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Critical national infrastructure

In today’s interconnected world, the need for best-in-class, reliable connectivity is more crucial than ever.

Connectivity is the backbone of Critical national infrastructure (CNI), ensuring resilient, secure, and seamless operations across essential services like transportation, energy, healthcare, defense, and public safety.

Recent threats, such as those targeting the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, highlight the vulnerability of our infrastructure. As CNI operators accelerate the adoption of digital technologies to enhance resilience, reliability, scalability, and collaboration, the demands on underlying networks are intensifying.

Connectivity for CNI today includes a variety of solutions:

  • Fiber for business-critical and static applications
  • PMR/Tetra for mission-critical applications
  • LoRaWAN® and Nb-IoT to monitor and track assets
  • Satellite for marine communications and remote areas
  • Wi-Fi for collaboration and coordination

5G connectivity represents a significant leap forward, offering guaranteed quality of service, flexibility, multi-device support, massive IoT connectivity, and extensive geographic coverage. The global public safety community has been a rapid adopter of LTE/5G technologies for mission-critical communications (MCx), underscoring the value of a secure, compliant mobile network capable of unlocking advanced multimedia services and new use cases while rationalizing costs.

This adoption sparks a broader discussion about transitioning to IP-based communications across a wider range of CNI organizations, sharing similar requirements for both mission and business-critical communications.

Join us at MWC 2025 Barcelona and connect with our team of industry experts to learn more on the topic.

Meet our experts

Anastasia Karatrantou

5G & Edge Business Development
“5G creates the opportunity to address industrial networks as an asset rather than a commodity—a concept that is quite often overlooked. 5G can deliver the predictable and highly reliable performance that is required to power all applications that are smart, immersive, and autonomous, helping companies deliver on the promise of Intelligent Industry.”

Pierre Fortier

5G Lead, VP Capgemini Invent
“5G holds tremendous value for virtually every vertical industry, and its application will prompt significant changes to the customer experience, operating model, end-to-end processes, core capabilities, and solutions across sectors. These changes will require Telcos to reinvent their business in order to support new ways of working.”

Sylvain Allard

Senior Director – Connectivity/5G & Edge Business Development and Strategy, Capgemini
Sylvain is a telecoms executive with over 20 years of international experience spanning the telecom, high-tech, industrial, and service sectors. He has held pivotal roles with leading network equipment providers and top industrial firms, contributing to advancements across various technology domains. His expertise encompasses telecommunications, digital transformation through Industry 4.0, 5G, Edge computing, Satellite and NTN communications. Sylvain is also at the forefront of developing solutions and services for mission-critical technologies in public safety, defense, and critical national infrastructures.

Shamik Mishra

VP, CTO Connectivity, Capgemini Engineering