WLAN deployment will support more than BYOD

Carel Dulos
Mark Espanola
Kenn Sakakibara

Companies will need help to figure out how to create a wireless local area network (WLAN) that supports guest users, employees with their own devices who need access to critical company assets, employees with corporate-owned devices, legacy devices and voice over WLAN (VoWLAN). The access decision will require more than user credentials and fingerprinting the device.

Other criteria – location, business policies, applications, usage, data and other users – need to be part of the equation. Suppliers will respond with the basic bring-your-own-device (BYOD) story about iPhones and Android, but that is just the beginning. Future systems will focus on the user, user experience and empowering the business units.