Challenges While all of the colleges had Wi-Fi access technology in place, the ICT departments have seen a huge year-on-year growth in mobile device related traffic, driven by students using an increasing number of devices, such as tablets and smartphones, to access lecture material as well as for personal use. “Over the last three years, we’ve seen large increases in demand on the network. The first year we saw a 10% growth, followed by 40% and then last year this has risen by 70%. We now see around 22,000 unique clients each week as the number of devices per person has risen from less than one person to an average of three,” said Simon Mortimore, Computing Systems Manager, Exeter College, University of Oxford. For both universities, conducting the best international research i

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