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• Policies
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• Service Level Agreements

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Reports:

• 2008 VPIT Report
• Help Desk Statistics

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Networking, Telecommunications, & Data Center (NTDC)

William Deigaard, Director

The Networking, Telecommunications & Data Center group supports the infrastructure that ensures information delivery for the Rice campus. The campus network ensures that computers at Rice can talk to each other, connect to external networks such as the Internet, and connect to collaborative networks such as the National LambdaRail (NLR). Telecommunications provides phone communication and voicemail. The Data Center provides a secure environment for servers, clusters, and other research and information technology equipment that requires a stable and consistently-powered environment with a controlled temperature.

Projects include:

• The New Network project  - a 2-year project to update the entire campus network infrastructure including wiring, network electronics, and wireless capability in every campus building as well as enterprise class storage and backups for home directories.
• Mudd Data Center -  Work continues on the Mudd Data Center including for UPS, cooling expansion, and new PDUs while we explore off-site options.
• Rice connects to Network Superhighways  - participating in the implementation of several advanced networking projects including: Research and Education Network of Houston (RENoH), Lonestar Education and Research Network (LEARN), and National Lambda Rail (NLR).   These new facilities-based networks --consisting of dark-fiber between endpoints-- will strengthen and complement existing activities with the Southeast Texas GigaPOP (SETG) and Internet2.
• Telecommunications - evaluating maintenance providers and call accounting systems.