The next phase for the “high availability” network upgrade project will require an outage to a number of East Campus buildings from 8 a.m. until noon July 26.
Information Technology Services will install a new distribution router that will increase bandwidth and redundancy to East Campus buildings. The project, which began in May 2014, doubles bandwidth to 2 gigabits for most buildings and increases internet capacity through connections to commodity vendors and consortiums Internet2 and OmniPop. Work on City Campus was completed last year.
In information technology, “high availability” refers to a system or component that is continuously operational for a desirably long length of time.
“Our primary goal is to increase the bandwidth to every campus building and strengthen the core redundancy of the network in the case of a disaster and reduce the risk of individual equipment failure,” said Kent Eitzmann, network architect.
All network connections in the following buildings will experience outages during the upgrade times:
Entomology
Conservation and Survey Annex
Library Storage Facility
Bio-fiber Development Laboratory
Family Resource Center
Agricultural Hall
Chase Hall
Home Economics
Love Hall
Burr Hall
Fedde Hall
East Campus Power Plant
Splinter Laboratories
Tractor Museum
Staples Child Development Laboratory
Fleming Fields Annex
Leverton Hall
East Campus Rec
Hardin Hall
For more information, please contact the UNL Operations Center at 402-472-5653 or operator@unl.edu.
