Today, operators are looking down the barrel of the same kind of growth opportunities with M2M connected devices; very reminiscent of TDM’s exploitive grown in the late 90’s. How the carriers will start to measure up domestically and globally, will largely depend on how quickly they react to market forces, and vet products that clients will readily deploy.

To respond to Federal market requests, equipment manufacturers have developed cellular wireless (M2M) solutions for managing core network assets Out-of-Band (OOB). The mindshare behind this evolution is that since OOB access is infrequently used by definition, the wireless connection may well provide substantial price benefits to the user over implementing a traditional POTS-centric network for remote access.

Cellular Wireless technology in the M2M space has the ability to redefine network price points while offering the same security that network user’s demand in the wireline world. This being said, consumer operators need to be mindful that measures are put in place to ensure high level security expectations are met.