Mobile Management: In Support of the Mobile Workforce
As part of the Open Group’s Integrated Information
Infrastructure Conference
Thursday, 24 January 2002
Hilton Hotel, Anaheim, California
Presented by the Open Group’s Mobile Management Forum
On Thursday January, 24, 2002, the Mobile Management Forum (MMF) is
convening an “Open Session” with key technology companies and end user
organizations to discuss how emerging mobile and wireless technologies and
specific business applications support the requirements of the Mobile
Workforce.
Hear about the latest thinking on Wireless Network Management, Session
Management and Authentication and Authorization technologies and meet with
other professionals from the leading vendor and end-user organizations
grappling with the challenges of deploying mobile and wireless solutions
in support of the mobile workforce.
Topics that will be covered
- The role of mobile management in support of the mobile worker:
- Requirements:
- Roaming across Wireless LANs, MAN, and Wireless WANs
- Session Persistence and Recovery of Critical Applications
- Remote Management and Provisioning of Services/Applications
- Authentication and Authorization Challenges
- Network Applications in support of the Directory Enabled
Enterprise
- Possible solutions and how far they go:
- Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
- Directory-Enabled Networks (DEN)
- Network Intelligence Approach
- Business scenario for The Executive on the Move
- Your feedback, in a Q&A panel closing session
The Mobile Management Problem
The accelerating adoption of Wireless LAN technology based on the
802.11 family of standards has opened up new opportunities to mobilize the
work force. However, providing such support is not simply a question of
ensuring that a network connection is always available. Traditional
network and information infrastructure have depended on the fact that the
user and their location are known based on their static IP address.
Effective IT support to mobile workers most be provided whether the
users is located: at various locations within a corporate campus, at an
airport, a customer/partner’s office, or a different corporate campus.
This raises a number issues relating to continuous connectivity, session
persistence and security within an architecture that is transparent to
network applications when used over a WLAN.
The MMF’s Session Management Working Group has identified a number of
requirements for the integration of Personal Area Networks (PANs), Local
Area Networks (LANs), Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), and Wide Area
Networks (WANs) infrastructures. One high-level requirement is the ability
to seamlessly transfer connections and information about the sessions
between the PANs, LANs, MANs, and WANs. Among the issues that have to be
defined are network middleware, session recovery, management, performance,
bearer roaming, and security
The MMF’s Authentication, Authorization, & Accounting Working
Group is chartered to address identity management for the purposes of
ensuring appropriate use, access, and accountability in a mobile context.
It also will address settlement issues as multiple service providers come
available.
Terminal profiles are as significant as user profiles to ensure that
information is appropriately presented. Roaming also creates challenges
for network and applications management to ensure that information flow
appropriately transitions to the next server when the terminal changes
location. These are some of the challenges to be taken up by the The Open
Group’s Joint Mobile and Directory (MaD) Working Group.
No one single company has been able to deliver on all of the needs of
the mobile work force. Our Open Session aims to build on customer
requirements that have been identified to date and gather additional input
from key end users organizations, and set the framework for further
efforts among the participants.
Who We Are
The Open Group is a vendor-neutral, international, member-driven
standards organization. We focus our efforts on the development of open
systems software solutions that enable enterprise integration, and test
and certification operations that prove products deliver it.
The Mobile Management Forum seeks to accelerate
the deployment of wireless applications and devices into the enterprise
environment by bringing together vendors and corporate/government buyers
to ensure delivered solutions meet customer requirements
For more information, please see http://www.opengroup.org/mobile/
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