Supplier Spotlight - MultiTech | Symmetry Blog

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Each week, we'll be showcasing one of our suppliers from our line card and what distinguishes them from the competition. This week's supplier is MultiTech, a global provider of data communications equipment for the industrial Internet of Things.

Who is MultiTech?

MultiTech designs, develops and manufactures data communications equipment for the industrial Internet of Things — connecting physical assets to business processes to deliver enhanced value. Their commitment to quality and service excellence means you can count on MultiTech products and people to address your needs, while their history of innovation ensures you can stay ahead of the latest technology with a partner who will be there for the life of your solution.

How are they different?

Superior Quality: From their US-based manufacturing plant to their countless product and process certifications, they’re committed to the utmost quality in everything they do. That’s why you can find more than 22 Million MultiTech products performing essential duties for businesses around the globe.

Service Excellence: From their comprehensive portfolio to the extensive reach of their distribution network, MultiTech is easy to choose and easy to buy. Thanks to in-house manufacturing and custom design services; broad-reaching expertise and fast, agile development they deliver customization and flexibility you simply can’t get anywhere else.

History of Innovation: From the earliest analog systems, to the cellular heart of today’s industrial Internet of Things to the latest low-power wireless technology, MultiTech has consistently connected businesses in ways previously unimaginable – and has been doing so for more than 40 years. They have no intention of slowing down. They’re continuing their legacy of firsts with the world’s first commercially deployable LoRA-based suite of communications devices.

What are their most popular products?

MultiTech specializes in certified, carrier-approved modems, routers, and gateways to enable IoT and M2M applications on wired, cellular, and LoRa networks. MultiTech offers a variety of embedded devices as well as gateways, routers and modems that address connectivity across a variety of technologies including analog, Ethernet, cellular, PAN and LPWA. Their diverse, award-winning portfolio reflects the constantly evolving world of the Internet of Things with a product and technology combination to suit virtually any use case.

MultiTech is committed to supporting the growth and development of the Internet of Things (IoT) in order to create new customer experiences and unparalleled economic value, while improving quality of life for countless people throughout the world. By providing Internet of Things products and services, MultiTech delivers deeper understanding to businesses, governments, organizations and individuals, which will in turn transform the way they live and work.

What services does MultiTech offer to help your design?

Their data communication products are designed to ensure the quickest route to market based on your needs, programming capabilities, preferred use of resources and business focus, in order to deliver a faster return on investment and lower total cost of ownership.

MultiTech DeviceHQ^® is a cloud-based tool set for managing the latest generation of MultiTech devices. It incorporates all the functionality of MultiTech Device Manager, on which so many M2M and IoT applications already rely for remote monitoring, upgrades and configuration of entire device populations – whether one or 1 million. DeviceHQ takes remote device management and maintenance to a new level, by providing an application marketplace, allowing users to browse applications, or build their own, then easily deploy them to and customize them for remote devices from anywhere.

Certification

They’ve done all the hardware, software and RF design and testing so you don’t have to – reducing you the time, cost and risk associated with regulatory and industry certifications, and carrier approvals, in order to provide the easiest, smoothest path to enabling communications in your IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) applications.

Support

MultiTech customers consistently rate them ahead of the competition for the quality of their technical support. That’s because they're committed to providing you the information you need to install and maintain your IoT product in a timely, concise and easy-to-understand format. Their commitment to quality and service excellence means you can count on MultiTech products and people to address your needs, while their history of innovation ensures you can stay ahead of the latest technology with a partner who will be there for the life of your solution.