3G/4G Mobile Broadband Networks for Branch Office

Reducing the high cost of keeping connected.

What to do when you can’t afford a T1 line for every location.

T1 connectivity is widely recognized as delivering extremely high availability, at 99.95+% – but it comes at a high price. You can justify that investment at your main office. But for branch offices, a less costly DSL or cable connection makes better financial sense. So what happens when you lose service? (And at only 99.2-99.5% availability, you will lose several hours per month.)

Challenge: Low cost of service vs. high risk of downtime

• Customer expectations – Even if downtime is limited to just a few hours a month with lower-cost DSL or cable service, when it happens right as a customer calls or comes in expecting service, that’s unacceptable.
• Productivity pressures – It doesn’t do any good to move everyday branch-office applications to the cloud if no work gets done because employees can’t connect to the cloud to use them.

Solution: 3G / 4G failover

CradlePoint solves the problem of lost Internet connectivity at branch offices – automatically – with low-cost solutions that are quickly and easily deployable. Now branches can maximize their Internet availability by bridging the inevitable gap with 3G / 4G mobile broadband failover. Our solutions automatically detect access issues with wired line connections and provide 3G / 4G network connectivity to avoid service interruptions.

Benefits: Affordable, reliable connectivity for branches

3G / 4G failover provides the non-stop Internet access branch offices need to conduct business efficiently and cost-effectively when a wired line goes down for any reason.

• Main-office availability everywhere – With 3G / 4G backup for DSL and cable, branch offices can achieve total availability levels even higher than main-office T1 lines provide.
• High reliability at a lower cost – While the cost of T1 99.95% reliability is generally prohibitive for branch offices, a small investment in a 3G / 4G failover solution to augment DSL or cable is not.
• Connected to the cloud – Maximize the benefits of cloud computing at branch offices with less worry about losing connectivity (and productivity).