Hybrid home gateways for a mission-critical world
Home internet has become critical infrastructure for work, school, healthcare, payments and entertainment, but every access technology fails at some point. Fiber lines can be cut, power can go out, and 5G cells can become overloaded—especially when people fall back to phone hotspots during an outage. A single connection into the home is now a single point of failure.
Hybrid home gateways try to solve this by combining multiple access options in one device and switching between them when trouble hits. Instead of relying only on fiber or only on 5G, a hybrid gateway can use both and move traffic across the better path in real time. The aim is not faster peak speeds, but steadier service when something breaks, so that calls, classes, payments and other online tasks keep working even when the primary link goes down.
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