Cradlepoint's cloud service provides 4G LTE wide-area network connectivity for enterprise branches, vehicles and the Internet of Things.

Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading

January 16, 2018

2 Min Read
Cradlepoint Cooks Up Cloud Connectivity

Cradlepoint started out selling a cradle you could drop your mobile phone into to set up a WiFi hotspot. That was in 2006, and it's a good thing they got out of that racket; WiFi tethering is now a commodity feature in smartphones.

Also, Cradlepoint quickly saw that it didn't want to be in the consumer market, so it switched gears to the enterprise space. But it's still in the business of making wireless simple.

Now, Cradlepoint provides appliances and solutions that make it easy for enterprises to configure 4G LTE fixed wireless networks, such as fast-food chains with large numbers of remote offices that don't have any local IT staff. Its products also make it easy for customers to configure wireless networks for vehicular connectivity, such as in police cars, and for the Internet of Things. In fact, the appliances are so easy to configure that even a fry cook can do it, Cradlepoint says.

Figure 1: So simple even this guy could do it. So simple even this guy could do it.

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Cradlepoint uses its NetCloud service to let enterprises remotely configure networks, connect LTE devices, manage, troubleshoot and monitor performance.

Find out more on our sister site, Broadband World News: Cellular Networking So Simple Even a Fry Cook Can Set It Up

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About the Author(s)

Mitch Wagner

Executive Editor, Light Reading

San Diego-based Mitch Wagner is many things. As well as being "our guy" on the West Coast (of the US, not Scotland, or anywhere else with indifferent meteorological conditions), he's a husband (to his wife), dissatisfied Democrat, American (so he could be President some day), nonobservant Jew, and science fiction fan. Not necessarily in that order.

He's also one half of a special duo, along with Minnie, who is the co-habitor of the West Coast Bureau and Light Reading's primary chewer of sticks, though she is not the only one on the team who regularly munches on bark.

Wagner, whose previous positions include Editor-in-Chief at Internet Evolution and Executive Editor at InformationWeek, will be responsible for tracking and reporting on developments in Silicon Valley and other US West Coast hotspots of communications technology innovation.

Beats: Software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), IP networking, and colored foods (such as 'green rice').

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