Cable & Wireless has launched a secure, fixed-cost
Wi-Fi access package on a managed service basis.
The new Secure Mobility managed service is designed to enable
business customers to have inclusive WiFi, 3G and voice mobile
network access with internet roaming to the workforce, on a fixed
cost, per seat basis.
C&W claims that the new Secure Mobility service marks a number
of industry firsts, namely: the first to market with a fixed, per
seat cost model for mobility; the first to offer a combined
managed secure network admission solution; the first to combine
these with SSL Quick Deployment VPN within a single managed
service.
Secure Mobility is said to enable cost-benefit analysis so that
businesses can add mobility without introducing additional security
threats. Customers have inherent disaster recovery capability
through dual site resilience, enhanced business continuity planning
ability, reduced office real estate requirement. The end result
says the firm is increased productivity through flexible working,
improved staff retention and morale.
Explained Tim Ryan, C&W Global Roaming Product Manager for
Security and Secure Mobility, “Customers now expect to conduct
business through any device, at any time and from any location at
home or abroad. Mobility is increasingly business critical for
enterprise organisations. Secure Mobility [brings] together all of
the critical elements underpinning mobile internet and VPN access
into a bitesize managed service for customers.”
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