In this whitepaper, IDC argues that diversification of Internet access WAN technologies, combined with secure VPN and central management is the best way to both guarantee IoT network availability and allow for rapid deployment of IoT networks anywhere.
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WHITE PAPER
Toward Next-Generation Access Networking Technologies
in Industrial/Enterprise Internet of Things
Sponsored by: Peplink
Bill Rojas
October 2015
IN THIS WHITE PAPER
Next-generation access networking for the Internet of Things (IoT) will need to provide cost-effective,
high-reliability, secure edge/access networking communications in combination with cloud computing
for industrial/enterprise applications. In this IDC White Paper, we discuss a new set of access
networking technologies that is entering the market at significantly lower price points than previously
available and provides higher uptime and lower total cost of ownership (TCO). The paper also
investigates how these new access networking technologies will play an important role in realizing a
wide range of IoT industrial/enterprise applications through the utilization of cellular/wireline bandwidth
aggregation via multiple broadband and Long Term Evolution (LTE) links to realize multi-link WAN
bonding, VPN bonding, and WAN smoothing.
SITUATION OVERVIEW
IoT Vision and Ecosystem
IDC defines the Internet of Things as a network of networks of uniquely identifiable endpoints (or
"things") that communicate without human interaction using IP connectivity — whether locally or
globally.
The IoT brings meaning to the concept of ubiquitous connectivity for businesses,
governments, and consumers with its innate management, monitoring, and analytics of
traditionally unconnected "things".
With uniquely identifiable endpoints integrated throughout enterprise networks, providing
operational, environmental, and location intelligence, an IoT system is managed and
monitored by an intelligent or traditional embedded system that acts as a gateway between
local sensors/actuators and an IP network that is connected to the Internet and made part of a
wider IoT solution that collects and acts upon the collated data from the endpoints. The result
is that IoT can provide real-time and historic data-enabled strategic and tactical advantages for
businesses, governments, and consumers.
IoT is composed of technology-based connected solutions that allow businesses and
governments to gain insights that help transform how they engage with customers, deliver
products/services, and run operations.
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