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Skywave expands industrial IoT offering with Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD)

Skywave and Iridium/Orbcomm-backed services have formed a strategic partnership to embed Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD) into Skywave’s industrial IoT offering for heavy equipment OEM customers. The move brings Iridium’s satellite connectivity to a new OEM segment and marks the first collaboration between the two companies.

Discovered 2026-07-28T12:59:28.529641-07:00 | 2026-07-28T12:59:28.529641-07:00

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  • This partnership extends Iridium’s SBD satellite connectivity into Skywave’s industrial IoT platform, giving heavy-equipment OEMs a managed path to deploy global-linked telemetry and messaging.
  • The first-time collaboration signals a new go-to-market channel for satellite IoT capacity, with potential implications for how OEMs design connectivity architectures.
  • By targeting industrial IoT rather than consumer or pure telecom use cases, the deal highlights ongoing demand for resilient, wide-coverage data links in equipment-connected operations.

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