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The New Baseline: Increasing Efficiency through Pervasive Mobility

In many enterprises, the first wireless LAN deployments were small islands of connectivity, typically conference rooms, executive offices, and other areas where guests and partners were likely to gather and require Internet access. With the heavy reliance on e-mail to get so much of business done today, the expectation for wireless Internet access is now almost as universal as being offered coffee, tea, or water.

However, a shift is now occurring and recent research from Gartner now indicates that “wireless LANs are becoming a standard part of enterprise networks, covering entire facilities, not just meeting rooms.”(3) The top driver reported in the study is “to improve the productivity of knowledge workers through mobility.” Typical examples include

• Changing downtime to productive time during breaks in meetings
• Faster decision making through instant access to networked information
• Reducing the costs of moves, adds, and changes for rapidly growing organizations

More and more, anytime, anywhere data and e-mail access within an organization is just a baseline. While the benefits of data mobility should not be overlooked, business managers are even more interested in how mobility can improve the efficiency of business processes.

(3) User Survey Report: Wireless LANs, Gartner, May 2006

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