{"id":453214,"date":"2020-11-30T15:01:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T13:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=453214"},"modified":"2020-11-30T15:01:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T13:01:24","slug":"retail-in-recovery-connecting-beyond-brick-and-mortar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/453214\/retail-in-recovery-connecting-beyond-brick-and-mortar\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail in recovery &#8211; connecting beyond brick and mortar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"my-4\">Post-pandemic innovation is transforming the world<\/h3>\n<p>Especially in a post-pandemic environment, business extends beyond brick and mortar. The \u2018internet of things\u2019 reaches far beyond wires.<\/p>\n<p>Digital technologies change the way retail branches connect with their customers. The edge of the network is wherever you need it to be.<\/p>\n<p>It connects people, places and things around the corner, within the city, across the globe \u2014 and through the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s why our world is moving beyond wires.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cradlepoint \u2013 Building a Connected Business\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rNvB3FRaAvQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To this point, pop-up networks are increasingly important across a broad range of industries, helping organisations serve customers and do business in innovative new ways.<\/p>\n<p>Trends including field workforces and temporary retail are driving the need for pop-up connectivity that is secure, easy to deploy anywhere, and can be monitored and managed without sending IT professionals to each site.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Moving beyond brick and mortar<\/h3>\n<p>Pop-up networks are increasingly important across a broad range of industries, helping organisations serve customers and do business in innovative new ways.<\/p>\n<p>Trends including field workforces and temporary retail are driving the need for pop-up connectivity that is secure, easy to deploy anywhere, and can be monitored and managed without sending IT professionals to each site.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Benefits of LTE for pop-up network connectivity<\/h3>\n<p>When it comes to taking your QSR or branch-related business off-site, there can be various networking challenges, including unavailable or unreliable wired connectivity, unpredictable and sometimes exorbitant costs, and finally, sub-standard information security that puts your business at risk.<\/p>\n<p>With Infoprotect\u2019s Cradlepoint solutions in place, the benefits counter these downsides perfectly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-453216\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Cradlepoint_Article_03_Infographic.png\" alt=\"Cradlepoint_Article_03_Infographic\" width=\"640\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Cradlepoint_Article_03_Infographic.png 640w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Cradlepoint_Article_03_Infographic-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">On-demand wireless access<\/h3>\n<p>Many organisations ensure reliable pop-up connectivity through Cradlepoint\u2019s cloud-managed LTE-enabled branch routers.<\/p>\n<p>With the ability to create secure LTE connections and make WiFi available, companies have the flexibility to set up instantly, enabling high availability for important applications.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Standardised and consistent WAN pricing everywhere<\/h3>\n<p>LTE is a plug-and-play option that standardises a company\u2019s pop-up WAN costs across the entire country, with reliance on one or two network operators instead of a different ISP in each and every town.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Built-in information security<\/h3>\n<p>Cradlepoint\u2019s all-in-one branch solutions include a firewall, easy VPN setup, content filtering, and IPS\/IDS \u2014 allowing organisations to keep all types of data secure from one site to the next.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Infoprotect understands your business connectivity needs<\/h3>\n<p>Staying on the edge of wireless innovation is hard, but that\u2019s OK. We were built for this.<\/p>\n<p>As a certified and preferred Cradlepoint provider in South Africa, Infoprotect can connect your business today \u2014 putting you on the pathway to 5G, Private LTE, and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Explore the value of LTE and 5G for your off-site retail, QSR or branch at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoprotect.co.za\/cradlepoint?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=30%20November%202020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>www.infoprotect.co.za\/cradlepoint<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a certified and preferred Cradlepoint provider in South Africa, Infoprotect can connect your business today \u2014 putting you on the pathway to 5G, Private LTE, and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":453218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[15087],"class_list":["post-453214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-infoprotect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453214"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453228,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453214\/revisions\/453228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}