Cisco exits the building energy management business, with an easy to miss announcement inside its fiscal Q4 2011 earnings call.
The company will instead concentrate on the core networking business within the smart-grid area.
Cisco is not the first big IT company to try to enter the energy management business, before quietly getting out-- both Microsoft and Google's home energy efforts saw their discontinuation earlier this June.,
It appears the exit will not affect its earlier partnership with Control4-- which allows the integration of Control4's technology with Cisco's Service Delivery Platform (SDP), as well as the introduction of Cisco-branded Control4 products.
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