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Best Practices for Securing Your Enterprise LAN

Making corporate data accessible through Wi-Fi networks means intruders and other unwanted visitors can easily access such networks if proper precautions and tools aren't used to protect them. This paper will discuss best practices in all five areas to secure the enterprise network, whether wired or wireless.

Case Study Golder Associates

Want to better support global collaboration within your organization? In the case study, you’ll discover how Golder Associates deployed a centralized Intranet portal with a wide-area acceleration solution that delivered LAN-like speed across the WAN. By deploying Riverbed Steelhead appliances into their existing Cisco-based network, they ensured their vast mobile workforce access to the same resources workers had at headquarters.

Aventail Smart Secure Access Control: Secure and Easy for Users and IT

Today's office is now anywhere that a user can get an Internet connection, a PC on a business partner's network, a handheld at a WiFi hotspot, an airport kiosk, or a computer on a home WiFi network. But secure access is not the only driving business factor remote access must be easy to use and administer as well.

Best Practices for Mobile Application Architectures

The paper will explore the differences between smart-client and thin-client mobile architectures. It will then examine the details of common smart-client architectures, including what type of back-end systems they integrate with, the types of devices they support, how data is managed within the architecture, and development languages that can be used to build the application.

Utimaco's Security Solution for PDAs

The great benefit of PDAs is that they're portable, but it also means that they can be lost or stolen very easily, along with the data saved inside. Download this white paper and find out how SafeGuard PDA provides the protection to keep the mobile workforce secure.

Virtual Cells: The Only Scalable Multi-Channel Deployment

As wireless LAN deployments and usage has increased, coupled with the near ubiquity of embedded Wi-Fi in laptops and smart phones, many enterprises are experiencing complaints from their users of slow or even dropped connections.

Wireless LANs in Higher Education

Universities and colleges are among the most aggressive adopters of Wi-Fi technology. The trend toward more collaborative and open learning environments, fueled by the explosive adoption of mobile devices among students and faculty, makes higher education campuses fertile ground for wireless LANs.

WLAN Design Considerations for Stationary CE Applications

Designing wireless local area networking (WLAN) capabilities into stationary customer electronics (CE) systems is most successful when certain design issues are considered early in the development cycle.

The Mobile Workforce: The Weakest Link

The use of handheld computers is estimated to grow by more than 50 percent in the next few years. This surge in use of mobile devices means that companies need to make sure their growing mobile workforce use devices that are secure so that handhelds do not become the weakest link in their security system.

Top 10 Security Checklist for SOHO Wireless LANs

Discover the ten simple steps SOHO users can take to secure their wireless networks.

Wireless Technology Migration: Mitigating Risk and Increasing Supply Chain Efficiency

Today's competitive, agile business demands anytime/anywhere connectivity and access to real time data. Outdated technology, security concerns and compliance requirements are forcing companies throughout industries to consider migrating to advanced wireless systems for supply chain operations.

The Business Justification for Wireless Intrusion Prevention

More and more companies are realizing that their corporate air waves are an asset that requires protection. Strong security policies have been created for wired networks. The same is now needed for the corporate air waves. This paper will discuss the compelling business reasons why an investment in wireless intrusion prevention should be made.

Revolutionizing Wireless LAN Deployment Economics with the Meru Networks Radio Switch

This white paper is for the enterprise IT administrator tasked with deploying a wireless LAN (WLAN) of any scale, the significant investment in equipment, time and resources to properly plan and install the deployment is daunting.

Risk-Free Travel: A Look At Swiss Re

Critical data is best protected against misuse on business trips complete encryption of notebook hard disks. If 4,500 notebooks are involved, as is the case for the Zurich firm Swiss Re, precise selection criteria and exact planning for the international rollout are important.

Compliance in the Mobile Enterprise

This paper provides guidance on how companies should rethink their existing management and security strategy to effectively secure mobile solutions in the workforce, over a wide array of devices, connections and applications. It details why mobile security must be included as a mission critical component of any enterprise strategy and implemented on a pro-active basis before any major security breach has the opportunity to negatively affect the enterprise.

MicroCell Deployments: Making a Bad Problem Worse

Pervasive wireless LAN deployments require much larger, broader deployment of Wi-Fi access points than hot spots, cafes or isolated guest access in the enterprise. Clearly new solutions and deployment methodologies should be considered to make pervasive wireless LAN deployments feasible and economical.

Customer Resource Management and Marketing for the Cellular Retailer

Customer Resource Management (CRM) and marketing are essential parts of today's cellular/wireless retail business. Given the ever-increasing competition for every consumer dollar, being able to develop effective and directed marketing programs can define the longevity of a cellular retailer's success.

Multi-Channel Banking: Banks Go Mobile. Again.

Mobile banking - banking on mobile devices including mobile phones, iPhones, Blackberries, and PDAs is taking off again, and financial institutions around the world are rushing to leverage the technology to gain new customers. This white paper describes the mobile banking "revolution", the state of the technology, the challenges, and the benefits.

Embedded WLAN Delivers Rich Content Anywhere, Anytime

Download this whitepaper now and read how WLAN technology embedded in CE devices offers consumers a glimmer of hope that someday soon they will be free to experience their media content on their terms.

Finance and IT’s Views on the Cost of Mobile Working

This research study, led by CFO Research in collaboration with Fiberlink provides valuable insight into how organizations are dealing with sustained growth in the number of mobile workers and the costs associated with managing them.

The Mobile Operator’s Responsibility to its Corporate Customers

There has been a great deal of speculation in the communications industry about the future direction for mobile operators. Will their utility roots hamper them in exploiting their investment in expensive data networks to gain an acceptable return?

Do Mobile Technologies Offer Better Business Performance or a Security Hole?

Wireless remote access opens the business up to new opportunities for efficiency and flexibility, but does it also increase the risks to the business, and if so, how can these be mitigated?

Productivity or Pain: Measuring the Value of Mobile Investment

Time pressures on businesses and employees continue to mount. Increasing regulation, traveling and resource limitations compel many to work longer hours. For many roles, productivity is difficult to measure, so improvements might not be as simple as making a greater number of appointments, but making more beneficial decisions.

Mobile Devices and Users: Keep Mobile Working Safe, Secure and Under Control

Working with technology outside the office brings many challenges. Use of laptops has grown from limited user communities to widespread desktop replacement and broad deployment. The complexity of managing these devices outside the walls of the office is something IT departments have learned to address.

Distraction and Diversion: Avoiding User Aggravations Is Key to Mobile Productivity

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

Planning For A Pandemic: Turning Office Workers Into Mobile Workers For Business Continuity

This white paper looks at some of the key issues facing enterprises that might need to turn office workers into mobile workers, rapidly and in large numbers.

How Smart Phones and Handheld Devices Enable Continuity of Operations and Emergency Response

Smartphones and other handheld devices support government continuity of operations (COOP) by enabling its central tenets: decentralization and redundancy. Read this white paper to learn all benefits of using smart phones when an emergency strikes.

Smart Mobile: Next-Generation WLAN Architecture for High Performance Networks

This paper identifies the requirements for next-generation WLANs, examines the limitations of existing approaches, and describes an innovative WLAN architecture from Trapeze Networks called Smart Mobile™, which overcomes those limitations.

Who Leads in WLAN Security? Comparative Evaluation of Vendor Offerings and Positioning

This analyst report written by Stan Schatt, VP & Research Director, Networking at ABI Research helps you decipher the WLAN security alphabet soup, understand architectural approaches to WLAN security, upcoming standards for roaming, load balancing and management frame encryption, and key security requirements that you should consider for you next WLAN deployment.

How RFID Technology Can Enhance Asset Tracking

This paper includes a comparison between using RFID and barcoding for asset management as well as real-life examples of how RFID technology is being used by enterprising organizations today to gain significant time savings and enable better asset and maintenance management.

Wireless Device Management: Controlling the Wireless Enterprise and Reducing TCO

Download this paper now and read why many businesses now recognize that comprehensive management of their wireless device infrastructure is a crucial component of a total IT enterprise management solution.

McAfee Solution Fills Need for Wireless Home Network Security

Over the past several years as 802.11 equipment has proliferated in the home, security experts have been warning of the security vulnerabilities that Wi-Fi creates. Although wireless equipment is usually shipped with built-in security mechanisms, those mechanisms are left disabled by the manufacturer, leaving the unaware consumer vulnerable.

Case Studies – Real Customers, Real Results

What do companies as diverse as Liz Claiborne, Mitsubishi Motors, LG Electronics, and Alstom Power have in common? They have all benefited from the deployment of wide-area data services (WDS) solutions from Riverbed, spectacularly accelerating their network infrastructures. From opening remote files and applications up to 100x faster to dramatically reducing backup and replication time, WDS solved common but vexing infrastructure challenges facing these diverse companies.

Download The Wi-Fi Technical Poster

Get a technical foundation for deploying a high performance Wi-Fi network. Learn the details of how they work/compete, where they complement and where they're most effective.

Sales Force Automation Case Study: adidas America

A leader in its industry, adidas America recognized that it could increase its sales potential by automating many components of the sales process. Tim Oligmueller, sales force automation manager for adidas America, wanted to reduce the number of calls from sales representatives in the field to check on product availability, enabling them to capture "at-once" business and show customers that the company is on the cutting edge not only in footwear and apparel design, but also in customer service.

Sales Force Automation Case Study: TaylorMade Golf, Inc.

Wholesale sales representatives sell TaylorMade golf clubs, clothing and accessories to more than 10,000 retail outlets. TaylorMade executives concluded that if the company could automate these value-added sales force services, which were requiring more than 60% of the company's 100+ wholesale representatives' in-outlet time, the overhead savings and increase in sales revenue could be significant. Read how TaylorMade addressed this challenge in this case study.

Field Service Automation Case Study: The ICEE Company

In 2000, ICEE began to scrutinize the inefficiencies they found in the ICEE machine repair process. With so many field technicians servicing so many machines, streamlining the process would be no small feat. The company's existing paper-based system required that field technicians fill out paper work orders at the end of each job. One copy was given to the customer, one was filed at the regional office, and another was sent to headquarters in Ontario. This left a long, inefficient and error-prone paper trail.

Reducing the Cost to Serve the First WiMAX Subscribers

This white paper presents how a radically consolidated, scalable core network architecture based on multi-core processor technology can significantly reduce the cost of the core network and thereby reducing the cost to serve the first WIMAX subscribers.

Completing the 4G Vision: Gateways for Mobile WiMAX

Wireless technologies are migrating from complex hierarchical voice-oriented architectures to flatter, low latency, all-IP based designs – reducing cost and complexity for service providers while efficiently supporting real time IP services. Coupled with this trend is the migration to higher performance OFDMA air links with MIMO and AAS, providing much greater bandwidth with improved interference characteristics.

The Access Service Network in WiMAX: The Role of ASN-GW

Rising demand for multimedia applications and mobile usage requires new paradigm to shift voice-oriented cellular architecture into data-oriented networks in order to serve bandwidth hungry packet based applications which include but not limited to multimedia gaming, mobiTV, streaming media, P2P, etc. Data oriented network requires 20-fold fatter air link and backhaul as compared to typical voice communication.

A Comprehensive WiMAX Operator Business Case Process

Developing a WiMAX business case could be a complex and time-consuming process. Yet the need to determine the CapEx, OpEx and ROI is critical to any deployment. Promptly analyzing over 250 input variables, easily modifying these variables, testing key assumptions, and instantly visualizing their impact on a WiMAX business plan are invaluable capabilities.

Going, Going, Gone Wireless? A Survival Guide

Wireless networking is no more a new name to computer users these days than iPod is to music lovers. This technology is one of the most popular, inexpensive and simple modes of connecting computers to the internet or a network. Both home users, work users and laptop/mobile users, who want to stay connected, even while on the move, are adopting this technology. Download this paper to read about all the threats that come with wireless connections and ways to guard against them.

Good Mobile Intranet Data Sheet

Get an overview of how Good™ Mobile Intranet can put the power of your intranet and mobile applications on your fleet of handhelds.

Advances in Wireless LAN Architecture: The Aerohive Cooperative Control Architecture

Craig Mathias, Principal of the Farpoint Group, explores the advent of cooperative control, an innovative new class of wireless infrastructure from Aerohive Networks. Aerohive’s cooperative control architecture gives you all of the benefits of autonomous access points and controller-based infrastructures, without the high OPEX or CAPEX associated with either approach. Cooperative control architecture represents an innovative approach to wireless LAN systems, one that incorporates a number of interesting features and corresponding benefits.

The Economic Benefits of Cooperative Control Wireless LAN Architecture

Are you looking to reduce the operational cost of your existing wireless LAN, and to make it support mission-critical, real-time applications and 802.11n? At the same time, are you challenged with the cost and complexity associated with most next-generation wireless LAN architectures? Check out the enterprise-class, cost-effective new cooperative control architecture from Aerohive Networks. In this real-world case study, you’ll see how Aerohive Networks' cooperative control architecture combines the linear cost modeling of autonomous APs and the operational advantages of controller-based approaches.

Cooperative Control Wireless LAN Architecture

Yesterday’s fat access points and legacy wireless LANs typically can’t handle mission-critical, real-time applications, nor do they have a migration path to 802.11n. Aerohive Networks has developed a new controller-less architecture that provides an innovative way to handle tomorrow’s wireless challenges – like voice over WLAN and migrating to 802.11n – without costing you a fortune. This paper discusses the benefits of this approach and the key underlying technologies of cooperative control, including best path forwarding and policy enforcement at the edge.

Driving Workforce Productivity with Unified Communications: The Path to Fixed/Mobile Convergence

Aberdeen's research shows that Unified Communications (UC) solutions have a measurable impact on the productivity of an organization's workforce. Read this report to learn how best-in-class organizations are leveraging their UC solutions as part of an integrated business-process mapping program to understand how UC solutions help the workforce most effectively impact those core business processes.

Benchmarking the Enterprise Road Warrior

In this paper, Aberdeen details how best-in-class organizations equip and manage their mobile workforce. You can also determine the steps your organization needs to take in order to maximize productivity for your road warriors.

Frost & Sullivan Competitive Ranking Report: Leading Mobile Solutions

In this paper, Frost & Sullivan has detailed leading mobile solution deployments, products in development and new product features and modifications for leading solution vendors in the mobile enterprise space. All solutions were then compared, evaluated and ranked based on parameters considered as critical in the implementation of a wireless enterprise solution.

A Good Mobile Experience: Balancing IT Requirements With a Good User Experience

This paper details the importance of striking a balance between the lock-down management of your mobile solutions and allowing end users the freedom to use mobile devices in the way that works best for them.

District of Columbia Case Study

Read this case study to learn how Chief Technology Officer, Mrs. Suzanne Peck, has helped the Government of the District of Columbia undergo a significant technological transformation.

mSuite and Systems Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Connector for Notes/Domino

Many companies that have already invested in IBM Lotus Domino/Notes for their business communications now look to achieve the business benefits that are delivered by mobility solutions. To address this challenge, CommonTime has partnered with Microsoft® to combine key elements our best-of-breed Lotus Domino/Notes mobility solution for Windows Mobile devices with Microsoft’s System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 (MDM).

Forrester Consulting – Optimizing Users and Applications in a Mobile World

Are your workers going increasingly mobile? Don’t wait for their calls to slam Support when they experience poor application performance on the road. Discover in the Forrester report how companies are successfully deploying WAN optimization solutions that are specifically tuned for a mobile environment, delivering the acceleration needed to ensure consistent performance, room for new applications, and the ability to ensure end user productivity at all times.

Picocell Application Guide: A Proven Way to Maximize Return-on-Spectrum

When IP-enabled picocells first came onto the scene, they appeared to offer a new alternative to operators facing difficult coverage (and capacity) challenges. But they also made operators feel a bit uncomfortable. Using IP for backhaul made a lot of sense… but it was unfamiliar for network planners used to their trusted tools. Today, picocells have come a long, long way.

An Open Approach to Broadband Video Publishing

Why is thePlatform the best broadband video ASP for content providers, broadband media sites, and mobile businesses? Because we get it: from a set of end-to-end products to a customized system, we developed our flexible services to help customers solve their unique broadband video publishing challenges.

Siterra Enables Seamless Rollout of 4G Network

There are few things more challenging than putting a communications satellite in space. One of them may be building a continent-spanning terrestrial communications network. TerreStar, a new North American carrier, has undertaken the task of executing both simultaneously with the goal of delivering service in early 2009.

IP/MPLS Backhaul to the Cell Site

As mobile data growth has continued to grow exponentially, a key piece of the mobile network left untouched, however, has been the mobile backhaul network. Mobile backhaul, also known as Radio Access Network (RAN) backhaul, plays a vital role in today’s mobile networks because it acts as the link between the cell site/base station transceiver system (BTS) and the base station controllers (BSCs) in the RAN, and the networks to which mobile data traffic is being transported. Those networks include the Internet, other mobile networks, traditional landline networks or private networks.

BlackBerry Platform Management: Mobile User Management with ITIL and ITSM

For advanced enterprise BlackBerry administrators only. IT Service Management (ITSM) - as defined by the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) – is now the required approach to ensure superior BlackBerry service levels at the lowest possible cost. Read this White Paper to see how ITSM/ITIL can transform your approach to mobile user management.

Framework for Synchronization and Timing in the NGN: Deploy Carrier Class NTP to Improve ARPU

Time and frequency synchronization are surprisingly crucial to mobile service providers' Internet Protocol/Call Detail Record (IIP/CDR) reconciliation, at the heart of billing and logging services. Learn how you can meet revenue assurance targets, reduce 'revenue leakage' and increase ARPU through the implementation of well engineered carrier class NTP services.