NACS Network Engineering plans, implements, maintains, and supports the UCI campus voice and data network infrastructure.
This includes the fiber optic data backbone, copper telephone cable, Ericsson telephone system, building routers, and repeaters/hubs.
They also maintain UCI’s off-campus network connection to the Internet, and UCI’s off-campus phone connection via SBC (formerly Pacific Bell) and long distance service providers.
The group includes:
- Clyde Higashida (Network Engineer)
- Jon Iliescu (Junior Network Engineer)
- John Schaefer (Telephone System Network Administrator)
- Michael Scott (Senior Network Engineer)
It is managed by Brian Buckler, Assistant Director of Network Operations.