What about a USB LTE adapter, and give your unit a USB port?
I'm saying this from the comfort of my armchair, so maybe that's too
hard / too stupid.
On 3/8/2016 3:02 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
Pre-certified does not mean permitted on a network.
If you buy the sierra gateway solutions which is an all-in-one box,
this is considered a product, and the hoops have been jumped through
by sierra wireless.
On the other hand the 'modules' generally are pre-certified, but are
not considered a finished product which means you have to go through a
'light' version of PTCRB testing. See the article at
http://www.ecnmag.com/article/2012/07/cellular-carrier-certification-requirements
, this sums it up pretty well. The thing that has changed for me is
the cost of the AT&T certification even with a pre-certified "almost
automatic" approval, was really expensive until recently.
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
If you were to take a module from Sierra Wireless, aren't those
pretty much all pre-certified?
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account)
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I still want everyone else's answer to this... but I'll add my
$0.02: (I guess what I'm saying is I don't want to hijack
this thread....since I'm interested in everyone's answers.)
I've been looking at adding a product to the PacketFlux line
which uses a cellular modem to manage it. The hold up until
recently has been the arrogance of the cellular companies,
especially in the US. Getting a cellular modem module and
integrating it isn't a big issue for us (I've been playing
with this for a while). Jumping through the hoops the
cellular companies require for this IS a big deal, and
historically has cost a lot of money. It is amazing how you
can take a module which the cellular companies have
pre-approved on their network, but it still costs $20K to
certify a product which uses the module as it was intended to
be permitted to talk on their network. Add a SKU? Another
10K, even if it's virtually identical hardware.
Recently AT&T has softened their policies on this to permit
pre-certified modules on the network (supposedly) without
jumping through the expensive hoops. So, this may be
happening sooner than I would have expected. I sort of am
envisioning some sort of hybrid connection to the sitemonitor
line, plus ability to control other devices via snmp or telnet.
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Eric Kuhnke
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
For example with HSPA+/LTE modems, to have proper OOB into
the routers at a crucial POP.
$6/mo per active SIM card is pretty cheap for M2M data
SIMs, though the $/MB rate is not the best. But for the
application I have in mind it would be console SSH
traffic, which is super low bandwidth.
https://ting.com/rates
For LTE they're an MVNO on AT&T and T-Mobile.
Looking at the FAQ they say that the data usage can be
limited and monitored on a per-device basis, which could
be useful.
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