Technical Details

Cisco's extensive portfolio of mobility solutions uses any number of products and services to help businesses build and maintain a mobile workforce founded on the three key capabilities of insight, collaboration, and awareness.

Insight-Supporting Technologies
- Wired and wireless IP networking technologies that link the user to the corporate network to access applications and data
- Devices customized for job roles and environments, including portable computers, PDAs, mobile phones, smart phones, and wireless IP phones
- Security solutions to protect the device, data, and corporate network, including VPN, antivirus, firewall, Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC), and intrusion detection and prevention
- Network intelligence applications, including presence, location, identity, time of day, network type, and device type, to deliver context-aware information
Collaboration-Supporting Technologies
- Unified communications solutions extended to desktop IP phones, single-business-number-reach services, and mobile solutions such as smart phones or wireless IP phones
- Applications such as e-mail, voicemail, instant messaging, or text messaging
- Presence capabilities to access contact availability and communication preference (phone, e-mail, IM, or text message)
- Audio- and video-conferencing capabilities that allow users to share documents
Awareness-Supporting Technologies
- Wireless LANs that allow the tracking of mobile devices and people throughout a building
- Active and passive RF identification (RFID) tags that report the asset movement and condition, including temperature, humidity, vibration, and availability
- Location appliances that track usage, location, movement, and trends