Cisco Context-Aware Mobility Video

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"Context-Aware" Mobile Networks Find Customers

A Swedish city's mobile network delivers targeted applications to users' personal devices based on their location.
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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

Solutions Guides

Integrate multiple components to create a customized and comprehensive mobility solution.

• Cisco Mobility Services Architecture
• Cisco Mobile Intelligent Roaming Solution
• Empowered Branch Mobility Solution (PDF - 1.76 MB)
• Empowering the Mobile Workforce
• Cisco Unified Mobility White Paper
• Teleworking Solutions for Enhanced Mobility
• Mobility Services Engine At-A-Glance (PDF - 435 KB)
• Cisco Unified Wireless Network At-A-Glance (PDF - 196 KB)

Implementing Mobility Solutions

Connect people, information and assets seamlessly and securely to empower a mobile workforce.

• Cisco Context-Aware Mobility: Put Your Assets in Motion
• Cisco 802.11n Design and Deployment Guidelines
• Remote-Access VPNs: Business Productivity, Deployment, and Security Considerations
• Business Ready Teleworker Architecture (PDF - 3.4 MB)
• Intel and Cisco WLAN Deployment Guide for Healthcare

ROI and Productivity Case Studies

Discover the return-on-investment and productivity gains that can be realized by using Cisco mobility solutions.

• How Cisco IT Deployed Guest Networking Services for Visitors (PDF - 327KB)
• Technology Tutorial Next-Generation Wireless LAN
• Concordia University Installs Canada's First 802.11n Wireless Network on College Campus
• Alaskan Healthcare Agency Reaches Rural Patients Wirelessly
• Emergency Service Uses Wireless Across Dispersed Sites
• Wireless Services Take to the High Seas