
From day one, SpiderCloud Wireless envisioned a new RAN architecture that combines Enterprise WLAN system architecture with UMTS small cell technologies. SpiderCloud Wireless focuses exclusively on providing a disruptive service delivery platform that blends the best of both worlds for the enterprise.
The result is the industry’s first enterprise radio access network (E-RAN) that enables direct integration between enterprise IT networks and mobile devices through small cell technologies. The SmartCloud E-RAN solution provides a flexible and native architecture for enabling enterprise wireless applications such as mobile unified communications and IP-PBX integration. Such seamless integration allows enterprise users to transparently access corporate assets with their existing unmodified mobile devices for not just voice, but also video and data applications.
Enterprises benefit from a private and highly secure indoor mobile broadband network that enables corporate-owned mobile devices to extend the reach of the enterprise infrastructure. Workers enjoy the benefits of dedicated mobile broadband capacity wherever they are throughout the corporate campus. As a result, mobility can be extended to every business process and application and become a productivity enhancing application throughout the enterprise.
The SmartCloud E-RAN solution gives mobile operators a significant advantage by cost-effectively unlocking untapped enterprise segments previously too expensive and complex to deploy in-building. The solution is a Services Node-based architecture where the SmartCloud Services Node (SCSN) is analogous to the Enterprise Wi-Fi Switch and all wireless traffic session management is aggregated in a central control point inside the enterprise LAN.
Through this Services Node-based architecture, RF management functions such as auto-configuration and self-tuning are executed centrally instead of in a peer-to-peer ad hoc manner. Similarly, mobility management functions such as inter-radio node Soft-Handover are finally made possible through the centralized Services Node architecture where each mobility event is anchored and managed by the SmartCloud Services Node.
Ultimately, the SmartCloud E-RAN system gives mobile operators a new tool for delivering in-building wireless services to enterprise customers. Its flexible and powerful Services Node-based architecture is uniquely positioned to provide universal wireless session management that allows operators to combine different radio access technologies on the same system. It is truly a disruptive service delivery platform that blends the best of licensed spectrum evolution and unlicensed spectrum advances.