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Duke U reconsidering stance on iPhone
Earlier this week, Duke University was blaming the iPhone for persistent outages they were experiencing on their wireless network. Their IT department reported that on campus iPhones were flooding access points with requests, thereby knocking them down, a dozen (or more) at a time. Today, it is expected that Duke will release a report on their investigation into the matter, which may exonerate the iPhone. Duke's assistant vice president of academic services technology support, Julian Lombardi, is reported as having said that all aspects of the school's network are under consideration. That doesn't mean that the iPhone is free and clear, but at least he isn't laying blame on it as clearly as he did last week.
We'll let you know what's up when this report is finally released.
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Codey H. said 5:35PM on 7-20-2007
Leave it to Duke to jump the gun on something, when they don't have all the information... *cough*LAX players*cough*
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Eideard said 5:49PM on 7-20-2007
I have an occasional associate who consults with university IT depts throughout North Carolina. In his opinion, Duke usually is clueless.
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Ralph said 6:38PM on 7-20-2007
What a stupid, knee-jerk reaction to a situation.
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Ralph said 6:41PM on 7-20-2007
More on this story @ Macworld:
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/07/20/dukecisco/index.php
I still think we'll see it on the mainstream news in a few days, "iPHONE USAGE WILL DISABLE NETWORKS".
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ciscokid said 8:06PM on 7-20-2007
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/07/cisco_apple.html
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Tom said 7:50PM on 8-05-2007
“I don’t believe it’s a Cisco problem in any way, shape, or form,” [Kevin Miller] says firmly.
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"Cisco worked closely with Duke and Apple to identify the source of this problem, which was caused by a Cisco-based network issue."
Well then, Kevin Miller sure looks like a jackass now.
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