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Nearly Half of Employees to Use Wi-Fi Exclusively by 2020, IHS Markit Survey Finds

North American enterprises canvassed for an IHS Markit study expect nearly half their employees will use Wi-Fi exclusively to access company networks by 2020, said the research firm Wednesday. “Businesses are transforming their workplaces into environments that are flexible and…

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enable employee mobility,” said IHS. “A key foundational element of these new workplaces is ubiquitous network connectivity.” Respondents ranked online security as their top worry “by a wide margin and the top reason to invest in new infrastructure,” said IHS. Other survey findings: (1) Tablets are the No. 1 type of device new to the network over the next year; (2) 77 percent of new access point deployments will be based on the new 802.11ax standard.