By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology
A Canadian university recently performed a simulation to see how well its network would hold up under the collective congestion of 100 Apple iPads running a multitude of common, bandwidth-hungry institutional applications. The University of Ottawa tested an Aruba Networks wireless network in its 250-seat auditorium in order to understand how real-world network performance would perform in a dense environment. “The devices that students use and the way that they use them has shifted dramatically in the last two years,” said CIO Sylvain Chalut. “Where we used to see about 75 percent laptops and 25 percent desktops, we now see maybe 50 percent laptops and the rest using other mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
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