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5G Explore the range of displays best suited to your customer, from the P series to the Elite series hp-displays.imcreativeservices.com The future of work is brought to life by HP displays Contact our IngramMicro HP PC specialist [email protected] The Elite Display series range The P series range E243p Sure View Monitor P24H G4 In Australia, Taylor Construction’s trial of Telstra’s 5G network and an enterprise- grade edge networking solution from Cradlepoint highlights the potential benefits of 5G for business. The wide area networking (WAN) solution deployed at a specially selected construction site is based on Telstra’s Enterprise Wireless solution, which provides the 5G service, and Cradlepoint’s NetCloud Service for Branch, delivered through a Cradlepoint E3000 5G-optimised router with a ruggedised W2005 5G Wideband Adapter built for outdoor placement. The combination provides the coverage and the performance – up to 20 times that of 4G – needed to support a range of connected devices and applications that require real-time data. These include: n Holographic Building Visualisation – Microsoft HoloLens mixed-reality smart glasses enable on-site Taylor employees and customers to render a virtual model of a building or elements of the construction process, such as holographic structural steel, framing or electrical schematics; n Wide-Area Safety Scanning – 360-degree 8K streaming and QR code scanning from wireless video cameras enables digital induction tracking and automation of the process for checking every person on-site has completed safety training; n IoT Structural Sensing – Smart sensors fixed to rebar and embedded in concrete aggregate send data to the Cradlepoint router, then on to the cloud, so that Taylor can determine whether concrete has been poured correctly and track any shifting of the concrete for years to come; n Real-Time Design Display – The Taylor team needs to be able to make changes to digital blueprints in real time and display provide branch connectivity or enterprise connectivity.” Another key change highlighted by Bristow is that whereas in the past the onus would have been on Cradlepoint to educate the market, now the market is coming to it – and that includes the channel. “We are actively recruiting now and partners are starting to come to us,” he said. “The size of opportunities we see, the pipeline of opportunities we are building at the moment is vast and this is in part due to the new partners we have engaged; in part due to the investment we have made in resources to go after new business; and also because, with Covid and people working from home, businesses are connecting in a very different way. They are looking for enterprise-grade connectivity and that is what Cradlepoint provides. We tick a lot of boxes for individuals, for power enterprise users in companies that have had to adapt because of Covid.” He added: “Our technology is all over the UK already. We are in the public sector, you find us in fire and rescue, you find us in ambulances, you find us in police cars, you find us in retail stores, in banks, in lots of different applications in the IoT space and utilities. We see all of these technology swim lanes illuminating right now. Yet, we are still under-distributed and under-marketed in the UK and we need partners to share our perspective with their customers. As soon as the customer hears it, they get what we do. It is easy to sell, easy to deploy and easy to make money with.” To find out more about Cradlepoint’s diverse range of empowerment initiatives, including its Technical Alliance Partner programme (TAP), industry-first 5G for Enterprise Branch Specialisation portfolio and increased investments in people, platforms and programmes, please visit https://cradlepoint.com/partners/ for-partners/ . them on tablets and large monitors in the trailer; and n Large-Site Failover – The IT team is exploring the possibility of replacing an expensive back-up fibre line with 5G. Christian Neyle, IT manager for Taylor Construction, believes that only 5G can provide the bandwidth, low latency and constant uptime at the edge of the network that these applications demand. “The Cradlepoint 5G solution, enabled by the Telstra 5G network, has transformed our ability to employ high-performing enterprise-grade applications, top to bottom. To some people, this is science fiction; to me, this is the next generation of business. We could have used fibre, but mobility was also important, which is why 5G is the only solution that works.” Cradlepoint CEO George Mulhern added: “Wireless WANs, based on the capabilities of 4G LTE and 5G technology, are becoming an essential part of any organisation’s digital transformation. Cradlepoint NetCloud allows companies to manage both LTE and 5G networks under the same cloud platform, with the same operational, security and analytic capabilities. By deploying advanced LTE services today, companies can be ready to make a seamless transition to 5G when and where it’s available in their network.” Building the case for 5G ...continued