I've been working with enterprise and educational clients for the past year with 1 to 1 initiatives and BYOD initiatives. This article will focus on some of the questions to ask and lessons learned from BYOD deployments.

Is your Network Infrastructure strong enough?

Is there enough Wi Fi coverage?

• Traditional access point topographies were done with laptops in mind. Smart phones and tablets have considerably less signal strength and distance performance. Your access points just may be too far apart, resulting in dead areas for these smaller devices.

Is there enough addresses?

• Most networks are a /24 network, which allows 254 devices connected. Is your address schema setup to handle all the company's equipment, and 1-2 additional devices per person?

What are you doing to protect your network?

• You're not seriously going to let someone with an unknown device and unknown motives just hop on your business network, right? Seriously consider the security ramifications of allowing outside devices on your network. Create a guest network with internet access only, block everything and only allow specific white-lists, such as secure and insecure web browsing and e-mail.

Is there enough bandwidth?

• Sure, your internet connection is fast enough for the computers you own, but can it handle another device or two per person. Most of which are designed to consume streaming content.

Not all things are created equal

Is there enough support?

• Not all devices are created equal. Menu options differ with different manufacturers and versions of Android. iOS differs between versions. Is your IT team capable of providing connection support to these devices?

Are you providing apps?

• The app distribution model