UCI Housing Administrative Services (Housing) and NACS are working together to create the telecommunications and network infrastructure UCI residential students will need in the first years of the 21st century.
When completed, every “pillow” in the six residential communities on campus will have access to a 10-Mbit/s Switched Ethernet connection and support for multiple telephone lines. The project will provide residential students with their own Gigabit Ethernet backbone. The residential network will use the same technologies comprising the main campus backbone, to which it will be redundantly connected, and which will provide Internet access to the residences.
To date, one node of the two node backbone has been completed and the new infrastructure and network connections are complete in Mesa Court. This complements the network connectivity that existed prior to this project in Arroyo Vista, Palo Verde and Middle Earth Phase Two. By the end of Spring 2000, the infrastructure implementation will be complete in Campus Village, Verano Place and Middle Earth Phase One.
In the Fall, the network will be extended to Middle Earth Phase Three which is currently under construction. The long-term goal is to upgrade the older network equipment in Arroyo Vista, Palo Verde and Middle Earth Phase Two, and to connect all Housing networks directly to the Housing backbone network.