Telenor Connexion, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Telenor Group and the sixth-largest mobile operator in the world, has reportedly selected Cisco to help deliver intelligent managed machine-to-machine “M2M” networking solutions.

M2M communications travel between mobile devices and other electronic devices such as personal digital assistants, printers and hands-free vehicle systems.

Officials with Telenor said the company selected Cisco (News - Alert) mobile Internet technologies to upgrade its Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network “IP-NGN” in order to increase network capacity, redundancy, flexibility, and policy control for its rapidly expanding M2M services.

Telenor (News - Alert) Connexion offers its M2M connectivity solutions to industries as diverse as automotive, security, utilities, healthcare and fleet management.

These solutions are designed to increase productivity, manage costs, expand customer services and protect the environment.

 

M2M services provide the foundation for the emerging 'Internet of things' which requires unprecedented scale, performance and security.

The Cisco IP-NGN architecture helps enable mobile network operators like Telenor Connexion to implement cost-effective architectures for enhanced voice, data and M2M applications.

'It's all about our customers. By deploying Cisco mobile Internet technologies, we can offer reliability in our mobile data network, while being cost-efficient and increasing our ability to expand efficiently - the goal being to secure the most reliable mobile data networks for Telenor Connexion customers,” Per Simonsen, CEO of Telenor Connexion said.

Simonsen said that the machine-to-machine market is growing rapidly. Within Europe alone there are several billion devices that could potentially be connected, and that number is expanding as new applications, like smart grids and remote healthcare, are developed and implemented.