Colorado industries
Business fiber for cannabis in Colorado
A heavily regulated, camera saturated, seed to sale tracked industry where the compliance system lives in the cloud.
A heavily regulated, camera saturated, seed to sale tracked industry where the compliance system lives in the cloud.
Colorado's cannabis industry is the most established in the country and the compliance infrastructure around it is correspondingly mature. Seed to sale tracking and extensive video retention requirements make this a genuinely upload heavy industry, and operators consistently underestimate that.
Where we see this most in Colorado: Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Boulder.
What is driving the bandwidth requirement
- State mandated seed to sale tracking that must stay in sync
- Extensive video surveillance with retention requirements, uploading continuously
- Point of sale and age verification at retail locations
- Environmental controls and monitoring at cultivation sites
- Multi-site operations linking cultivation, processing, and retail
What the connection actually needs to do
- Serious symmetrical upload, because surveillance retention is the dominant traffic
- Reliability at retail, since an offline point of sale means the doors effectively close
- Bandwidth planning that counts cameras first and people second
- Carriers comfortable working with the industry, which is not universal
The mistake we see most often
Underestimating camera upload. Regulations often require far more cameras and far longer retention than operators plan for, and that traffic runs every hour the site is standing.
Colorado carriers that fit this profile
The right carrier depends far more on your address than on your industry. That said, these are the Colorado options worth having in the comparison.
Cannabis connectivity in Colorado: common questions
How much upload do cannabis surveillance systems need?
Budget per camera, not per site. Continuous cloud recording commonly wants somewhere between 1 and 5 Mbps per camera, so a compliant facility can need far more upload than a normal business of the same size.
Will carriers serve cannabis businesses?
Most will, though policies vary and some national carriers are more cautious than regional ones. It is worth knowing which carriers are comfortable before you spend weeks in a quote cycle.
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