Whiteboard Video Series — LTE Advanced

The greatest opportunity for competitive innovation is at the customer edge — and all-wired networks aren’t the answer. Gigabit-Class LTE is a flexible and simplified option that can deliver speeds similar to wired broadband. As a result, enterprises are embracing the new reality of high-bandwidth mobile services, remote or mobile video streaming, remote digital advertising, large footprint private wireless networks, and agile branches.

Join this live webinar — featuring Cradlepoint’s Lindsay Notwell, Senior VP of 5G Strategy and Global Carrier Operations — to explore how Gigabit-Class LTE, a foundational element of 5G, can help your organization become 5G Ready for enterprise-class use cases.

With advanced technology, law enforcement agencies benefit from the ability to be at the right place at the right time — and with the right tools to enable critical communications so officers have the real-time information they need. With the capabilities of smart sensors, smart surveillance, license plate readers and recorders, and the ability to readily push this data to headquarters and responding emergency workers, the system can be advanced to reach vast capabilities in the detection, determination, and deterrence of criminal activity.

IoT also opens the doors for the opportunity to have rapidly deployable temporary networks. A temporary pop-up network, such as an Emergency Command Center or even a command vehicle at a large event helps public safety officials monitor large gatherings of people to ensure maximum community safety. These pop-up networks also aid in disaster recovery from events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, wild fires and human-caused events like terrorist attacks and active shooters.

Join Michael Fletcher, business development manager and retired San Bernardino County Deputy Sheriff, and Estee Woods, director of public sector and public safety marketing, both of Cradlepoint, for this webinar for an overview of IoT applications taking effect in public safety and real-world uses cases.

Enterprises like Sagegreenlife are constantly innovating new ways to turn data from IoT devices into a strategic competitive advantage — and finding best practices to address their challenges.

Sagegreenlife’s living walls, which serve companies by bringing nature into man-made spaces, required an easy-to-use and customizable IoT solution that would allow its field operations team to remotely monitor various facets of the irrigation and power systems that support the plants — leveraging both cloud services and highly reliable network connectivity. Otherwise, the greenery would die, customers would be unhappy, and Sagegreenlife’s brand credibility would be at risk.

Watch our live webinar with Harry Eschel, Sagegreenlife’s Senior Vice President of Products, to explore how the company uses Azure IoT Central and Cradlepoint’s LTE edge network solutions to discover and address system problems from headquarters. Also learn how Sagegreenlife did all of this without specialized developers.

The 2020 elections are expected to attract record numbers of voters. Local governments need to prepare to manage a bigger turnout — and the potential for contentious results given the current political climate. But many polling sites – parks, churches, schools, etc. – are remote, making permanent, highly-secure network connections impractical. How can cities and counties reduce the risks of unsecured networks and compromised voter data?

You will learn:

- The current elections landscape
- How city and county IT staff can spin up, spin down and manage networks, ensure site-to-site transmission protection and provide safe network communication
- Tactics local governments can use to ensure reliable, secure connectivity for pop-up voting centers

Today, Internet of Things (IoT) deployments are expanding across industries. These “things” are defined as any device that can be connected to the Internet. Today, the term “smart” is linked to an ever-growing number of things from phones, stores, restaurants, cars, to whole cities. The powerful combination of sensors, M2M technology, wireless connectivity, and data can heighten the efficiency and productivity of things and systems that seemed commonplace just a few years ago.

With this wireless technology innovation, many more industries can leverage automation and become more efficient:

•Public Safety - Agencies are finding new ways to utilize wireless technology to maximize productivity and minimize time spent on administrative duties taking officers away from our communities.

•Utilities - Technologies that conserve resources for cities are quite valuable, and wireless connectivity is delivering possibilities such as, interactive meters or sensors that monitor and identify leaks and other breakdowns at the time they happen, saving thousands of dollars.

•Restaurants - Full-motion digital signage and Point-of-Sale (POS) systems are becoming more than just a way to collect customer payments but can be a full-fledged solution for managing inventory, ordering, employee scheduling, and budget projections.

•Retail - Beacons allow customers to make payments in-store on their phones, and also receive targeted advertisements and information about sales, service offerings, and customer analytics.

•Smart Homes - With wireless networking, objects can communicate with the homeowner’s smartphone, so regular activities like adjusting lights, appliances, thermostats, surveillance, or even locking or unlocking the front door can be monitored or changed with the swipe of a finger.

Join Cradlepoint’s Ken Hosac, VP of IoT Strategy & Business Development, to explore how cities can cut costs, improve communication, and strengthen processes.

From large retailers and restaurant chains to financial service companies and many others, most organizations with lots of locations understand that LTE has become a crucial part of branch networking. But where is LTE’s “sweet spot” in branch settings?

Join Cradlepoint’s Anthony Lawson, Technical Marketing Engineering Manager, for a live webinar exploring the best ways to maximize the benefits of LTE within branch network architecture. You’ll learn how other companies are winning with wireless WAN and and getting on the pathway to 5G.

Organizations’ IT teams are always looking for new ways to cost-effectively deliver more network bandwidth, automation, and intelligence — and SD-WAN is one of the latest and most promising trends.

Another prominent trend is the rise of LTE and 5G for enterprise networking, and now companies have begun integrating cellular-based WAN into their SD-WAN deployments. These converged architectures vary, but the end goal remains clear: flexible, highly reliable networking that simplifies processes and maximizes IT man-hours.

Join Cradlepoint’s Donna Johnson, VP of Product and Solution Marketing, for a live webinar exploring how LTE and SD-WAN can revolutionize the way organizations roll out, monitor, manage, and troubleshoot enterprise networks.

Wireless LAN isn’t just for offices and coffee shops. Today, IoT is everywhere, making the mobility and flexibility of wireless crucial even across large, sprawling areas such as warehouses, mines, airports, manufacturing facilities, hospitals, and even entire cities.

The need for large-scale wireless LAN is immense, but the ability of WiFi to meet that need is limited. Many organizations are instead deploying Private LTE, which can use a range of spectrums — including CBRS — to reduce congestion, enhance traffic flow, improve information security, and dramatically drive down costs.

In a live webinar on April 24, Cradlepoint’s Roger Billings, chief architect, and Matt Thueson, solutions engineer, will explore the benefits of Private LTE vs. WiFi for wireless LAN, and the potential ramifications within various commercial and public sector use cases.

Today, within agencies, many records management systems are moving to a digital format. With this fundamental change in information sharing and storing, agencies must follow proper cybersecurity governance and manage networking risks to protect sensitive information regarding operations, personal information, criminal records, and to keep records accurate for the purpose of developing cases.

The Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS) Security Policy was designed to ensure the protection of CJI, for this reason, agencies must be conformant with CJIS Security Policy within their agency operations.

Attend this webinar to learn how agencies can leverage and manage secure, Gigabit LTE router solutions — while transferring and storing data digitally or utilizing the cloud— and comply with CJIS Security Policy guidelines.

RSA was bigger than ever this year, with sessions ranging from data privacy to Python-based security automation. Cradlepoint Chief Security Officer Todd Kelly attended the conference and identified several key trends related to network security that affect how enterprises deploy branch, mobile and IoT networks.

Join Todd Kelly and Mauricio Steffen, product manager for branch and security solutions at Cradlepoint, in this live webinar on March 28, 2019. They will share their takeaways from RSA 2019 and discuss how to incorporate what they learned into considerations for network architecture and vendor selection.

This webinar will explore various topics that are important for organizations looking to strengthen their security profile while containing costs and managing with a small IT staff. Topics will include:
— How enterprises can defend against these threats as IoT becomes more pervasive in all industries
— What enterprises can expect from network equipment and software vendors — and the best questions to ask
— Which use cases in your network can benefit from zero trust security
— How enterprises can build a secure network with LTE and 5G
— The security differences between a wired network and a wireless network

Today, mission-critical connectivity is not just about getting MDTs hooked up to CAD systems. The connected vehicle is now the hub for law officers in the field to do their day-to-day tasks, protect citizens, and serve the community. Because of this, it is pushing more and more technology into the cruisers. In-vehicle wireless technology is becoming mainstream to effectively leverage modern public safety devices and applications and to take advantage of broadband networks dedicated to public safety. To maintain interoperability between technologies, it is imperative to choose the correct solution that keeps agencies CJIS conformant and offers the critical connectivity needed to not only serve the community but save lives in incident response.

Join Michael Fletcher, business development manager and retired San Bernardino County Deputy Sheriff, and Estee Woods, director of public sector and public safety marketing, both of Cradlepoint, for this webinar for an overview of critical considerations for digital transformations happening in public safety, a solution comparison for in-vehicle and incident response networking solutions, and real-world uses cases.

This webinar will help law enforcement understand the opportunities that come with wireless connectivity so they can be better prepared when emergencies strike. Utilizing dated technology is like having a pager in a smartphone world — and when lives are on the line, agencies need to understand those implications.


What Attendees Will Learn:
•How digital transformation, national public safety broadband networks,
and 5G are driving mission-critical LTE connectivity.
•How MiFi, single modem routers, and dual-modem routers solutions
compare for law enforcement applications.
•About the applications of network security and the impact of cloud-
managed networks.
•Real-world uses cases.
•How accessible in-vehicle wireless connectivity can be for agencies.

The ongoing progression from 4G LTE to Gigabit-Class LTE and 5G for enterprise networking has made one fact clear: The rise of wireless WAN is here. Among those surveyed in IDG and Cradlepoint’s new 2019 State of the WAN Report, the average organization has 2.7 types of LTE endpoints. In fact, 77 percent have LTE endpoints for branch locations, 68 percent for IoT devices, 51 percent for fleet vehicles, and 50 percent for pop-up networks. Nearly a quarter — 22 percent — of respondents have all these endpoints.

Organizations across a wide range of industries have discovered that wireless links can meet today’s branch, mobile, and IoT requirements by adding LTE to wired connections as a failover, augmenting traditional WAN links with additional bandwidth, and extending network connectivity to fleet and public safety vehicles.

Join Donna Johnson, vice president of product and solution marketing at Cradlepoint,, for a live webinar to explore the changing role of wireless WAN in the enterprise, as well as what Gigabit-Class LTE and 5G can do for the future of network connectivity.

Agencies can achieve reliable networking through Cradlepoint’s cloud-delivered LTE wireless solutions, but there is still the important step of choosing an antenna option. Obtaining the optimal signal quality for mobile networks can be guaranteed by selecting the best-fit antenna.

In the public safety field, antennas may live inside or outside vehicles and may be exposed to jostling, dust, water, or other outdoor elements. Agencies require specific antennas for the use of mobile applications including:

• MDTs inside the vehicle to file reports and access files without having to go back to headquarters.

• WiFi for extended coverage range so vehicles can share connectivity.

• GPS and CAD to send responders to the emergencies nearest to them.

• Handheld devices or tablets used outside the vehicle to collect data at the scene of an emergency.

Agencies need to know the right antenna to choose for different applications, or if they plan to use more than one carrier.

In this live webinar Travis Culwell, business development manager at Panorama Antennas, will explain key details of antenna options as well as best fits depending on an agency’s needs; and Jason Johnston, enterprise support engineer at Cradlepoint and previous field technician for the City of Boise where he designed, deployed, and maintained an MDT solution for both police and fire, will highlight use cases of successful antenna installs.

Most retailers are looking to improve and expand the services they can offer their customers, as well as ways they facilitate back-room operations and optimize their supply chain. Technologies such as cloud, LTE and 5G can enable and even drive those changes.

Join Cradlepoint’s Todd Krautkremer, CMO, and Anthony Lawson, technical marketing engineer, for a live webinar to explore the different ways that retailers are leveraging 4G LTE and Gigabit-Class LTE wireless network solutions now — and preparing for 5G in the future.

Webinar attendees will learn how:
— LTE is being used today to transform in-store services, and how Gigabit-Class LTE changes what is possible.
— IoT usage in stores is streamlining supply chains, reducing shrinkage, and improving employee productivity and safety.
— Retailers that aren’t pinned down to fixed locations are expanding their reach and engaging with customers in new ways.
— 5G is poised to drive even further change as retailers take advantage of the fastest speeds and lowest latency in the history of wireless networking.

With the arrival of Gigabit-Class LTE network solutions for enterprises and public safety agencies, the era of wireless WAN is here — and enterprise networking will never be the same. Utilizing Elastic Wideband technology, Cradlepoint’s new cloud-managed routers featuring built-in Gigabit-Class LTE modems provide the speeds, reliability, and flexibility necessary to drastically improve existing use cases, and to enable new ones that have never been possible in branch or vehicle settings.

With game-changing Gigabit-Class LTE, which leverages technologies that are foundational pieces of 5G, wireless now meets or exceeds other broadband networks, but with the added value of mobility, immediate deployment, and standardized billing on a single nationwide carrier.

Join Donna Johnson, vice president of product and solution marketing at Cradlepoint, for a live webinar to explore how the world’s first Gigabit-Class LTE solutions for enterprise networking can revolutionize wireless WAN and put organizations on the Pathway to 5G.

Today’s branch networking landscape has been changed by the rise of cloud-based applications, cloud-delivered traffic, and IoT devices. These trends significantly affect how network administrators and IT teams address network uptime and security, deploy IoT devices, and manage their widely distributed endpoints. New needs often require innovative network architectures and solutions.

Join Lee Doyle, principal analyst at Doyle Research, and Donna Johnson, vice president of product and solution marketing at Cradlepoint, for a live webinar to explore the ramifications of cloud applications and IoT on branch architectures, as well as the role of flexible, cloud-managed edge solutions in meeting the diverse and ever-changing network requirements of today’s enterprises.

As operators enhance existing networks with LAA, CBRS, and other current-day technologies, Gigabit LTE stands out as a key component in the monumental transition toward 5G. While there’s significant buzz about the ways in which 5G will transform business operations, the benefits of Gigabit LTE and enhancements to existing networks are being overlooked. It’s important for organizations to understand how Gigabit LTE and private LTE can help transform their operations now and help prepare them for 5G.

Join Cradlepoint’s Lindsay Notwell, senior VP of 5G strategy and global carrier operations, and James Weaver, senior product marketing manager, for a live webinar to explore how Gigabit LTE’s speed and reliability are enhancing wireless networking use cases — and continuing the pathway to 5G.

Public-safety organizations are not immune to the growing volume and variety of cyber attacks, as witnessed by the recent attacks on city governments and public-safety agencies, several of which took critical systems offline for days. According to Cisco’s 2018 Security Capabilities Benchmark report, 95 percent of attacks result in damages of $500,000 or more. As public safety organizations embrace the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) and connect more people, places and things, their “attack surface” grows exponentially, exacerbating the security challenge.

FirstNet is bringing public safety a much needed mobile communications upgrade by introducing the latest private sector technologies into the public sector safely and securely. It helps to improve first responders’ efficiency, safety and response times by enabling better field and interagency coordination using new connected devices and applications. As many organizations begin to plan their FirstNet deployment, it’s a good time to re-evaluate network security strategy — from cruiser to cloud.

This webinar will explore approaches and best practices in connecting and protecting the growing number of network endpoints that are part of modern policing, firefighting and emergency medical services, including PCs, tablets, vehicles, cameras, sensors, drones, robots, and live streaming video. It will highlight the inherent security features of FirstNet as well as define security functions required at the edge router to protect communications to back-office systems, state and federal crime databases, and the cloud. Additionally, the webinar will touch on federal security compliance requirements, which are now receiving greater scrutiny.

Todd Krautkremer, Cradlepoint chief marketing officer, will lead the live webinar with Doug Clark, assistant vice president, AT&T FirstNet Programs, and Todd Kelly, Cradlepoint chief security officer, presenting