With offerings coming to market from major players and a promise of a single device for end users, do the benefits, protocols, standards and technologies deliver for business or residential users today?
With options around customer premises or carrier technology offerings available, what works for your business and where is this heading?

8el is the managed communications provider of choice for mid-enterprise businesses within the UK, supplying VoIP telephony, ISP services and Wide and Local Area Network solutions to the market, with proven experience in delivering quality converged networks. The fully managed solutions 8el designs, delivers and maintains are highly tailored to match customer requirements and cover a full range of communications services CallPort is 8el's fully managed, network based VoIP telephony solut...

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Aculab will feature ApplianX, a range of single purpose, 'plug and play' appliances designed to facilitate and support the utilisation of technologies such as VoIP, video, mobile, TDM and fax. ApplianX helps enterprises to reduce operational costs, extend the life of existing, TDM-based equipment, and take advantage of Web and IP-based services, and SIP endpoints. Products include the ApplianX IP Gateway and the ApplianX DPNSS-to-Q.SIG Gateway. AT UC10, Aculab is announcing the ApplianX M...

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Established in 1998, aql are Mobile Messaging Specialists and the UK's largest inbound messaging aggregator . As an MVNE aql also provides unbundled access to UK mobile services and wholesale IP Voice services to the UK's ADSL industry. Our primary focus is on supporting our Channel Partners, Value added Resellers, Systems Integrators, Corporates and ITSP's - we concentrate on maintaining quality so that we underpin those whose business depends on our service.

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As Europe’s Premier Solutions Partner for Digium Asterisk, Foehn is the leading provider of custom-built PBX and UC solutions based on Asterisk and also offers consultancy and system support for Asterisk-based systems. Foehn was awarded its partner status by Digium, because of the company’s demonstrated ability to design and deploy successful large-scale communication solutions based on Asterisk – the world’s most popular telephony toolkit. Foehn has notable Asterisk references in call ce...

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Global Knowledge is Europe’s leading provider of IT and Business training. We are your One Source for unified communications training. Learn the skills to deploy and manage a unified communications strategy across your distributed organisation. Our expert training on Cisco, Microsoft, Nortel, IBM, and other unified communications technologies combines authorised curriculum with custom, hands-on exercises and a flexible, rich lab environment.

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NetMotion Wireless develops software to enable businesses and agencies to maintain and optimize connections to applications as their mobile workers move in and out of wireless coverage areas and across various networks. NetMotion's award-winning mobile VPN, Mobility XE, enhances mobile worker productivity at more than 1,600 of the world's most respected organizations across multiple industries including utilities, healthcare, communications, public safety, local government, transportation, fi...

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About O2 •Telefónica O2 UK Limited is a leading communications company for consumers and businesses in the UK, with 21 million mobile customers and over 520,000 fixed broadband customers as at 30 September 2009. •Telefónica O2 UK Limited is part of Telefónica Europe plc, a business division of Telefónica S.A. which uses O2 as its commercial brand in the UK, Ireland, Slovakia, Germany and the Czech Republic, and has 46 million customers across these markets. For further press information ab...

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Openaire Distribution combines OEM manufactured GSM and Voice Over IP hardware, as well as a VoIP and Mobile service delivery businesses. Specialising in Fixed Mobile Convergence for the SOHO and SME markets, the business has a core focus on the 1-20 user demographic. As a VoIP hosted service provider and MVNO in the DECT Guard band spectrum arena, Openaire delivers a carrier grade quality service. Openaire delivers Wire 3, a VoIP and FMC service through a GSM Private Mobile Network. Wire...

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Beckman Coulter, a large multi-national medical instrumentation systems provider, improved the security and productivity of its field service engineers with Mobility XE Mobile VPN software. Now their engineers can access critical customer information securely and remotely from hospital labs, biotech facilities, university research centers or wherever their work takes them. Mobility XE also enabled field service and corporate applications to work seamlessly in wireless environments and in areas with intermittent coverage—eliminating repeated re-logins and data re-entry when users lost connectivity. Mobility XE also secured all transmissions to and from workers’ Pocket PCs and protects Beckman Coulter’s corporate networks from unauthorized access via encryption and device quarantine features.

Beckman Coulter Case Study 2007.pdf 138.72 kB

“The use of a mobile VPN has been integral to the delivery of agile working for our Mobile Workforce. The seamless ability to roam between various connections with little user interaction is proving invaluable; both in terms of keeping support to a minimum and the actual time users spend establishing a remote secure connection."

Richard Murphy
Network Services Manager
Birmingham City Council

OVERVIEW

The Challenge
To enable agile working for Birmingham City Council’s employees by supporting the Council’s agile working target and increasing the effectiveness of Council staff.

The Solution
Through the implementation of the NetMotion Mobility XE™ Secure Mobile VPN (Virtual Private Network), Birmingham City Council is delivering a secure, seamless, easy to use and cost effective mobile solution to the workforce.

The Results
Rapid adoption of the mobile solution by the Council’s employees who quickly identified work productivity benefits available combined with significant cost reductions for the Council.

The Benefits
NetMotion Mobility XE VPN has given Birmingham City Council a long-term solution that will help the Council reach their agile working targets; help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their workers whilst also reducing their costs.

The Clarity 4020 GSB is an ideal solution for system integrators. The 4020 GSB
offers systems integrators a simple and efficient VoIP solution for small business
users. System integrators can benefit from the ease of deployment and auto
provisioning of associated handsets to the 4020 GSB.
The 4020 GSB reduces the requirement for fitting a PBX or IP-PBX, making
the installation efficient, speedy and cost effective.

4020_Product_Scenarios_Email.pdf 1.47 MB

With 23.9 million cable customers, Comcast Corporation is one of the nation's leading providers of entertainment, information and communication products and services. In order to fulfill promises to customers for timely service, the company embarked on an ambitious initiative as part of its “Dream Big” campaign. Reliable application access for field technicians was central to the effort – which is why NetMotion Mobility XE was the centerpiece of the mobile deployment.

Comcast_NMWCO_Case Study.pdf 266.51 kB

Diamond Management and Technology Consultants is a global management consulting firm that helps organizations develop and implement growth strategies, improve operations and capitalize on technology. With NetMotion Wireless’ Mobility XE Mobile VPN, DiamondCluster was able to secure their wireless networks without new hardware, standardize the solution across its disparate offices, leverage existing authentication methods and use its current network architecture without modification.

Councils face constant pressure to better
serve their citizens within tight budget
constraints. In difficult times, when demands for
services are up but budgets are down, this can
be a tough-balancing act.

1092_5696-SeriesX_3_Ashford_WMCH_FINAL_LR.pdf 3.79 MB

Partnerships UK's project staff is location independent; their work can take them to several different project sites all over the UK during a working week and yet wherever they are they require easy access to the company’s network files and applications including time recording, accounts management and knowledge management systems.

The challenge facing Chief Information Officer, Mike Robinson was to provide a method of remote access that would improve productivity of PUK staff by offering flexibility and greatly simplified access for mobile workers.

Partnerships UK Case Study.pdf 141.26 kB

TigerSpike designed and built a mobile and social media platform (powered by Phoenix*) for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, launched in 2009. The objective was to improve the awareness of PwC values and improve employee engagement. Research demonstrated that few people use the suggestion box or the company intranet to share their ideas. This mobile and web platform is intended to be used whenever and wherever the employee has the inspiration - ideas are more likely to be generated in the pub or on the way home than they are sat at your desk.

The PwC WhatWouldYouLikeToChange program was so successful with staff that it is now planned to roll it out to customers as well.

The Social Media Platform TigerSpike delivered allows the PwC team to:

- Start discussions
- Leave comments
- Rate content
- Post videos
- Respond with videos
- Share the content with colleagues
- Integrate with a mobile presence, RSS and Twitter.

The site utilises TigerSpike’s established Social Media platform (powered by Phoenix) and allows consumers to contribute to numerous discussions by text, image and video.

* Phoenix is TigerSpike's propriety award-winning, carrier grade Service Delivery Platform.

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CIOs have to support business strategy, while at the same time, they’re under
pressure to cut costs and gain efficiencies. The reality is, IT departments spend too
much time on administration and not enough on innovation. In most organizations,
up to 70 percent of time and costs are spent “keeping the lights on.”

1092_5671-SeriesX_3_VirtualMCD_PO_FINAL_LR.pdf 2.27 MB

Optident is one of the UK’s largest providers of dental materials and services. Unhappy with their existing VPN, Optident wanted a remote access solution that could improve the performance of its newly deployed sales force application over wireless networks and enable its sales team to maintain their VPN and application sessions when they lose connectivity. Optident deployed Mobility XE on its sales laptop, PDA and smartphone devices. In addition to addressing the problems they experienced with their old VPN, Mobility XE was virtually transparent to Optident’s sales team, allowing them to focus on their jobs, not their connectivity.

Optident Solution Story.pdf 216.18 kB

Unilever, a world leader in consumer goods, has selected NetMotion Mobility XE and Mobility XE Policy Management to deliver and secure line-of-business applications to field sales representatives around the world.

Until now, voice telephony and virtualization might have been on different planets,
so far apart were they. In the data center, voice technology was in a closet of its own,
and managed with a separate set of hardware, processes, staff, and technologies.
Now, this is changing. With the combined power of virtualization and unified
communications, mission-critical voice applications are joining enterprise business
applications in the mainstream data center.

1092_5704-Series+X+Virtu_finalLR.pdf 1.26 MB

Unified Communications solution saves thousands on teaching cover, drives up exam results, and increases staff productivity

WoottenBassett.pdf 218.89 kB

There has been much hype surrounding the latest product offering from Apple – the iPad. On Wednesday 27th January 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the product would begin shipping in March 2010 to customers in the United States with international rollout, whilst unconfirmed by Apple, expected to follow soon after. Apple claims that the iPad falls under a totally new genre of device, and is positioning the product somewhere between the laptop computer and the mobile smart phone.

The iPad is being priced according to this market positioning, with US prices ranging from $499 to $829. International pricing is yet to be announced which will clearly affect the uptake of the device. If the market does not respond as favourable to Apple’s initial proposition, there is currently speculation that the pricing may be dropped to increase the uptake.

Think about how the iPad will feel in your hand. Is it really just a ‘large iPhone’ or is it an opportunity to create a brand new interface with your content? Web has traditionally been a 3 to 4 vertical column set up, mobile a 1 vertical column set up, but the iPad has a dynamic, flexible grid like structure that opens up great new interface opportunities. Of course content creators can treat it like a large iPhone, but those content owners who create a unique interface that captivates consumers will win. As content moves to become ubiquitous it is the user interface that will define choice of content provider. Make sure your interface is so great that consumers will pay for it and can’t wait to virally share it with their friends.

TigerSpike_iPad_WhitePaper_February2010.pdf 209.75 kB

Already a crowd pleaser for consumers and marketing managers alike, the new features will ensure the iPhone becomes an integral part of ongoing digital brand strategy. After all, it is an ever evolving global platform that now comes with a proven track record.

This is the new device that runs the 3.0 software. The ‘S’ stands for ‘speed’ and loosely draws
parallels with the Porsche Boxter S or the Aston Martin DBS. Sleek, stylish, and swift? The new
phone was announced on 8th June at WWDC and at first glance does appear to live up to
expectations.

Primarily, this document deals with the new features of the 3.0 software as it is these that will
impact most upon the marketing world. In terms of the device upgrade, the only real differences
are speed and the enhancements made to the camera.

TigerSpike_iPhone 3 0_Overview.pdf 221.67 kB

Outside the perimeter of the business location additional controls need to be added to a mobile IT deployment to ensure the security and integrity of data on the device and netwpork access. Balancing the need for control with flexibility given to the user requires care and attention to both strategy and implementation.

Mobile users have many challenges facing them as they try to work outside of a managed and familiar working environment. Too many constraints and challenges can distract and divert users from the task at hand, meaning that productivity gains hoped for by the deployment of the technology will be lost.

This paper looks at how to get the best out of mobile productivity and how to avoid the six most common mobililty pitfalls during the planning and excecution of mobile implementations.

Quocirca - Mobile Pitfalls.pdf 438.08 kB

For an IT department, much of what goes on within a mobile deployment is unseen. With the Mobility XE Analytics Module, adminstrators gain an unprecedented view into how mobile computing resources are used.

Read this white paper to learn about the capabilities of the NetMotion Mobility Analytics Module. It includes a complete listing of the reports available, and examples of how insight from specific reports can be used to boost productivity and drive other operational improvements. The paper also details the notifications capability — the second major element of the Analytics Module — and how it greatly streamlines the day-to-day management of a mobile deployment.

Mobile Analytics.pdf 628.15 kB

According to the US Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics™ Database, approximately two-thirds of U.S. hospitals use wireless technology within their healthcare delivery organization. In order to understand the issues, challenges and concerns surrounding the deployment and utilization of wireless networks, HIMSS Analytics conducted two focus groups in March 2009 with senior IT executives who have implemented wireless networks. Institutions represented in the focus groups range from large (1,000+ bed) urban health systems to small (100 bed) rural organizations. All of the participants manage IT for diversified healthcare companies with hospitals, sub-acute, ambulatory and home health operations. The findings from those focus groups are outlined in this white paper.

Top_Five_Challenges_for_Wireless_Healthcare_Deployments.pdf 80.31 kB

Traditional approaches for encrypting data in transit such as IPSec and SSL are intended for wired networks with high-speed, highly reliable connections. In a mobile wireless network environment where data transmission speeds are slower and connections less reliable, traditional VPN performance suffers, frequently causing application failure, data loss and reduced productivity.

This White Paper explains in detail why IPSec and SSL VPNs fail to meet the needs of highly mobile workers, and how a Mobile VPN, such as NetMotion Mobility XE succeeds where legacy technologies fail.

Comparing Mobile VPNs 2010.pdf 231.33 kB

The right mobile and wireless technologies not only address the unique computing challenges mobile workers face such as wireless coverage gaps and interruptions, internetwork roaming and performance issues, but also help automate and streamline processes, providing significant ROI. This Yankee Group white paper identifies the secure mobile solutions available and how these technologies map back to the requirements of today’s mobile enterprise.

Yankee Maximizing Mobile Worker Productivity.pdf 182.67 kB

Giving mobile clinicians electronic access to patient data at the point-of-care has great benefits, whether in a hospital campus, outpatient clinic, home-care setting or in-the-field for emergency response. But it requires consideration for the unique realities of a medical setting. Security is critical, as is transparency for users who focus on serving patients rather than dealing with technologies.

Read this NetMotion Industry Spotlight to explore the special requirements of mobile healthcare environments including coverage concerns, device security, application reliability and management challenges. You’ll learn how Mobility XE supports the medical mission by allowing clinicians to access and update vital information, while freeing them to focus on what matters most: their patients.

Healthcare_Industry_Spotlight_WP.pdf 165.52 kB

Authenticating users and securing sensitive data transmissions is critical in today's world. Adequately securing network access and protecting data being transmitted to and from mobile devices is more difficult in wireless environments.

This white paper details how NetMotion Mobility XE prevents unauthorized users from accessing your network and stops eavesdropping, replay and other network-level attacks.

Security for Wireless Networks.pdf 1.10 MB

A tale of two technologies
Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and other IT managers straddle two worlds – not because
they want to, but because they have to.
First, there is the world of the data center. Its servers and other hardware components, and
the business applications that run on them, are the backbone of the organization. They turn
the reams of data that companies generate and collect into the information they need to
understand and operate the business.
Then, there is the world of telephony. Here, voice applications ensure that the people whose
performance determines how well the organization does, how effectively it competes, and
whether it succeeds or fails, communicate with one another in myriad ways to ensure that
information is understood and acted on. Even in today’s high-tech world, voice
communication is the beating heart of the business.

1092_5724-SeriesX_3_Virtualization_Whitepaper_FINAL_LR.pdf 4.23 MB

A key challenge faced by enterprise IT management is how to ensure the productivity of the growing population of mobile workers. A successful mobile deployment can empower mobile workers with the resources they need to be effective at the point of service, resulting in a more productive workforce, expedited customer service, happier customers and increased revenue. Selecting the right mobile solutions and managing today’s mobile enterprise, however, is not a simple task. Successful mobile deployments require IT management to take a holistic approach managing all elements of the mobile deployment, including applications, wireless networks and devices.

This white paper describes how Quality of Service (QoS) can enable organizations to maximize mobile worker productivity and fully leverage the benefits of their mobile deployments.

Wireless QoS.pdf 639.01 kB

Anatole offer to
-> gain visibility and control of telecom assets & expenses
-> achieve significant cost savings on voice, data and mobile expenses
-> optimise your telecom lifecycle and procue to pay process

Anatole_brochure.pdf 165.96 kB

The Analytics Module delivers insight into the performance of the mobile deployment and promotes hands‐off management. It provides detailed statistics on usage; intelligence on the networks and applications used; and automated notifications that save time and facilitate fine‐tuning and capacity planning.

NetMotion_Mobility_90_Analytics_Datasheet.pdf 326.99 kB

Mobility XE is a software-only Mobile Virtual Private Network (Mobile VPN) that provides secure, continuous remote access to network resources and applications from mobile devices over any wired or wireless IP-based network. Industry-leading Mobility XE enables organizations to maximize the productivity and management of their worldwide mobile workforces, deliver flexible remote access, and safeguard the security of their data and networks and using Mobile Network Access Control (NAC).

NetMotion_Mobility_90_Datasheet.pdf 234.19 kB

What is UC and how can it work for your business?

UC_Product_Sheet_Web.pdf 906.09 kB