At UNE there is potential to utilise this facility to make teaching material available to internal and external students alike. NSG maintains three Web servers. The UNEWeb server is, in effect, both a means of publishing information for the University community and the world's window to the University. If it doesn't have a local copy it will go out to the Web site being requested, retrieve the requested page, store it locally and pass the page back to the requesting campus client. The benefits are that the user gets access to the specific page quickly if that page has already been retrieved, if the page hadn't been previously retrieved then the next person to request that page will get it more quickly and the University saves on Internet transmission fees by reducing the volume of data transmitted.
Electronic mail is one form of transmitting information around the network.
In the latter case a copy of the e-mail is always sent to each member's mailbox. Usenet sees the transmission of a news article from one machine to another to another in a daisy chain-like procession. Usenet servers are connected in a mesh configuration such that each machine feeds more than one machine and each receiving system receives from more than one system. The UNE news server receives some 70,000 articles per day across 4,700 news groups. Locally, the UNE news server carries several UNE-only newsgroups such as une.general, une.mac and une.forsale where members of the UNE community may interact.