Iridium Communications said that Iridium CloudConnect satellite cloud-based platform is now actively serving customers. This new service combines Iridium IoT functionalities with Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT and cloud services extending customers' IoT reach to the more than 80 percent of the Earth that lacks terrestrial coverage.
Iridium said its customers can reduce engineering time, lower fixed operating costs, and experience faster development and deployment of new IoT products and applications by combining the attributes of the Iridium network with the breadth of AWS supporting infrastructure and services. For existing AWS customers, Iridium CloudConnect is providing the ability to expand their existing service footprint beyond terrestrial coverage.
The service makes it easier to do business by translating between industry-standard cloud protocols and Iridium's Short Burst Data service. This allows virtually any IoT device connected through the Iridium network to speak natively with AWS IoT services as well as other value-added elements available in AWS Marketplace.
Iridium's IoT services continue to experience strong subscriber growth. Commercial IoT data subscribers grew 25 percent from the third quarter of 2018 through the third quarter of 2019, to 767,000 customers.
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