Mobility

Mobile and remote working offers the enterprise all the benefits of increased productivity, lower costs and a richer user experience.

Wireless technology and IP telephony have matured so that, in addition to the cost-savings of integrating voice and data over a single network, converged networks enable new ways of working that deliver improved workflow, increased efficiency and better client communications and customer service.

IP telephony solutions allow ‘dead time’, normally lost to travelling or transferring between meetings, to be used to address urgent issues or everyday tasks, answer emails and make and receive calls as though the user were in the office.

Facilities such as desktop sharing and desktop video conferencing allow users to connect with their colleagues remotely and take control of their work, enabling greater collaboration and reducing the need for travel. By providing staff with the means to work flexibly from home or off-site, the working day can be used more efficiently, while lowering the costs associated with maintaining a full office.

Many enterprises are also enabling more flexible communications between business partners, clients and vendors with applications such as messaging, presence and video conferencing. An integrated voice and data IP-based infrastructure delivered via a secure VPN link offers significant cost savings and flexibility benefits, as well as ensuring a safe channel of communication for business process outsourcing and shared services.

Today’s IP solutions are more robust than ever, employing sophisticated security systems that isolate the IP end-point onto a virtual LAN of its own, ensuring enhanced protection from intrusion at the same time as offering advanced Quality of Service.

Enabling applications such as unified messaging, video and audio, conferencing, presence, contact centre and mobility solutions can be easily achieved with a simple implementation of the 3Com VCX IP telephony solution, offering the ideal combination of design and features for effective unified communications.

Second-generation wireless networks can be easily integrated and managed within existing wired environments, enabling the enterprise to expand more flexibly and allowing mobile workers to roam securely with maximum availability across the entire site.

By combining high quality wireless technology with next-generation networking, businesses are able to ensure an inherently secure mobile environment that intelligently monitors traffic and allows users on laptops or handheld devices to connect to the enterprise network at full WiFi speeds, wherever they are.