Wi-Fi: An Overlooked Key to VDI
What’s the best part about your mobile device? You might say its 8 hours of LTE browsing time or 30-pin adapter (really—who ever said that?), but at the core, it’s simpler than that. Your mobile device is awesome, because it’s mobile. Unlike the desktops of old, your mobile device can easily go anywhere. And not being tethered to your desk means that you can work anywhere. It’s something that’s even spawned its own movement: Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD).
A work-world free of restrictions is an exciting thought—we’ve seen that Surface Pro commercial, how more excited can you get?—but what if the most awesome part of your mobile device (its mobility) was restricted to only certain locations? That’s what happens with VDI.
Wi-Fi: An Overlooked Key to VDI
A popular VDI claim is that it enables higher productivity; however, that’s only true when you have a reliable Wi-Fi connection. Without a solid, reliable, high-performance wireless connection, user experience will suffer.
Think about all the places you’ve been with bad or congested Wi-Fi (A hotel room in that Podunk town you always have to visit for work or the floor of that major tech tradeshow). Not to mention the God-forsaken places without Wi-Fi (Curse you United Airlines. Only 24 domestic flights with Wi-Fi is not enough!) Should your mobile device be rendered as useful as a Zune just because the Wi-Fi is questionable? No? That’s what we thought.
Office Wi-Fi: A VDI Necessity
Even at the office, Wi-Fi can become an issue for VDI implementation. Because VDI requires a solid, reliable, high-performance wireless connection, even the fastest back-end VDI server will feel sluggish if your organization’s Wi-Fi is congested.
As Stephen Foskett explains, “Deploying a solid Wi-Fi network for VDI isn’t as simple as bolting an access point to the ceiling. Wi-Fi networks must be carefully planned and deployed, since the medium is shared and both physical and radio wave interference can block the signal.”
Foskett goes on to explain that the wireless controller is often just as important as the access points—since that is where the control features live—and encourages businesses to “use 5 GHz with plentiful enterprise-class access points and loss of ‘backhaul’ to reduce congestion.” But what if it wasn’t that complicated? What if you could use your existing wireless connection, because Wi-Fi wasn’t required for every action?
If you think we’re hinting at something, you’re right. There is a way to create a highly-elastic enterprise perimeter where user data and applications are delivered as simply-managed and highly-secure workspaces on popular end-user devices, that can also be accessed online and off. That solution: Moka5.
Interested in learning more about why Moka5 is the right solution for BYOD? Test our Enterprise AnyWare Solution for the Everywhere Enterprise today!
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