At the start of the semester, students haul more than books, clothes and furniture to campus. They bring a slew of bandwidth-sucking devices with them.
The largest bandwidth-consuming devices used by students include tablets, smartphones, iPods, gaming consoles and e-readers. On campus, about 41% of students will have three or more devices connected to the Internet at one time. That's a problem for the 76.4% of institutions looking to reinforce their networks to support more devices.
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As college-aged students rely on an expanded arsenal of web-connected gadgets, schools face an unprecedented growth of network bandwidth consumption. Will campuses be ready for incoming data-hungry residents?
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This infographic created by Online Colleges outlines the current scope of coverage and bandwidth availability on campuses.
Thumbnail image courtesy of iStockphoto, franckreporter
This story originally published on Mashable here.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/76-colleges-struggle-meet-bandwidth-demands-125424781.html
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