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The report stated the cost saving of cabling the buildings was another reason for deploying wireless LAN for staff and students. The education sector considered the wireless LAN project mainly from the cost aspect, said in this report. The project manager also mentioned that they would be better to satisfy the needs for anytime/anywhere access to the networks. Without question, the wireless LAN project would give staff and students more convenience and benefits. “Tech Check” (2007) discussed some statistics of some popular electronic devices being used by students. According to “Tech Check” (2007): • 93% of college students own a Cell phone (up 15% since 2003) • 64% own a digital camera and 16% plan to purchase one this year (up 100%) • 58% own an MP3 player vs. 17% in the pre-iPod days of 2003 • A little under one in three (28.9%) of college campuses offer wireless coverage, while four years ago, only 14% of campuses had this capacity. Additionally, today, two-thirds are planning a wireless strategy • 63% of college students own laptops today compared with less than half only two years ago (2005: 42%) This means the trend of owning and using mobile electronic devices among college students was increasing and seemed unlikely to stop in the next few years. The college campuses that provided wireless connection for students doubled in four years, and more campuses were planning on wireless solutions. It seemed the ever-increasing demand by students forced colleges to provide more flexible campuses with more features. The campus wide wireless network was one of those features to meet the needs of students. McLaughlin (2008) reported that one university – Carnegie Mellon 21
University – adopted 802.11n devices on campus late last year and one other – Duke University – planned to adopt the campus-wide 802.11n wireless network. Duke University’s chief information officer believed “the value of a technology like 802.11n is about enabling new kinds of uses on our campus, giving our students new opportunities, and enabling faculty to push the limits and try things that were not possible before on previous wireless technologies” (McLaughlin, 2008). Meanwhile, he also believed “Universities are an ideal testing ground for new technologies, especially wireless uses and devices, because students are spending their entire day on campus in a mobile manner. They live, learn, work, and play on campus” (McLaughlin, 2008). According to McLaughlin (2008), the speed would be doubled if clients used 802.11g connect on to the 802.11n-based access points and the Duke University planed to deploy the new Cisco 802.11n access points to serve approximately 45,000 students, faculty, and staff. Certainly those two universities were doing their best to provide new technology and meet the demands of students and faculty, but the article did not state what the demands of students and faculty were. Did they want what the university gave them? Maybe those universities’ IT departments could ask this question before they adopted new technologies. Cox (2008) reported that Duke University planned to install the largest wireless network 802.11n standard on the campus. According to Cox (2008), Duke University planned to cover 6 million square feet of campus by installing at least 2,500 Cisco Aironet 1250 access points in the following six to nine months. The 802.11n network would serve about 45,000 students and faculty with a range of 2Mbps to 25Mbps. The speed would depend on the numbers of users. It could be 25Mbps if there were about five or six users and 2Mbps for up to 30 users. Duke University believed the wireless technology has become the primary connectivity mode for 22
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