel is old, and imagine having
           | to get this notice now, at this point, and know that there
           | wont be any further updates that fix future vulns. if u have
           | this product, your firmware is now frozen and youre
           | vulnerable to every future issue that affects it. looks like
           | their support stops in 2029, but imagine these devices stay
           | in place for another 10 years, this is a nightmare scenario
           | for anyone with large deployments. in lots of cases we expect
           | some devices to be in place for up to 45 yrs. still, this
           | system wont make it past 2037, max. imagine running it for 12
           | more years without any fixes. untenable.
        
             | woah wrote:
             | Don't companies with large deployments build in some kind
             | of support deal with their supplier?
        
       | trebligdivad wrote:
       | Only having less than 2.5 years of software updates left for an
       | IoT device part of a global network is a bit of a mess isn't it?
       | This is stuff you'd want to embed somewhere and forget I would
       | have thought.
        
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