CSPs in push to simplify IoT for enterprises
Deutsche Telekom and Orange have announced new IoT partnerships that differ in scope but share the same aim of making it easier for enterprises to use communications service providers’ (CSPs’) IoT services.
01 Jul 2021
CSPs in push to simplify IoT for enterprises
Deutsche Telekom and Orange have announced new IoT partnerships that differ in scope but share the same aim of making it easier for enterprises to use communications service providers’ (CSPs’) IoT services.
Certainly, there is a large enterprise IoT market to capture. IoT Analytics estimates that global enterprise IoT spending will grow 24% in 2021. This follows a 12.1% rise in overall enterprise IoT spending in 2020 to reach $128.9 billion.
Appetite for IoT services is also reflected in demand for cellular IoT modules, with shipments increasing 50% between the first quarters of 2020 and 2021, according to Counterpoint Research’s Global Cellular IoT Module, Chipset and Application Tracker. The biggest growth in demand was for 5G modules and LTE-Cat-1, an LTE communication technology designed for IoT applications.
“While modules based on LPWA [low-power wide area network] technologies such as NB-IoT and LTE-M continued to grow above the market average, LTE-Cat 1 and 5G became the fastest-growing cellular technologies in the IoT space this quarter,” writes Counterpoint’s VP of Research, Neil Shah.
Indeed, IoT platform and module company, Sierra Wireless, will be one of Orange’s new partners. alongside integrated device manufacturer, STMicroelectronics, and Lacroix. Together they are forming the IoT Continuum with the aim of streamlining the management of cellular IoT projects and thereby accelerating the deployment and industrialization of Massive IoT over LTE (including Cat M and Cat 1) and 5G. Orange will supply the connectivity and IoT services, Sierra Wireless and STMicroelectronics will supply the hardware and software, while Lacroix will provide design and manufacturing expertise, according to Orange.
The IoT Continuum will offer enterprises a set of IoT building blocks, validated on the Orange network, which they can use in a modular way to deploy wide-scale IoT services on cellular networks.
Deutsche Telekom’s new partnership has a narrower focus. It is teaming up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the German IoT mobile virtual network operator, 1NCE to provide enterprises with zero-touch integration as they add new devices to DT’s global network.
Certainly, there is a large enterprise IoT market to capture. IoT Analytics estimates that global enterprise IoT spending will grow 24% in 2021. This follows a 12.1% rise in overall enterprise IoT spending in 2020 to reach $128.9 billion.
Appetite for IoT services is also reflected in demand for cellular IoT modules, with shipments increasing 50% between the first quarters of 2020 and 2021, according to Counterpoint Research’s Global Cellular IoT Module, Chipset and Application Tracker. The biggest growth in demand was for 5G modules and LTE-Cat-1, an LTE communication technology designed for IoT applications.
“While modules based on LPWA [low-power wide area network] technologies such as NB-IoT and LTE-M continued to grow above the market average, LTE-Cat 1 and 5G became the fastest-growing cellular technologies in the IoT space this quarter,” writes Counterpoint’s VP of Research, Neil Shah.
Indeed, IoT platform and module company, Sierra Wireless, will be one of Orange’s new partners. alongside integrated device manufacturer, STMicroelectronics, and Lacroix. Together they are forming the IoT Continuum with the aim of streamlining the management of cellular IoT projects and thereby accelerating the deployment and industrialization of Massive IoT over LTE (including Cat M and Cat 1) and 5G. Orange will supply the connectivity and IoT services, Sierra Wireless and STMicroelectronics will supply the hardware and software, while Lacroix will provide design and manufacturing expertise, according to Orange.
The IoT Continuum will offer enterprises a set of IoT building blocks, validated on the Orange network, which they can use in a modular way to deploy wide-scale IoT services on cellular networks.
Deutsche Telekom’s new partnership has a narrower focus. It is teaming up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the German IoT mobile virtual network operator, 1NCE to provide enterprises with zero-touch integration as they add new devices to DT’s global network.
