Highway 9 Networks recently launched from stealth, introducing the industry’s first mobile cloud for delivering cloud-native mobility and services for the AI-driven enterprise. Created by veteran leaders from VMware, the Highway 9 Mobile Cloud enables voice + data coverage everywhere, reliable and high-performance mobile connectivity for AI-driven use cases like robotics, factory automation, and drones, and always-on mobile data access for apps and communications.
The Highway 9 founding team previously built multiple billion-dollar business lines at VMware and have applied their cloud-native design and operational learnings to developing the Highway 9 Mobile Cloud – a first in the traditional physical and telecom infrastructure-centric mobile networking industry.
Through the proliferation of mobile phones, tablets, and an increasingly hybrid workforce in today’s enterprises, there is a high demand for consistent mobile coverage across indoor, outdoor, and campus environments. In parallel, manufacturing facilities and distribution centers embrace AI-driven, autonomous, and mobile devices + machinery. These fixed wireless solutions do not adequately address the mobility, resiliency, and predictable, low-latency performance requirements that this growing number of mobile-first use cases needs. Likewise, distributed antenna systems (DAS) – the primary tool to extend carrier cellular networks into the enterprise – cannot meet the exploding demands in this area.
Several advances in private mobile technology – including the availability of free spectrum, multi-eSIM support, and private 5G – finally make it possible to address the needs of mobile enterprises. And Highway 9 Networks has leveraged these technology advances and combined them with a robust set of cloud-based mobile services to build a first-of-its-kind mobile cloud.
Highway 9 Mobile Cloud enables smartphones, tablets, computers, new AI-driven devices, and the proliferation of next-gen IoT to interconnect with apps, data, each other, and cloud services. And it addresses the key enterprise requirements of cleanly integrating into existing IT infrastructure and security policies, seamlessly operating across mobile service providers, and delivering a cloud-based approach to automate and lifecycle manage the full mobile stack.
Highway 9 Mobile Cloud radically simplifies and automates the deployment + operation of private mobile networks. Its unique cloud-native model and fully integrated mobile services enable a much faster rollout of mobile connectivity vs. traditional telco-focused mobile equipment. Highway 9 Mobile Cloud provides end-to-end visibility and maintains an IT team’s centralized control and policies.
KEY QUOTES:
“We created a mobile cloud for the enterprise, building on the superior range, mobility, resiliency, predictability and low-latency characteristics of private cellular technology, and coupled it with a fully cloud-native platform. The Highway 9 Mobile Cloud delivers the always-on, performant mobile network needed for private mobility and modern AI-aware systems, regardless of whether they are indoors, outdoor, campus-wide or beyond. Much like the last decade saw the migration of servers and apps to the public cloud, we believe the next decade will see the migration of mobile and AI clients and devices to the mobile cloud, unleashing a whole new wave of innovation.”
- Allwyn Sequeira, founder and CEO, Highway 9 Networks
“In our dynamic environment across the MIT campus, we need to ensure that students, faculty, staff and others can always connect securely to their apps and data…wherever they are and whatever they’re doing. The Highway 9 Mobile Cloud provides a platform-level solution to help us do this, while saving us significant time through their cloud-based operations and tiers of integration.”
- Mark Silis, Vice President Information Systems & Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Private mobile networking and private 5G have the opportunity to fundamentally transform enterprise communications and accelerate digital automation. But today’s offerings aren’t forward-leaning or ready for widespread enterprise usage because they’re still complex and telecom-centric. What enterprises need is a simplified and cloud-native approach, essentially a mobile cloud, and that’s what Highway 9 is bringing to market.”
- Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst, ZK Research
“As a people-first investor, I’ve been thrilled to work with the veteran team of entrepreneurs at Highway 9 and their game-changing idea of building a mobile cloud. They see the big picture of what mobility can do in enabling enterprises’ AI-powered initiatives to transform their business, and they’ve cracked the nut by applying a cloud-native model to it, which will greatly speed adoption of both private mobility and AI in the coming years.”
- Ursheet Parikh, Partner, Mayfield
