Every faculty member has a network connection in their office.
Every student has an individual network connection in their residence hall room.
There is a connection in almost every classroom. Every staff member with an office or a computer has a network connection. And work is continuing, to add networked classrooms, with enough network connections to allow an entire class with laptops to connect to the network at once. The Hartwick Network is an Ethernet network, with an FDDI backbone. This backbone is a double ring - which means if it gets broken, it will be able to change from a ring to a line temporarily, so the network stays up.