5G for Retail and F&B Chains

Retail and F&B stores are digitizing through technologies to improve efficiency and create a better in-store customer experience. From the simplest online menu and cashless payment to the latest O2O marketing platform and smart shopping carts, CCTV, or robot waiters etc, all devices require reliable and secure connectivity to perform their digital transactions. Another added challenge is to manage such distributed networks across multiple remote locations, with very lean in-house IT resources.

RansNet “branch-in-a-box”/SD-Branch provides wired and wireless connectivity to up to 100 in-store devices. Leveraging on SD-WAN, security and 4G/5G for resiliency, we can slice the same infrastructure for all devices, with differentiated security and quality of service requirements.

Customers can login to our central cloud orchestrator for real-time visibility on the end-to-end network operating status and make instant configuration changes at finger tips.

This solution significantly reduces per store infrastructure investment, increases service uptime and operating efficiency.

RansNet SD-Branch provides 802.11ac dual-band wireless connectivity up to 100 devices, and the wireless coverage can be extended by RansNet Wi-Fi 6 Access Points. Leveraging on SD-WAN capabilities, such as multi-protocol VPN, multi-WAN bonding and dynamic routing, digital application traffic will be encrypted and routed to customer datacenter servers reliably, over primary fixed WAN connection, and seamlessly failover to wireless WAN (4G/5G). For locations with limited fixed line reachability, wireless WAN can be the primary connection, eliminating any physical constraints for businesses to reach maximum customers at their convenience.