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This allows utilities to design end- customers through the full lifecycle integrated cybersecurity requires
to-end networks that are cohesive, of network development, including technologies that can withstand
secure and able to scale in line with network audits and troubleshooting, difficult field conditions without
operational needs. and detailed network design, with compromising performance.
customised training for engineering
Extending connectivity beyond and operations teams, support H3iSquared’s combination
traditional links for integrating communications of Ruggedcom hardware,
Not all field sites have access to networks and broader control and complementary connectivity
fibre or copper links, particularly in monitoring systems. solutions and specialised
rural and semi-urban regions where engineering expertise enables
utilities need rapid, dependable This focus on applied expertise utilities to take a structured and
access to remote assets. To address ensures that technology choices scalable approach to modernisation.
this gap, H3iSquared supplies align with real-world operational With networks that can adapt
InHand Industrial Cellular Routers, requirements rather than relying to emerging technologies and
which provide secure and reliable solely on generic best practices. growing operational complexity,
remote connectivity for less-critical With an understanding that the utilities can improve uptime, protect
monitoring and control applications. communication network exists critical assets and build stronger
to serve the system above it, not foundations for the next generation
These devices allow operators operate in isolation, H3iSquared’s of grid intelligence.
to reach remote sites without team prioritises solutions that
dispatching personnel, reducing improve overall reliability, A partner for long-term
travel costs, improving response system integrity and long-term operational resilience
times and enabling continuous sustainability. In a sector where reliability
diagnostics. As utilities become more and safety are non-negotiable,
distributed and more dependent on Supporting the modernisation H3iSquared has established itself
real-time data streams, the role of of Southern Africa’s utility as a trusted partner to utilities and
cellular connectivity continues to landscape industrial operators across the
grow. As utilities across Southern Africa region. Through nearly two decades
continue to upgrade ageing of focused experience, the company
Two decades of hands-on infrastructure, the demand for continues to support the evolution
expertise secure, interoperable and resilient of high-performance, future-ready
One of H3iSquared’s defining networking solutions is accelerating. industrial networks – ensuring that
strengths is the depth of practical The move toward digital substations, the systems underpinning Southern
experience it brings to industrial advanced distribution management, Africa’s economy remain strong,
networking. The company supports remote asset diagnostics and secure and resilient.

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