Sierra Wireless announced the launch of the AirLink ES440 enterprise 4G LTE gateway and terminal server. The AirLink ES440 provides mission-critical 4G LTE connectivity when primary wireline internet connections are unavailable, making it ideal for the distributed enterprise market customers with branch locations that are remote from the main office infrastructure. These customers require seamless connectivity and automatic failover to continuously process transactions for businesses such as retail, restaurant, and financial services chains.

Together with an enterprise router, the AirLink ES440 supports a business continuity strategy by enabling out-of-band-management capability to IT administrators while leveraging the router's failover and firewall features. This allows IT administrators to remotely troubleshoot and repair network equipment over wireless wide area networks, dramatically reducing the need to manually reset or update networking equipment on site. The AirLink ES440 also includes the ability to remotely configure, deploy and monitor the gateway, and manage airtime subscriptions across multiple networks using AirVantage Management Service.

With AVMS, network administrators are also able to create configuration templates to speed up large deployments or bring new deployments online in seconds. The AirLink ES440 is available now from Sierra Wireless distributors and resellers in North America and Europe.