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Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced it is expanding its popular xL865 family of cost optimized compact modules to include an LTE Cat NB1 series. The addition makes it the industry’s only QFN module family to offer Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT) connectivity, compatible with existing 2G and 3G models. For more information on the xL865 family: http://info.telit.com/nbiot.
“Telit has been supplying xL865 modules worldwide since 2011 to customers from small to multi-national Fortune 1000 companies. One of the things that has made the form factor so popular is our design-once-use-anywhere philosophy that, along with other customer-value centric directives, guides the development of all our modules,” said Sandro Spanghero, Telit Senior Vice President of Global Products Management. “By extending this product family to support new and rising IoT standards like NBIoT in combination with our Telit IoT Platforms and IoT Connectivity, we are establishing the xL865 as a solution for the thousands of new and existing customers looking to improve customer experience, scalability and other factors critical to their business performance.”
IoT devices are growing increasingly dependent on battery-only power, being deployed in environments demanding outstanding performance for in-building penetration and massive scale deployment. The new NL865B1-E1 module, banded for use in Europe and China addresses these requirements while extending the life of existing products with long-term longevity of the LTE Cat NB1 standard. Typical application areas well suited for the compact new module include smart buildings and cities, smart agriculture, waste collection, healthcare, and remote monitoring including smart meters in the utilities sector. With the new module, an application designed for 2G or 3G can be revitalized with NB-IoT with little to no redesign impact.
