The office of tomorrow will be ever-present and everywhere, thanks to IP networking

The Internet Protocol (IP) will link all IT and communications systems into one complete solution,which will allow ID-protected access to a person’s workstation from anywhere in the world, independent of hardware and software.

At home, in the office, on the road, at the airport, in the hotel or in the conference room: the workplace of tomorrow is everywhere. You won’t, however, have to carry your laptop around with you; in the future there will be terminals (PCs) everywhere which can be used for work. Personal settings on your PC will be a thing of the past. In the future, personal identification is all that will be required to gain access to all your data. It will be possible to interconnect all telephones, mobiles, PCs and portable terminals completely using IP networking, making it possible for employees to call up, edit and send information securely wherever they are in the world. Once they register with a personal identification on the workstation system, their entire personal profile is loaded. This can also include, for example, adjusting even the seating and the room temperature to the individual’s preferences. The telephone takes on the employee’s own extension number. Conversations can be started using Unified Messaging by just clicking on a name from any Office application. The system indicates when and via what channel of communication the desired discussion partner will next be available. If required, it is even possible to continue on a mobile a conversation started on a landline.

Every employee can make personal settings automatically anywhere in the world – in his home office, in another office of the same company or in a hotel that offers business travelers this service. Using a USB key that contains the entire content of the workstation, he can for example readily access all company data via a computer in the conference room and, regardless of time and space, work as if he were in his own office. During his absence, the system will even switch into wait mode, and that includes the temperature and electricity.

In the hotel of the future, the business traveler can either relax in front of his favorite TV program, continue watching a film from the previous day through Video on Demand or look up the regional leisure time facilities on the info channel. If he wants to do some more work on the presentation for the next day, he can, with his USB key, use any hotel PC to gain access to his personal workstation with all of his own settings. The next day after breakfast, he can meet up with his Japanese colleagues, live by video conferencing. Together they can continue working on the document that he saved last on the company server the previous evening.

At the T-Systems stand, visitors to CeBIT can experience the flexible working environments of the future. Today. Live.