It’s a “device explosion,” according to EDUCAUSE, the Colorado-based association representing higher education chief information officers. Bandwidth congestion is the No. 1 problem that IT officials face on campuses across the country, according to the organization’s annual survey.
“Take your lawn irrigation system in the neighborhood,” Proskurowski said. “It’s warm, and everybody is watering their lawns and the pressure drops.
“That’s what you experience on the first day of school when everybody wants to register, check this and check that, send an email to Mama — ‘I arrived and I’m fine’ — and there is limited capacity of the pipe of the Wi-Fi,” he said.
Any surge in demand for any limited resource causes problems, Proskurowski said. “All of a sudden the thing comes to a grinding halt. That’s the story.”
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