Ads and Promotions Hardware Services placed 1400 brochures in the Student Frosh Packs, promoting our services and offering a discount to new students. An ad was also placed on the large colour map distributed by Atlantic Business Consultants. A major upgrade was completed to the ServicePlus operating software. The SQL Database was upgraded to Version 3.5.3 which required rebuilding the complete database file, a seven hour job. The networks are getting faster, and the equipment must keep up to speed.
Single mode is much faster over distance, but requires much more precise handling.
We now have a fibre fusion splicer cable of dealing with single-mode cable. The new Computer Science building has been networked with the latest ethernet equipment. Every one of the network connections is switched at either 10Mbps or 100Mbps. The backbone runs at 1,000Mbps, the first of our buildings so equipped. In addition, equipment in O'Brien Hall was upgraded.