{"id":4596,"date":"2011-01-04T20:52:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/?p=4596"},"modified":"2022-12-30T15:50:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T20:50:23","slug":"ipad-driving-wireless-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/ipad-driving-wireless-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad Driving Wireless Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"iPad<\/a>Juniper (JNPR<\/a>) recently loosened up its purse-strings and bought Trapeeze Networks<\/a> to fill the most obvious hole in its product line. Juniper purchased the WLAN vendor from Belden<\/a> (BDC<\/a>) for $152 million in cash. The Belden\/Trapeeze relationship is something I never got, when I think Belden, I think cable, and connectors not wireless. NetworkWorld<\/a><\/em> cites<\/a> Gartner<\/a> “…more than 60% of end-users purchased their WLAN solutions from the same vendors as their wired LANs, meaning that Juniper has likely been leaving a lot of opportunity on the table.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>David Yen, executive vice president, and general manager, Fabric and Switching Technologies, at Juniper (and owner of possibly the longest title in networking), told NetworkWorld<\/em> that the industry is much more mobile, “it was time for us to include wireless.” GigaOm<\/em><\/a> says<\/a> that the purchase was a recognition by Juniper that the enterprise networks were going through a sea change, thanks in part because of a big upsurge in the number of mobile devices connecting to corporate networks. This proposition is backed up by a survey<\/a> by BoxTone Mobile Service Management<\/a> <\/em>which found that 73% of the surveyed companies intend on deploying the Apple<\/a> (AAPL<\/a>) iPad<\/a> as well as other iOS<\/a> devices for use on their network within the next 12 months, with 25% of those companies set to deploy right away. More than 50% of those surveyed plan on deploying their own iPad app within the next 12 months, while 25% of those plan on deploying as many as three of their own iPad apps.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>IT executives interviewed by WindowsITPro.com<\/em><\/a> argue that the iPad isn’t for everyone, but is very well suited for users that consume more content than they produce, such as, e-mail and corporate documents. Another area where the iPad seems to be making inroads into corporate IT is as a device that displays content for cloud and software as a service (SaaS) business solutions.<\/p>\n

Some of the iPad initiatives include:<\/p>\n