Bandwidth demands have been at critical levels for years on college campuses of every size, and the ubiquity of tablets has only complicated matters for higher education IT officials.
Students returned to campus last month with more web-connected devices than ever — up to seven per student, by some estimates — leaving campus technologists searching for ways to keep up with insatiable demand for internet bandwidth to power every kind of media consumption.
The “State of ResNet Report” 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.
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.…Read More