Strategy

Outcome

7-1. Replace all of the LAN routers/switches that are not 10gb compliant with routers/switches that meet the standard.  For those routers/switches that are 10gb compliant, but do not have 10gb components, upgrade components as needed.

Campus All
Target Date 2007-08
Accountable Individual Associate Provost, IRM

Core network speed throughout the University will be 10 GB.                 

7-2. Increase number of student access points.

Campus All
Target Date 2006-07
Accountable Individual Associate Provost, IRM

The number of student access points will increase from 150 to 300.

7-3. Provide adequate online storage to meet all needs; increase storage quotas to 50 MB for students and 200 MB for faculty and staff; provide adequate storage for student portfolios; provide storage for discipline-specific databases and support for data mining.

Campus All
Target Date 2007-08, 2008-09
Accountable Individual Associate Provost, IRM

Online storage will be increased by half a petabyte.

Data mining services will be available for administrative, instructional, and research activities.

7-4. Increase staffing to support new equipment and services and to extend coverage through evening and Saturday hours.

Campus All
Target Date 2006-07 through 2008-09
Accountable Individual Associate Provost, IRM

Four new staff members will be added to IRM:  2 in the Networking Group to provide extended coverage, 1 in the Systems and Operations Group, and 1 to support the new storage services.

 7-5. Enhance video on demand capacity to support more simultaneous connections.

Campus All
Target Date 2006-07
Accountable Individual Associate Provost, IRM

The number of simultaneous connections supported will increase from 3 to 6.

BUDGET

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