With "Campus Isolated", Vodafone now offers a solution with which companies can set up their own 5G-based mobile networks. The networks operate completely autonomously without a connection to the overarching Vodafone mobile network. It uses its own frequencies for this. Additional radio cells are put into operation within buildings and data processing takes place directly at the company headquarters. This solution offers security for particularly sensitive company data because it does not leave the closed area of the local mobile network.

Campus Isolated complements Vodafone's existing offering for 5G networks in companies. As part of "Campus Flex", Vodafone uses network slicing technology to reserve capacity in the existing mobile network for business customers. Campus Private, on the other hand, is a hybrid solution that combines the advantages of private and public networks based on Vodafone's own hardware, the Vodafone RedBox, at the customer's location.

Growing demand

Alexander Saul, Managing Director Corporate Customer Business Vodafone Germany: "We are noticing that interest in campus networks is growing among companies across all sectors."

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Alexander Saul, Managing Director Corporate Customers at Vodafone Germany: "The market for 5G-based campus networks is growing. Many corporate networks are still in test operation and companies are testing solutions for the automation of production and processes with the help of 5G. We are noticing that interest in campus networks is increasing among companies across all sectors. A particularly large number of inquiries are coming from the transport and logistics sector, as well as from production. But healthcare and agriculture are also looking at campus networks."

This is also underlined by current figures from the industry association Bitkom: at the end of last year, the digital association surveyed over 500 industrial companies with 100 or more employees in Germany. Of the companies surveyed, 26% want to set up campus networks with 5G or have already done so. Around seven percent are planning to build campus networks themselves and 19 percent through a mobile network provider.

Dedicated Multi-Access Edge Computing

With the "Multi-Access Edge Computing" service, Vodafone brings computing power from the cloud as close as possible to the end device where it is needed. For this purpose, a server infrastructure is put into operation directly on site at the company headquarters. Cloud storage, computing power and applications are made available via this infrastructure. Data is thus analyzed, processed and stored much faster because the distances for the data are shorter. This significantly reduces latency times and applications can be used in real time.