CWRUnet Status

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CWRUnet Status

• By
• CWRUnet Services Engineering
• Jeff Gumpf, Asst. Dir. for Engineering, CWRUnet
  Services
• March 15th, 2001

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Topics for Discussion

• Status Update
• OARnet News
• Off-campus Connectivity News
• Future Plans

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Status Update

• Network has generally been very stable
• Exceptions
• ATM problems in Storrs residence hall
• Continued poor behavior for dialin access
• A few strange off-campus (OARnet or beyond)
  routing problems
• Off-campus bandwidth
• Increased by 12 mbps from 24 mbps to 36 mbps on
  March 23rd
• Outgoing music file sharing capped at 16 mbps
• Traffic shaping tool is installed and operational

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Off-campus Traffic Blue Outbound Green - Inbound
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Off-campus Traffic Blue Outbound Green - Inbound
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Status Update

• E-mail
• Move to new servers was completed March 12th
• Will be increasing e-mail disk space quotas soon
• New switch deployment
• Leaf switches
• Installation completed in Dentistry and Millis,
  user conversion to start
• Soon to be installed at Cedar Avenue Service
  Center
• Hub Switches
• Installation completed at Bingham Hub and Health
  Sciences Hub
• 2 FORE Powerhub 8000s will be recovered and held
  as spares
• A variety of Cabletron equipment will be
  recovered and re-used in other locations

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OARnet News

• Commodity Internet peering now exceeds 1 gigabit
  per second
• Pittsburgh and Washington, DC peer opened
• Internet 2 will provide academic backbone for
  K-20
• OARnet dark fiber acquisition
• 1700 miles of dark fiber from Mission Networks in
  Ohio
• 2 fibers at 4.8 million, option to buy 4
  additional fibers
• Will use DWDM (Dense Wave Division Multiplexing)
  to support about 100 wavelengths at 10 gigabits
  per second per wavelength
• Operational in about 18-24 months
• Probable applications
• 10 gigabit per second OARnet backbone
• Video network
• Other special purpose networks and/or
  point-to-point connections

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Off-campus Connectivity News

• Adelphia
• Cable modem access now available in suburbs as
  Adelphia expands digital services, including
  Cleveland Hts and Shaker Hts
• All suburbs to be completed by sometime in June
• Planning to install high speed link between CWRU
  and Adelphia
• DSL services available from a variety of
  providers in the Cleveland metropolitan area
• Planning to install high speed link between CWRU
  and Ameritech DSL
• Should CWRU consider reducing and eventually
  dropping its dialin access services?
• Investigating upgrading OARnet link to 1 gigabits
  per second

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Future Plans

• VPN for authenticated access
• Those accessing from the Internet would be able
  to authenticate to obtain the equivalent of
  on-campus access to network resources
• Will use to secure wireless access to network
  resources
• Hope to purchase and acquire before the end of
  the Spring semester
• Hope to make operational during the summer
• Switches for next fiscal year
• Supplemental budget being developed
• Perhaps around 15 switches to be deployed based
  on performance data

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The End

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