Cellular Failover for Critical Safety and Security Systems
Redundant Connectivity for Emergency, Video, and Access Control Systems
The Challenge
Increase Business Efficiency and Ensure Mandatory Compliance
Modern security and alerting systems are moving more and more towards wireless operation. While most ISP’s also provide routers to their clients, these routers are consumer grade — making them generally incapable of supporting high band-width applications like high-definition video surveillance.
Additionally, those routers are still entirely dependent on the stability of your organizations primary T1 hardline connection. So whether your IP cameras, sirens, speakers, or access controls are wired or wireless, there’s still a single point of failure that can bring your systems down.
Some organizations utilize two service providers — in case their primary throttles internet speeds or goes down, their systems can fallback to their secondary provider. However, while this does add a layer of additional protection, things that can take out one ISP’s connection, can take down the other.
Downed or cut lines, backbone outages, equipment failures, and more can all take down both those connections at the same time. Organizations need a more reliable solution for redundant connectivity to ensure their critical systems never go off-line.
Solution Overview
4G and 5G Cellular Connectivity Solutions for Critical Safety System Continuity
Cellular adapters from USAT, like the Cradlepoint L950 (4G) and W1850 (5G), are specially designed to function as the ideal solution for enterprises that depend upon a reliable and unbroken connection to the internet to keep staff, guests, and critical facilities and assets safe and secure.
Short and long range external directional and omni-directional antennas from our partners at Poynting help ensure maximum signal strength, further bolstering communications resiliency.
These devices, and others, can be configured to operate on any cellular network of your choosing, and with dual-sim slots Cradlepoint adapters provide a third fallback option for communication system redundancy.
Our Team
Device Provisioning, Activation and Installation Services
Our team will help you to select the ideal adapters, external antennas, and network providers to meet your organizations’ exacting needs. Factors like the number of connected devices, location of your facilities, nearness of local cell towers (example pictured below), and more will determine our final recommendations.
For over 25 years, USAT, a key part of the data solutions team at MCA, has provided expert connectivity solutions to public and private enterprises in need of top-of-the-line connectivity devices and platforms to manage their video, access control, and mass notification systems.
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