Comcast Business announced new Ethernet @Home service targeting enterprises in the U.S. that assist organizations to offer remote connectivity to employees.
The American communications service provider will be targeting enterprises such as financial and healthcare institutions.
Delivered over Comcast’s hybrid-fiber coax network, Comcast’s Ethernet @Home service allows enterprises such as financial and healthcare institutions to extend private links to their corporate networks to doctors, professors and analysts who work from home.
“A key role of healthcare IT is to ensure that clinicians have uninterrupted access to images, EMRs and other information to care for patients when and where needed,” said Jayashree Raman, vice president and chief information officer for Cooper University Health Care.
“Comcast’s Ethernet @Home gives our radiologists the ability to quickly and securely review images and patient files from their homes over Cooper’s private network, letting them provide the best care for their patients in a timely manner,” Raman added.
Comcast said Ethernet @Home offers short installation intervals with low construction costs and efficient integration with fiber-based end points of a customer’s existing Comcast Business Ethernet service.
Comcast has cited two telecom analysis report to support its growth strategies.
Global Workplace Analytics says nearly 50 percent of the U.S. workforce holds a job that is compatible with at least part-time work from home.
Telework Research Network report said that full-time teleworkers are expected to increase to nearly five million by 2016, an increase of almost 70 percent.
“Business are spending too much time addressing connectivity issues due to a poor user experience or log-in errors with their VPNs or remote desktop services over the public Internet, resulting in frustrated and unproductive employees working from home,” said Scott Cassell, senior director, Enterprise Data & IP, Comcast Business.
