Is your company on board?
What got the train rolling?
A trip on the tablet express makessome great stops:
Mobile devices, led by tablets, are quickly becoming the platform of choice in the enterprise. Use them to free employees to work
remotely and at multiple o�ce sites.
SIP Trunking Helps Engineer Enterprise Mobility SIP de-couples the constraints of physical location from
communications and lets users employ the method that's most appropriate for their current device and location, whether
roaming the hallways or riding the rails. Managing employee telephone numbers across multiple sites is also greatly simplified.
Tablets, which couple the advantages of a smartphone and PC. The iPad brought people on board: In just two years, Apple sold 67 million iPads.
Time it took other Apple products to sell 67 million units
67
24 years5 years3 years
Million
iPhone iPod Mac
Then enterprise users bought theirticket. Tablets shipped to enterprises:
• In 2011: 13.6 million tablets
• By 2016: 96.3 million
2016
96.3millions
2011
13.6millions
tablets (estimated)
Business adoption of tablets is picking up steam. It will account for 18 percent of all tablets in use by 2017. And it's not just iPads anymore. In early 2013 Forrester asked 600 workers which device they used as their primary work tablet:
iPad AndroidKindle
Fire Window 7
Window 8 Window RTBlackBerryPlaybook
52% 25% 9% 5%
4% 2% 1%
Greateremployee
productivity
Streamlinedinternal
processes
Reducedcosts to serve
customers
Security concerns have the potential to derail your enterprise mobility journey:Security concerns have the potential to derail your enterprise mobility journey:
of IT pros express a strong concern for sharingcontent via mobile devices90%limit or control the sites and folders mobile userscan access91%of large organizations have a mobile devicemanagement solution in place51%
of organizations o�er a corporate app store14%
of organizations lack an o�cial mobile access policy21%
sanction the use of consumer-grade cloud services15%report employees are using consumer-grade cloudservices anyway58%
Those concerns are not unfounded:
Two-thirds of employees at companies with more than 1,000 employees use a mobile phone for both work and personal use.
25% do not think that data security is their responsibility and that they should face no punishment if they lose sensitive corporate data on their mobile phones.
25% did not know their company's procedure for dealing with loss or theft of work devices.
SIP Trunking from Level 3 also delivers:
A less expensive ticket to ride:
Reduces voice costs by an average of 30%
Built-in enterprise-class E911 and business continuity/disaster recovery
Compatible with legacy TDM-enabled PBXs – no additional equipment required
Reduces over-subscriptions
Geo-independent telephone numbers simplify management
A less expensive ticket to ride:
Complete security from edgeto core
E-911 service for employeesis built in
Easier Connections:
Combines the data and voice on one network toreduce complexity
Lays the foundation for unifiedcommunications and collaboration
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