Presenters: Rupert Erskine, Channel Development Manager & Doris Vincent, Solutions Architect

Special Guest: Steven Murfitt, Ocean Telecoms

As digital transformation accelerates, reliable and secure connectivity has become essential across every sector. A key concern across retail, care homes, and social housing is ensuring reliable 4G/5G failover to maintain uninterrupted connectivity. This is vital for card payments, telecare, CCTV, and consistent service quality, to name just a few! Equally important is delivering reliable, well-managed guest Wi-Fi to meet the specific needs of each environment. Explore more current and predicted networking needs in these service industries with our experts who understand and are eager to support critical networking demands.

Join Rupert Erskine as we share real-world scenarios, solutions, and practical case studies, including how DrayTek technology supported Ocean Telecoms and Places for People in overcoming connectivity and security challenges across multiple sites.

We’ll also work through several other key networking challenges in 2025 and going into 2026 that affects social housing, assisted living, and retail, such as:

• The growing dependence on cloud connectivity and the need for consistent uptime and bandwidth
• Legacy infrastructure not designed for modern connected devices
• The demand for centralised visibility and control through SD-WAN and cloud management
• Budget and staffing limitations affecting network maintenance and scalability

Find out how we can help you achieve service excellence-whether supporting digital inclusion in social housing, enabling staff mobility in care environments, or driving operational efficiency in retail. This session will provide practical insights to help you build secure, scalable, and future-ready networks powered by 4G, 5G, and beyond.