Driving Unified Mobility

Telecommuting Increase Hits Close to Home In the U.S., one in six employees works from home at least once a week.* 81% of hiring managers now have policies that allow employees to work remotely.** Ten percent of all UK households accommodate at least one person who works regularly from home.*** 36% of telecommuting customer service agents say gas prices have driven their decision to work at home.**** ................................................ iPass Virtual Office: •Automates preferred network   connections •Provides mobile and fixed broadband •Supports the latest Wi-Fi security -   WPA2 •Offers a seamless connection   experience ................................................

iPass recently achieved an important milestone, launching two new services that integrate connectivity and device protection across office, home and mobile environments. The resulting unified mobility solution means iPass customers now have a simple, practical way to manage across all their remote and mobile connections and devices. These customers can protect corporate data, contain costs and keep users productive- all through a single expert partner.

"iPass has spent the past several years transforming itself from a global dial-up remote access leader into a strategic mobility platform for the enterprise," explains Joel Wachtler, vice president of strategy for iPass. "Customers have been demanding a more comprehensive approach to their remote and mobile workforce. Through a sustained investment in technology development complemented by several strategic acquisitions, we have created the ultimate toolkit for taking advantage of mobile connectivity."

Fueling Productivity in the Virtual Office
Whether motivated by convenience or necessity, today's business users work wherever and whenever it makes sense. They enjoy having a "virtual office" where they can be as productive as on the corporate premises. This is critical for companies to realize the value remote and mobile computing can play in improving workforce productivity, corporate responsiveness, employee satisfaction and business continuity in the face of disaster. However, as the diversity of wired and wireless broadband options for these workers increases, so does the complexity of accessing, managing and securing these myriad connections.

iPass Virtual Office, a new iPass service, addresses this challenge by unifying connections from home, the office or on the road into a single user and management experience. Using the iPassConnect™ universal client, remote and mobile workers have a single connection process regardless of where or how they connect. This process streamlines user login to Windows, local network access and the corporate VPN if needed. It also automatically implements appropriate login procedures based on the enterprise's specific policies for that user, location and network type.

This new service brings users of home broadband, home wireless and corporate Wi-Fi LANs into the unified solution. Teleworkers receive an end-to-end managed service, with iPass providing the fixed broadband access, a secure, preconfigured Wi-Fi gateway and an appropriately configured iPassConnect. universal client.

When in the corporate offices, these users can securely connect to their company's wireless LAN with the same ease as they do at home. And when moving across town or across continents, they use the same interface and credentials to receive ubiquitous broadband access via the iPass global virtual network. Today this network includes 3G in multiple countries as well as Wi-Fi in over 62,000 airports, hotels, cafés and retail locations worldwide.

* Reuters
** Yoh Services Human Resource Manager Survey, June, 2006
*** Point Topic BroadBand User Service Research, February 2006
**** LiveOps 2006 Call Center Agent Survey