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The Industrial Internet Consortium and the MulteFire Alliance Announce LiaisonThe Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC™), the world's leading organization transforming business and society by accelerating the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and the MulteFire Alliance, an international association dedicated to building a global ecosystem in support of Long Term Evolution (LTE (News - Alert)) and next generation mobile cellular technology, announced they have agreed to a liaison to work together to advance their shared interests. Under the agreement, the IIC and the MulteFire Alliance will work together to promote the digital economy by harmonizing various aspects in the fields of the industrial Internet. Joint activities between the IIC and the MulteFire Alliance will include:
"Operating standalone in unlicensed spectrum, MulteFire technology can be deployed as a private LTE network to deliver local and customized services for industrial IoT applications with high performance, low latency and seamless mobility," said Mazen Chmaytelli, President, MulteFire Alliance and Sr. Director Business Development, Qualcomm (News - Alert) Technologies, Inc. "This liaison provides a new avenue for the Alliance to demonstrate how MulteFire enables new use cases in industrial segments and to inform IIC audiences about LTE technology and its benefits." The IIC Liaison Working Group is the gateway for formal relationships with standards and open-source organizations, consortia, alliances, certification and testing bodies and government entities/agencies. About the MulteFire Alliance MulteFire Alliance is an international association dedicated to building a global ecosystem in support of the common interests of members, developers and users in the application of Long Term Evolution (LTE) and next-generation mobile cellular technology in configurations that use only unlicensed radio spectrum. About the Industrial Internet Consortium The Industrial Internet Consortium is the world's leading membership program transforming business and society by accelerating the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The IIC delivers a trustworthy IIoT in which the world's systems and devices are securely connected and controlled to deliver transformational outcomes. The Industrial Internet Consortium is a program of the Object Management Group (OMG). Note to editors: Industrial Internet Consortium is a registered trademark of OMG. For a listing of all OMG trademarks, visit www.omg.org/legal/tm_list. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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