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Deutsche Telekom & Huawei Advance Narrowband IoT

Deutsche Telekom & Huawei Advance Narrowband IoT
Linda Hardesty
Linda HardestyJuly 1, 2016
3:14 pm MT
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Both Deutsche Telekom and Huawei separately announced this week that they’re using Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) to advance their Internet of Things (IoT) goals.

NB-IoT is a low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology that runs on existing operator networks in licensed spectrum to support a massive number of IoT devices. It is especially optimized for sensors with low bandwidth requirements up to a few kilobits per second.

NB-IoT enables deep indoor penetration, low power consumption, and a battery life of up to 10 years.

Deutsche Telekom’s announcement included the establishment of an NB-IoT Prototyping Hub. It will provide a venue to bring the carrier’s business customers together with its own IoT developers.

DT is also working within the 3GPP and GSMA to promote global standardization of NB-IoT.

Huawei LiteOS

Today, Huawei announced an NB-IoT product suite that focuses on operators’ IoT infrastructure. It includes Huawei’s LiteOS operating system and NB-IoT chipset. It also includes the company’s eNodeB base stations, which can evolve to NB-IoT; its IoT packet core; and a cloud-based IoT connection management platform.

The IoT packet core is based on a network functions virtualization (NFV) cloud architecture. LiteOS provides protocol stacks with low-power consumption, and it can also work with the NB-IoT chips and IoT platforms of third parties.

Huawei plans to conduct a large commercial trial of its NB-IoT product suite in the fourth quarter of this year and release it for commercial use in late December.

Also later in 2016, Huawei says it will launch SoftRadio, a software suite that allows developers to access NB-IoT labs via the Internet for remote innovation and commissioning.

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Linda Hardesty

About Linda Hardesty

Linda Hardesty was the Executive Editor at SDxCentral where she oversaw the news coverage for a team of writers. She's been a trade journalist since the mid-1990s, alternately writing about telecommunications and energy. Prior to SDxCentral, she was editor of Energy Manager Today. Previously, she wrote for Cable World magazine and Communications Technology. Linda can be reached at lhardesty@sdxcentral.com.

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