“We know that greener technologies do well in colleges and universities — we’ve seen that,” Hassett said. “If a school can save money and use less energy along the way, they’ll usually show a lot of interest in that solution.”
Higher education has followed the federal government, commercial enterprise, healthcare, and the hospitality industry in buying into Optical LAN solutions that can better handle challenges posed by technologies that didn’t exist when legacy, copper-based LANs were built a generation ago.
Tellabs officials charge that their Optical LAN technology can save upwards of 70 percent in budgetary costs for college IT departments.
That’s a key for campus technologists as they look for ways to satisfy the skyrocketing demand for bandwidth.
A 2013 national survey breaks down exactly which devices are using the most bandwidth on campuses. The prevalence of tablets — once a rarity — has wreaked havoc at many schools. A recent higher-ed survey, the “State of ResNet” reports, breaks down exactly which devices are using the most bandwidth on campuses.
Eighty-four percent of respondents to the ResNet Report said tablets are the biggest drain on their campus’s bandwidth, with 75 percent saying laptops and desktops are the main culprit.
Six in 10 said internet-connected Blu-Ray players are to blame for bandwidth woes. Sixty-three percent pointed to smartphones and 61 percent said video games are a central issue in maintaining reliable bandwidth for every student.
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