CT-IT-Trends
An Electronic Newsletter for IT Professionals in Higher Ed 3/23/2017

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  • Wireless Demand (and Supply) Just Keeps Going Up

    It's no wonder students expect comprehensive WiFi when they come to campus. After all, that has become the "ResNet" norm on most campuses. Seventy-seven percent of colleges report WiFi throughout 81 to 100 percent of their campuses. On top of that, 70.5 percent of campuses dedicate at least a gigabit or more per student for ResNet activities; 27 percent offer as much as 7Gb or more.

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  • Wearables, Netflix Streaming Hit Campus Bandwidth Hard

    For the first year ever, higher ed institutions have reported that they're feeling the squeeze on bandwidth consumption from wearable devices. And colleges and universities have placed TV and video consumption — and specifically Netflix — at the top of the list as the application contributing most to the growth of bandwidth demand on campus.

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  • Younger Americans Abandon Wired Broadband While Older Gens Buy in

    Millennials are more likely to ditch broadband and just use their smartphones at home, while older generations prefer a broadband connection, according to a new survey from ReportLinker Insights.

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