top 5 ways to optimize your network for byod

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Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your Network for BYOD


Build a flatter, simpler network 1

Simplify with automated provisioning

Unify the wired and wireless network

Flatter is simpler: Legacy architectures dictate multi-tier

networks that are overly complex with unnecessarily high latency.

Legacy multi-tiered networks are an estimated 30% to 40% more expensive than two-tier networks.

Legacy networks do not offer the needed flexibility to make business-level network changes quickly.

A flat network provides a simpler, more scalable design.


2 Deploy an agile solution

Network agility is mandatory: CIOs must build an IT environment that

supports greater business agility, to scale and allocate application resources based on changing business contexts.

What is business-critical today might not be tomorrow; staying competitive requires agility and adaptability to changing environments.

Virtualization technology enables IT departments to build more agile compute, storage and application environments.

For the IT environment to achieve the needed levels of agility, the network must also become more agile.


3 Plan for any point security

Mitigate security risks to enable BYOD: Enabling third-party devices and

applications to access a proprietary network may result in perceived security risks, which may prevent IT departments from implementing a BYOD strategy.

With any-point security and self-provisioning, such as Juniper Networks’ Simply Connected solution, IT can simplify and secure any point on the network with point-and-click provisioning.


4 Simplify with automated provisioning

Keep the network fluid with automated network operations: BYOD, cloud-based applications and mobility are

dynamic in nature, requiring an equally dynamic network.

Manual provisioning of the network and on-going configurations are too slow and error-prone to keep up with IT’s dynamic nature.

ZK Research studies have found that 38% of downtime is due to human error, the single largest cause of downtime.

Network managers need robust tools such as scripts and self-provisioning applications to automate network operations.


5 Unify the wired and wireless network

For BYOD success, wireless networks must look and act more like the wired network: Legacy networks include a high-

performance wired core with a wireless network, typically deployed as an overlay.

Independently managed wired and wireless networks create an inconsistent user experience.

Unified policy, performance and resiliency features are critical to a successful BYOD implementation.


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