Colombia. Alai Secure met in the city of Bogotá, at the end of last month, the main providers of solutions and push to talk terminals in the country, with whom it analyzed the situation of the sector, as well as the opportunities that the arrival of 5G will entail.
This meeting, organized by Alai Secure in collaboration with Macrochip Ltda, took place last Tuesday, April 25 at the Hilton Hotel in the city of Bogotá. Space where a day was organized that had breakfast space, words of the representatives of both organizing companies, as well as the presentation "Private 5G networks for mission-critical services".
Carlos Valenciano, general manager of Alai Secure, opened the day by pointing out how "the POC -push to talk over cellular- service has been part of the Internet of Things ecosystem from the beginning, and indisputably. The pace of adaptation of push-to-talk technologies in Colombia has been one of the most outstanding in the region and will undoubtedly be one of the main use cases of 5G."
Next, Ricardo Orjuela, regional sales manager Latam of Alai Secure, analyzed some of the main challenges of the push to talk sector such as coverage, the need to manage the park of simcards, technical support, and emphasized how the offer of Alai Secure has been designed to meet this demand, with a service in Colombia backed by the mobile networks of Tigo and Movistar.
"Our Self-Management platform with its new dashboard, much more friendly and intuitive, allows our customers to have the autonomy and independence necessary in the management of the entire service life cycle: simcard activations, status control, consumption control, billing control, line detailing, subscription views... Our customers will be able, from the same platform, to report an incident and follow up through their ticketing system," concluded Orjuela.
In addition, the day also featured the intervention of Andrea Hernández, business development manager of Macrochip, who highlighted some key characteristics that a machine-to-machine communications solution must have for a POC service, such as lower data consumption and universal configuration capacity with any type of PTT equipment.
"Our experience with the Alai Secure SIM has allowed us to save up to 50% on data consumption and this is very important if we want to grow."
Private 5G networks for mission-critical services
On the other hand, the intervention of the presentation was in charge of Rafael Escobar, channel manager M2M / IoT of Alai Secure. The executive began his speech by pointing out the significant delay in the deployment of 5G technology in Colombia, since the standard was approved back in 2016, due in part, according to the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of Colombia (MINTIC) and the mobile network operators themselves, to the fact that there are still some challenges in connectivity and penetration pending to close 4G.
He later pointed out that "everything indicates that 2023 will be the year in which the definitive deployment of 5G is carried out."
Escobar also pointed out the difference between what has come to be called selective 5G deployments and the so-called massive 5G deployments -typical of the consumer world-. "Network slicing technology allows you to create private 5G networks within the same operator network and define the parameters of quality of service: speed, latency, security, number of devices, among others. A private environment away from the massive 5G deployment. This technology allows companies, corporations, public institutions and the world of industry to have their own, private and customized 5G environments."
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