Teleworking Solutions Maintain Business Continuity During Disasters

Disaster and pandemic planning are vital to ensuring business continuity. A disaster or pandemic event can displace employees from the worksite for several days, weeks, or even months. Without a plan for remote working solutions for displaced workers, your business may not be able to continue operations.

Cisco offers complete remote working solutions that extend the network data, applications, and phone services available at the worksite to employees' homes or alternate work locations. These solutions, including VPN, Unified Communications, MeetingPlace, and other technologies, enable employees to work with a complete suite of data, voice, and video services and:

• Enable employees to work from home or an alternate work location and perform their jobs with the same efficiency and productivity as in their office environment
• Deliver great flexibility in remote working environment, from work-at-home solutions using company-owned laptop PCs or employee-owned PCs, to use of public Internet terminals or Internet-enabled mobile phones
• Provide comprehensive, integrated security, including customized access levels based on user, access device, and location
• Minimize equipment required at employee locations by using existing network infrastructure and IT processes for service deployment
• Provide streamlined, low-touch remote user provisioning and management