元器件交易网讯  6月19日消息，据外媒报道，思科与三星电子合作物联网业务。

　　思科称三星电子将成为其开发和部署网络连接使公共和私人企业云等云系统多样化的潜在合作伙伴。

　　两家公司曾在2月签署长期专利交叉授权协议，但是没有涉及到思科所谓的互联云的具体细节。

　　思科开发和销售部总裁罗伯特劳埃德表示，三星和LG都是其重要的合作伙伴，它们将在医疗保健、交通和能源行业创造一个“物联网”生态系统。

　　思科将投资10亿美元扩大其云业务，因为它预计剩下的98%东西都将连接到互联网，虽然现在只有2%。

　　劳埃德说：“它旨在扩大技术联盟，澳洲电信目前是唯一合作伙伴，通过与三星的交叉授权协议加速创新，推进物联网时代到来。

　　劳埃德据说是思科下任CEO候选人之一，他没有透露与两家公司物联网合作的更多细节。

　　（元器件交易网董蕾 译）

　　外媒原文如下：

　　Cisco Systems, the U.S. network equipment giant, said that Samsung Electronics would be its “natural partner” to develop and deploy a network enabling connections to multiple cloud computing systems such as public and private enterprise clouds.

　　The two companies, which have a patent cross-licensing agreement, have not yet gotten into the details of Cisco’s so-called Intercloud for its customers and partners.

　　But Robert Lloyd, president of Cisco’s development and sales, said Korea’s global tech manufacturers such as Samsung and LG Electronics would be considered its key partners, along with companies in the health care, transportation and energy sectors, to create an ecosystem for the envisioned “Internet of Things,” or of Everything. 

　　“Connecting all those clouds that meet legal requirements, then giving someone like large consumer companies and banks the ability to deploy their businesses around the world on the cloud is very much part of Cisco’s Intercloud strategy,” Lloyd recently told a small group of reporters in Seoul.

　　“The network is at the heart of those connections, and we have that specific technology we developed that allows our customers to move their workload and information between all of those clouds in a very secure and open way.”

　　Cisco will be investing $1 billion to expand its cloud business as it projects that the remaining 98 percent of things will become connected with the Internet, though only 2 percent are now. 

　　It seeks to expand a technology alliance, in which Australia-based telecom Telstra is currently the only member, and speed up innovation through cross-licensing with Samsung to usher in the IoE era.

　　“The arrangements we are making in terms of patent licensing make sure that there is a balanced approach we take forth in the marketplace,” Lloyd added.

　　Lloyd, who is said to be one of the candidates for Cisco’s next chief executive after the incumbent CEO John Chambers retires, did not further disclose details of the patents the two companies’ might share for the IoE.

　　Cisco’s market strength relies on Internet network switches and routers. 

　　But it is currently betting big on cloud computing applications and the IoE amid the company’s low growth forecast, in part due to increasing competition from companies like Huawei, HP, IBM and Microsoft.