Supporting third-party equipment overview

Looking back at major events of just a few years ago, the landscape was very different in terms of using personal computing devices and Games IT systems. Mirroring the challenge that major corporations have been facing with Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) strategies, past Games did not cater well to journalists, athletes and others wishing to use their own device to access information available on the closed environments used to provide secure, highly available Games IT systems: rather than using their own laptop, for example, a journalist would previously use one of a group of dedicated kiosk machines shared with all the other journalists, potentially printing out a news item or results sheet and then retyping it for their own news story.