Hardware Cisco has announced a new gateway that combines WiFi, cellular, and LoRa, as well as modular adapters for its IR809 and IR829 ruggedized routers. Silicon Labs has launched what it claims is the first multiband, multiprotocol, SoC for the IoT, with support for ZigBee, Thread and BLE in the 2.4GHz band, and options for multiple proprietary sub-GHz protocols too – called the Gecko. STMicro has unveiled a new BLE SoC, called the BlueNRG-1. Software Resin.io has secured $9m in funding for its IoT DevOps technology, which focuses on providing containerized updates to Linux single-board computers. Networks and Protocols Qualcomm has announced the support for EC-GSM,-IoT, LTE NB1, and LTE Cat M1, with its MDM9206/7 chipset supporting the two latter…