The largest school district in Canada is rolling out a $14 million Wi-Fi network that embraces a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) approach for students.

The Wi-Fi rollout to 562 schools and other buildings in metropolitan Toronto, based primarily on Cisco gear and software, is expected to be complete next year and serve all 246,000 students, plus staff. Many arrive each day with at least two different computing devices each.

Hardware of various shapes and sides — and running different OSes — including older Windows laptops as well as newer Android, iOS and Windows tablets and smartphones, routinely comes through school doors,

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