For highly mobile business applications, reliable internet in the field is as essential as it is difficult to achieve. Cellular data is frequently the most accessible option, but service area challenges make it hard to maintain a connection on the go.
As the North American distributor of Peplink’s unbreakable connectivity solutions, FrontierUS—along with our vast network of partners—has extensive experience helping businesses of all kinds realize their connectivity goals.
Remote Worksites
There was a time when the first essential piece of infrastructure at a worksite was a base office in a trailer with a wired phone line and a fax machine. Today, internet access is required for everything from communication and instrumentation to safety monitoring.
FrontierUS’s partners use Pepwave cellular routers to establish their connections to the world before any utilities are connected or the first shovel breaks ground. These internet connections are established within minutes, with one or more existing wireless carriers providing failover. Peplink’s SpeedFusion adds true bandwidth bonding and session-persistent hot failover to these deployments, offering unbreakable connectivity anytime and anywhere.
Maritime
Wi-Fi connections are only feasible in close proximity to the harbor. That leaves only two options for internet service on the water—expensive satellite connections or cellular.
On the open seas, satellite might be the only option. But when near to shore—five to nine miles out—cellular connections are available and significantly less expensive than satellite, especially for higher-bandwidth applications. With the right high-gain LTE antennas, a strong cellular signal can be maintained well offshore, making cellular connectivity very possible for most leisure-based maritime deployments.
Peplink’s technology can seamlessly switch between shore-based Wi-Fi, near-shore cellular, and open-sea satellite networks based on flexible priorities, maintaining connectivity while minimizing cost with no monitoring or input from the vessel’s captain or crew. Users can also be allowed or denied use of particular WAN sources wherever necessary, keeping things like automatic mobile phone app updates from causing unexpectedly high satellite bills.
First Responders
Once a staple of police communications, radio transmissions can no longer provide the volume of information required by first responders. Every police cruiser, and most other first responder vehicles, is outfitted with a computer. Those computers are connected to cellular networks. These networks are part of our emergency infrastructure—the FirstNet Authority established by congress in 2012 allows first responders priority access to all cellular bands, but also reserves band 14 for law enforcement and emergency traffic.
Peplink’s wide variety of FirstNet-certified routers, paired with the ability to seamlessly transition between cellular and WiFi WAN sources, makes Peplink routers an ideal solution for first responders and public safety departments everywhere.
Retail
Cash accounts for less than 30% of retail sales, and in some sectors, less than 10%. Debit and credit card processing is connected via broadband internet, usually through a wired line, like cable.
Like any other technology, wired connections go down. When they do, Peplink’s session-persistent failover to cellular connections can keep a business operating. In locations without access to broadband, or for mobile kiosks, cellular data can affordably transmit the data needed for card processing securely, without the need to use nearby existing networks.
Broadcasting
Only a few years ago, remote broadcasting for news reporting required large satellite trucks and microwave connections. Even national news outlets relied on local affiliates for their communications infrastructure. Now, innovations like cellular bonding, WAN smoothing, and forward error correction have allowed cellular data to replace more expensive and logistically difficult technologies.
An excellent example of innovation is the SpeedFusion Engine Cam, developed through a partnership between Peplink and JVC. A complete professional broadcast transmission solution, the SpeedFusion Engine Cam provides cellular connectivity backed by the power and reliability of SpeedFusion without the need for bulky, expensive backpacks. In fact, it’s small enough to be piggyback-mounted directly on a field camera’s battery.
VoIP
With VoIP, even the slightest instability in a wired connection can cause call quality issues. Peplink SpeedFusion can help address these call quality problems.
Whether it’s another wired connection, or a cellular or WiFi source, a secondary backup WAN source backed by SpeedFusion technology can overcome packet loss and latency, and even maintain a call if the primary WAN source is lost completely. For many VoIP providers, it’s also important to provide this failover service without controlling the customer’s network. With Drop-in Mode, a Peplink device can provide failover and protect call quality without any changes to the existing network.
FrontierUS and Peplink make it easy
For each of these applications, network slowdowns and connection failures are unacceptable. While cellular networks are an indispensable solution, weather, network congestion, and even line-of-sight to towers can impact connectivity. That’s why the best way to ensure reliability for critical cellular data applications is by using multiple carriers with your Peplink devices.
Peplink multi-WAN routers like the Pepwave MAX series can incorporate multiple cellular connections simultaneously. SpeedFusion technology allows traffic to seamlessly move from one connection to the other maintaining sessions so that data is not lost. For extremely sensitive deployments, packets can be duplicated, even multiple times, in order to ensure traffic reaches its destination.
Cellular users have been trained to find the single carrier with the “most reliable network” or the “best coverage,” but when unbreakable connectivity is required—or in high-data, bonded cellular communications—a single carrier is less reliable than multiple carriers that can be accessed simultaneously. FrontierUS can connect you with a data partner who specializes in providing data for Peplink powered networks, and who can streamline acquisition and billing for multiple carriers.
Contact FrontierUS to be connected with the perfect partner for your mobile data needs.
