Extensiv Launches Network Manager Enabling 3PLs to Build Collaborative Distributed Fulfillment Networks - Supply Chain Dive

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. —

Extensiv - delivering omnichannel software solutions for warehouse, inventory, and order management - today announced Extensiv Network Manager to help third-party logistics (3PLs) providers build and manage networks of geographically distributed partner warehouses where a brand's inventory is distributed across and shipped from multiple warehouses, enabling lower cost, expedited delivery options while retaining customer relationships, reducing risk and capital overhead. 

Extensiv Network Manager combines software, services, tools, and relationships that empower any 3PL, even those operating out of a single warehouse, to partner closely with other 3PLs to service brands across multiple geographically distributed warehouses. Unlike current homegrown solutions that 3PLs may have cobbled together, Extensiv Network Manager offers the key capabilities necessary to build and operate a hybrid network, including sophisticated order routing rules as well as complete visibility and control over all orders regardless of which node is shipping them.

Until now, 3PLs looking to build this type of sophisticated fourth-party logistics (4PL) network have had to raise massive funding rounds to pay for the costly software development associated with these models. For the first time, Extensiv Network Manager offers a productized offering that allows even 3PLs with limited technical capabilities to build and operate a software-enabled fulfillment network to compete with the likes of Ship Bob and Deliverr. Additionally, unlike homegrown software solutions, Extensiv Network Manager is a cloud-based, fully productized and supported product that will continue to be developed and enhanced.

"Extensiv Network Manager leverages the company's deep experience working with 3PLs and its industry-leading 3PL warehouse operations platform to offer sophisticated fulfillment capabilities while continuing to operate their warehouses using 3PL Warehouse Manager. Consumer expectations are at an all-time high. Inflation has only increased the need to keep shipping costs down, but consumers still expect fast, and often next-day, delivery," said David Miller, VP of strategy at Extensiv.

"Single or even two warehouse fulfillment approaches force brands to choose between paying exorbitant prices for unprofitable expedited shipping or choosing low-cost saver services, which results in painfully slow delivery times."

Early adopters have seen positive results already, with one customer, Rocket Shippers, using Extensiv Network Manager to lower shipping costs while decreasing transit times by intelligently routing orders to the best-fit fulfillment center in their network.

"The Network Manager team did an amazing job streamlining our order routing rules," said Matthew Schneider, Senior Account Manager at Rocket Shippers. "Network Manager has made it so much easier to process Seller Fulfilled Prime orders in our network as well as providing inventory visibility across multiple facilities." 

Solving Problems for 3PLs and Brands

As a brand's expectations of their fulfillment partners grow, 3PLs need a low-risk, low-cost option to bring customers distributed inventory and omnichannel fulfillment services while retaining direct relationships with these brands. Space restrictions, start-up costs, risk volatility, and other considerations keep smaller 3PLs from expanding into new facilities, thus limiting their ability to service growing brands and making their offering less competitive.

Many brands have tried to build their own multi-3PL fulfillment strategies to offer faster or less expensive delivery. In the modern technology-enabled supply chain, brands require the consistency of service that can only be delivered by operating on a standard technology platform with an identical configuration and shipping strategy across every node. In today's era of heightened consumer expectations, brands need to efficiently support not just ecommerce deliveries, but omnichannel fulfillment. Extensiv Network Manager helps 3PLs deliver on these rising expectations.

Introducing Extensiv Network Manager

Extensiv Network Manager enables 3PL warehouses to build relationships with other 3PLs to expand their footprint and compete at scale, while ensuring brands have a seamless and consistent experience across all the nodes. Extensiv Network Manager provides the technology to operate a reliable network of partner 3PL warehouses, working together to expand geographic reach, increase service offerings, and improve SLAs while reducing overall operating expenses for themselves and their customers.

3PLs utilize Extensiv Network Manager for:

• Complete visibility: Inventory and transaction details are visible across all networked warehouses in a single, dedicated management portal. This eliminates duplicate entry and the confusion of multiple logins and systems.
• Order Routing: Logic-based order routing and management tools automatically send orders to the best fulfillment center in the network based upon virtually unlimited business rules; seamless order flows from cart to the WMS (3PL Warehouse Manager) and back without duplicate setups or convoluted tagging, with real-time order processing status across all servicing facilities.
• Seamless inventory management: A holistic view of inventory levels across network warehouses. Manage inventory throughout the network by seeing real-time levels and alerts.
• Simplified setup and maintenance: Configurable cloud-based software eliminates complexity and can be set up with minimal time and effort. Add new fulfillment nodes with only a few clicks to start fulfilling across the network. 

To complement Extensiv Network Manager's software capabilities, Extensiv launched an array of services to guide 3PLs through the process of setting up a collaborative 4PL network. These services range from needs analysis, collaboration on partner identification based upon geography or service offering, as well as implementation services to initially configure the fulfillment network.   Extensiv Network Manager builds on the recently launched Extensiv Fulfillment Marketplace, a free resource that empowers 3PLs to identify potential network partners that offer a complementary geographic footprint and/or services. To learn more about Extensiv Network Manager, go to: www.extensiv.com/extensiv-network-manager. To find 3PL partners and build your network, go to: www.extensiv.com/fulfillment-marketplace. 

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Extensiv, formerly 3PL Central, is a visionary technology leader focused on creating the future of omnichannel fulfillment. We partner with warehouse professionals and entrepreneurial brands to transform their fulfillment operations in the radically changing world of commerce and consumer expectations. Through our unrivaled network of more than 1,500 connected 3PLs and a suite of integrated, cloud-native warehouse management (WMS), order management (OMS), and inventory management (IMS) software, we enable modern merchants and brands to fulfill demand anywhere with superior flexibility and scale without painful platform migrations as they grow. More than 25,000 logistics professionals and thousands of brands trust Extensiv every day to drive commerce at the pace that modern consumers expect.

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Network redundancy manufacturing why it matters - Ericsson

In the late 1960s, the breakthrough of modern computing – embodied by the programmable logic controller (PLC) – changed the face of American society by bringing new levels of automation to everything from home appliances to traffic systems. It also sparked an inflection point in the golden era of manufacturing, producing new reprogrammable ways of working and scaling production across major manufacturing sectors.

Today, manufacturing is experiencing another inflection point. This time, the technology that’s changing everything is high-performance 5G systems which itself can enable a powerful interplay of disruptive, enabling technologies such as distributed cloud and edge computing, massive IoT, AI and automation, among others.

 

How 5G is reinventing manufacturing

Based on 3GPP standards, 5G is built to a much higher standard than any other connectivity model deployed within the manufacturing value chain. As you read this, manufacturing blueprints are already being overhauled and re-engineered based on a powerful foundation of in-built five-nines security, latency as low as one millisecond, unmatched positioning technologies and significantly higher throughput capable of supporting ever-demanding manufacturing applications such as collaborative robots, digital twins, and even holographic remote interaction. This is just the beginning of a long exploratory journey of new technology adoption across industries where cellular-based 3GPP innovation will remain at the technology forefront.

The potential for impact is transformative, and the technologies provide a clear pathway to realizing new ways of working and significant efficiency gains, both of which will be critical in enabling opportunities for manufacturing enterprises to meet sustainability and emissions-reduction ambitions.

The deployment of 5G across the manufacturing value chain, including warehousing and the supply chain beyond the shop floor, will go a long way in addressing long-standing operational challenges including growing demands from customers for faster delivery and more customized products, both of which cannot be met by today’s legacy set ups. According to VoxEU, the total labor productivity growth has consistently stuttered below one percent across both the US and Europe since 2005. The revival and reinvention of manufacturing will be key to changing that trend.

 

What is redundancy in networking and why is it important in manufacturing?

When a network fails it often causes expensive downtime while the issue is resolved. This downtime can be avoided by installing redundant networks. Redundant networks have more than one path for data to travel. If one link in the network is broken, the data can still reach its destination through another path while the broken link is fixed.

When put in those terms, this may sound straightforward. However, designing a redundant network can be a very complex process. Each network design requires a different – even unique – network topology which can be defined by a whole variety of factors such as legacy systems, deployment scenarios, risk tolerance, application demands and many others. With the evolution to smart manufacturing, where every stage of the process must be connected and digitally accessible at all times, the value of network redundancy becomes acute.

5G systems have been designed to meet even the most challenging network robustness requirements from the very beginning, and what’s more remove the troubleshooting complexities associated with fairly common switching failures in traditional proprietary on-premises IT networks.

As this Ericsson Technology Review article describes, a local standalone 5G private network, deployed typically in a manufacturing plant, uses most of the same robustness features and functionalities that are used in a wide-area network deployment. In addition, it also makes it possible to implement a redundancy solution in which every (industrial) device is equipped with two user equipments that are connected either to a single robust network or to two parallel sets of local network partitions without any common failure points. And, with that, complexities are reduced significantly.

Benefits of network redundancy

Put simply, more redundancy and better distributed site management equals more reliability. And with a network design that ensures a device can automatically take over where another fails greatly reduces the probability that a failure will take the network down and grind factory operations to a halt.

Here are the key benefits of ensuring network redundancy in manufacturing operations:

• Uptime and business continuity: A redundant design ensures the network is always up and always on. This is especially important for manufacturers that operate in highly competitive industries where downtime minutes can have a drastic effect on margins.
• Security: Cybersecurity relies on redundancy for maximum effectiveness. Redundant networks enable manufacturing enterprises to have state-of-the art security measures in place and the backing of successful compliance audits. Redundant networks are a key predictor in how well a company will recover from a cyberattack. If there are more layers to failover to, the impact can be significantly limited.
• Latency: Having multiple paths to access the same locations means applications running on the network will be less likely to struggle with slow speeds from high traffic volumes.
• Resiliency: Redundant networks provide a foundation to scale factory operations by mitigating the risk of bottlenecks and site crashes associated with any rise in traffic.

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Find out the state of play for connected manufacturing

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Network redundancy design: What to consider

There are several methods for creating a redundant network, and they all require careful network planning and deployment. Some methods are standard across all manufacturers of networking components, and some methods are proprietary to specific vendors. Each method has both advantages and disadvantages, depending on the perspective. For example, some methods are less reliable but easier to set up. And some methods have virtually zero switchover time but require extra wiring and expensive components that support the protocol. Of all network redundancy designs, the most reliable ones involve the simplest configuration on the fewest number of devices.

When planning network redundancy, it’s important to shift the focus from node level to network level yet still think about all of the ways a network can fail. As part of this approach, it’s important to have a solid understanding of the needs of the most demanding applications on the network.

With those considerations in mind, there are several key questions which enterprise leaders will need to explore before deciding on a network redundancy design. These include:

• What type of operations do you run? What kind of applications do you intend to run on the network? Which environments do you operate in? And, from that perspective, which radio frequency bands are in operation?
• What is the risk tolerance of your operations, and how critical is production uptime? For example, is it necessary to have five-nine provision of uptime? How much impact does downtime have on your business?
• How often do you performance maintenance? And what is your tolerance for downtime in such cases?
• What provisions do you need to have in place for power redundancy? For example, just how severe would a power shortage impact your operations and business? Do you need generator back-ups, or battery backups? And would those options be feasible?

The blueprint for converged network topology

So which redundancy model will reign supreme across all smart manufacturing plants in the coming years?

At Ericsson, we believe the convergence of cellular 5G systems with wired Ethernet-based time-sensitive networking (TSN) delivers the most optimal redundant network design for today’s manufacturing enterprises, offering fully deterministic end-to-end connectivity, and meeting all key requirements on industrial communication technology. We believe this model will be essential to realizing all major industrial automation use cases in the future.

TSN is a set of IEEE 802 standards that enables Ethernet networks to give quality of service (QoS) guarantees for time-sensitive and/or mission-critical traffic and applications, including manufacturing operations. When converged with 3GPP’s standard for ultra-reliability and ultra-low latency communication (URLCC), the integrated time synchronization of both networks delivers a highly redundant network topology with complementing high deterministic connectivity features. This is realized through a common reference time for industrial end points which enables bounded low latency. The disjoint forwarding paths of the 5G and TSN segments are also aligned to provide end-to-end ultra-reliability and high availability.

With multiple, synchronized pathways between the two network systems, today’s manufacturers have a reliable and innovative toolkit to build tomorrow’s smart manufacturing centers.

Learn more

Take a technical look at the role of 5G-TSN integration in meeting networking requirements for industrial automation in this Ericsson Technology Review article. Alternatively, learn more about the robustness mechanisms which make the 5G system the most resilient in the game.

Learn how the integration of 5G and time-sensitive networking (TSN) can help develop the smart factories of the future.

Find out how network operations can make 5G systems as resilient as they can be for business and mission-critical services.

Explore the market potential for smart manufacturing use cases in Ericsson’s Network slicing: Top 10 use cases to target report. Or learn about your own revenue possibilities in Ericsson’s smart manufacturing value calculator.

Read Ericsson’s Connected Manufacturing Report.

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Canada to assess network resiliency before clearing Rogers-Shaw deal - Reuters

OTTAWA, July 25 (Reuters) - Canada will examine the resiliency of telecom networks across the country before approving Rogers Communications Inc's(RCIb.TO) proposed C$20 billion ($15.6 billion) acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc (SJRb.TO), Industry Minister Francois Philippe Champagne said on Monday.

The deal is being blocked by Canada's competition bureau but Champagne has the last word on approving the merger. The deal is now being questioned by policy makers after Rogers faced an unprecedented network outage this month that halted industries from banking to airlines to emergency services.

Champagne told a Canadian parliamentary committee probing the network collapse that Canada needs to strengthen resiliency.

Rogers has blamed the outage on a routing configuration change in its core network.

The network shutdown has raised questions among policymakers on how a lack of competition in Canada's telecom sector exposes consumers to vulnerabilities. In Canada, three telecom operators control about 95% of the market and consumers pay among the highest bills in the world.

But Rogers Chief Executive Tony Staffieri told lawmakers thata combined entity would be able to invest in the resiliency of telecom networks at a level that neither company can do alone.

One of the lawmakers questioned whether it was an end of the road for the merger, to which Staffieri said the merger was about scale and making "necessary investment."

Staffieri said that a large portion of a planned C$3 billion investment this year would go toward improving its networks.

Rogers announced a C$10 billion investment into its network over the next three years on Sunday, which includes the cost of separating wireless and internet services to create an "always on" network. This would ensure that customers do not experience an outage with both cellular and internet services again.

Shares of Shaw Communications were down 0.3% at C$34.6 at closing on Monday at the Toronto Stock Exchange, while Rogers fell 0.2% to C$60.27.

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Ties Between Alex Jones and Radio Network Show Economics of Misinformation - The New York Times

The Genesis Communications Network built a lucrative business alongside the radio host, whose show the company has syndicated for more than two decades.

Ted Anderson, a precious metals seller, was hoping to rustle up some business for his gold and silver dealership when he started a radio network out of a Minneapolis suburb a couple of decades ago. Soon after, he signed a brash young radio host named Alex Jones.

Together, they ended up shaping today’s misinformation economy.

The two built a lucrative operation out of a tangled system of niche advertisers, fund-raising drives and promotion of media subscriptions, dietary supplements and survivalist merchandise. Mr. Jones became a conspiracy theory heavyweight, while Mr. Anderson’s company, the Genesis Communications Network, thrived. Their moneymaking blueprint was reproduced by numerous other misinformation peddlers.

Mr. Jones eventually drifted from his dependence on Genesis, as he expanded beyond radio and attracted a large following online. Yet they were closely tied together again in lawsuits accusing them of fueling a bogus narrative about the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Mr. Jones was found liable by default in those cases. Last month, the plaintiffs’ lawyers dropped Genesis as a defendant. Christopher Mattei, one of the lawyers, said in a statement that having Genesis involved at trial would have distracted from the main target: Mr. Jones and his media organization.

The move freed Genesis, which says on its website that it “has established itself as the largest independently owned and operated talk radio network in the country,” from the steep penalties that most likely await Mr. Jones. But the cases, soon headed before juries to determine damages, continue to shed light on the economics that help to drive misleading and false claims across the media landscape.

The proliferation of falsehoods and misleading content, especially heading into the midterm elections this fall, is often blamed on credulous audiences and a widening partisan divide. Misinformation can also be hugely profitable, not just for the boldface names like Mr. Jones, but also for the companies that host websites, serve ads or syndicate content in the background.

“Misinformation exists for ideological reasons, but there is always a link to very commercial interests — they always find each other,” said Hilde Van den Bulck, a Drexel University media professor who has studied Mr. Jones. “It’s a little world full of networks of people who find ways to help each other out.”

Mr. Jones and Mr. Anderson did not respond to requests for comment for this article.

Genesis originated in the late 1990s as a marketing ploy, operating “hand-in-hand” with Midas Resources, Mr. Anderson’s bullion business, he has said. He told the media watchdog FAIR in 2011: “Midas Resources needs customers, Genesis Communications Network needs sponsors.”

Alex Jones and his doom-and-gloom worldview fit neatly into the equation.

Genesis began syndicating Mr. Jones around the time he was fired by an Austin station in 1999, the host said this year on Infowars, a website he operates. It was a complementary, if sometimes jarring partnership — “sort of a marriage made in hell,” Ms. Van den Bulck said.

Mr. Anderson was a regular guest on Mr. Jones's show.

Archived footage shows Mr. Jones, pugnacious and prone to pontificating, broadcasting dire claims about the dollar’s inevitable demise before introducing Mr. Anderson, bespectacled and generally mild, to deliver extended pitches for safe haven metals like gold. Sometimes, Mr. Jones would interrupt the pitches with rants, like the time in 2013 when he cut off Mr. Anderson more than 20 times in 30 seconds to yell “racist.”

Genesis’s roster has also included a gay comedian; a former lawyer for the A.C.L.U.; the Hollywood actor Stephen Baldwin; the long-running call-in psychologist Dr. Joy Browne; a home improvement expert known as the “Cajun Contractor”; and a group of self-described “normal guys with normal views” talking about sports.

But eventually, the network developed a reputation for a certain type of programming, promoting its “conspiracy” content on its website and telling the MinnPost in 2011 that its advertisers “specialize in preparedness and survival.”

Several shows were headed by firearms aficionados. There was a Christian rocker who opposed gay rights and a politician who embraced unfounded theories about crisis actors and President Obama’s nationality. One program promoted lessons on how to “store food, learn the importance of precious metals, or even survive a gunfight.” Jason Lewis, a Republican politician in Minnesota who faced blowback during the 2018 election season after his misogynistic on-air remarks resurfaced, had a syndication deal with Genesis and a campaign office at Genesis’ address.

The ties between Mr. Jones and Genesis began loosening about a decade ago, when Mr. Jones reached a deal to have Genesis handle only about one-third of his syndication deals. Now, about 30 stations include Mr. Jones on their schedules, according to a review by Dan Friesen, one of the hosts of the podcast Knowledge Fight, which he and a friend created to analyze and chronicle Mr. Jones’s career. Of those, more than a third relegated him to late night and early morning. Several stations replaced Mr. Jones with conservative hosts such as Sean Hannity or Dan Bongino.

Mr. Jones’s relationship to Mr. Anderson continued to dim after 2015, when the Minnesota Commerce Department shut down Midas. The agency described Midas and Mr. Anderson as “incompetent” and ordered the company to pay restitution to customers after having “regularly misappropriated money.”

Now, the Midas website redirects to a multilevel marketing company selling the same supplements that populate Genesis’ online shop. The founder of the supplement company has a show syndicated by Genesis and has also appeared on Mr. Jones’s show.

But Mr. Jones has his own business hawking Infowars-branded supplements, as well as products such as Infowars masks alongside bumper stickers declaring Covid-19 to be a hoax. One of his lawyers estimated that the conspiracy theorist generated $56 million in revenue last year.

“The inability to have that sort of symbiotic connection between the gold sales on the radio affiliates really hurt their connectedness,” Mr. Friesen said of Mr. Jones and his former benefactor. “At that point, Alex had a bit more of a need to diversify how he was funding things, and Ted took kind of a back seat.”

But in 2018, the families of several Sandy Hook victims sued Mr. Jones and named Genesis as a defendant as well. The families’ lawyers cited Mr. Anderson’s frequent appearances on Mr. Jones’s shows and said that Genesis’ distribution of Mr. Jones helped his falsehoods reach “hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people.”

Mr. Jones, Genesis and other defendants “concoct elaborate and false paranoia-tinged conspiracy theories because it moves product and they make money,” the lawyers wrote.

After the lawsuits were filed, both Genesis and Mr. Jones were rejected for coverage of the liability claims by West Bend Mutual Insurance, which began working with Genesis in 2012, according to court documents. After being dropped as a defendant, Genesis has continued to solicit donations, saying online that its “freedom to speak is held in the balance.”

The litigation demonstrates the increasingly prominent role of lawsuits as a cudgel against those accused of spreading false and misleading information. In 2020, Fox News settled for millions of dollars with the parents of Seth Rich, a murdered Democratic aide, whose death was falsely linked by the network to an email leak ahead of the presidential election in 2016.

Smartmatic and Dominion sued Fox News and other conservative outlets and figures last year after the election technology companies were targeted by unsupported claims about voting fraud and are seeking billions of dollars in damages. When Smartmatic and Dominion were still threatening legal action, several of the outlets broadcast segments that tried to clarify or debunk conspiracy theories about the voting systems companies.

“It seems to be, for the first time in a long time, a very tangible route to actually holding people accountable for the harm they’re causing and the ways in which they’re profiting off that harm,” said Rachel E. Moran, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington.

Genesis told the court in a filing last year that it that it was merely accused of being “a distributor of radio programs — the radioland equivalent of the paperboy — not the author, not the publisher, not the broadcaster.” The filing argued that the company “does not have a brain; it does not have memory; it cannot form intent.”

Lawyers for the families responded that the network should be “treated in the same manner as a newspaper or the publisher of a book” with a high degree of awareness of “the hoax narrative that Genesis repeatedly broadcast to vast audiences, over multiple years.”

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Using Internet Failover Solutions to Improve K–12 Networks - EdTech Magazine: Focus on K-12

Specific Hardware and Software Can Assist 5G Backup Internet in Schools

With reasonably easy installation, 5G service can be a cost-efficient, effective option to reinforce schools’ main networks, according to Tony Dolezal, 5G and multiaccess edge computing strategist for Verizon Public Sector.

“5G can provide backup for any digital circuit, fiber or cable,” Dolezal says. “The high speed and low latency attributes of 5G better emulate these landline circuit technologies.”

To implement a 5G solution, a strong on-premises router can be key, according to Frost, who says Kajeet often installs a Cradlepoint device that integrates into a school’s land network.

“We’ll typically install two SIMs into that device, one from AT&T and one from Verizon,” he says. “Whichever has the best connectivity — it depends, geographically, on who has the best service going into that site — we’ll keep that activated as the primary backup. If the customer has an issue with the main ethernet fiber network, the router will automatically detect that and fail over to the wireless connectivity.”

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According to Frost, schools ideally will have devices that support both wireline and wireless connectivity and private networks, since networks on the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) — a radio frequency spectrum band that can be used for shared wireless broadband — are becoming more prevalent.

“A lot of the school districts are building their own network for private wireless,” he says. “So, you’d want to have devices that can support the particular spectrum band, CBRS Band 48, that allows them to fail over to their own network.”

Frost suggests trying to incorporate monitoring capabilities into efforts to ensure network connectivity in schools, potentially through a solution that also includes website filtering and other access controls.

“You want to have a platform that allows you to manage those devices so you can see clearly how they are performing,” he says. “You want to know when your network fails over.”

Available Failover Fixes Include Routers and Structural Policies

Connectivity providers have introduced a number of items that can help K–12 districts enhance reliable online access, ranging from SonicWall’s firewall-based failover service to Opengear units that bounce to cellular networks when necessary.

Some schools, Frost says, are using the private LTE backup service Kajeet offers for failover connectivity.

“Essentially, that allows us to install a router on the school property that is connected to their Ethernet or fiber network,” he says. “If that Ethernet or fiber connection goes down, it automatically routes the traffic over the wireless network.”

School systems including the Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) in California have explored other resiliency options.

After finding that personal hotspots didn’t always offer enough robust access in areas with sparse cell towers, FUSD created its own private LTE network during the pandemic by mounting transmitters on top of 15 school buildings and distributing Cradlepoint R500 devices to students to use with Lenovo laptops.

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