Highway 9 Networks Emerges From Stealth With $25 Million

<p><strong><span class&equals;"legendSpanClass"><span class&equals;"xn-location">SANTA CLARA<&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; <u>Highway 9 Networks has <&sol;u>launched from stealth&comma; introducing the industry&&num;8217&semi;s first mobile cloud for delivering cloud-native mobility and services for the AI-driven enterprise&period; Developed by veteran leaders from VMware&comma; the Highway 9 Mobile Cloud enables voice &plus; data coverage everywhere&comma; reliable and high-performance mobile connectivity for AI-driven use cases like robotics&comma; factory automation and drones&comma; and always-on mobile data access for top priority apps and communications&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The company says it has raised over <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;25 million<&sol;span> of funding from investors including Mayfield&comma; General Catalyst and Detroit Ventures&comma; as well as a number of prominent enterprise and institutional customers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Highway 9 founding team previously built multiple billion-dollar business lines at VMware and have applied their cloud-native design and operational learnings to the development of the Highway 9 Mobile Cloud – a first in the traditionally physical and telecom infrastructure-centric mobile networking industry&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With the proliferation of mobile phones&comma; tablets and an increasingly hybrid work force in today&&num;8217&semi;s enterprises&comma; there is a high demand for consistent mobile coverage across indoor&comma; outdoor and campus environments&period; In parallel&comma; manufacturing facilities and distribution centers are embracing AI-driven&comma; autonomous and mobile devices &plus; machinery&period; Today&&num;8217&semi;s fixed wireless solutions do not adequately address the mobility&comma; resiliency&comma; and predictable&comma; low-latency performance requirements needed by this growing number of mobile-first use cases&period; Likewise&comma; distributed antenna systems &lpar;DAS&rpar;&comma; which were the primary tool to extend carrier cellular networks into the enterprise&comma; cannot meet the exploding demands in this area&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Several advances in private mobile technology&comma; including the availability of free spectrum&comma; multi-eSIM support and private 5G&comma; finally make it possible to address the needs of the mobile enterprise&period; Highway 9 Networks has leveraged these technology advances and combined them with a robust set of cloud-based mobile services to build a first-of-its-kind mobile cloud&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;c212&period;net&sol;c&sol;link&sol;&quest;t&equals;0&amp&semi;l&equals;en&amp&semi;o&equals;4096887-1&amp&semi;h&equals;2666235983&amp&semi;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fhighway9&period;com&percnt;2Fproducts&amp&semi;a&equals;Highway&plus;9&plus;Mobile&plus;Cloud" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Highway 9 Mobile Cloud<&sol;a><&sol;u> enables smart phones&comma; tablets&comma; computers&comma; new AI-driven devices&comma; and the proliferation of next gen IoT to interconnect with apps&comma; data and each other&comma; as well as cloud services&period; It addresses the key enterprise requirements of cleanly integrating into existing IT infrastructure and security policies&comma; seamlessly operating across mobile service providers&comma; and delivering a cloud-based approach to automate and lifecycle manage the full mobile stack&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We created a mobile cloud for the enterprise&comma; building on the superior range&comma; mobility&comma; resiliency&comma; predictability and low-latency characteristics of private cellular technology&comma; and coupled it with a fully cloud-native platform&period; The Highway 9 Mobile Cloud delivers the always-on&comma; performant mobile network needed for private mobility and modern AI-aware systems&comma; regardless of whether they are indoors&comma; outdoor&comma; campus-wide or beyond&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said <span class&equals;"xn-person">Allwyn Sequeira<&sol;span>&comma; founder and CEO&comma; Highway 9 Networks&period; &&num;8220&semi;Much like the last decade saw the migration of servers and apps to the public cloud&comma; we believe the next decade will see the migration of mobile and AI clients and devices to the mobile cloud&comma; unleashing a whole new wave of innovation&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;