INS Receives Cradlepoint’s 2020 IoT Partner of the Year Award

Industrial Networking Solutions Honored for Outstanding Performance and Year-over-Year Growth

Richardson, TX – (May 13, 2021) Industrial Networking Solutions (INS), a national VAR focused on industrial and enterprise IoT solutions, announced that Cradlepoint has named INS its 2020 IoT Partner of the Year. The award recognizes INS’s performance, year-over-year growth, and leadership in delivering Wireless WAN and IoT connectivity solutions.

Cradlepoint’s Partner Awards recognize the excellent performance and significant achievements of its partners over the last year. Each recognized partner has demonstrated exceptional year-over-year growth and a continued commitment to positioning and selling Cradlepoint’s Wireless WAN business solutions.

“We are honored to be recognized as Cradlepoint’s 2020 IoT Partner of the Year. Over our ten-year partnership with Cradlepoint, INS is proud to have won other awards, but this one is special because it recognizes our achievements in our core market focus,” said Richard Rogers, Director of INS’s Wireless Division. “The combination of Cradlepoint’s excellent technology and INS IoT expertise results in a partnership that should bring growth to both companies for years to come.”

A global leader in cloud-delivered 4G and 5G wireless network edge solutions, Cradlepoint’s NetCloud platform and cellular routers deliver a pervasive, secure, and software-defined Wireless WAN edge to connect people, places, and things anywhere. Cradlepoint was among the first to deliver comprehensive 5G solutions for business, combining its NetCloud platform with a clean-sheet design to support the full speed and capabilities of 5G. Over the last twenty years, INS has built a premier sales and engineering practice around IoT and mission-critical machine networking solutions. This focus has positioned INS to support the continued growth of 5G and IoT technology.

“Cradlepoint brings best-in-class connectivity solutions to market by leveraging our global partner program and collaborating closely with our partners,” said Eric Purcell, Senior Vice President of Global Partner Sales at Cradlepoint. “Our diverse set of resellers, service providers, distributors, and technology partners are creating an ecosystem that is accelerating LTE and 5G Wireless WAN adoption. We’re thrilled to be celebrating their incredible work.”

Why This Matters

This award reflects INS’s expertise in Wireless WAN architecture, industrial cellular deployments, and scalable IoT networking solutions. Through its long-standing partnership with Cradlepoint, INS supports customers deploying secure, cloud-managed LTE and 5G connectivity across enterprise, fleet, and industrial environments.

INS has maintained strategic partnerships with leading wireless and IoT manufacturers for over two decades, reinforcing its ability to design, deploy, and support resilient wired and wireless network infrastructures.

About INS

INS distributes products, offers technical support, and provides IT/OT services for wired and wireless machine networking applications. Since its founding in 1998, INS has seen the industry space it serves variously labeled “Industrial Ethernet,” “Machine-to-Machine” (M2M), and now the “Internet of Things” (IoT). Throughout these changes in industry terminology, one thing has stayed constant: INS’s commitment to providing customers with best-in-class products, support, and services for critical wired and wireless machine networking applications.

About Cradlepoint

Cradlepoint is a global leader in cloud-delivered 4G and 5G wireless network edge solutions. Cradlepoint’s NetCloud™ platform and cellular routers deliver a pervasive, secure, and software-defined Wireless WAN edge to connect people, places, and things anywhere. More than 25,000 businesses and government agencies worldwide rely on Cradlepoint to keep mission-critical sites, field forces, vehicles, and IoT devices always connected. Founded in 2006 and acquired by Ericsson in 2020, Cradlepoint operates as a standalone subsidiary within Ericsson’s Business Area Technologies and New Businesses. Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, Cradlepoint maintains development centers in Silicon Valley and India, with international offices in the UK and Australia.