Virtual Office Technology Provides Flexibility, Productivity

 

Virtual office solutions from Cisco and Solnovo provide a comprehensive set of products, technologies, and services. Cisco Virtual Office gives employees greater flexibility while enhancing productivity and reducing costs.

 

Cisco Virtual Office extends the enterprise by delivering secure, rich, and manageable network services to teleworkers and employees working outside of a traditional office environment. By providing full IP phone, wireless, data and video services, Cisco Virtual Office delivers a seamless office-caliber experience to the end user, wherever they may be located.

 

The Cisco Virtual Office solution delivered by Solonovo consists of the following components:

 

• A remote site presence: Residing on the end-user premises, the equipment includes a Cisco 800 series Integrated Services Router (ISR) and models from the Cisco Unified IP Phones 7900 Series.
• A head-end presence: This equipment is responsible for remote site aggregation and includes a VPN router to terminate the secure, encrypted tunnels from each remote site location, as well as centralized management software for policy, configuration and identity controls.
• Deployment and ongoing services: Service offerings from Solnovo support successful head-end solution component deployment and integration, provide consultative guidance for automating the deployment and management of remote sites, and deliver ongoing operational support and optimization.

 

How the Remote Workforce Benefits

 

The Cisco Virtual Office solution delivered by Solnovo addresses many of the key requirements associated with remote working for both end users and organizations alike. In doing so, it also provides benefits across three distinct organizational groups:

 

• For end users: Allows schedule flexibility and improves work-life balance by providing the ability to work at home or on the road. The solution also provides integrated family support with multiple SSIDs for wireless and separate VLANs for secure "split-tunnel."
• For IT groups: Simplifies the process of extending real-time, high-performance network services to remote locations. It also provides architecture for centralized, simplified management and operations, and contributes to improved scalability security, and low total cost of ownership.
• For businesses and organizations: Improves productivity of the workforce while saving costs associated with energy, facilities, and real estate. The solution also enables better business resiliency, allowing the workforce to stay secure and connected in the event of factors that prohibit employees from getting to the office, or when traveling.

 

Cisco Virtual Office Services

 

Realize the full value of Cisco Virtual Office with services from Solnovo. Services support successful headend solution component deployment and integration, provide consultative guidance for automating the deployment and management of remote sites, and deliver ongoing operational support and optimization:

 

• Solnovo Virtual Office Planning, Design, and Implementation Service: This service helps you deploy, customize, and integrate Cisco Virtual Office headend solution components and prepares you to initially provision remote sites manually and later to automate manual provisioning steps.
• Solnovo Remote Management Services: Cisco Remote Management Services engineers become an extension of your IT staff, proactively monitoring your Cisco Virtual Office and providing incident, problem, change, configuration, and release management and reporting 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
• Solnovo Security Optimization Service: After your Cisco Virtual Office is fully operational, ongoing consultation with Cisco security engineers can help you to continually assess, tune, and evolve your Cisco Virtual Office as well as the rest of your network security infrastructure to keep pace with changes in your business and new security threats.