DEPENDABLE ACCESS TO BUSINESS-
CRITICAL DATA.
ENHANCED CONNECTIVITY FOR CRITICAL APPLICATIONS
5G’s ubiquitous coverage helps critical applications perform at their best today and builds a foundation for the future.
Challenge and opportunity.
“Healthcare systems need communication, collaboration, and data access capabilities. 5G solutions provide flexibility and support today and wherever your organization goes next.”
Business benefits.
Operational efficiency.
Dependable connectivity can boost productivity and even workplace morale because employees are able to work more efficiently to meet their key objectives.
Scalable connectivity.
5G provides better connectivity for today’s applications, at scale. By augmenting existing Wi-Fi infrastructure, you may be able to shift costs from a heavy, up-front capital investment to OpEx.
Advanced capabilities.
5G signals can reach into previously difficult or impossible to reach areas, while providing the speed, bandwidth, reliability, and coverage to enable today’s critical applications.
Security and compliance.
SIM authentication provides an added layer of protection. Increased control over identity and access management helps ensure that only authorized people can use the network in designated locations.
Key technologies.
Mobile devices.
Smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices are often configured for industry-specific applications and uses. Many require high-speed, high-bandwidth connectivity.
Mobile device management.
Management software ensures that mobile devices and Internet of Things technologies are secure, policy compliant, and easier to keep up to date.
Secure connections to private clouds.
Private traffic controls are pre-configured for all devices. And data is encrypted for sharing over a private cloud.
Failover solution.
5G networks can provide 99.9% uptime, and the system architecture offers a cellular-to-Wi-Fi failover capability.
Providing enhanced connectivity across industries.
Financial services.
With 5G, financial service workers can get the high-performance network service they need to take full advantage of this fast-growing class of applications.
Higher education.
With 5G, universities may be able to save on network costs, while staff and students can receive better wireless coverage for their communications and digital coursework.
Retail.
5G gives retailers the bandwidth and advanced networking capabilities to implement innovative in-store displays to boost sales and provide a more compelling shopping experience.
Understand the impact.
An earlier generation of network technologies predated many of the modern applications and data requirements that businesspeople now depend on—collaboration tools, secure data access, and streaming video. Now, with the growing adoption of enterprise applications that do all of that and more, organizations need enhanced wireless connectivity.
Private and hybrid 5G networks with private traffic controls can support the scalability, security, and performance requirements of today’s most demanding business applications and workloads. For businesses with data-intensive applications and stringent security requirements—and that describes organizations across many industries—5G can provide better service than Wi-Fi at a more feasible and attractive price point.
Hospital systems are a prime example. 5G can help reinvent healthcare in at least three ways: cost savings, patient access to quality care, and much-improved patient experiences.2
A major hospital in the U.S. was considering an upgrade to its Wi-Fi network ahead of a large-scale software migration. But when its executives learned the upgrade would require substantial upfront costs and be cumbersome to implement, they decided to go with 5G instead. Among the deciding factors was the fact that 5G required fewer antennas, which meant lower cabling costs. The 5G network also ensured sufficient signal propagation throughout its buildings and supported the software migration. And finally, adopting this 5G solution in an OpEx model offered significant advantages in time to resolution, should any issues arise.
The hospital had a demanding performance threshold: data had to be able to travel between devices—or “roundtrip”—with near-real-time performance of its clinical applications. 5G met and surpassed that requirement. The hospital’s employees now have access to patient records even when they travel between buildings and across campuses, which helps support better patient care and outcomes. The hospital chose to implement a neutral-host 5G solution for flexibility in which network providers could support the solution over time.
A company that conducts health tests, meanwhile, implemented a 5G network to support a satellite lab. In a research interview conducted on our behalf, the company’s head of IT said that prior to 5G, they were forced to rely on overnight shipping to transport test samples. That’s because they weren’t able to get a strong enough data connection within the hospital.
Now with 5G, the company can transmit lab-test data for analysis in near-real time. This cut the sample-to-results time from days to hours. “Implementation of 5G has been quite tremendous for us,” the IT executive said. “It essentially reduced the total number of days to process a test, simply by cutting two or three days of shipping time out of the equation.”
That’s a perfect illustration of why enhanced connectivity is so important—not just to application performance, but to business performance.
“IoT devices in our lab need connectivity to support a heavy, data-intensive workload. 5G is clean, instant, fast, secure, and encrypted. Anything less than 5G wouldn’t cut it.”
Head of IT with a healthcare company
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