Meter 5G Gateway

Different scope. The Verkada GC31/GC31-E gateway is dedicated to keeping Verkada physical security devices (cameras, access control, alarms, sensors) online — typically a few devices and modest bandwidth. The Meter 5G Gateway is an enterprise WAN backup for your entire office network — workstations, voice, video calls, cloud apps, POS systems, all the traffic flowing through your firewall. It delivers up to 1200 Mbps, integrates with the rest of your Meter network for SD-WAN routing, and supports out-of-band management. Many clients run both at the same site: Meter Gateway for the office, Verkada gateway for physical security continuity.

For most mid-sized businesses, yes. The Meter Gateway delivers up to 1200 Mbps over 5G — comparable to fiber for many client environments. Real-world performance depends on carrier coverage and signal strength at your specific location, which we measure during the site assessment. As a rough guide: if your office runs comfortably on 500-1000 Mbps of wired internet, 5G failover will keep things running with minimal user impact. Video calls, cloud apps, email, file sync, and POS all work normally. The bigger concern is usually data cost, not speed.

Out-of-band management is a separate communication path Meter uses to reach your network when your primary internet is down — over the cellular connection of the Gateway. Without it, if your main ISP goes out and your firewall or switch has a configuration issue at the same time, your IT partner can't remotely fix it — someone has to drive to the site. With out-of-band, Meter (and Blue Cap IT) can log in, diagnose, and resolve problems even when the office is completely offline from the wired internet. For multi-site businesses and remote locations, this turns multi-hour outages into minutes.

The Gateway's cellular service is provided through Meter's bundled carrier relationships and included in the Network as a Service subscription — no separate carrier bill, no overage surprises. Heavy continuous use (running on cellular as primary for weeks) has reasonable usage tiers, but typical failover use (the wired ISP drops for a few hours per month) is well within the included data. We'll size the right plan during the assessment based on whether you're using it as backup, primary, or somewhere in between.

Both. For sites without wired internet — construction trailers, pop-up retail, remote facilities, temporary offices, warehouses where running fiber doesn't make sense — the Meter Gateway can serve as the primary WAN connection. Up to 1200 Mbps over 5G is genuinely enough bandwidth to run office operations. For traditional offices, it's typically deployed as a failover backup to a wired ISP. The hardware is the same; the configuration adapts to whichever role fits your site.