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Digi International helps equipment makers, businesses and government customers connect devices to networks and manage them remotely. Most revenue comes from its IoT Products & Services business, which sells embedded connectivity modules, routers and infrastructure-management equipment under brands including Digi, Digi XBee and Opengear. Customers buy hardware for their own systems or products and can pay subscriptions for remote device management and support. Digi is moving beyond its historically one-time hardware sales toward these bundled subscriptions.
Its smaller IoT Solutions business earns mainly subscription fees. SmartSense by Digi uses sensors and cloud software to monitor temperatures of food, medicines and other sensitive goods; Jolt helps customers manage employee tasks, workforce operations and labeling. These offerings serve food service, healthcare and related businesses. Ventus provides managed network connectivity for equipment such as ATMs and retail payment terminals.
Most sales reach customers through distributors, systems integrators and resellers, with one distributor accounting for a substantial share of total revenue. Digi also depends on outside manufacturers, some single-source suppliers and cellular carriers it does not control. Selling wireless products in some markets requires carrier certification or government approval, and changes to permitted radio bands can require product redesigns.
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Lantronix competes with Digi for equipment makers’ and enterprises’ spending on connectivity built into devices, remote-management software and network-management hardware. Its enterprise-network business is the part to watch for competitive pressure on Digi, rather than its unmanned-aircraft offerings.
Semtech competes with Digi to sell device makers and enterprises the modules, routers, gateways and managed connectivity services that connect their devices. Its IoT Systems and Connectivity sales are the relevant comparison for Digi, rather than its other semiconductor businesses.
Inseego competes with Digi for enterprise wireless-connectivity spending through cellular routers, gateways and cloud software that manages the devices. Watch its fixed wireless access products and software services for competition with Digi’s routers and remote-management subscriptions.
Airgain competes with Digi’s wireless-connectivity products through embedded modems, vehicle gateways and cloud-managed systems sold into enterprise, automotive and consumer markets. Watch whether Airgain turns those hardware-and-software systems into subscription, cloud-service and support revenue as Digi also shifts toward subscriptions.
TransAct competes directly with Digi’s SmartSense and Jolt for food-service customers buying labeling, temperature monitoring and kitchen-operations software. Its BOHA! hardware and separately purchased cloud applications are the business to watch for competition with Digi’s food-service solutions, not its casino printers.
Ericsson’s Cradlepoint competes with Digi for enterprise customers buying cellular routers and cloud-managed connectivity; the overlap is with Digi’s enterprise routers and remote-management offerings.
Cisco competes with Digi to supply enterprise customers with routers and wireless connectivity, but its broader networking business makes its overall results a less direct comparison. Watch routing and wireless products rather than treating all of Cisco’s networking sales as a signal for Digi.
Belden and Digi both serve spending on connected industrial infrastructure: Belden sells data-transmission and automation systems to industrial-equipment makers and through distributors, while Digi sells industrial connectivity products. Belden’s Automation Solutions business is the part to watch for demand tied to industrial-network modernization.
Silicon Laboratories and Digi both depend on equipment makers adopting connected devices and managing inventories: Silicon Laboratories sells wireless IoT chips, while Digi sells embedded connectivity modules. Watch wireless-chip demand alongside customer inventory reductions, which weighed on Digi’s one-time product sales in fiscal 2025.
Belden Inc. earningsBDC
Belden's report will show how spending on industrial-network modernization is moving, a demand signal for Digi's industrial connectivity products.
Focus on Belden's Automation Solutions business, not its overall results. Strength there would point to firmer industrial spending on network modernization, a supportive backdrop for Digi's industrial connectivity products. Weakness would suggest a softer spending backdrop, but would not by itself establish that Digi's sales are falling.
Silicon Laboratories Inc earningsSLAB
Silicon Labs' report will show wireless-IoT chip demand and customer inventory trends, a market signal for Digi's one-time product sales.
Watch wireless-IoT chip demand at Silicon Labs alongside whether customers are still reducing inventories. Stronger demand with less inventory reduction would suggest equipment makers are more willing to replenish stock, a better order backdrop for Digi's embedded connectivity products. Weak chip demand or continued inventory cuts would suggest customer caution may still weigh on Digi's one-time product sales. This is a market signal, not evidence that Silicon Labs supplies Digi.
Lantronix Inc earningsLTRX
Lantronix's report will show enterprise demand for its networking products, a competitive read-through for Digi's connectivity and remote-management business.
Focus on Lantronix's enterprise-network business, not its unmanned-aircraft offerings. Strength there would show customers are buying products that overlap with Digi's connectivity and remote-management offerings, indicating more traction for a competitor. Weakness could mean less competitive pressure, but it could also reflect softer demand for both companies' products—not a Digi win by itself.
Transact Technologies Inc earningsTACT
TransAct Technologies' report will show food-service demand for its BOHA! hardware and cloud applications, which compete directly with Digi's SmartSense and Jolt.
Read demand for BOHA! hardware alongside customer purchases of its cloud applications. Strength in both would show food-service customers adopting tools that compete directly with Digi's SmartSense and Jolt, giving TransAct Technologies more traction in this market. Weakness in both could ease competitive pressure, or simply reflect lower spending by food-service customers; it would not prove Digi is winning business.
Digi International Inc earningsThis company
Digi's report will show whether subscription growth is becoming large enough to offset pressure on one-time connectivity-product sales.
Read period-end ARR (annualized recurring revenue, the annualized monthly value of billable subscriptions) alongside revenue and recurring-revenue growth in both segments. ARR shows the scale and growth of subscriptions, but it is not recognized revenue. Rising ARR and recurring revenue, with IoT Products & Services revenue stabilizing, would show that subscriptions are broadening the growth base. Slower ARR growth, or continued pressure on Products & Services that IoT Solutions cannot offset, would show subscriptions have not yet taken over from one-time product sales.
