T-Systems selects GRIC Communications' MobileOffice to provide secure Wi-Fi and dial-up remote access - Business - wireless fidelity - Brief Article

Mobile Internet, The, April, 2003

GRIC Communications announced that T-Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom Group, has selected the GRIC MobileOffice to keep

mobile employees securely connected to the company's corporate network via Wi-Fi and dial-up connectivity.

T-Systems provides innovative customized IT and telecommunications convergence solutions for Fortune 2000 companies. Keeping remote workers productive while also maintaining a secure corporate network is mission-critical for its IT managers. With tight API integration with an existing VPN solution, the GRIC MobileOffice can auto-launch the T-Systems' VPN client, ensuring the VPN activation whenever there is a remote connection to the T-Systems' network. The client also monitors the VPN sessions, and is capable of automatically tearing down the Internet connection if the VPN tunnel is lost. The expanding availability of Wi-Fi hotspots around the globe is placing increasing demands on IT managers to provide their remote and mobile work forces with the best available remote Internet connection, whether it is Wi-Fi, ISDN or dial-up. GRIC Communications' TierOne Network brings together more than 300 top-tier ISPs, WISPs and telecommunications companies in more than 150 countries, giving enterprise road warriors ac cess to over 1,200 broadband access locations and more than 20,000 dial-up Internet access points worldwide.