Highway 9 Networks Joins Google Cloud ISV Startup Springboard Program

Highway 9 Mobile Cloud enables companies to wirelessly connect AI-aware users, devices and apps at the edge, leveraging an always-on, high bandwidth, low latency private mobile network stack.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Highway 9 Networks announced its participation in the Google Cloud ISV Startup Springboard program. This collaboration allows Highway 9 to leverage Google Cloud's powerful infrastructure and tools, including the Vertex AI platform and Gemini Models, to enhance its Virtual Mobile Cloud platform, the industry’s first private mobile cloud to seamlessly connect enterprise mobile users, devices, apps, and machines.

While AI advancements in public clouds and data centers have been well documented, there is an even greater need and opportunity to drive AI to the edge at scale, as enterprises get ready to leverage AI to foundationally modernize their businesses.

Highway 9 helps enterprises address their cellular coverage gaps and overcome the shortcomings of Wi-Fi for modern workloads. This participation paves the way for the Highway 9 Mobile Cloud to wirelessly interconnect AI platforms at the edge by leveraging Google Cloud's advanced platforms and technology. Highway 9 has successfully enabled mobile cloud deployments across industries such as higher education, manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial real estate.

The Google Cloud ISV Startup Springboard Program enables Highway 9 to reach a broader audience via key initiatives like listing on the Google Cloud Marketplace, co-marketing support, go-to-market advisory, and technical advisory, all with a view toward accelerating the adoption of AI to truly transform businesses.

"We are excited to see innovative companies like Highway 9 Networks leverage the power and scalability of Google Cloud, including the Vertex AI platform and Gemini models, to deliver AI-powered mobile networking solutions for enterprises," said Ritika Suri, Managing Director, Data and AI Technology Partnerships. "Together, we can provide enterprise customers who use the Highway 9 Mobile Cloud to wirelessly interconnect AI platforms at the edge".

"We're excited to collaborate with Google Cloud," said Allwyn Sequeira, founder and CEO of Highway 9 Networks. "The ISV Startup Springboard program, focused on driving Google Cloud / AI initiatives, is a critical catalyst to unleashing innovation, especially at the edge. Highway 9 Networks’ innovative Mobile Cloud, leveraging Google Cloud technology, can transform how we leverage AI to bring together new-world, AI-driven users, apps, devices, and machines across distributed locations at the edge. We encourage companies to start their AI journey with Highway 9 and Google Cloud today.”

More information on Highway 9 and the Google Cloud ISV Startup Springboard program is available here.

About Highway 9 Networks

Highway 9 Networks was founded to bring the power of the cloud to enterprise mobility. Leveraging several advances in private mobile technology including the availability of free spectrum, multi-eSIM support, and private 5G, Highway 9 combines them with its founding team’s deep cloud/networking expertise to deliver a mobile cloud for the enterprise. Highway 9 Mobile Cloud is the first cloud-based approach to private mobile networks and the only offering that meets an AI-driven enterprise’s core operational, performance, and multi-carrier integration requirements.