A recent survey conducted by CommScope shows that mobile devices are playing a larger part as game changers in today’s businesses.
In addition to the CommScope Global Enterprise Survey, the cloud-based IT services and applications are also getting recognized by enterprise networks. While nearly three-fourths of the respondents confirmed they already are deploying some cloud-based applications, the shift to the cloud is far from slowing.
Furthermore, an average of 43 per cent of all phone calls originating within an enterprise facility involves a mobile phone, yet only 30 per cent of these businesses say their carrier-provided in-building signal coverage and capacity are sufficient to handle the mobile traffic. This had more than three-quarters of respondents admitting that employees had to roam around the office, or even go outside, to get an adequate signal for a call.
Kevin St. Cyr, Senior Vice-President, Enterprise Solutions, CommScope, said, “It is clear from the survey that bring-your-own-device is a growing trend and places a heavy demand on organizational infrastructure, while weighing heavily on the minds of most network IT professionals. The pace of mobility adoption by consumers – and thus the workforce and company visitors – has outrun the infrastructure and practices in place within enterprise facilities to support it. This also factors heavily into the uptick in a majority of survey respondents confirming deployment of cloud-based applications.”
The survey thus revealed that enterprise mobility and cloud services beat out infrastructure intelligence, 40/100GbE and green-power initiatives as the top challenges facing the company networks around the world. More than 1,100 IT professionals from 63 nations participated in the tri-annual research.
