Satellite IoT connectivity expands coverage footprint across
Europe
MILTON KEYNES, England,
June 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today,
EchoStar Mobile Limited, an EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS) company,
announced Swisscom, Switzerland's
leading ICT company, has turned to EchoStar Mobile and Actility to
expand its LoRaWAN IoT footprint across Europe. EchoStar Mobile will provide capacity
to support direct sensor-to-satellite operations, and Actility will
provide interworking functions between Swisscom's terrestrial and
EchoStar Mobile's satellite network to enable seamless network
roaming through Actility's ThingPark Exchange roaming
hub.
"Satellite connectivity serves as a powerful complement to our
terrestrial LoRaWAN network, enabling the connection of IoT devices
abroad and also in economically challenging rural areas," said
Fredy Portmann, Head of Connected
Business Solutions, Swisscom. "Through the seamless integration of
EchoStar connectivity into our Swisscom Connectivity Management
Platform, we empower our customers to roll out devices and
experience a truly borderless IoT connectivity. This dynamic
synergy expands the reach of our network, unlocking unprecedented
opportunities for businesses in a seamlessly connected world."
Prior to working with EchoStar Mobile, Swisscom relied on
terrestrial connectivity to provide IoT managed solutions for smart
metering, environmental monitoring, tracking, agriculture, and
smart building use cases. Now, Swisscom will be able to offer
customers seamless integration of terrestrial and satellite
networks and carrier-grade services through Actility's ThingPark
Exchange roaming hub.
"EchoStar Mobile has the unique combination of technology
expertise and satellite capacity to help Swisscom expand its
LoRaWAN IoT footprint across Europe – serving customers across more
verticals and geographies," said Telemaco
Melia, VP and GM of EchoStar Mobile. "With these new
capabilities, Swisscom customers will be able to access the full,
borderless potential of connected IoT ecosystems at scale."
EchoStar Mobile's innovative pan-European LoRa®-enabled IoT
network combines the low-power, long-range benefits of LoRa® with
the wide-ranging, robust coverage of EchoStar Mobile's satellite
services to provide a direct-to-satellite network solution that is
transforming the potential of IoT and the advantages it offers many
industries. EchoStar Mobile will be providing Swisscom with
multi-year IoT satellite connectivity services.
"Across the industry, LPWAN network operators trust our
ThingPark Exchange roaming hub to help them easily interconnect
with the other public, private, and community networks," said
Alper Yegin, CTO, Actility. "As a
longstanding technology partner to Swisscom, we're honored that
they are enlisting our platform, alongside satellite capacity from
EchoStar Mobile, to offer reliable, seamless pan-European roaming
services."
For more information on EchoStar Mobile's capabilities, visit
https://echostarmobile.com/.
About Actility
Actility is the world leader in
low-power wide-area networks (LPWAN) industrial-grade connectivity
solutions for the Internet of Things. Actility provides its
ThingPark™ platform and network technology to deploy, operate and
maintain public and private wireless IoT networks within a unified,
scalable and versatile network infrastructure. The vast majority of
nationwide LoRaWAN® network service providers (over 50) and
hundreds of enterprises trust ThingPark™ all over the world.
Through its subsidiary Abeeway, Actility also provides patented
ultra-low power tracking solutions. ThingPark Market offers the
largest selection of interoperable IoT gateways, devices and
applications to simplify and accelerate deployment of numerous use
cases.
About Swisscom
Swisscom is one of the leading
ICT companies in Switzerland
and, with Fastweb, the strongest challenger in Italy. The company offers mobile, Internet and
TV, as well as comprehensive IT and digital services to private and
business customers. Swisscom is the most sustainable
telecommunications company in the world and is 51% owned by the
Swiss Confederation.
About EchoStar
EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS) is
a premier provider of technology, networking services, television
entertainment and connectivity, offering consumer, enterprise,
operator, and government solutions worldwide under its EchoStar®,
Boost Mobile®, Boost Infinite, Sling TV, DISH TV, Hughes®,
Hughesnet®, HughesON™, and JUPITER™ brands. In Europe, EchoStar operates under its EchoStar
Mobile Limited subsidiary and in Australia, the company operates as EchoStar
Global Australia. For more information, visit www.echostar.com and
follow EchoStar on X (Twitter) and LinkedIn.
©2024 EchoStar. Hughes, Hughesnet, DISH, Boost Mobile, and Boost
Infinite are registered trademarks of one or more affiliate
companies of EchoStar Corp.
Logo -
https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2309198/ECHOSTAR_LOGO_RED.jpg
View original
content:https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/echostar-mobile-and-actility-expand-lorawan-iot-coverage-for-swisscom-302175817.html
