AUCKLAND: Solarix Networks, a provider of communications and infrastructure services, announces partnership with Cradlepoint, a provider of software-defined 4G LTE network solutions. Both the companies leveraged their partnership in a bid to enhance wired wide area network (WAN) networks using LTE technology reports Sara Barker for IT Brief.

To aid the service portfolio company will leverage Solarix mobility and failover suite which will allow customers with WAN services to provision temporary sites where working in a fixed location is not viable, or fibre/broadband services are not yet available.

“The ElasticWAN offers scalability of network componentsincluding WAN connectivity, voice services, monitoring capability, Internet capacity and quality of service parameters”, says Rudi Hefer, Director of Product and Marketing, Solarix. “The partnership with Cradlepoint will improve the range of connectivity options through WAN as customers would get with 3G and 4G LTE services. Customers would also receive same-day WAN connectivity and scalable failover options.”

“The combination of wireless and wired capability will work well for a number of network solutions, including eftpos, remote health, mobile workforce, fleetbased networks and intelligent WAN failover”, believes Ian Pennell, CMO at Cradlepoint.

The product portfolio from Cradlepoint includes wireless 4G LTE routers, Remote Router Management with Enterprise Cloud Manager (ECM) which creates alerts based on usage, connection, configuration and security and Cloud-based Security Applications. Whereas Solarix provides suite of products and services, built on carrier grade network specifically designed to enable high speed, resilient, secure communications, and support a multitude of critical applications across a single network connection.