Virtualization Is Core to Sprint Curiosity IoT Platform

Sprint is relying heavily on virtualization technology and bare metal infrastructure to power its dedicated IoT platform, dubbed Curiosity. That support will allow the carrier to run a software-based service from the network out to the platform and serve specific enterprise needs. Sprint officially announced the Curiosity platform at this week’s Mobile World Congress Americas event in Los Angeles. Ivo Rook, senior vice president for IoT and product development at Sprint, described the platform’s focus as improving network latency to allow for the quicker extraction of intelligence from the network. This involves using virtualization to push more processing capabilities to the edge of the network to handle most of those needs and a dedicated operating system to help the platform “come alive.”Sprint also worked with ARM on security for the Curiosity platform. That security architecture is handled at the chip level and based on blockchain architecture. Rook said this was an improvement over a security perimeter at the SIM-card level because the platform can also manage devices that don’t require a SIM card like those that connect to WiFi.