Mobility Solutions
Viewing this content requires the latest version of Adobe Flash Player with JavaScript enabled.
Cisco Context-Aware Mobility Video
Learn how contextual information can significantly improve business mobility and help you achieve greater efficiency.
View Now
(Video - 3:10 min)
"Context-Aware" Mobile Networks Find Customers
A Swedish city's mobile network delivers targeted applications to users' personal devices based on their location.
(Video - 7:52 min)
Viewing this embedded video requires the latest version of Adobe Flash Player with JavaScript enabled.
Get the Flash Player
How Does it Work?
Cisco's extensive portfolio of mobility solutions uses any number of products and services to help businesses build and maintain a mobile workforce founded on the three key capabilities of insight, collaboration, and awareness.
Insight-Supporting Technologies
- Wired and wireless IP networking technologies that link the user to the corporate network to access applications and data
- Devices customized for job roles and environments, including portable computers, PDAs, mobile phones, smart phones, and wireless IP phones
- Security solutions to protect the device, data, and corporate network, including VPN, antivirus, firewall, Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC), and intrusion detection and prevention
- Network intelligence applications, including presence, location, identity, time of day, network type, and device type, to deliver context-aware information
Collaboration-Supporting Technologies
- Unified communications solutions extended to desktop IP phones, single-business-number-reach services, and mobile solutions such as smart phones or wireless IP phones
- Applications such as e-mail, voicemail, instant messaging, or text messaging
- Presence capabilities to access contact availability and communication preference (phone, e-mail, IM, or text message)
- Audio- and video-conferencing capabilities that allow users to share documents
Awareness-Supporting Technologies
- Wireless LANs that allow the tracking of mobile devices and people throughout a building
- Active and passive RF identification (RFID) tags that report the asset movement and condition, including temperature, humidity, vibration, and availability
- Location appliances that track usage, location, movement, and trends
