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Campus Network Upgrade Project
November 2005

 

 

Kickoff meetings and construction start in October 2005

During the week of October 17, construction began on the Architecture Building and the Rehabilitation Clinic. Also, four building kickoff meetings were held in October, including University High School, the Surveying Building, the Animal Science Laboratory, and the Meat Sciences Laboratory.

WTC presents findings

Western Telecommunications Consulting, Inc., (WTC) made their final presentation to the Academic Deans’ Liaisons (ADL) on October 14. The presentation included findings about WTC’s survey of communications equipment rooms (CERs) on campus, futures in networking technologies like VoIP, and the relative comparison of the Urbana campus’s facilities to peer institutions’ facilities.

New core equipment announced

Charley Kline, UIUCnet Architect, announced new network core equipment publicly at the Fall 2005 CCSP Day on October 25. The RFP process was completed in October, and pending approval by the Board of Trustees, the equipment used will be based on the NetIron 40G platform from Foundry Networks. To view the presentation, go to:

http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/projects/netupgrade/ccsp05_core.pdf

The replacement of the network core is a necessary component of the upgrade to the campus network. The fact that the network upgrade and core upgrades will occur simultaneously means that all of UIUCnet will be upgraded concurrently, from its connections to the Internet and national research networks to down to individual network jacks.

Project website updated

Wireless FAQs were recently added to the Frequently Asked Questions page on the Campus Network Upgrade Project status pages. To view the new FAQs, go to:

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