Cisco sees a data analytics fortune at the edge of the network

If you need to know when holiday shoppers are about to hit the checkout stands or when store shelves need to be stocked, Cisco Systems says a router can tell you.The company that commercialized routers 30 years ago is now using them to bring big-data analysis to the edges of networks, where some types of data may be priceless for a few seconds but not worth storing or sending to a cloud.That’s one piece of Cisco Connected Analytics for the Internet of Everything, a set of new and existing c