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Impact of bring your own device concept(BYOD) on company networks

Bring Your Own Device(BYOD)-A phrase that has become widely adopted to refer to mobile workers bringing their own mobile devices, such as smartphones, laptops and PDAs, into the workplace for use and connectivity

Well the advantage of BYOD to management of the company is that the worker is paying for most, or all of the costs for the hardware, voice or data services, and other associated expenses, on average company saves $80 per month per user. There are more advantages of BYOD devices as they are of more cutting edge technology, as a result the organization gets the benefit of the latest features and capabilities. Users also upgrade to the latest hardware more frequently than the painfully slow refresh cycles at most organizations.

There are some issues to consider as well. Most serious issue is related to security of corporate data. Organizations also lose much of the control over the IT hardware and how it is used.

Also when no of users increases it becomes very much complex for IT dept to handle and then Mobile Device Management Solutions becomes imperative for the companies to implement.”