What benefits does integrating IoT offer?
- Reduces wasted resources, labour costs and the need for human intervention
- Enhances productivity by monitoring and analysing processes in real-time
- Improves user experience and engagement
- Internet-first devices, managed from anywhere
- Improves health and safety measures, reducing the risk of fines and the cost of damages
- Embeds a culture of ongoing business improvement, digitisation and automation
How to realise the potential of IoT through next-gen networks
IoT adoption isn’t a simple case of deployment – it relies on a strong IT infrastructure designed and maintained with the future in mind. There’s no doubt that it puts additional pressure on your network to perform; integrating IoT means delivering optimum connectivity to a rising number of inter-connected edge devices that can independently aggregate and analyse data. It means consistently higher traffic and throughput. It blurs your network edge and creates new points of entry for security hacks.
Your network – in particular your wireless network – needs to be agile, flexible, secure and scalable with capacity and adequate security in place for everything that IoT has and will have to offer. Organisations without future-ready systems will see a gradual loss of performance as their technology exceeds the capability of their network.
This is where both Wi-Fi 6 and cloud-based networks excel. Wi-Fi 6 delivers 160 MHz of bandwidth, data rates of 10Gbps, and operates at 5 GHz, giving superior performance that’s quite literally made for IoT, with faster throughput, reliable and robust connectivity, significantly less congestion and reduced power consumption. Moving to a cloud-based network removes limits on your IT infrastructure, making it truly scalable, offering easy deployment with zero-touch-provisioning, and giving total control of every device from anywhere, any time. In short, you can build, monitor, manage and scale your smart spaces faster, easier, and with better outcomes.
Not sure where to start with your WiFi?
Improving WiFi performances requires a thorough understanding of how your wireless network is performing. Our WiFi engineers have vast amounts of experience in improving network performance, whether you’re looking to fault-find and fix, design a new network or maintain an existing one.
I really like our Meraki cloud-managed switches as they deliver great performance with granular visibility across our school’s network.
TONY EDEN, NETWORK MANAGER, BRIGHTON HILL COMMUNITY SCHOOL
Why Choose Redway Networks?
We are independent networking specialists with expertise in the planning, design and installation of enterprise networks that help organisations succeed through superior connectivity. We deliver complete cloud-managed networks with industry-leading products from tier 1 vendors including Aruba, Cisco Meraki and Extreme Networks.
Our end-to-end service puts your organisation and its needs at the centre, focusing on how we can help you move towards a future-ready network that supports continued success. Our team of certified engineers focus on finding solutions to any issues holding your organisation back, whether you need to improve performance through config, replace legacy equipment, or upgrade to an entirely new network.
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