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Route1 Announces Participation in Pandemic Preparedness Conference at the National Press Club
Route1 Announces Participation in Pandemic Preparedness Conference at the National Press Club.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\nWASHINGTON, DC and TORONTO, ON, Dec. 7 /CNW/ - Route1(TM) (TSX-V:ROI), an\ninnovator in secure, mobile thin-clients, today announced its participation in\na press conference addressing private and public sector preparedness for\npandemics and other business interruptions. The event, keynoted by former\nVirginia Governor James Gilmore, Chairman of the National Council on Readiness\nand Preparedness (NCORP), will be held 12:00 pm, December 8, 2005 at the\nNational Press Club in Washington, DC. The event is an initiative of the The\nTelework Coalition and The Association of Contingency Planners.\nRoute1 CEO, Andrew White, will discuss his Company's experience with the\nSARS epidemic and its SAFE (Simplified Access for Emergency) Response business\ncontinuity solution which is designed to mitigate the impact of workforce\ndisruptions resulting from quarantines and concerns over safe travel. SAFE\nResponse is built around Route1's thin-client innovation, the MobiKEY, a USB\ndevice which allows users to easily and safely 'telecommute' with their\ncritical office systems.\n\"Faced with disruption, an organization's ability to continue normal\noperations is key to preventing financial hardship and even bankruptcy,\" said\nAndrew White, Route1 CEO. \"Effective crisis event management today is about\nconnecting people to information and no longer just about recovering servers.\nOur SAFE Response solution gives employees the ability to access the same\ninformation, services, tools, no matter where or when they work, with no\ntraining and in a cost-effective manner.\"\nWith SAFE Response, users remotely access and control their desktop\napplications which look, act and behave exactly as they do when they are at\ntheir desk in the office. There are no complicated VPN set ups, security\ntokens, or unfamiliar 'webified' applications to struggle with. Users simply\nplug MobiKEY into the USB port of their home computers and 30 seconds later\nthey are running their office desktop.\n\"Teleworking is a very viable option for most organizations coping with\nemployees who are sick, threats of a pandemic, severe weather conditions, acts\nof terrorism, and even traffic problems,\" said Chuck Wilsker, President and\nCEO, The Telework Coalition. \"With a technology such as Route1's SAFE Response\nsolution employees can work from anywhere at any...