Private Networks for Enterprises : Solutions for 2023

What is a private network?

A private network is an area of mobile data service designed to be exclusive to a single user or group of users who can connect to it without sharing the bandwidth with anyone else.

Private networks have become an essential part of wireless technology. 

Private networks: key stakeholders

Both 4G and 5G Private Networks represent powerful tools for mission and business-critical enterprises to improve the efficiency and safety of their operations. 

For employees or things, Private Networks must offer a seamless and secure experience from the initial connection and throughout day-to-day usage. 

By design, Private Networks have access to a wide range of sensitive and critical IT resources: inventory, production flows, digital twins, lists of employees and their privileges, customers’ data, and all the associated production and accounting applications. 

The key players responsible for the deployment of Private Networks face the challenge of providing enterprises with solutions that can be trusted.

These stakeholders include: 

• Enterprises that want to deploy their private networks
• Communication Service Providers 
• System integrators that source solutions from various suppliers to build and deploy Private Network services
• Connectivity Solution Providers 

Four critical requirements 

Regardless of the model employed, a mission and business-critical solution must be: 

• Easy for an administrator to manage and supervise, with the agility to provision and control users’ access to the system. 
• Available anytime and anywhere in the service area.
• Cyber-protected against malicious attacks, with high standards of privacy, ensured.
• Simple to use and adapted to the specific roles of end users.

Thales connectivity solutions for public and private networks

To address these challenges, Thales connectivity solutions enable: 

• The identification of users authorized to access the network
• Service continuity for users across both Private and Public Networks.
• The connection of people and things to the most relevant network
• The protection of data exchanges, regardless of the network used.

Relying on the eSIM/SIM framework, our solutions offer outstanding benefits for Private Network use cases:

• Out-of-the-box connectivity experience for private network users, based on our bootstrap service.
• Private Network adaptation in line with changing regulatory, technology and business conditions.

At the same time, we secure your digital assets and data through future-proof and adaptive cyber protection. This also encompasses your connected devices as they interface with the outside world.

Thales digital enrolment, biometric authentication and connectivity solutions encompass:

• The Trusted Digital Identity service platform for seamless and secure digital enrolment and biometric authentication.
• eSIM Management solutions for seamless and secure connectivity.
• IoT SAFE that delivers scalable trust for IoT applications

4G/5G Private Networking

New Choices for IoT Deployment
As IoT has moved from ‘nice-to-have’ to an essential part of enterprise operations, 4G/5G private networking is now the biggest new opportunity for IoT deployment within the enterprise.
This report is free to download and is essential reading for anyone looking to deploy 4G/5G private networking as part of an IoT solution in their organization.

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