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Service Aware Networks for Apple Devices and BYOD March 05, 2012 Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the consumerization of IT may be overused as market terms, but they are unquestionably trends that are changing network architectures and mobile device manaement in almost every enterprise. In a recent survey by Dimensional Research of 750 front-line IT professionals, managers, and executives, 87 percent say that today their employees already use personal devices for work-related activities. These results are verified by more and more surveys across different verticals everyday. These devices, 80 percnet of which are identified as smart mobile devices, are simplified for ease of use and therefore enhance employee productivity. However, for the IT department, it means a shift in network intelligence and capability out of the device and puts more onus onto the network infrastructure.
The shift of network intelligence from the device to the network to faciliate BYOD presents many challenges but one of the key attirbutes of a network that helps makes BYOD and the consumerization of IT is the ability to create “Zero-Configuration Networking” available to large organizations and enterprises so that consumer devices work on the enterprise network with no end user expertise. In order to fully realize this concept the network infrastructure must become “service-aware” and simply provide service availability seamlessly across the network and control access to those services based on a users’ context – identity, location, application, and device in use. In a service-aware network, an authorized user should instantly see services available to them such as printers, video projection, and collaboration applications, without configuring their smart mobile device. This is the ultimate achievement in the attempt to make BYOD not just manageable as an IT initiative, but desirable as it makes the BYOD user both less expensive from a capital expenditure (as the employee has purchased the device) and from an operational expense as policy and service availability is set by user context and automatically connected to the end device... Read More
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