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Wireless Backup Internet for Business: An Introductory Guide

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Nearly all of us have experienced an internet outage at some point and know firsthand how inconvenient it is. But for a business whose operations depend on internet connectivity, an outage is more than inconvenient–it’s a serious setback to productivity and revenue. Even short outages …

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What is a Private LTE & 5G Network & Is It Right For Your Business?

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The rise of 5G is revolutionizing how cellular IoT is applied to business operations, especially in manufacturing and industrial sectors. 5G offers the bandwidth, speed, and flexibility to connect devices and develop new business processes and solutions that may not be practical or ec …

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Cellular IoT Explained: Is it Right for Your IoT Solution?

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Gone are the days when cellular networks were primarily used to transmit voice, connecting one person to another faster and farther away through a single device. IoT has taken advantage of widespread cellular coverage and expanded the use of cellular networks to connect the digital an …

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2G & 3G Sunset: Making the Transition to 4G and Beyond

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As technology has developed and Big Data has become ubiquitous, applications and devices have demanded increasing speed and power. For connected devices, speed is everything, and older 2G and 3G networks struggle to support sufficient speed. For this reason, carriers are planning a 2G …

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Understanding IoT Data Plans: What is Right for Your Solution?

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There’s no one-size-fits-all IoT data plan, making it difficult to know what to expect when you’re preparing to launch a new IoT solution. In this post, we share how to choose an IoT data plan and what considerations to consider when evaluating connectivity providers, so you can have …

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5G and IoT: What It Means for Connectivity

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5G IoT has the potential to transform industries. 5G’s ability to support high data transfer rates for data gathering with ultra-low latency will power critical services in city and building management, healthcare, supply chains, and more. This post offers an introduction to 5G and Io …

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NB-IoT: A Narrow-Band Primer for the Internet of Things

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NB-IoT is one of the most recently created cellular networks, built in an effort to support the explosive growth of IoT devices thanks to lower cost computing.

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LTE-M: IoT Use Cases & Differentiating Features

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LTE-M (and NB-IoT) are new network technologies that fall under the classification of LPWAN, or low-power wide area networks. You may be wondering, "why are so many companies starting to make a big deal about these technologies?"

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