The below is an excerpt from an article on WashingtonExec featuring an interview with Oceus’ Paul McQuillan. Read the full article here >
Amid the ever-rising tide of data, federal agencies need “an advanced network solution with major bandwidth — and it needs to be persistent, reliable, secure and mobility enabled,” said Paul McQuillan. And with 5G networking, they can meet that need.
As chief growth and strategy officer with Oceus, McQuillan sees legacy networks falling short.
“Some of the existing communications infrastructures, including Wi-Fi networks, simply cannot scale,” he said. “Legacy wireless networks weren’t really built to integrate that security, to support the device density, to address the needs of automation.”
While 5G can close the gap, getting there isn’t as simple as just throwing a switch.
Federal chief information officers, chief technology officers and chief information security officers will need to chart a path forward in order to migrate from legacy wireless systems to a 5G-enabled future. Oceus can help.
“For over 30 years, Oceus has been providing broadband wireless solutions for government and commercial,” McQuillan said. “We’ve deployed over 150 cellular systems in the government, for various use cases.”
The company’s expertise in this area runs deep. It has designed its own wireless systems, and it partners with wireless original equipment manufacturers and compute providers. Oceus is also a Commercial Solution for Classified integrator on national security use cases.
The company is making headway on its efforts to deploy 5G in support of the federal mission.
Through the Defense Department’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, the company is under multiple contracts providing operational 5G networks, McQuillan said…