In the March 2010 Aberdeen benchmark report “Multi-Site and Campus-Area Wireless LANs: Advantages of the Centralized Approach,” 163 institutions were surveyed regarding their use of multi-site and campus-area wireless local area networks. This article provides an analysis into the pressures driving the higher education sector to 802.11n WLANs and how this affects the strategies and actions that they choose in response. The demographics of the student population are accelerating this demand for full-speed wireless access throughout every corner of campus, both indoors and out.
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Higher Learning, Higher Speed: Campuses Graduate to 802.11n
Posted by: Andrew Borg and Gaurav Patil August 20, 2010 05:00 AMIn the March 2010 Aberdeen benchmark report “Multi-Site and Campus-Area Wireless LANs: Advantages of the Centralized Approach,” 163 institutions were surveyed regarding their use of multi-site and campus-area wireless local area networks. This article provides an analysis into the pressures driving the higher education sector to 802.11n WLANs and how this affects the strategies and actions that they choose in response. The demographics of the student population are accelerating this demand for full-speed wireless access throughout every corner of campus, both indoors and out.