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As part of an ongoing effort to keep UCInet up to date and able to meet the research and instructional needs of the campus, NACS is pleased to announce the completion of the network backbone upgrade.
The upgrade consisted of replacing and configuring the routers in the four core sites as well as upgrading UCI’s border [...]
NACS completed the implementation of a new campus network backbone in September when the last UCI buildings were switched to it from the old backbone. The new, Gigabit, fault-tolerant backbone core connects UCI’s approximately 350 Local Area Networks (LANs), and provides the underpinnings required for further improvement of performance on these LANs. The most immediate [...]
The implementation of UCI’s new network backbone began in January and is proceeding on schedule. The Gigabit Ethernet, fault-tolerant, backbone “core” has been tested and placed into production. The implementation team is in the process of connecting buildings to the new core that had been on an interim Fast Ethernet backbone. The team is also [...]
NACS has received approval to implement a major upgrade of the UCInet backbone over the next year. The backbone is the primary data network infrastructure connecting every building at UCI. The planned upgrade will address rapidly growing communication needs, and provide a foundation for ongoing departmental network improvement projects. It will ensure continued, transparent operation [...]
In the last NACS-News, we presented an overview of UCInet (see http://www.nacs.uci.edu/news/97.9.html). Continuing in our UCInet series, we examine some important UCI network performance issues below.
Performance at “the Edges” of the Network
A key network performance consideration is how networks are used within departments and among other groups of people who work together (workgroups). E-mail is [...]