The University of Texas at Austin has an enrollment of approximately 50,000 students as well as 12,000 full time and 13,000 part time faculty and staff. There are 17 colleges and schools, as well as over 90 research units, 7 museums and 17 libraries. The main campus and the Pickle Research Campus (PRC) include several hundred buildings with a network point of presence. There are also external sites located around the city of Austin. All told, the campus network serves roughly 200 buildings and sites, covering over 20 million gross square feet indoors.
For department wired networks, the ratio of Microsoft versus Apple devices is relatively unchanged from the last survey point, after correcting for unknowns. There has been an increase in Linux devices.
The University of Texas at Austin:
Wireless networks are different: Apple operating systems are the majority for traditional devices, and dominate mobile devices with over 85% share.
Source: The University of Texas at Austin
MacDailyNews Take: The OS of the past clings on to the PCs of the past (wired) while the OSes of the future power mobile wireless students and faculty.
[Attribution: MacNN. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan King” for the heads up.]