When 5G Speaks IT, Private Wireless Networking Is Accessible to Every Organization

This is the week that the mobile industry convenes in North America for what used to be the Mobile World Congress event in Los Angeles.

The MWC Las Vegas convention is an interesting marker in the shift occurring with wireless and mobility vendors away from a carrier-centric model to one focused on the enterprise. And while all the chatter is about digital transformation and industry 4.0, there is very little focus on the “IT” in enterprise IT.

The problem is that our industry does not speak “IT.” We speak “Telco” or “MNO” or even “MVNO.” We talk about bits and bytes, speeds and feeds and feature words like bandwidth, latency and performance. With few exceptions, enterprise executives who attend mobile industry events see a cacophony of words and acronyms they care nothing about.

Enterprises do not care about 5G, or 4G or NB-IOT. They do not care about 5G NR or LoRaWAN, or Open RAN. What they care about is that they have a next generation network that is reliable, predictable and is easily controlled by the enterprise itself.

5G could very well be the savior of industrial transformation and private networks for mission critical applications. But in our experience, enterprises care much more about outcomes than connectivity. They’re asking us, “This is what I need to accomplish, how can you help me achieve it?”

We are starting to see trends emerge in what large enterprise customers need to make their networks more powerful and flexible in order to address new opportunities. They want control. They want tools. They want APIs. They want next generation networks that fit their unique needs, not the next generation network that the Mobile Network Operators says they’ll get.

Pente Networks is one of the few solutions vendors in the industry today that starts from an IT perspective. Our values are rooted square in enterprise IT, not telco or MNO. Our values are in providing the enterprises the tools to decide what they want out of their network.

It’s your network; it’s your investment; it’s your timetable. We give you a vendor agnostic management tool unique in the industry that allows the enterprise to scale a private wireless network with the control, policy and applications that delivers on the business outcome you want.

What does this mean for you? It means a platform that enable simplified management. Now, an enterprise IT team can take mobile connectivity into their private networks and manage it the same way they do local wireless connectivity.

It means self-service. Consider the day-to-day management requirements for IT teams looking after nascent, complex networks. Complex organizations expect to be able to change device access points on the fly; move devices between networks for improved configuration; and create network segmentations based on needs that emerge in real-time.

If your team is looking at private wireless networking for enterprise grade performance, it helps if your technology partner speaks the same language you do. Pente Networks speaks IT, not telco, and we’ll be happy to meet you in Las Vegas to help with the translation.