KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom is partnering with US-based IoT platform provider Simetric to offer customers a single cloud management layer for their various IoT projects. Simetric offers management of IoT devices, connectivity, and applications in a “single pane-of-glass” platform. The Japanese firm said the arrangement will ease scalability and costs for its enterprise users and solution providers, and also offer Simetric customers a single global MVNO provider for their IoT comms.
Simetric claims to “assemble” a thousand-odd APIs and integrations with 225 global carriers into one management platform; it plugs into “all carriers and platforms”, it said. Soracom claims to work with 20,000 enterprises, globally, of all sizes, to connect over five million IoT devices. A statement declared: “Both organizations have a common mission to help companies gain control across their connected ecosystem, to facilitate growth and to remove process complexity – this partnership will solidify their ability to deliver on this promise.”
It explained: “The breadth and volume of IoT use cases frequently requires enterprises to maintain multiple IoT providers while also managing back-end integrations into leading cloud platforms… Clients seeking… to manage legacy deployments can now benefit from Simetric’s unified lifecycle management capabilities and cross-carrier aggregated insights. Simetric clients can now utilize Soracom’s industry leading global connectivity and network management technology without having to “rip and replace” their existing footprint.”
Kenta Yasukawa, co-founder at Soracom, said: “The Soracom platform was designed from the ground up to accelerate speed to market and ensure success at scale in IoT. That’s why we offer global cellular connectivity built on a fully-virtualized, cloud-native core with low-latency access worldwide. Simetric shares our vision for a cloud-agnostic, bearer-agnostic, hardware-agnostic IoT that customers can operate through a single pane of glass or API. The more complex their IoT deployment, the more customers will benefit from what [we] can offer together.”
Allen Boone, chief executive at Simetric, commented: “As [enterprises] engage with new carriers, offering them not only the coverage they need but also the technology and flexibility their businesses require – that brings the challenge of how they manage these deployments alongside their legacy environment. By partnering with… Soracom, we allow clients to select the vendors that can accelerate their strategy while providing them with the necessary tools to seamlessly manage across their entire connected ecosystem.”
