Duke exonerates iPhone from network outage charges
By Darren Murph 
posted Jul 21st 2007 1:30PM
posted Jul 21st 2007 1:30PM
Granted, the original report suggesting that swarms of iPhones actually broke Duke's WiFi network did seem a bit bizarre, and now it appears that the university is freeing Apple's handset from blame. Interestingly, the actual culprit still seems somewhat veiled in secrecy, as we're only informed that "a particular set of conditions made the Duke wireless network experience some minor and temporary disruptions in service," but never do they exaggerate on exactly what caused the hiccups. Still, Duke also stated that it worked in conjunction with Cisco and Apple in order to "identify the network issue that was causing the problem," and since Cisco stepped in and provided a fix, the prpblem has yet to repeat itself. Looks like you're off the hook on this one, iPhone.
I'm guessing he meant "elaborate". Pretty sad.
This comment might explain it: http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=251129&cid=19886053
Something to do with Cisco's networking code was optimized for certain Microsoft quirks. Performance would degrade when devices that followed the written spec were around such as Linux or iPhones.
ok. i noticed that too. but its not like its a big deal. this is just a blog. people need to realize they're not reading the New York Times Mobile. its a blog.
Probably some Apple Hater™ spouting off without bothering to check the facts. Next some moron will blame the iPhone for global warming. You just watch. It's coming. I can smell the hate.
An iPhone ate my baby!
well at least im off the hook for that baby
I guess my planting the iphone at the scene of the eating worked out perfect!
We (Cisco) posted on this issue on our blog this morning...full post can be read here:
http://blogs.cisco.com/news/2007/07/cisco_duke_university_and_appl.html