The machine to machine (M2M) technology market has tremendous growth and revenue-generating opportunities, but service providers and operators need to address the challenges of the M2M industry to ensure global network coverage and lower roaming cost in order to drive overall wireless M2M connections and revenue.
In order to address M2M industry challenges, NextG-Com, a provider of embedded software products and services for LTE (News - Alert), M2M and satellite communications, introduced ALPS-Lite, the first Category 0-ready LTE protocol stack that is specifically designed and developed to meet the needs of M2M.
Powered with a well-defined and highly customizable abstraction layer toward an underlying platform, ALPS-Lite is fully validated against the 3GPP conformance test suite, thus enabling faster system integration, leading to shorter product development and reducing time to market. It offers modular architecture, providing exceptional flexibility for specific M2M platform requirements.
ALPS-Lite is available with NextG-Com’s highly optimized ASN.1 data stack and ultra-lightweight SE-RTOS (real-time operating system), which is designed for M2M applications. This approach reduces third-party dependency and licensing cost, and enables faster product development.
Denis Bidinost, NextG-Com CEO, said in a statement, “Right now the M2M industry is looking for specific technology solutions to alleviate the high cost and high footprint requirements of the standard LTE device, while satisfying operators’ preference for LTE high spectral efficiency and future-proof deployment. In response to this requirement, we have applied our extensive experience in M2M-specific applications to develop ALPS-Lite.”
Edited by Rachel Ramsey