Wireless Access Is Predicted to Surge on College Campuses

The market research company, ABI Research, predicts that 99 percent of North American colleges will have the current standard of wireless access, 802.11n, by 2013, up from 2.3 percent now. Among the reasons for deploying Wi-Fi is that colleges see it as a recruitment tool, according to ABI.

But most colleges already have wireless. They just haven’t migrated to the current “n” standard, and the standards change frequently with the emergence of new technologies, says Kenneth C. Green, of The Campus Computing Project.—-Andrea L. Foster

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