Cradlepoint Brings Software-Defined WAN Benefits to LTE Mobile Networks for First Responders
The new solution allows public safety organizations to take a service-based approach to mobile networking to keep their fleets running smoothly and field teams and IoT devices always connected and protected with less resources and cost.
Cradlepoint announced a solution package for its NetCloud service that includes the new IBR1700 mobile router. The new NetCloud Solution Package for Mobile brings the benefits of software-defined wide-area networking (WAN) to first responders, transit operators, and other field force and fleet-based organizations that rely on simple-to-manage, reliable, and secure in-vehicle and mobile networks with always-on 4G LTE connectivity.
First responders and related organizations that depend on distributed field forces and fleets to provide products and services need reliable and secure mobile networks with always-on 4G LTE connectivity. Their people and passengers must have access to mission-critical applications and the Internet from anywhere — with data flowing from onboard telemetry, sensors, surveillance cameras and other devices. However, managing and securing roving communications hubs is a challenge for IT teams as traditional mobile solutions fail to provide enterprise-class visibility, security and control capabilities of fixed branch networks.
“Cloud, mobile computing, IoT, and 4G/5G wireless technologies are converging to create new solutions that improve the productivity, safety, and management of field workforces and fleet operations – including public safety, field service, utility, and transportation organizations,” said Lee Doyle, Principal Analyst at Doyle Research. “The resulting proliferation of mobile networks will stretch IT teams as they seek to replicate the reliability, security, and management attributes of their branch networks, making the wireless WAN the next frontier for SD-WAN technologies.”
The new Cradlepoint NetCloud Solution Package features the company’s newest ruggedized, all-in-one mobile router – the IBR1700. This new package, delivered as a service, combines the enterprise networking, security and management features that IT teams demand — including SD-WAN for LTE — with the Automated Vehicle Location (AVL) and telematics capabilities required by fleet managers.
Furthermore, the new solution meets the performance and security requirements of FirstNet, a nationwide wireless public safety network for first responsers, and is ready to accomodate future public safety Band 14 modems. It allows public safety organizations and government agencies to take a service-based approach to mobile networking to keep their fleets running smoothly and field teams and IoT devices always connected and protected with less resources and cost.
