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Cellular Failover & LTE Routers
A site that cannot lose connectivity needs a second path that is genuinely independent of the first. We quote the router, the antennas and the mounting for the location it actually sits in — the carrier plan stays your contract, and we never resell airtime.
- Scope
- Branch, remote-site and cabinet failover; fixed-wireless primary
- Quoted
- Routers, antennas, mounting, PoE and power
- Boundary
- We never sell airtime — the carrier plan is your contract
A backup path that shares a conduit is not a backup path
Most sites that believe they have redundancy have two circuits from two providers that leave the building through the same duct and terminate on the same street cabinet. Cellular failover is popular precisely because it is independent by construction: a different medium, a different infrastructure, a different failure mode. What decides whether it works on the day is unglamorous — whether there is usable signal at the point the router actually sits, whether the antenna is inside a metal cabinet, and whether the failover was ever tested with the primary genuinely unplugged.
Two verified lines, quoted properly
These are the cellular-edge brands with real priced inventory on the hub. We would rather name two honestly than list ten we cannot supply.
Peplink routers and load-balancing edge
Peplink carries priced rows across its routing and multi-WAN line — the case where a site wants wired and cellular paths managed together rather than a cold standby. Quoted with the antennas and mounting the location needs.
CradlePoint cellular routers
CradlePoint carries priced rows across branch and remote-site cellular routing, including the ruggedised and vehicle-adjacent lines. Some models carry a platform subscription, which we quote with its term rather than leaving it to surface later.
From site list to deployed routers
- Send the site list with what each location's primary circuit is and what it must protect
- Tell us where the router physically sits — cabinet, closet, ceiling, roof, vehicle
- We quote the router, external antennas and mounting per site, plus any PoE or power
- Platform subscriptions are quoted with their term and renewal position stated
- Carrier plans and SIMs stay on your account — we neither resell nor mark up airtime
- Routers can be staged and labeled per site so the install is a swap, not a build
What stays yours to run
We do not sell, resell, broker or mark up carrier airtime, data plans or SIMs. That relationship stays directly between you and the carrier, which is also better for you: you keep the pooled-data economics, the account controls and the escalation path. We source the equipment, quote the subscription where the platform requires one, and stage the units.
We also do not operate or monitor the failover. Whether the failover fires correctly is a function of your routing policy, your monitoring and — most of all — whether anyone has tested it by pulling the primary circuit. That test is worth scheduling annually, and it is yours to run.
Signal at the site is the one variable nobody can quote from a desk. Where a location is marginal we spec external antennas and cable rather than trusting the internal ones, because a cellular router in a metal cabinet with a stub antenna is a router that works in the lab and not in the substation.
Cellular failover questions
Do you provide the cellular data plan?
No, and deliberately. Airtime, SIMs and data pooling stay on your carrier account — we neither resell nor mark up connectivity. What we quote is the router, the antennas, the mounting and any platform subscription the hardware requires.
Will an internal antenna be enough?
Sometimes, and it is the most common cause of a failover that works in testing and fails in production. If the router lives inside a metal enclosure, below grade, or at a site with marginal signal, we spec external antennas and the cable run rather than hoping. Tell us where the unit physically sits and we quote accordingly.
Can cellular be the primary connection rather than the backup?
At many remote sites it already is — construction offices, temporary facilities, cabinets and yards where no wired service exists. The equipment is largely the same; what changes is the sizing conversation, since a primary path deserves more attention to antenna placement and to what happens if the site loses power.
Do these routers need a subscription?
Several lines do — for cloud management, for security features, or for the management platform itself. We quote the term with the hardware and say what renewal looks like, so a subscription does not appear as a surprise renewal notice a year after the install.
Failover background and the circuits it backs up
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Send the site list
Tell us what each site's primary circuit is, what it must protect and where the router physically sits. We come back with routers, antennas and mounting per site — screened, availability-stated, and staged per location if you want them install-ready.