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Ahead of NRF 2020 Vision, Cradlepoint Announces First Integration of Machine Learning into NetCloud Service to Enable Wireless SD-WANCradlepoint, the global leader in cloud-delivered LTE (News - Alert) and 5G Ready wireless edge solutions, announced new machine learning capabilities for its NetCloud Service, just ahead of January's National Retail Federation (NRF) 2020 Vision: Retail's Big Show, the world's largest retail expo. Designed to assist retail, enterprise and government customers in managing large and distributed wireless WANs, the technology enables NetCloud to learn data usage patterns on wireless links to accurately project future usage and potential overages. As a result, organizations can virtually eliminate the risk of overages by proactively managing their cellular data plans across one or more mobile operators. Retailers are connecting more people, places and things as they deliver new customer experiences within and beyond their brick-and-mortar stores. This includes next-generation display, marketing, shopping and loss prevention technologies as well as deployment of pop-up stores, kiosks and even mobile showrooms. These innovations are driving more cellular WAN endpoints, making it challenging for IT managers to plan and monitor data consumption. Cradlepoint's first implementation of machine learning within its NetCloud Service provides data plan consumption insights and intelligence that would be difficult to discover manually. Cradlepoint is a major provider of 5G Ready wireless edge networking for LTE in the retail space and currently serves 75% of the world's top retailers, including David's Bridal and PANDORA Jewelry. Evolving to Wireless SD-WAN for Retail The integration of machine learning capabilities underlines Cradlepoint's leadership in evolving SD-WAN technology for a wireless world. The retail market, in particular, s poised to make the shift to a more wireless WAN for the following reasons:
"Over 75% of the world's top retailers rely on Cradlepoint today to extend the reach and improve the reliability of their WAN at the store level and beyond," explained Todd Krautkremer, CMO, Cradlepoint. "We are committed to enabling their digital and customer experience transformation journeys. Our NetCloud Service and wireless edge routers combine software-defined networking and new machine learning functionality to unlock the full potential of LTE and 5G cellular networks and help our retail customers evolve to a wireless WAN future, faster." About Cradlepoint Cradlepoint is a global leader in cloud-delivered wireless edge solutions for branch, mobile, and IoT networks. The Cradlepoint NetCloud Service - based on the Elastic Edge™ architecture - delivers an agile, pervasive and software-defined wireless edge that connects people, places and things everywhere over LTE and 5G cellular networks with resiliency, security and control. More than 18,000 active enterprise and government organizations around the world, including 75 percent of the world's top retailers, 50 percent of the Fortune 100, and first responder agencies in 25 of the largest U.S. cities, rely on Cradlepoint to keep critical branches, points of commerce, field forces, vehicles, and IoT devices always connected and protected. Major service providers use Cradlepoint wireless solutions as the foundation for innovative managed network services. Founded in 2006, Cradlepoint is a privately held company headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with a development center in Silicon Valley and international offices in the UK and Australia. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200109005178/en/ |