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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Jasper

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACisco Jasper is a global Internet of Things (IoT) platform. The product helps companies launch, manage and monetize connected IoT services to drive business transformation and deliver innovative connected services.N/A

    K3s Lightweight Kubernetes

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/AK3s is a lightweight, certified Kubernetes distribution built for IoT & Edge computing, developed by Rancher Labs, which is now supported by SUSE since the 2020 acquisition. K3s is available free and open source under the Apache 2.0 license.N/A
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    Cisco JasperK3s Lightweight Kubernetes
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    Cisco JasperK3s Lightweight Kubernetes
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Cisco JasperK3s Lightweight Kubernetes
    Internet of Things
    Comparison of Internet of Things features of Cisco Jasper and K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
    Feature
    Cisco Jasper
    8.0
    3 Ratings
    0% above category average
    K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    IoT Device Management8.33 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Device Security8.33 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    IoT Data Management8.23 Ratings00 Ratings
    IoT Analytics7.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    IoT Integration7.83 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Cisco JasperK3s Lightweight Kubernetes
    Small Businesses
    AWS IoT Core
    Score10 out of 10
    AWS IoT Core
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Enterprises
    AWS IoT Core
    Score10 out of 10
    AWS IoT Core
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco JasperK3s Lightweight Kubernetes
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco JasperK3s Lightweight Kubernetes
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Using Cisco Jasper is suitable for managing large numbers of cellular subscribers where manual management is impossible. If you are a prototype project with dozens of subscribers, it may not be convenient for you to deal with Cisco Jasper and opt for manual management. The use of Cisco Jasper is justified in a production and project monetization environment.
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    SUSE
    K3s Lightweight Kubernetes is well suited for local development. K3s Lightweight Kubernetes is not well suited when you need backward support. In the case that you want to test an application that is still using deprecated APIs or CRDs which are supported on popular managed Cloud Kubernetes Distributions, because K3s Lightweight Kubernetes is trying to be a lightweight application and dropping early support for APIs/CRDs marked for deprication K3s Lightweight Kubernetes will not be a good solution. If you are trying to test Kubernetes etc, functionality, K3s Lightweight Kubernetes is not a good case since it's using Dqlite or SQLite.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Device integration
    • Connectivity management
    • Enterprise-grade solution
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    SUSE
    • Virtual clusters
    • IoT devices
    • Local development
    • Raspberry Pi
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Occasionally, it takes a long time for things to load, but that is just a feature.
    • There are a few minor glitches, but nothing that affects usage.
    • It was assuring security as a vendor-based solution.
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    SUSE
    • Option to deploy a self managed k3s in the cloud
    • Support to deploy it with kubeadm
    • Integration with prometheus & grafana
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    In our country, the subscriber management platform is not eligible since each cell phone operator opts for a particular brand, that is, we have not had an option, although we have no complaints about the platform, we feel comfortable using it. I know of other management platforms used by other operators and they are really all very well designed, but we all know about CISCO's track record in the market, which adds additional value.
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    SUSE
    We have mostly used kind, minikube, and Docker Desktop Kubernetes for local development. Only kind has lower resource requirements, but K3s Lightweight Kubernetes seems to be even lighter. It is a big benefit to be able to deploy a K3s Lightweight Kubernetes cluster in seconds locally in our workstation, there is no cost, and it makes it easy to redeploy from scratch no matter how many times we want. The removal of deprecated APIs or CRDs also makes it more secure since it reduces unnecessarily exposed attack vectors.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • We saved an average of 14% on device connectivity costs
    • We have an almost 99% uptime thanks to CJ.
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    SUSE
    • Engineers have been able to run more microservices locally with K3s Lightweight Kubernetes instead of Minikube, which is more resources hungry
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