Oriente University Network facing the new part-time teaching modality

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Oriente University Network facing the new
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• Jennifer Martínez Mojícar
• jennifer_at_fie.uo.edu.cu
• Telecommunications Department
• Oriente University

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Oriente University Network facing the new
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Republic of Cuba
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Oriente University Network facing the new
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Educational system in Cuba Includes a set of
subsystems which can be grouped in the following
teaching levels

• General primary and special education up to 6th
  grade.
• General secondary and pre-academical education
  up to 12th grade or technical and working
  formation with an equivalent level.
• Academical education.
• Post graduated education.

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Cuban Higher Education System The system counts
on 65 institutions which can be grouped according
to the following classification

• Higher polytechnic Institutes
• Higher institutes
• Academical centers
• Independent subsidiaries

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Cuban Higher Education System
Regular diurnal
Regular for workers
Types of courses
Distance Education
Municipality Academical Venue (MAV)
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Municipality Academical Venue (MAV)
Central Venue
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Oriente University
Logo of Oriente University
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Oriente University Network facing the new
part-time teaching modality
Oriente University
In summary OU counts on the following
organization structure 2 Academical
Campuses893 full-time professors, 2138 total
workers 11 Faculties 38 Academical departments
28 Degree and /or engineering careers 2
National Research Centers 9 Studies centers 2
Libraries
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Oriente University (2006-07 course)
Oriente University reopened its doors with a
registration record of more than 31 000 students
(only 8000 on the diurnal) distributed among the
diurnal, for workers, distance education and MAV
courses. Besides direct attention to more than
2400 social workers.
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Oriente University Network
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Oriente University Network facing the new
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UO computing and networking environment

• Computers integrating our network are on the
  range from 166 MHz Pentium to 2.7 GHz Pentium,
  with 128 Mb RAM memories.
• OS go from Windows 95 to Windows XP Professional
  SP2, besides Linux platform is used both in
  clients and servers
• Networks cards are of 10/100 Mbps, the network
  works to 100 Mbps, though some segments work only
  up to 10 Mbps.
• 90 of the network is based on star topology
  using 5e category UTP cable but there are also
  bus topology segments using coaxial cable.

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UO computing and networking environment

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Internet

The amount of computers in OU is 837 there are
699 of them connected in the network. A total of
39 computers have Internet service.
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Internet
Updated statistics from Friday, September 15,
2006 at 1145 am Diary Graph (5 minutes
average)

Monthly Graph (2 hours Average)
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Conclusions
Oriente University (OU) has on the current
course a registration record with more than 31
000 students, of them approximately 22 000 in the
MAV . One of the most OUNet significant problems
is the low bandwidth it has. Internet connection
is a 512 Kbps Frame Relay with the ISP and a 512
Kbps Frame Relay connection with the MAV we have
nowadays 7880 registered users in the principal
venue that makes navigation extremely slow. Now
and increase of users amount would worsen this
situation. Therefore we believe it is
indispensable our intranet bandwidth optimization
in order to improve the quality of our services.

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Workshop on Optimization Technologies for
Low-Bandwidth Networks

• Jennifer Martínez Mojícar
• jennifer_at_fie.uo.edu.cu
• Telecommunications Department
• Oriente University