OneLayer, the leader in securing and managing enterprise private LTE/5G networks, announced the seamless integration of private networks with private APNs on public networks. OneLayer’s solution now supports use cases such as roaming or failover devices from private networks, devices migrating from private APNs to private cellular networks, and complete visibility of hidden devices behind routers connecting via private APNs.
Bridging the Traceability Gap from Private Networks to Private APNs on Public Cellular Networks
In the fast-paced world of mobile connectivity, an organization’s assets must be visible and traceable, no matter how they connect to the corporate network. One long-standing monitoring challenge – now solved! – for assets connecting through private APNs (access point names) on public cellular networks.
Private cellular networks are a relative newcomer on the cellular scene, but private APNs leveraging the public network have existed for years, typically used by businesses to connect widespread out-of-corporate facility IoT devices (e.g. power meters, ATMs, soda machines). Private APNs are configured for an organization by the mobile network operator, leveraging the public cellular networks for connectivity, but providing an exclusive gateway for the organization’s data traffic between the public cellular network and the corporate network. The private APN gives the organization greater control over how their mobile data traffic is handled, potentially improving privacy, security and quality of service.
Common obstacles related to visibility and asset management, however, often prevent organizations from achieving that potential. If an organization cannot see all the individual devices connected through the APN, or hiding behind routers that are connected through the APN, it cannot manage them effectively or at all. And what happens if a device changes its connection point – does it still get tracked, identified, and classified as the same asset?
OneLayer, the leading security and operations management platform for private cellular networks, has just introduced seamless integration of private APNs on public networks. OneLayer’s capabilities in this area were demonstrated last month at the UBBA Summit and Plugfest with one of the major US mobile carriers, showing how transparent asset management and Zero Trust approach security is achievable by organizations using private APNs.
SOURCE: PRNewswire