Whiteboard Video Series — LTE Advanced

Join the Cradlepoint Product Management team to learn about these new updates to the Cradlepoint NetCloud Platform.

Cradlepoint updates key software elements to unify them under the NetCloud Services umbrella: 
NetCloud OS: Router firmware is named and elevated as a key pillar of the NetCloud Platform
NetCloud Manager: Enterprise Cloud Manager, the single-pane-of-glass management service for all Cradlepoint solutions, is renamed NetCloud Manager
NetCloud Engine: A Software-Defined Perimeter service offering dark cloud security

When combined with Cradlepoint routers, this integrated platform of flexible, extensible, and rapidly deployable applications enables an entirely new way to easily build, secure, control, and manage end-to-end private networks in the cloud.

Cradlepoint is also launching NetCloud OS 6.4 router software for enhanced network security and configuration flexibility. Cradlepoint leverages NetCloud Manager’s unique connectivity to enable secure cloud management for non-cloud-managed third-party devices, plus enhancements to Out-of-Band Management capabilities.

Cradlepoint continues to invest in NetCloud Engine to bring the advantages of dark cloud security (or of a software-defined perimeter) to customers who need to integrate IoT connections into corporate networks. 

Technology is improving retail operations and enhancing the customer experience. The “Smart Store” has come to life with the rise of the Internet of Things, inspiring stores to adopt applications such as digital signage and IoT sensors.  

Sign up for this webcast with Ken Hosac, Vice President at Cradlepoint, to learn more about how Smart Stores concepts are changing the dynamics of the shopping experience, creating new retail store standards, and how it’s all dependent upon a foolproof network connection. 

At the Network’s Edge, the 24/7 need to connect people, places, and things to the WAN over wired and wireless internet broadband is shaping a new paradigm: the Elastic Edge. The Elastic Edge constantly expands, contracts, adapts, and evolves as business needs dictate. Wireless connectivity is essential to achieving this level of elasticity that today’s Connected Enterprise requires.

Join Ian Pennell, Cradlepoint CMO, on July 13, 2017, for a live webinar about the characteristics of the Elastic Edge — software-defined, policy-driven, and highly orchestrated to eliminate network complexity.

Attendees will learn about:

+ Challenges and opportunities in network infrastructure
+ How wireless connectivity and related strategies enhance network infrastructure
+ How Network-as-a-Service expands connections, capacity, and services when and where you need them

Today, businesses and organizations of all sizes — and from all industries — are challenged to extend their networks to more people, places, and things than ever. It’s also clear that legacy WANs — predominately based on wired, hardware-defined, and resource-intensive infrastructures — can’t keep pace with the rapidly changing needs of today’s lean and agile connected enterprise.

Join Cradlepoint’s Ian Pennell on June 22 for a live webinar about trends in enterprise WAN architectures. Learn what Cradlepoint’s recent State of the Network 2017 report revealed about LTE adoption, software-defined WAN, and more.

Today’s IoT topology is a hodge-podge of standards, communication mechanisms, software, and hardware.

Look at a typical home IoT environment that requires a unique hub for every IoT device. This results in complexity and interoperability challenges for widespread adoption and support. Sensors will continue to reduce in size, power, and cost but will remain constrained as to how many features one can bind into a small compute device. Communication standards at the Edge range from WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Zwave, Thread, ANT, and the list is growing. What is needed are smarter Edge devices that provide the services of communication routing, security, aggregation, and resiliency.

Join this webcast with Perry Lea, Principal Architect and IoT Strategist, for insight into the “wild west” of IoT interoperability, recommendations and predictions on how smart gateways will evolve in the near future.

An ACG Analysis, Research Brief and Webinar Developed in Partnership with RCR Wireless. Concurrent innovations in 5G radio access and in network control and application delivery using virtualization and the cloud at multiple layers of the ‘stack’ will bring services to market not feasible in the past. This fortunate combination makes the arrival of 5G especially inspiring. Evaluating several of the more impactful new radio access innovations, the way they benefit from virtualization and the cloud in managing the network and and delivering new applications, and examining the benefits these enhancements bring to stakeholders in the 5G and IIoT ecosystems is the focus of this research.

One area of innovations in 5G and IIoT is to support a massive scale of connectivity for ‘things’ for commercial and industrial use. In many cases use of low power access technologies such as LoRa is integral to supporting new applications at scale. In other cases innovative data distribution mechanisms such as Coordinated Multi-Point communications (or CoMP) to support the use of diverse types of end-stations are crucial to bringing the versatility, efficiency and scale to IIoT that some applications need. In parallel support for highly reliable and ultra-low latency communication for applications in transportation, health care, public safety and other vertical sectors will harness new frequency bands and transmission management techniques to accomplish their functions.

This research brief and webinar from ACG Research will examine the symbiosis between 5G radio access innovations and the technologies of virtualization and the cloud for delivering IIoT at scale in ways that have not been possible in the past.

Digital transformation is driving the increased deployment of cloud-based applications, a mobile workforce, and IoT. A new WAN architecture is required to support this digital transformation and deliver reliable, secure connectivity to people, places, and things.

In a live webinar on May 24, 2017, Lee Doyle of Doyle Research and Todd Krautkremer of Cradlepoint will discuss the technologies enabling the next-generation WAN, including SD-WAN, Software-Defined Perimeter (SD-P), and LTE.

With 5G rapidly climbing the hype cycle toward the peak of inflated expectations, many organizations are asking the same question: “Where does 5G stand today, and how long before it can help my business?”

Carriers in the U.S. are not only talking about it, but claiming their trials are ongoing and deployments are coming soon — in many cases, years earlier than had been thought possible. In reality, 5G has a limited, powerful use case today, but can reach its exceptional potential within the next couple years.

At 11am PT / 2pm ET on April 26, 2017, join Cradlepoint’s David Rush and Ken Rehbehn of 451 Research to explore the 5G reality today and how 5G can help people and businesses in 2018 and beyond.

Cradlepoint is the global leader in cloud-based network solutions for connecting people, places, and things over wired and wireless broadband.

In healthcare, network administrators and IT teams face a unique array of ongoing challenges. Always-on connectivity is more than just mission-critical; it’s about saving lives. Care services must extend beyond fixed locations and far into the field. Also, healthcare practitioners need access to sensitive patient data anytime, anywhere — and security breaches are unacceptable.
 
From primary connections at fixed locations to temporary networks, in-vehicle applications and the Internet of Healthcare Things (IoHT), healthcare organizations are looking for purpose-built, cloud-managed solutions that foster HIPAA Compliance and hardware, complexity, man-hours, and costs.
 
At 9am PT / 12pm ET on April 12, 2017, join Cradlepoint’s Roger Billings to explore the many ways healthcare organizations are joining data, cloud, security, and the evolving IoT with intelligent networking to stay always connected and secure.

At RSA 2017, Cradlepoint Senior Product Marketing Manager Bryan Embrey discusses security and five-nines availability that is cloud-monitored and cloud-managed through a single pane of glass.

At RSA 2017, Cradlepoint SVP for Emerging Technologies Todd Kelly discusses the influx of the Internet of Things, and how a Software-Defined Perimeter approach can foster single-pane-of-glass management of networks, applications, and workloads.

At RSA 2017, Cradlepoint Solution Architect Kevin Johnson talks about all-in-one network connectivity and security through Cradlepoint routers — both at the branch and in vehicles.

In March 2017 Cradlepoint is enhancing its SD-WAN and Extensibility Platform with the release of Firmware 6.3, which extends and enhances our SD-WAN offering for People (remote and mobile workers), Places (branch offices, vehicles, pop-up venues, etc.) and Things (M2M and IoT).

Cradlepoint will also be launching new enhancements to Enterprise Cloud Manager (ECM), part of the NetCloud Platform, with Client Analytics. New LAN Client Analytics enhance network visibility and provide insights to what is connected to your network and how your network is being used.

The new features in Firmware 6.3:
— Smart WAN Selection (SWANS): Smart, automated failover when primary connection degrades
— Automatic Quality of Service (Auto-QoS): Optimizes real-time (voice and video) application experience when network traffic congestion occurs
— IKEv2 Support: Enhanced authentication with X.509 certificates, improved encryption policies and security, and mobility support
— Enhanced Supportability Features: Better IPsec status and logging, Firewall Hit Counter, Support Page

Enhancements to the Extensibility Platform offering with SDK-Extensible UI:
— Build in configuration or status for your SDK application
— Leverage existing web server functionality of the router
— Customize landing pages

Enhancements to Enterprise Cloud Manager (ECM) with Client Analytics:
— Client Analytics: Visibility and management of usage by individual network client

Join the Product Management Team for a live webinar to learn more about the new enhancements to Cradlepoint’s networking solutions for today’s agile enterprise.

Jeff Mucci, CEO & Head of Industry Insights and Enterprise IoT at RCR Wireless interviews Lindsay Notwell, VP of Worldwide Carrier Operations and Ken Hosac, VP of Business Development at Cradlepoint on the state of 5G, the proliferation of IoT, and the digital transformation in networking on the show floor from Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, Spain.

As 2017 takes shape, network administrators and security specialists face an ever-expanding slate of hacker tricks and attempted breaches — tied in part to the rapid increase of workforce mobility, the Internet of Things, network on-ramps, and connected everything.

Join Cradlepoint Chief Security Officer Kent Woodruff to explore how organizations are using software-defined, cloud-based solutions to reduce complexity and protect their most critical data.

There’s no way around it: Setting up and maintaining traditional VPNs for remote access requires extensive time, energy and resources. Configuring, managing, and troubleshooting devices and applications located at the data center in headquarters and in each end device is one of the most complex and laborious aspects of network administration — especially with increased workforce mobility and IoT.

With a next-generation Virtual Cloud Network (VCN), configuration, management, and security policies are streamlined and handled in the cloud.  This enables rapid deployment, reduces operational expenses and completely integrates with your existing infrastructure.

At 9am PT / 12pm ET on March 1 2017, join Cradlepoint’s Bryan Embrey to explore how resilient, redundant, secure, and scalable VCNs leverage software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization technologies to reduce complexity, hardware, and IT man-hours.