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Route1 Announces SAFE RESPONSE Solution to Prevent Workforce Disruptions from Pending Bird Flu & Other Causes
Route1 Announces SAFE RESPONSE Solution to Prevent Workforce Disruptions from Pending Bird Flu & Other Causes.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\nBusiness continuity offering designed to lessen impact by worker\nquarantines and concerns over safe travel\n\nNEW YORK and TORONTO, Nov. 23 /CNW/ - The tragedy of 9-11, the SARS scare\nof Spring 2003, the hurricanes of 2005, and a pending avian flu pandemic have\nbrought increased focus to the evolving issues of disaster preparedness,\nrecovery and business continuity. Sadly, in an ever-demanding IT world, real\nsolutions to these problems remain for most a wish list item due to budget\nconstraints. While many companies of size have full redundancy for their data\ncenters, few have full access solutions in place for their employees. The\nreality for an alarming number of companies is that they would be better\nequipped to manage the absence of their real estate then their human\nresources. Today, Route1(TM) (TSX-V:ROI), an innovator in mobile thin-clients,\nannounced the SAFE RESPONSE solution for proportional business continuity to\nlessen impact by worker quarantines and other disruptions stemming from \nman-made and natural causes.\n\"Route1's SAFE RESPONSE is not only the result of our personal\nexperiences with the SARS outbreak but also growing business and government\nconcerns about spread of the current H5N1 virus,\" said Andrew White, CEO\nRoute1. \"We don't want to sound alarmist, but what do organizations do when\ntheir critical workforces have to be quarantined or can't access the workplace\ndue to safe travel concerns? SAFE RESPONSE is a viable remedy now for any size\nof organization.\"\nRoute1's SAFE RESPONSE solution is built on the Company's latest\ninnovation, the MobiKEY, the world's first USB thin-client for instant, secure\nremote computing. With MobiKEY, users remotely access and control their\ndesktop applications which look, act and behave exactly as they do when they\nare at their desk in the office. There are no complicated VPN set ups, tokens,\nor unfamiliar webified applications to struggle with. Users simply plug\nMobiKEY into the USB port of their home computers and 30 seconds later they\nare running their office desktop.\nSAFE RESPONSE is a proportional business continuance offering which\nensures user acceptance and consistency of experience, provides a predictable\ndeployment and flexibility for a phased to full roll-out capability. Route1\nhas teamed up with MobiAlliance Channel Partn...