7455 Software for AT&T, Verizon and FirstNet Support

• Vodafone Network Issues
• Vodafone Wireless Broadband
• Vodafone Network & Wireless Cards Drivers
• Verizon Vodafone Card
• Vodafone Network & Wireless Cards Drivers

Sierra Wireless Driver and Firmware for the Sierra Wireless 7455 multi carrier 4G/LTE module. Supports AT&T, Verizon and FirstNet network connectivity for TOUGHBOOK computers with Windows 10. Includes TOUGHBOOK models CF-33 MK1, CF-54 MK3, FZ-G1 MK5, FZ-M1 MK3, CF-20 MK2 and CF-31 MK6. This firmware build will allow customers to use FirstNet SIM.

Get your free Vodafone NUC (Network Unlock code) The guide will show you how to get your Vodafone NUC (Network Unlock Code) directly from Vodafone UK for free. The unlock code is a special code that you enter into the phone so that the network lock is removed and thus allows your Vodafone phone to accept sim cards from other phones. Vodafone also sells the use of its network to third-party mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs). These smaller service providers may lack the people and marketing power of Vodafone, but with low overheads they are often able to provide competitive SIM-only phone plans with equally reliable coverage. Vodafone UK's high-speed network is state-of-the-art, the result of billions in investment over the last five years. But how do all the parts fit together? The coronavirus crisis is bringing home to people just how important our mobile and fixed line broadband networks are in keeping the UK connected.

Note: This package will automatically update modem FW if needed.
Note: Skylight Connection Manager is not an option.

Complete the registration form for your device first.

EM7455 Driver and Build 4915 [zip, 318mb, for Win 10]

7511 Software for AT&T, Verizon and FirstNet Support

Sierra Wireless Driver and Firmware for the Sierra Wireless 7511 multi carrier 4G/LTE module plus Band 14. Supports AT&T, Verizon and FirstNet network connectivity for TOUGHBOOK computers with Windows 10. Includes TOUGHBOOK models CF-33 MK1, CF-54 MK3 and FZ-55 MK1. This firmware build will allow customers to use FirstNet SIM.

Note: This package will automatically update modem FW if needed.
Note: Skylight Connection Manager is not an option.

EM7511 Driver and Build 5044 [zip, 228mb, for Win 10]

Gobi-5000 Software for AT&T and Verizon Wireless Support

Sierra Wireless Driver and Firmware for the Sierra Wireless MC7355 and EM7355 multi carrier 4G/LTE modules. Supports AT&T and Verizon, 3G and 4G/LTE network connectivity for TOUGHBOOK computers with Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1. Includes TOUGHBOOK models CF-19, CF-31, CF-53, CF-54, CF-C2, FZ-G1, FZ-M1.

MC7355 Driver and FW Build 4368 [209mb, for Win 7, 8, 8.1, 10]

Skylight Connection Manager Build 4378 [34mb, for Windows 7, 8, 10]

Note: Connection manager is not required for Gobi-5000 (MC7355 or EM7355). Whenever possible, it is recommended to use Windows Mobile Broadband as the sole connection manager.

EM_MC7355 custom APN support document for Verizon Wireless

This document describes steps for Verizon Wireless customers (only) to follow, who are assigned non-standard APN (Access Point Name) to connect to Verizon Wireless network. The steps described must be followed in order for connectivity to occur on both Verizon Wireless LTE and EvDo networks..

EM_MC7355-Verizon-Wireless-Custom-APN-Support-Configuration-for-Windows-7-and-8.pdf [123k, for Windows 7, 8]

Gobi-3000 Software for AT&T and Verizon Wireless Support

The Sierra Wireless Watcher connection manager and Driver for the Sierra Wireless MC8355 module supports AT&T and Verizon 3G network connectivity. This software is for all 3G ready TOUGHBOOK computers including TOUGHBOOK models CF-19, CF-31, CF-53, CF-H2, CF-C1 and CF-C2.

Sierra_Aircard_Watcher_v3728_Win_XP_7.zip [zip, 24mb, for Windows XP/7]

ATT_MC8355_Driver_v3717_Win_XP_7_8.zip [zip, 66mb, for Windows XP/7/8]

CSA for Gobi-1000 and Gobi-2000 for AT&T and Verizon Wireless Support

The new CSA 2.0 includes the most recent versions of carrier connection managers for AT&T and Verizon Wireless*. This version supports Gobi-1000 and Gobi-2000 for AT&T and Verizon on Windows XP and Windows Vista. Please note, that Verizon connection manager also supports Win 7. ACM (AT&T Communications Manager) supports Win7 on Gobi-2000 only. Upon availability, AT&T will provide an updated ACM with Gobi 1000 support on Win 7 in the near future.

*Carrier Selection Application v2.00.1100.01.0193 includes AT&T Connection Manager v7.02.0110.0 and Verizon VZAccess Manager v7.2.9.1(2470a).

Vodafone UK's high-speed network is state-of-the-art, the result of billions in investment over the last five years. But how do all the parts fit together?

The coronavirus crisis is bringing home to people just how important our mobile and fixed line broadband networks are in keeping the UK connected.

Our introductory guide explains how they all work.

TheRadio network

Let’s start with the most visible part of the network – masts and antennas. Whether 2G, 3G, 4G or 5G, they use radio waves to transmit voice calls, texts and internet data to and from our smartphones and other devices.

The broadcast area of each mast has to overlap a little with the next one along. This helps ensure that, even when you move out of range of one mast and into the range of another, your calls don’t drop and your mobile data continues to send and receive uninterrupted.

Masts and antennas come in all shapes and sizes, not just the lattice towers that are the most visible. To find out more about masts – why they have to be where they are and so on – read our Q&A.

Number of Vodafone sites (masts as well as smaller mini-masts and antennas) in the UK

When you make a mobile phone call, the digital signal flies through the air to the nearest mast, but from this point on it usually travels along fibre optic cables or via microwaves – known as the mobile backhaul – to our RedStream network (see below).

Home broadband

Your home broadband data takes a slightly different journey. Inside your home, your devices link wirelessly to a Wi-Fi router, but once outside the home the data is carried by fixed line.

With Vodafone Superfast broadband, a copper cable takes the data to the nearest street-side wiring cabinet which serves you and many of your neighbours. From there, fibre optic cable takes over and whisks the data to the local exchange. This is sometimes called Fibre-To-The-Cabinet (FTTC).

With Vodafone Gigafast Full Fibre Broadband, the connection from your local exchange to your home will be fibre optic all the way – hence the name ‘full fibre’, or Fibre-To-The-Home/Premises (FTTH/P). As a result, it is significantly faster, particularly with upload speeds – essential for tasks such as working from home and back-ups to cloud storage.

Once voice and internet data arrive at the local telephone exchanges they then hitch a ride on our superfast expressway, RedStream.

RedStream

RedStream is the backbone supporting all Vodafone UK’s telephony, video and data services – a nationwide fibre optic system running the latest technologies from the likes of Cisco, Ciena, Juniper and Nokia.

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The fibre optic cables are like the motorways between sites; Internet Protocol (IP) routers and switches are like the motorway junctions.

This blisteringly fast transmission network is split into 526 geographic aggregation zones, each around the size of Bristol or Manchester, to help manage demand for data. Many of the fibre optic cables that make up RedStream will run along telegraph poles and through underground ducts and tunnels owned by Openreach.

These carry traffic to and from our core network.

Vodafone Wireless Broadband

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For many business and public sector customers, RedStream can run connections directly into their premises without needing to pass through any exchanges, making for an even faster service.

The Core network

This is the highly-protected brains of the operation consisting of several data centres – vast warehouse-sized buildings filled with racks of powerful server computers – as well as several command-and-control Network Operation Centres (NOCs) all with dedicated links to each other.

Operating round the clock every single day of the year, these facilities handle the most sensitive tasks – routing data from place-to-place, billing, customer location details, as well as security and fraud prevention.

They also handle interconnects – the secure high-capacity links between our network and those of other mobile, landline and broadband providers – ensuring your calls and data reach their ultimate destination.

Verizon Vodafone Card

As you might expect, access to these facilities is highly restricted.

Our Core network is also linked via RedStream to the services that we all rely upon and enjoy, from Amazon Prime Video and NowTV, to Skype, Gmail, Facebook and Twitter.

All of these service providers run on data centres of their own, of course, and if these are based abroad, the data will flow back and forth along our extensive network of deep-sea fibre optic cables.

Dedicated engineers

So as you can see, the Vodafone UK network is complex, fast and built for the future. Teams of experienced, highly specialised engineers, technicians and programmers are needed to operate, maintain and upgrade it.

And during the coronavirus crisis they are working harder than ever to make sure our network can cope with the huge change in voice and data usage staying at home has entailed, as Vodafone UK’s Chief Technology Officer Scott Petty explains.

Vodafone Network & Wireless Cards Drivers

Despite a 30% increase in internet traffic and a 50% increase in voice traffic, Scott says the network is performing “really well”.