Student Hall Network Equipment Renewal

Channel

Channel - February 2005, Issue No. 42
Network Systems Team

Student Hall Network Equipment Renewal This Summer

In June 2004 the ITSC and the Estates Management Office (EMO) had jointly submitted a funding application to the University Grants Committee (UGC) for improvement changes on our student hall network (ResNet). We are pleased to announce that the UGC has recently approved our funding request.

All network switches currently being deployed in ResNet (except the new UG6 hall) are almost 8 years old, and are showing signs of aging which begins to somehow affect the network stability and performance from time to time. With the approved funding, ITSC will arrange to replace all obsolete equipment with new devices, while EMO will work on the enhancement changes on the air-conditioning and power supply for some of our network equipment closets.

The actual network equipment renewal exercise is tentatively scheduled to take place in July. Once all the improvement works are in place by the new academic year, our student hall residents can then enjoy a more stable ResNet with further improved service availability.