ADVISORY/Fiberlink & Gartner Host Live Web Conference: Wi-Fi for the Enterprise.Business Editors/Assignment Desks/High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Thursday Thursday: see week. (October 16) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Fiberlink
Learn about the many challenges and opportunities of deploying
Wi-Fi in the enterprise and how Fiberlink's solution with over 5,000
Hot Spots, integrated security and comprehensive management can help
ensure your Wi-Fi solution is enterprise-ready.
Fiberlink, the leading provider of comprehensive, policy-centric remote access solutions for enterprises, will host a live web conference -- "Wi-Fi for the Enterprise" -- featuring Gartner Research Director Bill Clark and Fiberlink Mobile Solutions Manager Howard Pressman Howard Pressman is a Radio presenter based in Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. Pressman presented Drivetime on Hallam FM for many years before moving to AM sister station Magic AM. .
Why: Wi-Fi remote access is quickly becoming a reality. In fact,
Gartner found that employees using wireless notebooks can
expect as much as 11 hours of new productivity per week. In
contrast to being one of the most compelling productivity
opportunities, Wi-Fi represents one of the most disruptive
vulnerabilities facing enterprise IT departments. Security,
network management and cost control continue to worry CIOs
while employees take advantage of mushrooming Wi-Fi Hot Spots.
This web conference will discuss the challenges and
opportunities Wi-Fi presents to the extended enterprise as
well as the importance of managing Wi-Fi by policy rather than
popularity. With over 5,000 Wi-Fi Hot Spots and focus on
policy-based access services that can uniformly deliver
security, access and management consistently across broadband,
dial-up and wireless, Fiberlink is uniquely qualified to
address the issues and opportunities of Wi-Fi in the
enterprise.
When: Thursday, October 16, 2003 at 2:00 PM EDT
Where: To access the audio portion of the event
-- Dial 877-821-7208 (US) or 706-643-3722 (International)
-- Provide your name and company to the operator. You will
also be asked to provide the name of the conference,
"Wi-Fi for the Enterprise."
To access the online portion of the even, log on:
http://www.presentonline.com and click on conference
participant login icon.
-- Enter presentation number x1088650 (you must enter the
"x")
-- Enter your name, company and e-mail address and click
continue.
Bill Clark is a research director for Gartner, Inc. He focuses on worldwide mobile applications and data including wireless application gateways, wireless local area networks (WLAN See wireless LAN. WLAN - wireless local area network ), wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. and mobile software. Some of his recent research includes "Select Vendors Fuel Wireless LAN A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area Hot Spot Market" and "The Real Time Enterprise and Network." About Fiberlink Fiberlink is a leading provider of secure remote access solutions, unifying worldwide remote access, management and enforcement within existing IT policy. Fiberlink addresses the growing infrastructure complexities of enterprise access brought on by the demands of an expanding business ecosystem. From employees to partners, remote offices to extranets, dial-up to wireless to broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). , Fiberlink allows enterprises to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. virtually any extended business opportunity. Multi-network redundancy, best-of-breed application services See ASP and Web services. and support, the lowest TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. and the least impact on IT help make Fiberlink a critical business partner. For the first time, companies can manage every aspect of remote, mobile or wireless access with the same rigorous policy enforcement as for local users. With over 300,000 corporate users, analyst firms such as Gartner, Burton Group and Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. recognize Fiberlink as a leader and innovator in the industry. Customers such as General Electric, Computer Sciences Corporation, Royal Caribbean, The Gillette Company, and Sun Healthcare prove it with their business. Headquartered in Blue Bell, Pa., Fiberlink has offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia Pacific. Fiberlink and the Fiberlink logo are trademarks of Fiberlink and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other brand names are trademarks of their respective partners. |
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