iPhone may be disrupting network

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RALEIGH, N.C. - Apple Inc.'s flashy new iPhones may be jamming parts of the
wireless network at Duke University, where technology officials worked with
the company Wednesday to fix problems before classes begin next month.

Bill Cannon, a Duke technology spokesman, said an analysis of traffic found
that iPhones flooded parts of the campus' wireless network with access
requests, freezing parts of the system for 10 minutes at a time.

A single iPhone was powerful enough to cause the problem, and there are 100
to 150 of them registered on the network, Cannon said. Network
administrators have noticed the problem nine times in the past week.

"The scale of the problem is very small right now," said Cannon, adding
that the school is working with Apple and Cisco Systems Inc., Duke's
network equipment provider, to pinpoint the problem. "But the more iPhones
that are around, the more they could be knocking on the door for access."