Australian company Hills has signed an exclusive Australian distribution agreement for a "technician in a box" remote management product from Uplogix.
The Hills Hoist supplier-turned-technology-provider will distribute the remote network management platform in the Australia and Asia Pacific region.
The technology is being pushed as a component in the so-called machine-to-machine (M2M) space. Uplogix products have been deployed across more than 1,500 US Social Security Administration (SSA) offices and data centres, as well as Citi, RigNet and CenturyLink.
Uplogix technology is already being deployed in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Malaysia in the telecommunications, health, transport and banking sectors by Hills' satellite equipment business Step Electronics.
Uplogix sees the Asia Pacific region as one of its "biggest growth areas", according to a statement from Hills.
The Uplogix management platform connects directly to managed devices so that monitoring, configuration and security tasks can be automated without having technicians on site. The technology is pitched at large companies or government agencies with multiple sites and remote locations.
Hills is not the only company jumping on the M2M trend - Australian vendor Opengear has been looking to establish a formal channel program in Australia. Earlier this year, the company stated its revenues had been growing more than 50 percent a year for the last three years.
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