Services & Fees
Annual user service fees fund the following:
Network Access
- Access to campus information servers
- Access to Administrative servers
- Access to Library computer
- Access to Internet
- Electronic mail
Central Networking Equipment in Wing
- Core switches with gigabit fiber connections to all buildings
- Routers
- Firewalls
- Wireless controllers
- VPN Concentrator
- Load balancers
- Network Access Control servers and software
- Uninterruptible power supplies
- Rack and electrical wiring
- Cable
Building Equipment
- Building switches
- Wireless access points
- Racks and electrical wiring
- Cables
- Replacement of Wing equipment listed above
- Initial cross connects and cabling
- Cross connects and cabling moves and changes
Network Management
- Assign IP numbers
- Assign network numbers for LANs
- Assign server names
- Evaluate, configure, and make available networking software
- Second level telephone assistance for network problems
- Initial connection, jack testing, and computer to wall jack cable
- Maintain database on network connections for billing
- Student help for configuring & installing equipment, making connections, etc.
- Establish and monitor security
- Network design and evaluation
- Track down problematic networked machines
Network Repair/Maintenance
- Service contracts on backbone equipment
- Service contracts on network software
- Purchase of spare equipment
- Replacement or technical enhancements to network equipment
- Repair or upgrades to campus network servers
- Replacement of campus network servers
- Repair and replacement of Facilities Management System hardware and software
Network Monitoring
- Identify outages
- Traffic levels
- Latency
- Diagnose problems
- Traffic shaping
- Intrusion detection/prevention
- Block malicious sites
- Maintenance contract on network monitoring software
- Network analyzers
- Servers for running network monitoring software
Consulting
- On choice of networking and computing equipment
- On choice of networking software
- On departmental network design
- On costs and procedure to join the campus network
- On installation of and technical problems with networking software