Enabling reliable, secure and optimized access to an increasingly mobile (and global) workforce is the latest—and perhaps greatest—new challenge to IT.

One solution is to deploy, maintain and manage a variety of software clients—often from different vendors. This leaves users with a highly technical network to navigate, filled with varying degrees of security jargon. It’s an approach that not only increases IT and support costs, but is also a hassle for the mobile users who have to deal with a plethora of clients, all serving different needs.

The IT world definitely needs a better way. Today’s mobile workforce expects LAN-like access to all their favorite applications and data, around the clock and around the globe. That access needs to be seamless and transparent, so users can focus on being productive. The old way of providing questionably secure, fast connections through a complex and costly maze of applications and quick-fixes can no longer keep up.

That’s what makes Junos Pulse such a powerful addition to the expanded Junos software platform.

Junos Pulse is the dynamic, integrated multi-service network client for secure, accelerated network access. With one client for all endpoint users, you can say goodbye to the headache and expense of configuring and maintaining separate network access and acceleration clients on various endpoint devices.

Regardless of location or device, Junos Pulse enables access to corporate networks, enterprise applications and data. A user can turn on their laptop at home (or anywhere else in the world for that matter) and access the network, then close their laptop and head to the office. When the user arrives they can access the network without any intervention, and not need to change a thing. It’s seamless.

That’s because the software automatically gives users the access privileges they are authorized for. Before users connect, it enforces endpoint security and checks the device for nasty stuff like spyware. And because Junos Pulse hides its security complexity in favor of the user experience, the user never needs to know what happened.

Like all Juniper solutions, Junos Pulse is simple, smart and open. Simple, because there’s no user interaction required—the user is connected without having to deal with different network clients. Smart, because it is identity-enabled and location-aware and adjusts on the fly—work sessions and access methods migrate intelligently as users change locations. And open, because Junos Pulse is based on open industry standards like Trusted Network Connect (TNC) specifications, and it integrates select third-party vendor security and network applications.

The new network is here. And it’s accessed by Junos Pulse.