Introduction to BYOD-redirect
The BYOD (bring-your-own-device) feature lets you design, manage, and control a BYOD network when you configure the BYOD-redirect feature on your switches.
Where BYOD-redirect is enabled on a switch, the device’s client credentials are sent to the BYOD server for registration. The BYOD server stores the registration information for each client’s device (such as the device MAC-address), which gives that client’s device access to the network.
The BYOD solution includes:
secure user authentication
centralized authentication process
authorization and accounting
unified monitoring and network management services
ease-of-use self-registration (on-boarding) process
BYOD solution
The following figure illustrates a BYOD solution that includes the following:
Access point and wireless controller: manages wireless SSIDs.
BYOD (IMC) server: manages BYOD policy and centralized user management.
switches: redirects user registration traffic to IMC and grants access to ports.
BYOD Redirect feature
