Soracom, a cloud-native IoT platform providing connectivity, cloud integration, and AI services for the Internet of Things, announced the commercial availability of its Connectivity Hypervisor eSIM orchestration capability and SGP.32-compatible IoT eSIMs. Both are now available for purchase, moving Soracom’s SGP.32-based offering from pre-order to general availability.
SGP.32 is GSMA’s latest remote SIM provisioning standard for IoT. Its predecessors took two different approaches. First, SGP.02 was designed at telco initiative primarily for automotive, but preserved carrier control over provisioning, with enterprises able to manage profiles in theory but within a walled garden that kept operators firmly in the loop. Second, SGP.22 moved control closer to the device owner but assumed user interfaces that most unattended IoT devices simply do not have. SGP.32 addresses both limitations. The new technology supports headless, always-on devices while giving enterprises genuine, carrier-independent control over which profiles run on their devices and when. For products with long service lives, such as vehicles, utility meters, asset trackers, and connected medical devices, that shift from telco-controlled to owner-controlled provisioning has become a common requirement in enterprise and automotive procurement.
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Connectivity Hypervisor is Soracom‘s technology-leading eUICC orchestration capability, which allows users to add, remove, manage, and switch between multiple operator profiles, including third-party MNO profiles, on remote SIMs/eSIMs using SGP.32 eSIM IoT Manager (eIM). Connectivity Hypervisor provides an API for Remote SIM Provisioning and integrates with Soracom’s automation services and framework so that the user can automate RSP based on deployment region, regulatory requirement, or application need. Built-in Soracom-profile fallback ensures that devices retain connectivity in cases where a target profile is unavailable.
Because one SKU can be manufactured and shipped worldwide, customers can switch profiles in the field to meet permanent-roaming requirements as deployments cross borders. For official Soracom partner operators’ profiles that are integrated with Soracom Connectivity Management Platform, it offers SIM profile life cycle management, data usage monitoring and fleet management features such as searching based on tags and groups in the same way as Soracom native profiles.
“We built the Connectivity Hypervisor infrastructure before the market asked us to certify it, because we expected SGP.32 would finally allow customers to gain control over which SIM profiles to use where and when. It has done that,” said Kenta Yasukawa, CTO and Co-Founder of Soracom. “Commercial availability means a customer can order a device today that activates through Soracom and has the capability to add and remove profiles in the field, making those devices future-proof and eliminating the need to prepare different SKUs even when deployments cross a border. Managing connections across multiple operators from a single API and console is also a necessity for customers managing a large fleet of devices with multiple profiles.”
SOURCE: Businesswire