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“VDI presents a whole new market of become valuable, ofering a private-layer, private
Fopportunity. As we continue to evolve into a IP service with robust management. his makes
mobile society, VDI will help to alleviate the access to products such as VDI and Hosted PBX
fears and struggles of organizations who need reliable, with excellent user experience across a
Join us at the TIA 2015 Conference in Dallas from June 2-4 to see to keep their data secure, yet accessible,” says range of Internet technologies. Connection types
who and what you will connect to on tomorrow’s network.
Ron Hamlet, West Regional Vice President at can include DSL, ADSL, VDSL and Ethernet
RapidScale. “Companies that need to be able to over Cable (EOC), in order to deliver this rich
grow and expand while still keeping the agility experience at a more cost-efective point than TIA 2015 Keynotes
that the cloud ofers will see VDI as an ever- iber or T1 circuits.
increasing need as a business solution.”
Tackling Security Concerns
Generally, are three primary components to the VDI: the virtual desktop/oice system, the Assuming bandwidth is suicient, the next
data connection, and the security elements. All component is the security environment. his is
of these pieces must be in place to support the another area in which next-generation Internet
entire ecosystem that VDI requires, and to deliver products can be of great value. When accessing SUSAN JOHNSON AT&T
BRIAN HIGGINS Verizon
COMMISSIONER MIGNON CLYBURN ROBERT QUINN AT&T
FREDERICK MOOREFIELD, JR. JOSEPH KOPSER RideScout
that rich desktop experience in a secure way, with privacy-sensitive core business apps like CRM FCC
DoD
reliable anytime, anywhere access to all apps and from a remote location such as a home oice,
services.
security best practices generally dictate that
employees must use a Virtual Private Network
VDI and Advanced Applications
(VPN). In today’s BYOD world, attaining VPN
Once a company understands the components connectivity across multiple device types can be RON MARQUARDT Sprint
KATHY GRILLO Verizon
JOE CORVAIA NTT
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL O’RIELLY CHRIS PENROSE AT&T Mobility
TIM NIXON GM/OnStar
and has selected a VDI package, it’s time to diicult when staf use network environments FCC
look at what will be needed in the future. that are not centrally controlled or monitored, The outstanding keynote lineup at TIA 2015 — your Annual Conference on the Network of
Depending on business needs, a deployment of such as residential Internet connections. Internet the Future — ofers a chance to hear about the vision and strategy of industry-leading com- panies as they look to the future of their businesses and yours. The conference will cover
VDI can include components such as Customer services that are managed and private ofer
SDN/NFV, 5G, Data Centers, Connected Car, Internet of Things, Edge Computing, Smart
Relationship Management (CRM) sotware, what is essentially “built-in” VPN functionality, Retail and Mobile Backhaul — as well as the legislative and regulatory developments that
integrated billing systems, marketing platforms opening up avenues for working remotely.
impact all of ICT.
and more. hese applications, which are
Companies of all sizes are now able to deliver Educational Tracks
oten mission-critical, can collectively be very the full, rich desktop experiences their employees Track 1: Next-Generation Mobile Networks: Small Cells/DAS, IoT Networks, LTE, Wi-Fi and 5G
demanding in terms of Internet bandwidth.
are accustomed to, but with the beneits of
Ensuring Reliable Data Connections
layered redundancy, disaster protection, high security and central control.
Track 2: Building New Services and Revenue in a Connected World: Enterprise Transformation, IoT and IIoT, and Uniied Communications and Collaboration
In order to provide reliable applications, Carl Watene, Vice President of Sales and Track 3: Network Infrastructure for a Data-Centric World:: Service Provider
companies must ensure stable data connections Channel Development at Easy Oice Phone, Transformation, Big Data and Virtualization, CDNs, Edge Computing and Energy
and suicient Internet bandwidth. However, the adds, “Virtual desktop infrastructure is Eicient Data Centers
Internet technology to support VDI can oten be becoming a mature technology. he key now
a cost-inhibiting barrier. For most organizations, for forward-thinking companies is adopting the REGISTER FOR EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION BY MAY 5 at www.tia2015.org
in order to ofer secure, reliable service infrastructure that will allow VDI to reach its full
capabilities to host multiple applications, it’s
potential.”
Carriers/Service Providers are ofered a complimentary registration to TIA 2015. Please contact events@tiaonline.org for more details.

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