Many employees in many businesses are now mobile. They are required to work out of the office in order to get their jobs done. This means going to customer sites, traveling to partner offices, even visiting other offices within their company.

For most users, being out of the office typically means that they are less productive. They have inadequate access to key data and applications, and co-workers generally accept that collaboration will be difficult, even if they rely upon a VPN or SSL/HTTPS connection to access data. Mobile workers urgently search for high-quality Internet connections in hotels and in airports in order to correspond and collaborate with project teams, be in contact with customers, and keep business moving. For sales teams, traveling executives, and other mobile workers, reduced connectivity has simply become a cost of doing business: working together longer hours to get the same or less work done than they would inside the office.

Companies wishing to leverage the value of information in the competitive marketplace will need to offer unconstrained access to applications and data for their employees. With our mobile WAN optimization solution, mobile workers can now have the same LAN-like access to the applications and data that employees in the office have. LTI’s mobile solution uses software running on the end-users' machine to communicate with an appliance back at the data center.

By creating an optimized connection, users can reduce considerably the amount of data that they need to send over the WAN, all the while streamlining the inherently chatty nature of transport and application protocols. In the case of Oracle Forms, MAPI, and Lotus Notes, these benefits are applied further to the application layer, layer 7, providing even greater acceleration for Oracle E-Business Suite and Exchange users. The end result is that applications can run 5, 50, or even up to 100 times faster.

For mobile workers, this means that they can be productive again. They can collaborate with co-workers in real time. Design documents, Excel files, even large email attachments can be sent at blazing speeds across the globe. With data moving faster, and applications performing seamlessly, remote workers are no longer "remote".

more information

• Riverbed’s Steelhead Family: Acceleration Applications for the Global Workforce

• Mobile Solution Overview

• Network Performance & Cyber Security Practice Area Overview