BYOD Turns Up the Heat on Wi-Fi Performance

10:14 AM BYOD TURNS UP THE HEAT ON WI-FI PERFORMANCE Throughput (? Business IT End User Businesses are allowing employees to use personal mobile devices on the WLAN, but are not proactively working to ensure performance. Employees want to easily connect to the corporate WLAN and leverage high performance networks to run business applications on their personal mobile devices. Heat map color legend: 1 Mbps 23 Mbps OF ORGANIZATIONS ALLOW PERSONAL 20% OF END USERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO (82% 20% MOBILE DEVICE USAGE (BYOD) ON THE USE PERSONAL MOBILE DEVICES AT WORK CORPORATE WLAN. OF THAT 20%, 90% WISH THEY COULD. 5ass OF END USERS USE THEIR DEVICE TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY; OF ORGANIZATIONS ARE CONCERNED 61% TO ALWAYS BE CONNECTED; 49% TO REMAIN MOBILE; 19% TO 51% ELIMINATE THE NEED FOR A PHONE; 66% FOR CONVENIENCE WITH HOW BYOD AFFECTS BANDWIDTH CONSUMPTION. 90% OF END USERS USE THEIR PERSONAL MOBILE DEVICE ON THE WLAN FOR EMAIL: FOLLOWED BY 79% FOR INTERNET ACCESS, 57% FOR SOCIAL MEDIA APPLICATIONS, 22% FOR VIDEOS AND GAMES, 18% FOR FILE SHARING AND 7% FOR CRM TOOLS. OF ORGANIZATIONS ALLOW BYOD BECAUSE IT SUPPORTS EMPLOYEE MOBILITY, 64% CONNECTIVITY AND PRODUCTIVITY. 50% OF ORGANIZATIONS ARE BEGINNING TO RECOMMEND SPECIFIC 50% THINK THEIR CONNECTION 26% APPLICATIONS FOR USE ON PERSONAL MOBILE DEVICES, SUCH AS CITRIX SPEED OVER THE WLAN IS AVERAGE. RECEIVER, CISCO ANYCONNECT, MICROSOFT LYNC, DROPBOX AND MORE. 91% 91% OF END USERS NEVER REPORT OF ORGANIZATIONS GET SEVERAL COMPLAINTS A DAY PERFORMANCE ISSUES TO CORPORATE IT 52% FROM EMPLOYEES HAVING TROUBLE CONNECTING TO THE CORPORATE WLAN WITH A PERSONAL MOBILE DEVICE. END USERS ALWAYS CONNECTED TO THE CORPORATE WLAN WITH THEIR PERSONAL MOBILE DEVICE, SOMETIMES CONNECTED. NEVER USE THEM. MOST COMMON USER COMPLAINTS CONNECTINO, SLOW CONNECTION, DON'T SUPPORT SECURITY MECHANISM, DROPPED CONNECTIONS 17% 50% PROBLEMS FIXED BY 15% 34% 11% CORRECTING USER ERROR, RECONFIGURING THE DEVICE, MODIFYING WIRELESS NETWORK COVERAGE, CANT SOLVE THE PROBLEM, CHANGE NETWORK SET UP INTERFERENCE. 31% 13% | 31% 17% 42% 23% 25% 19% / 23% END USERS CONCERNED THAT THE CONNECTION WILL BE SLOW OVER THE WLAN WITH THEIR PERSONAL MOBILE DEVICE, CONCERNED THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO CONNECT, AFRAID THEY MIGHT LOSE DATA WHILE USING AN APPLICATION OVER THE WLAN. 50% LESS THAN OF ORGANIZATIONS ARE PLANNING ANY NETWORK REDESIGN TO ACCOMMODATE FOR THE GROWTH OF BYOD. Turn Down the Heat with Fluke Networks AirMapperTM App: Despite a growing wave of smartphone and tablet usage on corporate networks, most organizations are not prepared to meet the performance expectations associated with BYOD. While establishing usage policies and specifying approved devices and applications is a critical step, today's businesses need tools that help them better design, deploy and optimize BYOD-ready Wi-Fi networks. Fluke Networks AirMapperTM PRO is the first TURN DOWN THE HEAT FROM BYOD AND TURN UP THE PERFORMANCE AndroidTM-based Wi-Fi application that allows organizations to measure and visualize WITH THE NEW AIRMAPPER" APP. actual throughput, and map real-world BYOD performance on their networks. For more information about AirMapperTM App, please visit: http://www.flukenetworks.com/getairmapper FLUKE networks. *ALL DATA ACCORDING TO FLUKE NETWORKS MARKET RESEARCH