According to foreign media reports, Vodafone and Huawei opened a new NB-IoT lab at Vodafone's headquarters in Berkshire, England, which is available to developers and organizations testing equipment and services that explore opportunities for IoT development.
Matt Beal, head of innovation and architecture at Vodafone, said the lab will be the first of a number of IoT laboratories open to the Vodafone Group worldwide, which will see these labs as catalysts for the development of crop networking technologies. ".
Vodafone and Huawei announced their NB-IoT Open Lab program in February this year to accelerate the development of IoT technology. It is reported that the two companies plan to launch commercial NB-IoT services as early as the beginning of 2017.
Although the standardization work on NB-IoT has not yet been finalized, Vodafone believes that these specifications will be included in the 3GPP Release 13 released in June this year.
"We will add the ability to access the Developer Toolkit and provide access to critical business support systems, driving the entire service wrapper around." Luke Ibbetson, chief engineer at Vodafone Group, talks about NB-IoT Labs Said this when the role. "We want to accelerate things. We often hear that the nature of the telecommunications industry is single and slow, and we need to break those ideas."
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