Tag Archives: mobility

Making BYOD Work in Difficult Places

By Jason Lackey | Published: February 8, 2012

  Extreme Networks and the Boulder Valley School District The consumerization of IT, device proliferation, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) or whatever you care to call it, is changing IT, both in terms of technical challenges as well as expectations. While the need to support devices and applications unknown to and unblessed by IT is [...]

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Carpe Diem

By David Ginsburg | Published: February 3, 2012

As we’ve seen over the last month, there’s a lot of uncertainty in the networking space.  Will telcos invest, or won’t they?  When does the migration to 10G in the data enter really take off, and how does this impact ASPs?  Is SDN real, or the latest TLA?  Will (pick your favorite country) debt crisis [...]

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Top 10 Thinkers on the Mobile Enterprise

By David Ginsburg | Published: October 25, 2011

Mobility is changing the computing landscape as we know it. The rapid proliferation of mobile devices and the growth of cloud-based and virtual services has defined an entirely new set of networking challenges – from security and policy management, to application performance. If your organization is like most, your IT team is scrambling to prepare [...]

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Snap-on 11n APs can Compensate for Weaker Wi-Fi Radios on Tablets and iPads

By Andrew Peters | Published: September 19, 2011

It is clear that personal devices in the workplace, known as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) are on the rise, with one analyst predicting that up to 1.2 billion of the global workforce will be mobile by 2013, according to IDC.  From a work and education perspective, the most spectacular growth is in tablet computing [...]

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The Mobility Surge in Higher Education

By Andrew Peters | Published: May 26, 2011

The high saturation of mobile devices in the hands of students has caused many institutions of higher learning to rethink their network strategy.  The smart phone, tablet, and iPad have transformed  from social and entertainment ‘toys’ to true learning tools so students can access real information, collaborate, share, and better participate in learning. This is [...]

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Make Your Network Mobile

By Oscar Rodriguez | Published: March 2, 2011
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Mobility has a new definition.  Unlike just two years ago, Mobility is no longer about wireless — it’s about people moving around. Un-tethered does not mean mobile, but connecting and being productive from anywhere –  that is tomorrow’s mobile network! This week Extreme Networks launched our new vision for mobile networks: “Make Your Network Mobile” [...]

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Networks on the Go

By Oscar Rodriguez | Published: February 15, 2011

While sitting in the terminal before my flight on Friday, I took a couple of minutes to download a presentation on my iPad to read on my trip. I see it every day.  Whether it’s the person viewing a video on his iPhone or someone in the grocery store using a more specialized wireless device [...]

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