Enhance Productivity, Collaboration, and Responsiveness

Increasing globalization, flat budgets, and growing customer demand for immediacy are driving organizations to use mobility as a way to gain business advantage. Mobility solutions can increase the top line and help keep costs in control, helping to enable:

• Increased customer responsiveness
• Faster reaction to market events
• Competitive edge through real-time data access

Wireless networks are a key component of a mobility solution, helping to transform downtime into productive time inside the enterprise.

Wireless networks enable real-time access to people, applications, and network resources across campuses, branch offices, and remote locations. Service providers recognize the demand and are offering new, innovative wireless services. As high-speed municipal networks and public hot zones expand, the same rich enterprise application experience will be available to mobile workers, whether they're on transportation systems or in cafés, restaurants, and hotels and around a metro area.

Organizations in a wide range of industries can benefit from providing wireless connectivity:

Education: Wireless networks allow schools at all levels to provide a wide range of applications across their facilities without expensive rewiring, giving students and staff access to benefits, such as e-learning, voice communications, and high-bandwidth Internet access, to enhance learning, improve administration, and enhance research efforts.

Financial Services: Financial services firms can provide employees with mobility, giving them instant access to industry trends, customer data, and financial information, helping firms dramatically improve customer service and more quickly deliver products and services.

Government: Public-safety and law-enforcement agencies can have uninterrupted access to crucial information, helping them respond more quickly and efficiently to a crisis or day-to-day operations.

Healthcare: Caregivers can access real-time patient information or medical research from the patient bedside to make more accurate decisions more quickly and continue providing quality healthcare.

Manufacturing: Wireless access to the networked supply-chain is helping manufacturers allow employees to share real-time data on the factory floor and support timely assembly.

Retail: Wireless networks help retailers improve store staff flexibility and efficiency, check out customers faster, and give customers access to relevant promotions, product information, and online ordering.

Transportation: Airlines, railroads, commercial trucking firms, and other businesses are using wireless networks to make their workforces more mobile. Wireless LANs improve efficiency of cargo handling, warehousing, and shipping through automation, which improves customer service and enhances security.