FEATURE : 5G
“ We have now officially entered a 5G-driven world ,” said Donna Johnson , Senior Vice President of Marketing , Cradlepoint . “ IT teams are going to be faced with complexities of managing and controlling a distributed Wireless WAN . Cellular Intelligence , which is embedded in everything Cradlepoint does , simplifies cellular deployments with more predictable connectivity , deeper insights and more accurate cost containment . It goes well beyond adding an off-the-shelf modem to a router and gives network administrators the tools they need to secure , manage and control a distributed Wireless WAN – at scale .”
AS 5G ADOPTION RATES
CONTINUE TO RISE , IDC PREDICTS THAT BY 2024 , ‘ WIRELESS FIRST ’ WILL BE
MAINSTREAM FOR WIDE AREA CONNECTIVITY .
One of the newest Cellular Intelligence features – SIM Management – is based on an integration with Ericsson ’ s IoT Accelerator platform . Communication Service Providers ( CSPs ) and other channel partners that utilise IoT Accelerator will now be able to provide customers with the ability to view , activate and adjust cellular data plans in real time for their Cradlepoint devices . There are also plans to integrate with SIM aggregation databases to provide broader visibility across all global carrier ’ s data plans . With these integrations , Cradlepoint Cellular Intelligence now exclusively provides real-time SIM Management capability .
“ Cradlepoint , together with Ericsson IoT , has extended SIM Management to Cradlepoint ’ s portfolio of cellularenabled routers and adapters for fixed site , mobile and IoT use cases ,” said Kyle Okamoto , General Manager of IoT at Ericsson . “ Now , any ecosystem member that utilises the Ericsson IoT Accelerator platform can extend SIM Management functionality to Cradlepoint devices , providing our global partners with service differentiation and giving enterprise customers yet another powerful tool to help manage the cost and performance of their Wireless WAN deployment .” p
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