Campus-Wide Coverage Done Right: No Dead Zones, No Limits
In an ever-evolving technology landscape, campuses need uninterrupted and everywhere connectivity that goes beyond traditional wireless networks. A high-performing, resilient network is critical to ensure continuous access to digital resources for faculty and students, campus-wide IT communications, support technologies like IoT, and campus-wide security and surveillance.
Overcoming Connectivity Challenges within Campuses
Traditional networks often struggle to address the unique connectivity challenges that the new-age campuses encounter.
Unreliable cellular coverage – Lack of reliable cellular coverage across sprawling campuses with dense high-rises and remote facilities impacts everything from communication to safety surveillance. Traditional networks and distributed antenna systems (DAS) often fall short, especially in densely populated buildings and across remote campuses with limited carrier coverage. Cellular extension is critical for eliminating dead zones in sprawling campus layouts.
Inconsistent outdoor coverage – Outdoor coverage is essential for supporting IoT devices and surveillance cameras, IT communications, emergency alert systems, and smart lighting, ensuring consistent performance in open areas. Moreover, high user density during events or peak times can overwhelm Wi-Fi networks, causing delays and interruptions.
Demand for low-latency networks – Modern apps and technologies are being widely adopted across campuses to elevate educational experiences and make learning more immersive. AI and VR/AR have helped innovate classroom experience and accelerate research. These demand low-latency and highly resilient network connectivity.
Why Highway 9 Mobile Cloud for Campus-Wide Coverage?
Highway 9 Mobile Cloud is an industry-first mobile cloud leveraging private cellular (5G/LTE) technology to deliver mobile services on-premises for the enterprise (e.g. private 5G, carrier extension, and neutral host). The new age platform helps campuses harness the power of private cellular networks traditionally exclusive to telecom carriers, combining them with the simplicity and efficiency of cloud-native enterprise operations. Let’s explore how Highway 9 Mobile Cloud optimizes campus connectivity with security, reliability, and ubiquitous indoor and outdoor coverage.
Optimized Carrier Coverage for Uninterrupted Connectivity
Imagine being able to use your mobile devices anywhere on campus without experiencing dropped calls or interrupted data access. Highway 9 Mobile Cloud can fill the gaps in carrier network coverage, extend the network and eliminate the dead zones. Unlike Wi-Fi, it can also ensure executives and key work groups like onsite security always have connectivity, anywhere on campus, regardless of network traffic surges or outages.
Private 5G for Pervasive Outdoor Coverage
Highway 9 Mobile Cloud enhances signal strength and range with private 5G technology, ensuring reliable connectivity even in challenging environments with obstacles such as rough terrain. It also performs well in areas that have difficult wireless conditions prone to interference. Private 5G expands cellular services, offering up to ten times the range of Wi-Fi in complex outdoor settings.
Prioritized Critical Communications for Operational Continuity
With Highway 9 Mobile Cloud, enterprises can establish Virtual Mobile Zones (VMZs)—secure, campus-wide overlays that prioritize critical communications. These zones support diverse use cases such as-
- Ubiquitous voice coverage for staff and emergency responders
- Continuous support for IoT devices like surveillance cameras and smart sensors
- Cybersecurity protection, redirecting carrier data traffic to inspection systems like DLP engines for enhanced data protection.
This flexibility ensures everyone on campus—students, faculty, and essential workers—stays connected, no matter what the scenario is.
Converged IT & OT for Simplified Management.
Many campuses struggle with fragmented OT systems that rely on proprietary wireless technologies, leading to interference and inefficiencies. OT deployments today create parallel networks using a sprawl of proprietary wireless technologies that interfere with each other and campus Wi-Fi, magnifying the burden on tech support as they are outside the purview of IT. Highway 9 Mobile Cloud allows the migration of operating technologies (OT) onto a common private mobile backbone that dovetails into existing IT policies and improves operational efficiency.
Effortless Integration with Existing Infrastructure
Highway 9 Mobile Cloud integrates effortlessly into existing campus IT systems, ensuring a smooth transition without overhauling current campus processes. The solution integrates tightly with enterprise directory services such as Azure AD and single sign-on (SSO), Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Network access control (NAC).
From delivering unparalleled coverage to streamlining the convergence of IT and OT, Highway 9 Mobile Cloud stands out as the most comprehensive solution for campus-wide connectivity.
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