If you need a refresher, band 71 is a low-frequency, 600 MHz band T-Mobile purchased in 2017. This frequency range travels twice as far and works four times better in buildings than conventional LTE bands. Band 71 also provides better coverage in remote areas and in homes. The frequency band is expected to become more widely available with the recent merger of T-Mobile and Sprint.
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.
Even when commodity internet connections like cable or DSL are available at the site, scheduling, installing, and cost are all significant roadblocks. At many worksites—including new developments, remote utility work, or resource exploration—crews arrive well ahead of wired technology. The remedy for all of these connectivity headaches is powerful cellular internet.
5G is still mostly a future technology, but it will represent a revolution in connection speed. Industry predictions say that within five years or less 5G will be the prevailing technology in mobile broadband communications, and could eventually be the tech that frees us from wires completely. But the current, limited testing environments will not meet our connection needs today or even in the near future. How do we proceed with our personal and business connectivity when 5G it not available for our immediate needs?
This post is Part 2, please see: Industrial Internet of Things for Part 1.
The infusion of Internet protocol professionals into Industrial Machine communications has presented a new alphabet soup of acronyms and terms. Even some seasoned IT professionals are left scratching their heads when presented with the closed systems that have existed for years in industrial machine to machine communications.
At a Peplink Summit, Josh Varghese of Traceroute gave a presentation on IIoT, the Industrial Internet of Things. His talk included a basic description of Industrial IoT, a simple but essential clarification of Operational Technology—the core of IIoT, and an important glossary of terms. For the sake of this blog, I will split Mr. Varghese’s detailed talk into two parts. This first part will focus on the difference between IT (Information Technology) and OT (Operational Technology.)
Shortly after September 11, 2001, our culture coined the words “first responders” to describe Police, Fire, EMS and other agencies who rush toward a problem while everyone else runs away. During 911 first responders were unable to communicate with each other as channels overloaded with civilian traffic. Within a few years, there was talk of giving first responders priority on the communications networks. Lawmakers, being the people that they are, didn’t do much about it until 2012 when a legislator managed to attach an amendment to the “Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012” that established and funded the First Responder Network Authority,” now commonly referred to as FirstNet.