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How Cisco Deployed Wireless Access Points Worldwide 2007-12-17 Cisco Systems

In 2000, Cisco IT began developing a consistent and supported wireless networking architecture. This case study describes Cisco IT's internal deployment of wireless LANs within the Cisco network, a leading-edge enterprise environment that is one of the largest and most complex in the world. Cisco customers can draw on Cisco IT's real-world experience in this area to help support similar enterprise needs. Cisco IT's challenge was to provide secure, reliable, consistent, high-performance, and cost-effective wireless services worldwide. The Cisco Aironet 350 Series Access Point was selected as the standard access-point device for global WLAN deployment.

Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications, Network Administration

MSDN Webcast: Windows Communications Framework and Mobile Devices (Level 200) 2007-12-12 Microsoft

This webcast introduces the Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) and discuss how the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework WCF implementation compares to that of the full Microsoft .NET Framework. It focuses on a key addition to the .NET Compact Framework Windows Communications Foundation: store-and-forward messaging. Store-and-forward messaging is an asynchronous messaging architecture that enables mobile devices to communicate with one another without requiring both devices to be online simultaneously. The attendee of this webcast will see extensive demonstrations, including detailed coverage of how to use store-and-forward messaging.

Tags: .NET, Mobile - Wireless Communications

Small Business Webcast: Run Your Business From Anywhere Using Small Business Server 2003 R2 and Window Mobile Solutions (Level 100) 2007-12-05 Microsoft

The attendee of this webcast will learn how Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 can help to stay productive, regardless of where business takes. This webcast shows how to access the documents, internal sites (Windows SharePoint Services), and business applications from just about anywhere. Save time and make sharing easier with a central, secure location for all data. Stay connected to company and to customers with easy access to e-mail (Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access), schedules, and contacts.

White Paper: Near Field Communication 2007-12-03 Nokia

Near Field Communication (NFC) offers tremendous potential, not only because it can roll out for mass adoption, but because of the number of different ways in which it can be used to make life easier. This paper provides background on NFC including an explanation of what the technology can achieve how it works and where it could be used. It also highlights Nokia's role and company's support for its mass adoption as well as outlining how a number of companies, including Nokia are working together to create the right environment to allow NFC to become a commercial success.

MHMR Center Health Workers Spend More Time with Patients 2007-07-13 NetMotion Wireless

The Camino Real Mental Health Mental Retardation (MHMR) Center provides at-home support and assistance services for persons with mental illnesses, development disabilities and mental retardation. Now with Mobility XE loaded on their laptops, MHMR clinicians are able to spend more time in the field seeing patients. Mobility XE provides them with a secure, persistent connection to their medical and patient database letting them retrieve information on-the-fly wherever and whenever they need. MHMR clinicians are seeing increased productivity by no longer having to coordinate their schedules around office visits to gather and upload patient information, instead performing these tasks at the point-of-care.

Tags: Network Security, Remote Access - RA Servers, Mobile - Wireless Communications, Wireless LAN, VPNs

On the Move with Continental Airlines 2006-05-24 NetMotion Wireless

To ensure maximum productivity and smooth baggage handling, Continental baggage handlers and ramp agents require real-time access to applications and data over a secure, wireless network. After implementing wireless networks, Continental faced challenges with dropped connections when employees roamed between wireless LAN access points and subnets. The airline evaluated several vendors and concluded that NetMotion Wireless' Mobility XE provided the right combination of security and seamless connectivity. Only Mobility XE could deliver application session persistence and seamless roaming between Continental's access points across various subnets.

Tags: VPNs, Wireless Internet, Remote Access - RA Servers, Mobile - Wireless Communications

Wireless Network Quality of Service (QoS) 2007-10-09 NetMotion Wireless

A key challenge faced by enterprise IT management is how to ensure the productivity of the growing population of mobile workers. A successful mobile deployment can empower mobile workers with the resources they need to be effective at the point of service, resulting in a more productive workforce, expedited customer service, happier customers and increased revenue. Selecting the right mobile solutions and managing today's mobile enterprise, however, is not a simple task.

Successful mobile deployments require IT management to take a holistic approach managing all elements of the mobile deployment, including applications, wireless networks and devices. This white paper describes how Quality of Service (QoS) can enable organizations to maximize mobile worker productivity and fully leverage the benefits of their mobile deployments.

Tags: Network Design, IT Reliability, Mobile - Wireless Communications, Wireless LAN, Quality of Service

Strack Increases Field Crew Productivity 2007-01-24 NetMotion Wireless

Strack, Inc. is one of the largest and most respected utility contractors in the state of Georgia. In order to increase the company's productivity and efficiency, they deployed rugged laptops to remote field crews so that they could upload daily labor, production and maintenance reports. Upon deployment, they discovered that their legacy VPN performed poorly over wireless and low bandwidth networks. Mobility XE Mobile VPN resolved these issues, improving application performance and allowing Strack to increase crew productivity while reducing IT support requests and network complexity.

Tags: Diagnostics and Analysis, VPNs, Wireless Internet, Mobile - Wireless Communications

Policy Management Module: Granular Management of Wireless Bandwidth, Security and Mobile Productivity 2007-05-08 NetMotion Wireless

NetMotion Wireless' Mobility XE mobile VPN software offers a module for Policy Management. This optional feature-set gives administrators centralized, flexible tools for managing applications, devices and users in a wireless network environment. Read this white paper to learn how to better control network costs, improve productivity and ensure data security with Mobility XE Policy Management.

Tags: Bandwidth Issues, VPNs, Wireless Internet, Mobile - Wireless Communications, Monitoring Systems

Visiting Nurse Service of New York - Enabling Data Access at the Point of Care 2007-01-24 NetMotion Wireless

Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) selected NetMotion Wireless' Mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution to provide VNSNY's home healthcare workforce with real time access to critical data and applications at the point of care. VNSNY is the largest not-for-profit home health care agency in the nation with nearly 10,000 care providers that make more than 2.2 million home visits per year throughout New York City and Westchester and Nassau counties to an average of over 30,000 patients each day. More than 2,500 VNSNY clinicians use Mobility XE, NetMotion's Mobile VPN software, to improve productivity and connect securely to applications, roam seamlessly between multiple wireless networks, and maintain applications even when users move in and out of wireless coverage areas.

Tags: VPNs, Wireless Internet, Mobile - Wireless Communications, Wireless LAN

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Title	Date Added	Company
How Cisco Deployed Wireless Access Points Worldwide	2007-12-17	Cisco Systems
In 2000, Cisco IT began developing a consistent and supported wireless networking architecture. This case study describes Cisco IT's internal deployment of wireless LANs within the Cisco network, a leading-edge enterprise environment that is one of the largest and most complex in the world. Cisco customers can draw on Cisco IT's real-world experience in this area to help support similar enterprise needs. Cisco IT's challenge was to provide secure, reliable, consistent, high-performance, and cost-effective wireless services worldwide. The Cisco Aironet 350 Series Access Point was selected as the standard access-point device for global WLAN deployment. Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications, Network Administration
MSDN Webcast: Windows Communications Framework and Mobile Devices (Level 200)	2007-12-12	Microsoft
This webcast introduces the Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) and discuss how the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework WCF implementation compares to that of the full Microsoft .NET Framework. It focuses on a key addition to the .NET Compact Framework Windows Communications Foundation: store-and-forward messaging. Store-and-forward messaging is an asynchronous messaging architecture that enables mobile devices to communicate with one another without requiring both devices to be online simultaneously. The attendee of this webcast will see extensive demonstrations, including detailed coverage of how to use store-and-forward messaging. Tags: .NET, Mobile - Wireless Communications
Small Business Webcast: Run Your Business From Anywhere Using Small Business Server 2003 R2 and Window Mobile Solutions (Level 100)	2007-12-05	Microsoft
The attendee of this webcast will learn how Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 can help to stay productive, regardless of where business takes. This webcast shows how to access the documents, internal sites (Windows SharePoint Services), and business applications from just about anywhere. Save time and make sharing easier with a central, secure location for all data. Stay connected to company and to customers with easy access to e-mail (Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access), schedules, and contacts.
White Paper: Near Field Communication	2007-12-03	Nokia
Near Field Communication (NFC) offers tremendous potential, not only because it can roll out for mass adoption, but because of the number of different ways in which it can be used to make life easier. This paper provides background on NFC including an explanation of what the technology can achieve how it works and where it could be used. It also highlights Nokia's role and company's support for its mass adoption as well as outlining how a number of companies, including Nokia are working together to create the right environment to allow NFC to become a commercial success.
MHMR Center Health Workers Spend More Time with Patients	2007-07-13	NetMotion Wireless
The Camino Real Mental Health Mental Retardation (MHMR) Center provides at-home support and assistance services for persons with mental illnesses, development disabilities and mental retardation. Now with Mobility XE loaded on their laptops, MHMR clinicians are able to spend more time in the field seeing patients. Mobility XE provides them with a secure, persistent connection to their medical and patient database letting them retrieve information on-the-fly wherever and whenever they need. MHMR clinicians are seeing increased productivity by no longer having to coordinate their schedules around office visits to gather and upload patient information, instead performing these tasks at the point-of-care. Tags: Network Security, Remote Access - RA Servers, Mobile - Wireless Communications, Wireless LAN, VPNs
On the Move with Continental Airlines	2006-05-24	NetMotion Wireless
To ensure maximum productivity and smooth baggage handling, Continental baggage handlers and ramp agents require real-time access to applications and data over a secure, wireless network. After implementing wireless networks, Continental faced challenges with dropped connections when employees roamed between wireless LAN access points and subnets. The airline evaluated several vendors and concluded that NetMotion Wireless' Mobility XE provided the right combination of security and seamless connectivity. Only Mobility XE could deliver application session persistence and seamless roaming between Continental's access points across various subnets. Tags: VPNs, Wireless Internet, Remote Access - RA Servers, Mobile - Wireless Communications
Wireless Network Quality of Service (QoS)	2007-10-09	NetMotion Wireless
A key challenge faced by enterprise IT management is how to ensure the productivity of the growing population of mobile workers. A successful mobile deployment can empower mobile workers with the resources they need to be effective at the point of service, resulting in a more productive workforce, expedited customer service, happier customers and increased revenue. Selecting the right mobile solutions and managing today's mobile enterprise, however, is not a simple task. Successful mobile deployments require IT management to take a holistic approach managing all elements of the mobile deployment, including applications, wireless networks and devices. This white paper describes how Quality of Service (QoS) can enable organizations to maximize mobile worker productivity and fully leverage the benefits of their mobile deployments. Tags: Network Design, IT Reliability, Mobile - Wireless Communications, Wireless LAN, Quality of Service
Strack Increases Field Crew Productivity	2007-01-24	NetMotion Wireless
Strack, Inc. is one of the largest and most respected utility contractors in the state of Georgia. In order to increase the company's productivity and efficiency, they deployed rugged laptops to remote field crews so that they could upload daily labor, production and maintenance reports. Upon deployment, they discovered that their legacy VPN performed poorly over wireless and low bandwidth networks. Mobility XE Mobile VPN resolved these issues, improving application performance and allowing Strack to increase crew productivity while reducing IT support requests and network complexity. Tags: Diagnostics and Analysis, VPNs, Wireless Internet, Mobile - Wireless Communications
Policy Management Module: Granular Management of Wireless Bandwidth, Security and Mobile Productivity	2007-05-08	NetMotion Wireless
NetMotion Wireless' Mobility XE mobile VPN software offers a module for Policy Management. This optional feature-set gives administrators centralized, flexible tools for managing applications, devices and users in a wireless network environment. Read this white paper to learn how to better control network costs, improve productivity and ensure data security with Mobility XE Policy Management. Tags: Bandwidth Issues, VPNs, Wireless Internet, Mobile - Wireless Communications, Monitoring Systems
Visiting Nurse Service of New York - Enabling Data Access at the Point of Care	2007-01-24	NetMotion Wireless
Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) selected NetMotion Wireless' Mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution to provide VNSNY's home healthcare workforce with real time access to critical data and applications at the point of care. VNSNY is the largest not-for-profit home health care agency in the nation with nearly 10,000 care providers that make more than 2.2 million home visits per year throughout New York City and Westchester and Nassau counties to an average of over 30,000 patients each day. More than 2,500 VNSNY clinicians use Mobility XE, NetMotion's Mobile VPN software, to improve productivity and connect securely to applications, roam seamlessly between multiple wireless networks, and maintain applications even when users move in and out of wireless coverage areas. Tags: VPNs, Wireless Internet, Mobile - Wireless Communications, Wireless LAN