Cisco Virtual Office Offers Secure Solution for Extending Business Enterprise

Cisco recently introduced the “Cisco Virtual Office” which offers a highly secure solution that will allow businesses to extend their enterprise as well as productivity by providing the virtual office for employees that otherwise work from remote settings such as branch locations or a home office. The distribution of workforces within companies has increased the need to access collaborative business applications and services outside of their corporate offices.

Cisco has created a networking solution package with routing, switching, security, wireless, IP telephony, and policy control technology and combined it into a centrally managed virtual office solution that provides highly secure video, voice, data, and wireless service. The new virtual office solution package allows employees to work in a variety of places in a collaborative office environment that is enabled with advanced technologies with access to voice and video over IP communications, all within a highly secure networked environment. Employees will now be able to work as if they were sitting at their desk in their office.

With the onset of rising gas prices and energy costs, businesses are starting to seek more flexible and cost effective work options. The Cisco Virtual Office is in the right place at the right time with its capability to maintain continuity of business operations by ensuring highly secure collaboration among an increasingly distributed workforce. Remote workers will be able to access the same collaboration and communication technologies that are available to their office-based counterparts.

One of the Cisco Virtual Office Solution’s primary assets is a “zero touch” setup that is automated and pre-configured so the employees do not have the burden of installation responsibilities and may not be qualified to implement the networking system on their own. As a result of this state-of-the-art feature, businesses can confidently distribute their workforces to additional locations without the concern of employee error in IT setup or the headache of seeking IT support.

It is predicted that the number of distributed workers will continue to rise within the next three years which means that access to corporate networks will also multiply and increase in demand. Businesses will need a flexible IT infrastructure that provides the same protection and security to remote locations that is found in a corporate office where employees collaborate. As a result of Cisco’s new virtual office, businesses can safely access highly secure mobility as well as create employee work models that are more efficient than relying on centralized corporate sites for conducting and overseeing operations.