The trend for increasing numbers of employees and customers bringing their own devices into a workplace can seriously impair a businesses’ access to the Internet. The problem is that as more mobile devices connect to the network, a business can quickly discover that its cloud-based applications, payments systems, accounting, stock control, customer relationship management (CRM) and business applications have become hopelessly sluggish. The escalating load on workplace bandwidth greatly slows down the use of these essential applications and is usually followed by a rapid increase in costs as the business seeks to cope by buying more and more capacity instead… [Continue Reading]