Cisco Mobility Solutions
As businesses expand, network coverage often needs to expand as well. Wiring up new buildings often involves a lot of work, and can be both complicated and expensive. Visitors and external workers require quick and easy access to the network, while increasingly more employees need to be available more often. As a result, the network and the business as a consequence need to be more agile, and able to adapt more quickly in response to change.
In healthcare, workers need access to patient information wherever they are, whether it’s inside or outside a hospital environment. They also require access to each other, as well as to the network itself. They may need access to resources (doctors, nurses, medical equipment etc…), so they can track this information to confirm availability in case of an emergency.
In educational establishments students and teachers need ‘anywhere, anytime’ access to resources, and H.E. institutes need to offer the best facilities to attract future pupils. Remote areas of schools or campus’ can be difficult to reach with traditional wired networking equipment, especially as so many educational institutes now have temporary portacabins, separate buildings, parks and other recreational areas with no buildings.
The Technology
Cisco has innovative, next-generation wireless solutions that offer greater performance and extended reach for pervasive wireless connectivity. 802.11n technology delivers unprecedented reliability and up to five times the throughput of current 802.11a/b/g networks.
Cisco Enterprise Wireless Mesh lets your enterprise provide wireless connectivity in indoor areas that, until now, have been difficult or impossible to wire. Without wired connections, mesh access points use the 2.4-GHz frequency to deliver network access to users in hard-to-reach areas and use the 5-GHz band to backhaul traffic to traditional access points connected to Ethernet ports.
The Cisco Unified Wireless Network delivers the modular architecture required to implement next-generation wireless networks today, while ensuring a smooth migration path to future technologies and services.
Cisco’s Mobile Intelligent Roaming solution helps to ensure reliable and consistent application access and network connectivity as mobile workers travel between cellular and Wi-Fi coverage areas. This enterprise-grade solution provides open integration with an ecosystem of service providers, device manufacturers and third-party partners.
Transparent Mobile Experience: Eliminating call, login, or authentication disruptions while roaming ensures reliable in-building wireless coverage
Increased User Satisfaction: A single phone number, voice mail box and device improve the productivity and efficiency of mobile workers
Reduced Costs: Intelligently shifting cellular calls to the WLAN reduces productivity loss from disjointed communications
Implementing the Cisco Wireless Location Appliance lets you benefit from the ability to locate any Wi-Fi devices on your premises. Wi-Fi tags can also be added on mobile assets, such as projectors, increasing security whilst helping to control costs. In addition to locating devices on the move, some Wi-Fi tags also have the ability to do telemetry and sense information, such as temperature, pressure and humidity.
Security
Cisco's infrastructure-integrated approach to comprehensive wireless security reduces capital costs, while streamlining security operations. The Cisco Secure Wireless solution delivers anticipatory threat and intrusion detection capabilities that don't just detect wireless attacks, but prevent them, providing comprehensive protection to safeguard your company's confidential data and communications. The solution has simplified user management with a single user identity and policy, which also protects against unauthorised access.
Our Services
Equanet is a Cisco Certified Silver Partner, with accredited specialisations in both Advanced Wireless and Unified Communications. Awarded Cisco Silver Partner of the year (UK and Ireland) in 2008, we have a dedicated Cisco networking team of sales specialists and consultants that are able to provide network design, project management and installation services, as well as Remote IT Management.
For more information on how Equanet can implement Cisco Wireless technologies to help your organisation, please contact your account manager and ask to speak to our Cisco team.