Important flexibility during unanticipated network traffic changes

 In 2020, according to Doyle, carrier 4G/5G offered important flexibility during unanticipated network traffic changes caused by COVID-19, enabling IT leaders to keep critical users and applications online. And should the world face similar future crises, 5G could prove instrumental in both enabling remote work in the long term and lessening the strain on healthcare networks.

"Mobile health workers need access in the field during incidents, and critical patient diagnostic data needs to be transmitted between ambulances and emergency rooms," independent analyst John Fruehe wrote in a recent expert tip on computer science or computer engineering enterprise use cases. "5G is a great tool for these areas where latency, security and high bandwidth are all critical." It could also play an important role in mobile contact tracing, he added.

Celona CEO and co-founder Rajeev Shah said private 5G is perfect for environments like traditional and field hospitals, where a growing number of applications with IoT and automation capabilities require ultrareliable connectivity.