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 With employees on the move both within and outside the business, maintaining productivity and responsiveness can be challenging. Even on the go, employees require access to their critical data applications, the ability to collaborate with colleagues, partners, and customers, and awareness of the location and status of assets and people that are critical to completing business processes.

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 Economical Ways to Make Your Network Connect More:

1. A winery needed to automate its inventory process.
2. A job placement agency wanted to merge its cellular and office phone systems to get calls and messages to mobile employees faster.
3. A warehouse distribution center wanted to let visiting truckers use the Internet.

  All these businesses, with 30 or fewer employees, got the improvements they wanted, quickly and economically. They chose wireless solutions to provide secure access for guests, extend their network to more areas, and connect special digital devices.

 Growing companies, especially those opening new offices, can opt for integrated foundation solutions that are secure, solid, and compatible with future technologies. Rather than purchasing separate products for individual functions such as routing, switching, security, and Internet gateways, companies can choose a "systems-based" solution that provides everything a business unit needs to fully and securely connect to the Internet and the company as a whole.

 Whether your company is being strongly affected by globalization, outsourcing, private equity competition, increased regulation, or Web 2.0, it is clear that future requirements for enterprise computing will only be more demanding.

 To survive and prosper, companies must reduce operating costs, increase automation and control, and prepare to scale the number of business relationships they can support. Increasingly, the remedies to the challenging problems lead to one question:

What is the role of the network? The transport-centric vision for the network is now giving way to a converged vision in which enterprise and network architecture meet separated by a framework called service-oriented architecture (SOA).

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 What Security Policies Do I Need to Put in Place? To prevent and mitigate attacks in the Branch Office, security policies should address questions such as the following: