However, campus officials cautioned that the new line will not necessarily mean actual desktop response times will increase tenfold. The change should, however, lessen the periods of time when the line is stretched to capacity and thus increase speeds for all users' whose data traffic is vying to get through it. Montemorra said the work included doubling to 200 Mbps, known as full duplex fast Ethernet, the data connections to Computer Court where major systems including CSUN1, CSUN2 and the university's IBM mainframe are located. Also, routers serving areas of the campus were upgraded to switched FDDI connections by Barrington Walker of network communications. The work, Montemorra said, is ultimately aimed at improving the campus' general computing environment, in which users in a building now typically all share a 10 Mbps Ethernet connection, to a switched Ethernet environment in which each individual user has full access to a 10 Mbps feed.
Gray levels depict inbound traffic and black levels show outbound traffic.
The upper chart tracks the hours of a day in military time. The lower chart shows days of the week.