The largest enterprises have unique needs when it comes to Wi-Fi networks. These companies – ranging from the largest of retailers to financial firms with many remote branch offices, have a variety of requirements that must be met, including security, connectivity and manageability needs that are distinct from those of smaller enterprises.
These large enterprises must not only deal with the deployment and management of Wi-Fi networks in locations across the country, but they must also be able to work with dozens of different communications services providers that do business in all of these disparate locations. In order to handle these demands, large enterprises turn to managed network service providers like iPass (News - Alert) to take care of these technology needs, allowing them to focus on their core competencies.
iPass offers a number of managed network services (MNS), including network and security solutions. Its Wi-Fi solution, known as Wi-FiEXTEND, extends the value of its network solutions, leveraging their inherent benefits to meet the evolving wireless business needs and application demands.
The company boasts over 15 years of experience in this space, and its project management staff and certified engineers have designed, implemented and managed hundreds of thousands of endpoints, developing relationships with more than 200 Internet broadband access providers in the process. iPass has also developed a platform and an ecosystem of partners and providers to efficiently and cost effectively survey, engineer, install, and maintain Wi-Fi services..
Wi-FiEXTEND
The Wi-FiEXTEND portfolio has two components that work together as the iPass team designs, deploys, integrates, manages and supports a variety of scalable Wi-Fi solutions:
- Cloud Wi-Fi is the company’s managed Wi-Fi offering, based on a robust, controller-less platform that provides management at a reasonable cost, providing secure, compliant access for smartphones, tablets andPCs.
- Premise Wi-Fi allows companies to implement new controller architecture or leverage existing controller-based infrastructure, and iPass will design, deploy and manage the entire solution, utilizing the iPass managed services cloud as necessary.
Large enterprises like retailers and financial service firms want nothing more than to concentrate on their own business needs while still having a reliable Wi-Fi network. Leveraging Wi-FiEXTEND solutions from iPass can give these companies the peace of mind to know that their connectivity needs are taken care of across their nationwide network of locations, so they can turn their full attention to their core competencies.
Edited by Rich Steeves