Expanding Needs

• Educational Technology
• Fondren Library System
• Language Resource Center
• Research Infrastructure
• Departments Use of IT Research Support and Services
• Expanding Research Needs
• Other Research Initiatives
• Researcher Competitiveness

BENEFITS OF THE NEW NETWORK

White Paper

The Rice community has hundreds of applications, systems (e.g., e-mail, Banner, student registration, financial management, admissions, recruitment, human resources, Fondren Library Digital Library, etc.), and research projects that will benefit from the new network, and many more applications will be created to take advantage of the new carrier class network infrastructure and enterprise storage solutions.

The previous network served the Rice community well beginning in 1989. Throughout the years, a few of the network switches were replaced as part of maintenance or as new network needs arise; however, a large number of the "old" network switches were still functioning. Some of these network switches had passed their useful age and begun to show signs of stress. Before widespread switch failures could begin, the implementation of the new network was already underway.