After blaming Apple ’s iPhone for its wireless networking problems , Duke University enunciate in the first place today that it had n’t been able-bodied to pinpoint what the problem was . Now , it has been confirmed that a Cisco wireless access point was at fault for the networking issues .
“ Cisco puzzle out closely with Duke and Apple to describe the seed of this problem , which was because of a Cisco - base web issue , ” say Cisco in a program line provide to Macworld . “ Cisco has furnish a fix that has been applied to Duke ’s net and the problem has not occurred since . ”
In astatementposted to the universities World Wide Web site later Friday Tracy Futhey , Duke ’s chief information officeholder , say that “ Earlier report that this was a job with the iPhone in finicky have prove to be inaccurate . ”
Futhey move on to say that the iPhone is fully operable within Duke ’s networking environs .
Kevin Miller , assistant director , communicating infrastructure , with Duke ’s Office of Information Technology , laid the inculpation for Duke ’s networking problems straightforwardly on the iPhone .
The internet squad start capturing wireless dealings for analytic thinking and that ’s when they discovered that the offending gadget were iPhones , Miller said sooner this workweek .
“ I do n’t believe it ’s a Cisco trouble in any way , shape or form , ” Miller said firmly .
Duke begin backpedaling before today when Julian Lombardi , adjunct vice President of the United States of academic service technology support for Duke University , pronounce the university was still look into the issue .
It would look at this distributor point that Miller made his statements without a full report or any cornerstone to find fault the iPhone or Apple for the trouble .
Update : Added information about a posting on Duke ’s Web site . alter the equipment causing the job to be a Cisco wireless access degree instead of a router .
