The Support Center is contracting with Promark to provide software for system performance analysis. The software provides for emulations by script which will allow SLSC to do the myriad acceptance tests called for by the multiLIS contract. All of the responses on a test are captured. Carey wants to test across the network to see how telecommunications lines hold up. This will be a SUNY-wide license.
Technical enhancements are changes which affect the foundations of the software.
Functional enhancements relate to how data displays. Instead of each keystroke being packetized and sent separately across the network, the search term will be packetized and sent as a unit. The delay may be the same, but the perception of delay will be quite different. A recommendation is going out to campus to turn down pipeline quotas in an effort to improve response time. Also, the SUNY network has doubled the bandwidth on the backbone.