4G/5G Connectivity
Protect your business from costly internet outages with a seamless 4G/5G failover.
If your main broadband connection fails, our backup solution automatically switches to the mobile network, ensuring your team stays online and your critical cloud-based systems remain accessible with minimal disruption.
4G (Fourth Generation) LTE
4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) is an all-IP (Internet Protocol) packet-switched network that delivers high-speed wireless broadband. It is a significant evolution from 3G, offering enhanced data rates, lower latency (30-50ms) and greater network capacity.
Key technical aspects include:
This encoding method divides a wireless signal into numerous, narrower frequency channels, or subcarriers, to avoid interference and improve data throughput
4G uses MIMO technology, which involves multiple antennas to improve capacity and spectral efficiency, meaning more data can be transferred over a given amount of spectrum.
This serves as the heart of the network, managing data routing, device authentication, and other essential tasks.
4G primarily operates on low-to-mid frequency bands (below 6 GHz), which provides broad coverage and better signal penetration through walls compared to higher frequencies.
5G (Fifth Generation)
5G is the latest generation of cellular technology, designed for significantly faster speeds, ultra-low latency, and vastly increased capacity compared to 4G. It introduces several advancements to enable next-generation applications and the Internet of Things (IoT) at a massive scale.
Key technical aspects include:
This is the core radio access technology standard for 5G, improving connectivity and enabling the technology’s greater speeds and lower latency.
5G uses a wider range of frequency bands than 4G, including higher-frequency millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum (24–47 GHz) and mid-band (1.7–4.7 GHz). While mmWave offers extremely fast speeds (up to 20 Gbps), it has a limited range and poor building penetration.
A more advanced version of MIMO that uses a large number of antennas at the base station to deliver multiple data streams simultaneously. This uses beamforming to direct a focused radio signal to a specific user, increasing capacity and efficiency.
A capability that allows a network to be logically partitioned into multiple virtual networks, or “slices,” each tailored to specific applications. This allows businesses to prioritise latency, speed, and security for critical applications.
5G is designed to connect a million devices per square kilometre, far more than 4G’s 4,000. This is crucial for large-scale IoT deployments.
5G can reduce latency to as low as 1 millisecond, enabling real-time responsiveness for applications like autonomous vehicles, remote surgery and industrial automation.
A new core network design that uses interconnected, cloud-native network functions. This offers greater flexibility and scalability than 4G’s EPC.