Avnet Silica has signed a product and services agreement with Thales, covering its eSIM products compliant with GSMA SGP.22 and SGP.32 standards.

This includes a standalone eSIM component and an integrated offer combining the eSIM with its remote management services.

Together, Thales and Avnet Silica are able to deliver a turnkey offering to industrial partners; a single product ready to be deployed in large-scale on the field with an embedded connectivity provided by Avnet Silica partners.

As large-scale IoT and industrial connectivity deployments continue to accelerate, engineering teams face growing security, remote subscription management and regulatory compliance challenges. Meeting these demands requires connectivity that is secure by design, standards-based and capable of supporting large deployments across diverse operating environments.

Through this agreement, Avnet Silica expands its secure and standards-compliant connectivity portfolio by providing industrial and IoT customers across Emea with access to Thales’ GSMA certified eSIM products. Thales’ SGP.32 eSIM technology is designed for massive IoT deployments, supporting simplified remote provisioning and large-scale device management, while SGP.22 suits consumer and hybrid use cases where widely adopted remote SIM provisioning is required.

Together, both options provide a flexible, standards-compliant foundation for connected products operating across long lifecycles and multiple regulatory regions.

Under this agreement, Avnet Silica and Thales are proactively collaborating to deliver a simplified, ready-to-deploy offering compatible with any IoT device. Avnet Silica is offering a complete, ready-to-use service based on Thales’ SGP.32-compliant eSIM technology. This pre-validated end-to-end testing and deployment eliminates complex integration steps, allowing immediate adoption across Europe in key sectors such as industrial automation, smart metering, digital health and critical infrastructure.

“The growth of highly distributed IoT at scale places unprecedented demands on connectivity security, manageability and compliance,” said Thomas Foj, vice president at Avnet Silica. “By partnering with Thales, we are strengthening our ability to help engineering teams deploy secure, standards-based eSIMs that reduce complexity and support reliable operation across global deployments.”

Guillaume Lafaix, vice president at Thales (www.thalesgroup.com), added: “We are proud to partner with Avnet Silica to bring unity to a fragmented IoT market. Our vision is to drastically simplify how enterprises connect the world. With the new SGP.32 standard, we are eliminating the complexity of managing massive device fleets. Together, we provide the ability to scale, empowering customers to orchestrate their deployment with total confidence. This is how we build a secure foundation that is future-proof.”

For more information on Avnet Silica’s connectivity portfolio and how Thales’ eSIMs can accelerate time to market while supporting secure, scalable and resilient connectivity deployments, visit my.avnet.com/silica/solutions/technologies/wireless-connectivity/e2c-euicc-to-connect/.

Avnet Silica (www.avnet-silica.com) is the European semiconductor specialist division of technology distributor Avnet (www.avnet.com).

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