Current Projects

Our UNI campus network, which spans every academic building on campus, is migrating to a new network topology. This change is being driven by several factors chiefly the scheduled demolition of Baker hall, which is currently the center of our fiber topology. This migration will free scarce IP addresses to enable our next generation network refresh designed to improve network performance, reliability and security. The first phase of the project is to coordinate the subdivision of the UNI campus subnet. In conjunction with the subdivision we will coordinate migration of devices in the lower half as well as assign a new gateway address and subnet mask to all campus network devices. The second phase involves migrating campus buildings to dedicated subnets begins in May '12. In conjunction with these efforts ITS is installing and migrating to a new fiber plant, in preparation for the Baker demolition. Additional details and resources concerning the project can be found on the ITS Network Engineering support site.

This year ITS will begin the upgrade of the wired portion of our computer network that supports 63 computer labs managed by ITS, Colleges and the Library. This project will involve upgrading fiber optic cable into 25 buildings across campus and the installation of network switches and routers that will support multi-gigabit transmission speeds. Due to the construction required and the size of this project we anticipate beginning in earnest in spring 2011 and should be completed by summer 2012. Following completion of the computer labs we will evaluate network capabilities of student kiosk machines and other student access machines located in various departments. Update 4/9/12 all student computer devices devices have been upgraded with the exception of the College o Business which requires to internal fiber infrastructure. A proposal has been created for the next phase to focus on network equipment supporting student wireless access.