How Existing Network Evolution will Accelerate the Internet Of Things
Andrew Morawski
Executive Vice President, Oracle Communications at Oracle | Board Member PacketFabric
660 million to 1.5 billion devices could be connected to mobile networks by 2020/2021, according to Ovum. To achieve this vision, mobile connectivity must be extended to new classes of products like water meters, smoke alarms and parking spaces.
And, to achieve that, existing networks must evolve to support these devices. At Vodafone, we believe that the evolution of existing networks to support Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) will provide initial 5G benefits. It is now clear that NB-IoT, which was completed by 3GPP as a technology standard earlier this month, will be able to deliver benefits to customers, such as low latency, massive connectivity, and long battery life.
We expect the commercial roll-out of NB-IoT from early 2017 to be fast, and with the coverage needed to support the demand for connected devices. The rest of the industry shares Vodafone’s confidence in this new Low Power Wide Area technology. NB-IoT is supported by over 20 of the world’s largest operators who geographically serve over 90 percent of the IoT market. The industry focus on developing NB-IoT will allow our customers to enjoy the benefits of living in a massively connected IoT world years sooner than expected.
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Advanced Trust
8 年No, security and scalability at the same time is not an alien thing. 'less concern about security'? It's impossible. Even the smallest node must be secure and scalable. If you make compromises regarding the security, you'll fail and your system will be insecure, this will introduce the insecurity for your entire system.
Consultant | LION | Network
8 年in fact, there is a leverage in term of scalability (cost-wise) vs security in apply IoT today, but consider "proximity marketing" with less concern security is huge business potential. Can't be perfect in techology but need to compromise in right application.
Advanced Trust
8 年Agree with you, Andrew Morawski, but we should mention, that the current 'state' (ie. millions of insecure nodes) is simply not scalable. Simplicity and scalability + security is also a requirement.