Like many institutions and Enterprises, the University of Ottawa sees the coming onslaught of smart, highly mobile devices like the iPad, iPhone and Android derivatives with the potential to augment, and then eventually replace the laptop. These devices are highly converged as well, placing a heavy emphasis on multimedia centric applications and communications in a mobile environment.

The combination of new mobile devices and high-bandwidth latency-sensitive applications is taking its toll on enterprise wireless networks. So the university set out to validate performance of Wi-Fi networks for handling these new requirements. Read more.