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Mobile VoIP: The smart choice of enterprises

Mobile Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has ominously transformed the business ecosphere. Nowadays, with the advent of mobile VoIP, business owners and their employees are no longer tied to the office desks for the communication. The VoIP phone systems and apps have provided ease...

Wi-Fi, IoT, and BYOD: Securing complex environments (Reality Check)

Going forward, almost every electronic device in your house, or in your work environment, is going to be connected to the network or internet and sending data of one kind or another back to its manufacturer. For example, if you walk into a conference...

Aerohive A3 aims to enable security, onboarding for connected devices

Aerohive Networks introduce new hybrid cloud-access management solution Aerohive Networks recently premiered a hybrid cloud-access management solution, dubbed Aerohive A3, slated to be released the second quarter of this year. The purpose of Aerohive A3, according to the company, is to bring onboarding, security, management and...

Telecom providers hold largest SDN orchestration market share, says report

New report highlights SDN orchestration market growth A new report published by MarketsandMarkets projects the software-defined networking (SDN) orchestration market to swell from $214.7 million in 2017 to $4,458.5 million by 2022, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 83.4%. Key vendors profiled included...

Analyst Angle: The Case for Cloud Wi-Fi

  As the modern workforce has become more mobile, businesses of all sizes and shapes have started to rely more and more on WLAN networks, with many questioning whether the traditional Ethernet connection is still relevant. These all wireless offices are more agile to change...

Sprint in deal with Movius to offer cloud-based second number for enterprise

The partnership with Movius is set to support plans for Sprint to offer a cloud-based second line for enterprise customers beginning this year. Sprint continued its push into the lucrative enterprise market scoring a deal with Movius to offer a cloud-based second...

Analyst Angle: How enterprises can manage CYOD

Enterprises have seen their IT strategies transform from managing BYOD to overseeing CYOD, which then calls for MDM, MCM, MAM and EMM For many years, “bring-your-own-device” strategies have been popular in enterprises. This came about because users wanted to bring their own personal mobile devices...

Reader Forum: 6 tips to safely decommission your BYO device

MaaS360 by IBM provides 6 tips for the decommission of bring-your-own-devices in the enterprise In the world of bring-your-own-device policies, users may run through multiple devices per year – a departure from the typical 18-month or two-year upgrade for the general population. As BYOD grows,...

2016 Predictions: The year of BYOD management

Cass sees increased BYOD adoption in 2016, bolstered by more robust management platforms Editor’s Note: With 2016 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year. Cass recently completed its...

AT&T BYOD strategy updated with new data plan option

AT&T BYOD move allows enterprises to purchase data for employees Looking to tap into the growing “bring-your-own-device” move at enterprises, AT&T Mobility launched its Work Data Rate Plans that allow enterprises to add data to an employee’s personal account. AT&T said the option also allows for...

Reader Forum: 5 reasons to switch from GPS handhelds to BYOD, GPS/GIS apps

You’re running late, you’re lost, you need directions. Today, all you need is your smartphone to get you where you want to go, not a dedicated GPS device. Take a look around and you'll notice professional surveyors who used to rely on clunky GPS...

Analyst Angle: Security in the age of BYOx

In the face of unstoppable corporate and consumer adoption of mobile devices, security and privacy implications of cloud and mobile are a deepening concern for many security professionals. Most organizations are just beginning to adopt and integrate "bring-your-own-device" policies, putting them several steps behind...

Ixia White Paper: BYOD Mitigation Starts in the WLAN: Evolving Best Practices for Validating APs and Controllers

BYOD: Evolving Best Practices for Validating APs and Controllers This white paper takes a timely look at the mobile “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) phenomenon and what wireless LAN (WLAN) manufacturers and administrators are doing to mitigate its impact on application performance. Includes insights into...

Reader Forum: The role of mobility in creating a smarter field workforce

As field-based work becomes increasingly complex and time-sensitive, more businesses are focusing on mobile solutions integrated with back-end field-service solutions to help manage field operations and provide their mobile workforces with the real-time knowledge to make better, more intelligent decisions in the field. Recent research...

2015 Predictions: The next evolution for enterprise mobility

The trend in the enterprise world to a “bring-your-own-device” environment has reached a tipping point. Up until now, company-owned devices have represented the majority of enterprise mobility, but that will change in 2015. It is safe to assume that there will be far more...

AT&T DevSum: AT&T touts WebRTC support; IoT, BYOD enhancements

LAS VEGAS – AT&T continued its tradition of hosting a developers conference the day before the official start of the annual CES event, at which it announced a number of new initiatives, including support for Web Real-Time Communications and new ecosystem partnerships. AT&T claims that...

Reader Forum: 6 rules for BYOD success

Editor’s Note: In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this Reader Forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible, but we maintain some editorial control...

Reader Forum: Is BYOD the future or the past?

Editor’s Note: In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this Reader Forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible, but we maintain some editorial control...

5 questions: choosing an enterprise MMS provider

With enterprises constantly looking for ways to manage operational expenses, costs related to ever-increasing dependence on mobile services have come under greater scrutiny. One model for enterprises to get a handle on these expenses is through the use of managed mobility services, which can...

Top 5 ‘success factors’ for a smooth enterprise mobile rollout

Enterprises continue to struggle with mobilizing their workforce, specifically with how to handle the distribution of mobile devices. The battle is typically between company-provided devices or allowing employees to bring their own device into the corporation through a “bring-your-own-device” model. A number of companies have...

Survey: Government mobility readiness limited but growing

David Smith, director of state and local government for Citrix, spoke with RCR's Kelly Hill about the recent Mobile Work Exchange report commissioned by the company examining trends in government mobility readiness. Mobile Work Exchange is a public-private partnership that focuses on mobility in the government...

Big data & Analytics: Mojave assesses app risks for BYOD

--Mojave Networks, which provides enterprises with cloud-based mobile security, has introduced a new "application reputation" feature to allow employers to track and analyze the data that mobile applications collect, store and transmit in order to assess risks in BYOD settings. The average mobile device has about 200...

State of the Network: SDN emerging, BYOD widely deployed

More than 1 in 5 IT professionals expect to deploy software-defined networking this year, and about one-third are expecting deployments by 2015, according to the seventh annual State of the Network report from Network Instruments. The report says that there is "a strategic shift in how...

Verizon Wireless looks to tempt BYOD crowd

Verizon Wireless continued to dabble in rate plan alterations, this week announcing plans to allow customers to bring their own smartphone to the carrier’s More Everything rate plans at a reduced per-line rate. The carrier said that beginning April 17, customers could bring their own...