SCTE Broadband - Dec 2024

FROM THE INDUSTRY

Is IOT Ready FOR DIRECT-TO-DEVICE?

By Alastair Macleod, CEO, GROUND CONTROL

IoT devices are everywhere, collecting, transmitting and processing vast amounts of data, with trends predicting some 42 billion devices being online and connected by this time next year. What will be the role of satellite networks in connecting the most remote areas of the planet, and what obstacles might they face as more network operators demand greater usage of the finite radio spectrum?

Alastair Macleod, CEO, GROUND CONTROL

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Volume 46 No.4 DECEMBER 2024

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