According to Philip Cole, Wireless Logic’s sales and marketing director, the M2M sector is fast becoming a victim of its own success. “As the world wakes up to the infinite possibilities of empowering machines to communicate, the fight for bandwidth and reliability has highlighted the fragility of the public network, particularly when it comes to ‘no fail’ applications.

 “In the last year, we’ve seen a number of critical M2M failures where traffic over the public network has halted, either through over-capacity or technical issues. For applications where resilience is a ‘nice to have’ but not essential, users can live with downtime. But for those requiring robust security, e.g. CCTV monitoring, staying within the public network is not an option.

The M2M connectivity eco-system is following that of office telephony and networking. Enterprises employed expensive leased line in order to ensure security and resilience for their voice and data traffic. Today, organizations of all sizes are considering connectivity options that will keep their SIM-enabled connected devices online, all of the time, with end-to end security. And it’s becoming apparent that for many developers and systems integrators, private network connectivity for those important no-fail applications is becoming the de facto standard.”

Wireless Logic’s basic pitch is to employ a secure private communication platform that overlays all of the mobile networks. This is said to be a more cost-effective option: one that delivers the advantages of leased lines without the capital cost. Private networks such as the company’s ManageNet give systems integrators and their clients robust, reliability without high overheads. There’s no hardware, middleware or software, instead the resulting private network functions as a secure global environment where connectivity is united across one or many mobile networks.