Innovative Broadband Services Changing the way we compute:

Virtual-Office : Business from anywhere

Nikolaos Desypris, Chief Executive Officer

BROnet Hellas S.A.

About

BROnet Hellas S.A. is a broadband services provider

Currently develops and offers:

BROnet Virtual Office: Utility computing – access your computer from anywhere

BROnet e-BU: the intuitive Remote Backup/DR service

BROnet Digital Signage: new age advertising and promotion service

Services are offered through broadband internet connection to corporate customers, SMEs and professionals.

ΒROnet has been partly funded by Operational Programme ‘Information Society’ (ΚτΠ) ‘development of broadband services in the Regional Areas of Greece’

The Virtual Office (VO) Service

UsersEmployees of Company A

BROnet, provider of VO Service

Customer (Company A),

subscribed to VO service

InternetInternet

VO Terminals

How Virtual Office works

UserEmployee ofCompany A

Virtual Office Terminal• any pc• thin client• mobile appliance

Internet

Running Remote Desktop Application

Entering name & password

Login to the virtual machine

Full virtual computing environment with corresponding applications

Basic Model of VO Service

Outsourcing company’s IT infrastructure by using scalable technology based on Virtualization, hosted in a data center.

Keywords: Outsourcing & Scalable Technology

Outsourcing

Whole infrastructure out of the company (PCs, Servers, Applications)

Immediate employment of a new Virtual Machine (workstation) tailored to the employer’s needs (OS, applications)

No need for operating system upgrades

No need for buying & replacing PCs

No hardware crashes and no lost data (if back up service option is in use).

Service benefits

Complete Office IT functionality

Accessible from any place

Available all the time

Local Office network speeds

Cost savings

Centralised administration

Service benefits

Security

Enterprise class performance

Protection from outages

Flexibility

High level support

Scalability

Scalable Technology

Server Virtualization

Anatomy of a Virtual Machine

Data Center Virtualization

Server Virtualization

Physical Server

Virtual Machines

ESX Server

Deploy multiple virtual machines on a single physical server

BenefitsIncrease hardware utilization by sharing hardware resources across a large number of virtual machines.

Anatomy of a Virtual Machine

(X86) Physical Server

ESX Server

Virtual MachinesUnmodified Application

Unmodified OS

Virtual Hardware

Each Virtual Machine is a complete system encapsulated in a set of software files

Data Center Virtualization

Server

Virtual Machines

ESX Server

Server Farm

ESX Server

ESX Server

ESX Server

ESX Server

ESX Server

ESX Server

Virtual Machines

Enterprise Virtualization

VMware Infrastructure

ESX Server

Network

Storage

Why using the Virtual Office Service

Fast ROI by eliminating the need for purchasing and maintaining local IT infrastructure.

No need for expensive IT skills.

Reduction in help desk costs (for large enterprises).

Affordable solution, small monthly fee (for SMEs, individual users).

Ensuring continuous availability and accessibility and protection of the Workstations and Servers.

Workstations and Servers are accessible from anywhere, in the user-friendliest manner.

The Virtual Office Service

Service Name: Virtual Office

Service supplier: BRONET Hellas S.A.

Potential Users:Small/medium companies wanting to outsource (all or

part of) their IT infrastructure and applications.Employees of a company (especially mobile and

remote workers).Enterprises wanting to outsource IT services

(indicatively call/support centres services, specialised IT applications)

Scheduled events (trade shows, exhibitions, conferences).

Service Description

The Virtual Office (VO) service:

Facilitates a complete office IT infrastructure, that is accessible from any location at any time.

Allows users to connect with their own dedicated Virtual Workstation and operate exactly as if it was physically located in their premises.

Features full IT functionality at local office network speeds.

VO Services offered

The following services (or combinations of services) can be offered:

Virtual Workstation / Server hosting

Virtual Workstation administration outsourcing

Virtual Server administration outsourcing

Virtual Server applications administration outsourcing

SLA are possible (under conditions).

VO Workstations and Servers

VO Workstations are the 24x7 from anywhere available Workstations that allow remote users connect to them using a thin client, pc, laptop or mobile device through an RDP client, over a broadband line. Once logged in their Virtual Workstation, the remote users may execute their daily IT tasks using the applications and files stored in the Virtual Workstation, and the services provided by the other Virtual Servers in this Virtual Office.

VO Servers are Virtual Servers inside the Virtual Office that provided services to the Virtual Workstations. Such services may be: e-mail, file sharing, CRM, etc.

What next?

Service on trial period from Sept. to Dec. 2008.

We are looking for

Providers,

Companies,

Users.

who would like to try and asses the technology for their needs.

Full commercial launch from the beginning of 2009.

BROnet Digital Signage Service

Service Name: BROnet Digital Signage

Service supplier: BROnet Hellas S.A.

Potential Users: Companies / organizations that will benefit from continuous presentation of digital content

(advertisements and promotions) rather than only rely on static advs, billboards and printed material

prefer to buy the service instead of investing significant resources to establish internally DS provision (i.e. buying equipment, software, hiring technical staff to run it etc)

Bronet Digital Signage

The Digital Signage Service allows the management and presentation of static & dynamic information, pictures, sound and video on large digital display screens.

The user of the service will be presenting his/her own ‘programme’ (potentially different for each presentation point) to the public/viewers at locations where there is broadband connection to the internet.

Offered under the SaaS concept (S/w As A Service)

The e-BU (remote backup) Service

Service Name: e-backup ; remote backup

Service supplier: BRONET Hellas S.A.

Use:

by company workers (especially mobile and remote

workers)

by individuals wanting to backup safely their data

for automatic backup and restoration service for data

residing on Company servers

Service description

e-BU safeguards the large amounts of business-critical data residing on mobile devices, remote PCs, and network desktop systems.

Backups are initiated without user intervention and enable users to recover a single file or perform a complete system recovery using a simple "Do-It-Yourself" process.

e-BU solution consists of three main service elements:

e-BU servers

e-BU console

e-BU client

Acknowledgement

The project has been partially supported by the Operational Programme ‘Information Society’ of the 3rd Community Support Framework (CSF).

The 3rd CSF is co-funded at 70% by the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRD) and at 30% by national funds.

Thank you!

Nikolaos Desypris, Chief Executive Officer

BROnet Hellas S.A.

info@bronet.gr, www.bronet.gr