Many Universities struggle to properly fund their voice and data networks. UCit is pleased to announce that UC has succeeded in creating a model and obtaining funding approval to normalize data and phone rates. This five year model accomplishes several things. Besides setting rates that reflect the true cost of providing the service for data and phone, we have identified the costs of network security, help desk, and internet access as funded line items.
Plans are underway to re-engineer the network.
This will be funded by capital and will not impact the model. In addition, over the five years, the model recovers the deficit created by University Hospital's privatization. For generally funded departments, the entire cost of data connections will be centrally funded, within a University cap of 10,750 ports. Many of you may remember receiving a telephone subsidy from General Funds in the late 1980s, when the new telephone switch was installed. Funding for data ports will be provided, in part, through a reallocation of general funds no longer needed to pay for telephones.