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Cellular IoT Best Practices | Teal's Robert Hamblet & Red Bison's Rob Tiffany | Internet of Things Podcast

IoT For All Podcast · 6 Feb 2024 · 42m · Episode 330

What this episode covers

Robert Hamblet, CEO of Teal, and Rob Tiffany, Chief Product Officer at Red Bison, discuss cellular IoT adoption best practices, emphasizing the critical need for flexibility and optionality in connectivity choices. They explain how eSIM and the emerging iSIM standards allow device makers to switch carriers remotely, avoiding the pitfalls of locked-in embedded SIMs and ensuring global compliance. The conversation covers the technical evolution from LTE to 5G RedCap, the importance of low-latency edge computing, and the pragmatic decision-making required when choosing between cellular, Wi-Fi, and other protocols for specific use cases.

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Teal, Red Bison, Qualcomm, Ericsson, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, GSMA, AWS, NVIDIA, BMW, Netflix
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eSIM, iSIM, 5G RedCap, NB-IoT, Cat M, SGP.32, SGP.41, MQTT

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