The ease of integration and total system performance of both Corning’s SpiderCloud E-RAN (small cells/signal source) and Corning ONE (DAS) can be a foundation for enterprise IT and business transformation. Beyond merely satisfying the voracious appetite for coverage and capacity, scalable cellular implementations can create a more agile enterprise and positively transform capex/opex budgets.
Strategic Cellular in Enterprise
Strategic Cellular in Enterprise
Business Demands
Mobile usage needs drive the need for cellular coverage. Many cases are needs for service in critical yet underserved areas or in core areas of buildings where signal delivery from “outside-in” cannot penetrate.
IT Support
When IT enters the business of providing last mile cellular support for employees on the enterprise Wi-Fi, the amount of devices on the network doubles. This can have a significant effect on Service Desk, Network Engineering, End User Computing, and Mobility operations areas.
IT Technical Costs
When IT enters the business of providing last mile cellular support for employees on the enterprise Wi-Fi, the amount of devices on the network doubles. This can have a significant effect on areas like network management licenses, Wi-Fi capacity, wide area network capacity, QoS engineering, firewall capacity and license costs, Information Security policy, and internet capacity.
Performance
Indoor cellular systems can offer relief to congested Wi-Fi systems by keeping mobile devices on their LTE network instead of burdening Wi-Fi with the load. In congested environments, like hospitals, patients, guests, employees, and contractors are all contending for network spectrum. Indoor cellular frees up the spectrum.
Battery life can be awful indoors due to signal losses through building materials when communicating to a nearby tower. Indoor cellular improvements allow mobiles to operate at relatively low power and significantly improve the battery life of mobiles.
Energy Efficient Construction
Indoor cellular systems are on their way to becoming a mandatory investment when energy efficient new construction and remodeling occurs. The signal losses are so significant that no strategy works short of indoor delivery. AECOM, a structural engineering firm discovered this and this is their story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXW8KK35A20
Public Safety
Indoor cellular systems are capable of satisfying the FCC E-911 Fourth Order for cellular location in “GPS denied” areas. Additionally, these same location techniques when applied to FirstNet installations could enable incident commanders to map the location of First Responders inside a structure/venue.
Enterprise Information Security
Enterprise Wi-Fi is a trusted environment. Unfortunately, the leak of the Vault 7 hacking toolset has illustrated the security risk that Day 0’s on semi-managed mobile devices pose. Nothing like a 1Gbps LTE path, Day 0 mobile malware, and the mobile on enterprise Wi-Fi to allow the hackers to vacuum everything out of the data center along with the malware propagating itself laterally across the enterprise. KEEP THEM ON LTE!
Total Wireless Enterprise
There are huge capex costs to build-out the enterprise IP network in new real estate or gut-and-remodels. Horizontal cabling, network IP/Ethernet switch ports, and IP voice ports, licenses, and handsets can be quite costly. Additionally, the opex around employee move, add, change, delete (MACD) of all network attached devices can really add up as Gartner states that enterprises move about 60% of employees every year in HQ class locations.
Question - what if all employee assigned devices were all wirelessly attached via LTE & Wi-Fi? Think about this question and please contact Corning for more info on calculating the savings and being a hero in your enterprise.
