Cisco brings the office to employees

Mumbai, Sep 10

Cisco announced the Cisco Virtual Office, a secure solution that allows businesses to extend their enterprise and productivity by ‘bringing the office’ to employees who regularly work in a variety of remote settings, such as branch locations or from a home office.

The Cisco Virtual Office (CVO) addresses the growing trend among mid-sized and large enterprises that have increasingly distributed workforces who need access to collaborative business applications and services outside of their corporate offices. The networking solution packages routing, switching, security, wireless, IP telephony, and policy control technology into a centrally managed office-caliber solution that provides highly secure video, voice, data and wireless service.

One of the solution's most major features is its ‘zero-touch’ setup. Automated, pre-configured setup offloads installation responsibilities from employees, most of whom are not qualified or knowledgeable enough to implement networking systems themselves. With the solution's zero-touch setup, businesses can extend their workforces to thousands of locations with the peace of mind that employee error and IT support will be minimal. As a whole, the Cisco Virtual Office consists of the following components:

The Virtual Office solution is available today and starts at $700 per seat.