Fiberlink Launches Mobility as a Service Platform

Cloud-Based Platform and Portal Expands Reach and Lowers Cost of Mobile Operations Management

BLUE BELL, Pa., October 16, 2008 – Fiberlink Communications today announced the general availability of MaaS360™, a cloud-based platform and portal for mobile operations management. MaaS360 provides enterprises with a single platform to cost-effectively manage all the elements of its growing mobile operations regardless of where the users, devices, or data are located or connected. This solution is critical in today’s mobile work environment and will become increasingly so.  According to IDC, by 2010 over 70 percent of employees will be considered mobile.

“Enterprises have been trying to manage their mobile users and devices with traditional corporate network tools, using traditional user models, such as the road warrior and task worker designations,” said Christopher Clark, chief operating officer of Fiberlink. “But employees today are themselves defining a new computing model where they expect to be able to do their jobs regardless of where they are, which happens more and more to be outside the corporate network. Enterprises are facing the need to evolve from a local area network-based mindset to providing a secure mobility cloud in which applications, data, and support are available to users at all times.”

MaaS360 allows enterprises to make mobility the new base case for systems management and security. MaaS360 does this by moving the IT management and control point out from behind the corporate firewall and extending the perimeter across the Internet where the majority of users are today. Furthermore, this Software as a Service (SaaS) approach lowers cost by eliminating upfront capital investments and on-going maintenance costs of mobile infrastructure and speeds time-to-value by turning complex mobile deployments into cloud provided services.

“The initial phase of SaaS solutions was targeted at improving the delivery of business applications, such as sales force automation. What we are seeing now is the as-a-service approach can ease the burden of selecting, deploying and maintaining IT management platforms,” said Jeffrey M. Kaplan, managing director, THINKstrategies, Inc. and founder of the Software as a Service Showplace. “We believe that Mobility as a Service solutions will permit IT managers to more cost-effectively deploy and administer all forms of mobile communications, applications, and data throughout the Internet.”

MaaS360 delivers and integrates the required suite of mobile infrastructure applications, such as access controls and data encryption, with consolidated management workflow and reporting. In doing so, MaaS360 helps businesses more quickly embrace mobility, and the significant end-user benefits of mobility, by increasing the productivity of mobile operations with a utility that is worker-based and simple to support proactively.

“The privacy of our clients’ information is imperative. At the same time, mobility is an essential part of our strategy and helps us increase productivity and achieve our goals,” said Donn Lassila, vice president, chief information officer for Davidson Companies. “To tackle the challenge of maintaining mobility while also ensuring that information is secure, we turned to the experts at Fiberlink who helped us protect information on and off the network. Fiberlink’s services allow us to continuously inspect, monitor and manage critical security services on all of our computers, while we mobilize a portion of our staff. Further, MaaS360 offers visibility into our computing environment and allows us to generate connectivity and security reports that improve compliance.”

Key Features of MaaS360:

• Manages mobile users and devices, such as laptops and USB drives, from a single management platform

• Integrates mobile infrastructure applications from dozens of vendors, such as data encryption and strong authentication, into a single management platform

• Provides an extensible and correlated data model to snap in additional management and workflow modules for specific mobile operations, such as wireless connectivity management and data security

• Automates software configuration and deployment to mobile devices

• Enforces authentication and access control of users and devices on any network

• Simplifies policy management with real-time policy distribution and automated remediation

• Requires no infrastructure investment or ongoing maintenance as an Internet-based platform and portal

Additionally, today, Fiberlink announced that it helps Davidson Companies Secure and Mobilize Its Workforce. To review this announcement, please visit www.fiberlink.com.

MaaS360 is available immediately. For additional information, please contact Fiberlink at 1-800-LINK-NOW.

To learn more about Mobility as a Service, please visit http://www.fiberlink.com/fiberlink/en-US/products/mobilityAsAService/

About Fiberlink
Fiberlink is a leading provider of Mobility as a Service to companies worldwide. Fiberlink’s products allow a business to cost-effectively manage all the elements of its growing mobile operations regardless of where the users, devices, or data are located or connected. Market research firm Current Analysis recognizes Fiberlink for its leadership in delivering secure mobile workforce solutions. Fiberlink is the trusted mobility platform for companies such as Continental Airlines, Grant Thornton and McKee Foods. Additional information about Fiberlink is available at www.fiberlink.com.

Susan Sutton  
Fiberlink     
ssutton@fiberlink.com     
(215) 664-1753

Allison Watters
Edelman on behalf of Fiberlink
allison.watters@edelman.com
(212) 819-4844

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