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Campus Network Upgrade Project
May 2005 (Issue No. 2)

 

ADL adds members

The Academic Deans' Liaisons (ADL) advisory group welcomes two new members – Richard Schimmel and Tod Jebe – as liaisons for the College of Medicine. The Academic Deans' Liaisons act as the final authority for programmatic priorities within their respective colleges, working collaboratively with representatives of their units.

New Director of Network Communications

CITES welcomes the new Director of Network Communications, Mike Smeltzer, who began on March 24. Mike is focusing on coordinating campus input and collaboration on the Campus Network Upgrade project, as well as on broader ongoing network issues.

http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/projects/netupgrade/pr_3_24.html

Website updates

The Implementation Details portion of the FAQ on the Network Upgrade Project Status web site has been updated. This FAQ includes answers to specific technical questions about how the upgrade will affect firewalls, reliability, and wireless.

http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/projects/netupgrade/faq1.html

New construction

Construction began in the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations (ILIR) building on March 22. On April 22, construction also began in Turner Hall. A kickoff meeting was held for the Speech and Hearing Clinic on April 28. For updates on the status of individual buildings, see:

http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/projects/netupgrade/status_table.html

NUTech meets about IRIS

IRIS is a tool for network administrators to manage ports/switches, counters, traffic, and other general information. The IRIS service managers recently met with the Network Upgrade Technical Advisory Group (NUTech) to identify ways to improve IRIS, including increasing speed and improving the user interface.

At the Spring 2005 CCSP Day, an IRIS service manager presented the specifics of the upcoming changes to IRIS. To view the presentation, which contains further details about the upgrades to IRIS, see the slides on the CCSP web site.

http://ccsp.cites.uiuc.edu/2005Spring/skaar_iris.ppt