Senet is continuing its low-power, wide-area networks roll out, having announced it has added 10 major metropolitan areas, which includes 115 cities on top of the 110 cities it is already serving with new Points-of-Presence (PoPs) in Los Angeles, New York City, Washington D.C., Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Seattle, San Diego, Atlanta and Denver with additional expansion planned throughout 2017. With other major markets already covered, including San Francisco, Boston and San Jose, and an interesting mix of smaller community and rural areas served, the company is now an IoT network service provider in 23 states covering over 50 million people.
“Our amazing ride continues,” said Will Yapp, VP Business Development, Senet. “We are extremely proud of the contribution our investment in IoT networking around the United States is making as we support entrepreneurs who are building and operating IoT solutions that are improving everything from education, to farming, public safety, and energy management. We are in this game to win, so our customers can win by having access to a highly scalable and reliable network at low-power connectivity and at reasonable costs.”
Senet has been on the move throughout 2016, including a recent announcement with MyDevices, another member of the LoRaWAN Alliance, driving momentum through ecosystem relationships. The Senet network uses multiple gateway solutions from a range of manufacturers. Their secret sauce may be their own IP, reflected in their Operations Support System (OSS) which they have been scaling up to improve the economics they are passing along to businesses in the smart city, smart building, agriculture, oil and gas, metering and asset management industries.
“This announcement clearly demonstrates our commitment to being the largest and fastest growing LoRa LPWA network in North America”, said George Dannecker, CEO and President, Senet, in a company-issued news release today. “Because we were the first in rolling out and scaling a LoRa LPWA network and application here in North America, we have gained the significant experience necessary to continue to grow the network and support the wide range of IoT applications that will be commercially deploying over the coming months and years.”
Mark Lowenstein, Managing Director, Mobile Ecosystem (News - Alert), added, “We are encouraged to see continued development of purpose-built networks to power the emerging class of low-power, low-bandwidth IoT devices. LPWA networks and the LoRA technology, backed by companies like Senet, are proving to be compelling solutions for accelerating IoT connectivity."