Big growth in the use of smart devices has led to significant and increased demand for bandwidth and services. That is according to BT. The telecoms company has launched new services, products and features. Their aim; to help organisations reap the productivity gains promised by BYOD. BT speaks of an integrated approach is designed to help users deploy smart devices on a large scale. Services, products and features launched include:
BT Advise BYOD Ready Infrastructure Quick Start: a new professional services offer, assessing organisations’ readiness and the impact of requirements on their WAN and LAN.
BT Advise BYOD Quick Start: helping customers identify the steps needed to minimise potential risks and assess how prepared an organisation is for the strategic introduction of smart devices and BYOD, from policy to implementation.
New wireless LAN capabilities, including policy control and reporting. This includes guest Wi-Fi services, allowing for customised content delivery across company premises.
A new cloud based device management and mobile application management service, managing content and apps for users.
A new MobileXpress package offering secure remote access delivered from the Cloud from £5 per user/month.
Connect Intelligence for devices, a new service that gives central visibility of applications running on smart devices.
Neil Sutton, VP Global Portfolio, BT Global Services said: “Through our recent research surveying IT managers and users working in major companies all around the world, it has become very clear that BYOD productivity gains are only reaped if network services can cope securely with the extra load. Great devices require better networks. We are ideally placed to provide the intelligent network solutions to meet those needs. Our wireless solutions and our identity and access control policy platform are designed to provide a seamless user experience whilst implementing compliant and enhanced infrastructure security, all from a centralised point. Our wireless solutions allow organisations to give that connectivity to their own customers and to personalise their experience thanks to our identity and location management solutions. We now offer a great value proposition to our customers, with an integrated mix of fixed and mobile services, a strong professional services wrap and proven security features and we offer that in a cost effective way. During the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, we showed our ability to deliver very large scale projects combining all of those elements and we are now determined to put that expertise at the service of companies all over the world.”
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