Wireless/Remote Access
...Mobility for the Real-Time EnterpriseTM
Personal. Connecting. Flexible. Secure. Communicating. Today's enterprise moves in real-time, and so should you. Combining industry-leading security, wireless and network capabilities with a focus on the end-user experience, We allow you to make any workspace, a mobile workplace. And make it work.
Consider how mobility - the ability to have access to information and communicate wherever you are - has transformed how we conduct business. Mobility is one of the fastest growing demands among organisations today. Teleworking has become common industry practice - our homes have become small offices, often supported by some type of broadband Internet connection, a mobile phone, and one or more computing devices. Wireless LAN technology allows homes to quickly become small network facilities, laying the foundation for the emerging area of Personal Area Networks (PAN's).
On the move? The tools of choice - the mobile phone, the laptop, and the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) have become an integral part of the real-time enterprise.
The key benefits to enterprise mobility include:
- Increased Productivity. Users can be connected and productive wherever they are - in the office, at home, or on the move.
- Responsiveness. Access to organisation wide content and applications can be obtained wherever it is required within the organisation.
- Collaboration. Real-time communication can allow users to share, evaluate, and manipulate documents, images, plans, and other media.
- Faster Deployment. Deploying wireless networking reduces the costs required to run cabling, or locate places to "plug in".
- Resource Sharing. Wireless connectivity provides a cable-free environment for device integration, such as printers and other peripherals. Moreover, the configuration of these becomes increasingly limitless.
Our recognition that our customers are adopting a wide range of applications, and appliances, to support their end-users has driven the evolution of our own products and solutions. BT's MobileXpress Services merge four major elements - access, applications, management and security - all of which are heavily influenced by the increasingly "untethered" communication requirements of the mobile user. BT MobileXpress provides an important element to enterprise network solutions - end-user adaptation, which ultimately provides the enterprise more flexibility.
The ability to seamlessly transition between technologies is a fundamental aspect of BT MobileXpress. Our network, already capable of supporting GSM, High-Speed Circuit Switched Data (HS-CSD), CDMA and PHS/AirH" access capabilities, is expanding to include GPRS, CDMA2000 and other next-generation mobile technologies. Sophisticated applications demand higher speeds and the higher reliability supported by these emerging mobile technologies. The introduction of Wireless LAN/Wi-Fi capabilities brings an important "broadband-on-demand" option to your enterprise. Our ability to deliver one of the world's largest IP/MPLS networks provides enterprises with a solid foundation for their real-time enterprise.
From VPNs to video, intranets to extranets, our Mobile Workplace offerings centre around the end-user. Given the challenges associated with the evolving geographic reach of next-generation wireless services, providing employees with the ability to choose the best technology quickly and easily is a key element to BT MobileXpress.
Organisation security begins with the end-user, and the understanding of what that end-user can access. Access security must adapt to the end-user appliance. With developments in the area of unified authentication (based on SIM, Smartcard/token-based, and/or access code) and unified end-user client software, the challenges of global availability are reduced for the enterprise user.
To the enterprise user, being a world away shouldn't mean being away from the world. Whether in the office, on the road, or at home, BT's MobileXpress services provide secure, simplified connectivity to your content and applications. With over thirty years experience in remote data communications, we continue to deliver mobility for the real-time organisation.