An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
Increasingly, enterprise organizations are finding that they must operate in a distributed fashion. Long gone for most organizations are the days of having a handful of large facilities that they could connect with private, high-speed and resilient network connections. We are now in a time in which pop-up stores, stores within stores, kiosks, connected vehicles and even digital signage are transforming even the most industrial age organization into a distributed enterprise.
The problem is that most enterprise technology solutions were not designed for this type of distributed operation. Focused on serving the distributed enterprise, Cradlepoint has created a full suite of software-defined solutions for this purpose. The company offers a range of solutions for branch locations, mobile needs, and Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. The company also provides a cloud-based management approach that enables organizations to centrally manage devices, monitor health, and access analytics.
The company’s solutions incorporate various technologies and approaches to solve the specific needs of each use case. This includes things like:
- LTE for WAN fail-over, air gapping networks in multi-use locations, and for mobile connectivity
- Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) for branch versatility and cost efficiency, and for IoT connectivity
- Software-defined perimeters for branch and IoT security
The company believes that unlike traditional approaches which are technology-focused, the combination of its use-case focused solutions, its use of LTE (moving toward 5G), and its focus on meeting enterprise-specific management, compliance, and security needs, makes it particularly suited to meet the needs of the distributed enterprise.
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