Build, buy or rent your IoT communications stack?

The key things to consider when evaluating the options. To make IoT successful, developers will need to connect billions of devices in a meaningful way, delivering truly distributed machine-to-machine (M2M) computing and device control. However, the IoT M2M challenge is also about ensuring security, reliability, privacy and real-time communications on a plethora of devices hobbled by small, low power CPUs and limited memory. And the question is, do you build or buy the IoT communications stack?