THE BYOD CHALLENGE
As a network administrator, you struggle to manage the access of personal mobile devices to your corporate Wi-Fi network.
People want to use the same device for business and personal purposes, and you can improve the employee satisfaction by allowing them to do it. At the same time, this could lower your business’s communication and hardware costs.
The explosive trend of introducing personal wireless devices in the work environment is called “BYOD” (“Bring your own device”).
Supporting the BYOD strategy of your company is not easy. You deal with permissions, security issues, clients management, bandwidth allocation…
When your phone or tablet’s Wi-Fi detector is on, the WiFi hotspots have the ability to track it, by scannng its MAC address. The MAC address is a string of carachters that uniquely identifies the device.
When a shared device (a communal tablet or laptop) is used by multiple users in a day to connect to a WiFi network, a problem with Facebook login emerges.
The WHR-1166D by Buffalo is a wireless AC access point that provides simultaneously up to 966 Mbps tansfer speed in the 5 GHz band, and 300 Mbps in the 2.4 GHz band (combined speed of 1166 Mbps).