The Internet of Things and Enterprise Networks:
Planning, Engineering, and Operational Strategies

The network is the foundation of the Internet of Things (IoT). In most enterprises, the network infrastructure team plays a leading role in evaluating IoT connectivity options, planning and building IoT networks, and monitoring and troubleshooting IoT connectivity and services. With these IoT initiatives, many network professionals find themselves playing a leadership role for which there is no proven roadmap for success.

In a new research study, “The Internet of Things and Enterprise Networks: Planning, Engineering, and Operational Strategies,” leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) explores the strategic role the network team plays in enterprise IoT initiatives. For this research, EMA surveyed network infrastructure professionals who were directly involved in at least one of their organization’s IoT projects. The research explores the organizational roles network professionals play in IoT, the technologies they adopt, and the challenges they face.

Join Shamus McGillicuddy, senior analyst of network management at EMA, for a webinar that will explore the results of this research, including the following highlights:

• An overview of how enterprises provide network connectivity to IoT devices

• IoT service assurance strategies adopted by network teams

• The unique security challenges that IoT poses to network teams

• The organizational and cultural impacts that IoT has on network teams

• The IoT best practices adopted by the most successful network teams