Network Equipment Vendors Well Positioned in Mobility Deals

A. Braunberg

Summary Bullets

• Network equipment vendors are well positioned to be preferred providers of enterprise mobility solutions.
• These vendors should not ignore a place on mobile endpoints, however and should deliver secure connectivity, management and security.

I introduced a few data points from Current Analysis’ recent Mobility Survey in my last mobility blog post post (see “Addressing the Adoption of Tablets and Smartphones in the Enterprise,” October 27, 2011). The takeaway from that post was that enterprises are strongly inclined to purchase tablets and smartphones for employees to use at work and that these organizations want to manage those devices. That data leads to an obvious follow up: what vendors benefit from enterprise purchase of these devices?